> running servers or at least using infrastructure run by fellow human beings, rather than consuming content from a handful of global feeds susceptible to these

> running servers or at least using infrastructure run by fellow human beings, rather than consuming content from a handful of global feeds susceptible to these social Sybil attacks. Basically nobody used the internet for social interaction back then. Now that nearly everyone has the internet[0] and we've experienced a large shift of social interactions moving to tiktok/snapchat/twitter/FB, we have to deal with misinformation campaigns by overseas operatives[1]. Now, instead of some government-sanctioned KYC requirement (that would hopefully put more safeguards in to prevent the large social media companies from using it for anything other than verification), we have Twitter using phone numbers as the de-facto standard; this increases the cost of creating tons of fake accounts, but who knows how much more they'll ask for in 2024. 0: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/ https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/fact-sheet/internet-bro... 1: https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/russian-disinformation-campaigns-on-twitter/ https://misinforeview.hks.harvard.edu/article/russian-disinf... (better than the multitude of articles about it imo)