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> The renaissance of the open, human internet is in full swing only among the small number of people who have an opinion about the open, human internet.

Has this ever been not true?

Has the median person ever participated in this?

Just like how the original golden age involved only a small portion of the population, so will this "web renaissance", in the best case.

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This is kind of my point, but this any many other articles and opinion pieces are just breathless with optimism about how the Internet Golden Age will come again and it will topple all the evil social media and we will have Life Eternal in a digital Paradise that no corporation can drive us from.

Well kind of? We, the enthusiasts, can just opt out of the social-media big corporate internet any time we want. But it's never going to happen on this grand scale that these starry-eyed people are dreaming about.

Exactly. This type of comment is rare on HN. Thank you for publishing. Year after year, most HN commenters are continually fixated on these alleged "non-tech[nical]" people, the majority of computer users. Presumably for commercial reasons, but who knows.

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