Email is still p2p, but it is true that it gets harder to run your own server all the time. Reddit is mostly publicly accessible, and run like some kind of low

Email is still p2p, but it is true that it gets harder to run your own server all the time. Reddit is mostly publicly accessible, and run like some kind of low-profit community-directed social benefit corporation. But... It is increasingly infiltrated by marketing in subtle and frustrating ways. Maybe this is why it exists. Facebook, however, is just a nightmare. It gives us one thing we lacked before, which is a centralized identity service, and using that as leverage twists everyone's arm into joining and directing all communication through it. I can use any email server and talk with my friend on gmail. I can browse reddit anonymously. But facebook won't be satisfied until it owns my digital soul. We need tools. They will have companies behind them. So, we can't throw everything away. But, can we draw the line at the walled garden of Facebook? It is a bridge too far. It is the end of the internet. Please, don't give in. Write your friends. Call your mother. Email your baby photos. Post your videos where you get credit (even revenue!) for them. Remember that ten thousand years of humans went to parties, got laid, and had your ancestors without an event page that required a signup and login.