If no one knows about it, does it matter? You use Gopher, use an "alternative" OS, get your news from longform nuanced podcasts? Great, but 99% of people don't

If no one knows about it, does it matter? You use Gopher, use an "alternative" OS, get your news from longform nuanced podcasts? Great, but 99% of people don't. Contrast that with the counter culture of the 60s, or even 90s, where people were at least _aware_ that something else existed, even if they were violently against it.