> Changing the algorithm to make it benevolent rather than polarising is easy for those who control the platforms. I probably don't want a feed where someone e

> Changing the algorithm to make it benevolent rather than polarising is easy for those who control the platforms. I probably don't want a feed where someone else decides what's good for me to see. > When the web started, you could make your own website so long as you had a computer and an internet connection (admittedly back then this was a big proviso). Substack, Medium, GitHub pages, Blogger, several WordPress places, etc. Or a $2.50/mo VPS and a $10/yr domain name, or some of the big cloud providers probably have things they scale down even further. > We did not insist that we could share our Facebook photos with our LinkedIn colleagues, for example. Nor did we insist that we could use the same identity and transfer the same friend list from Instagram to X and then to Reddit. I specifically do not want all sites to be views onto a single global space with global identities and relationships. > Another is to quietly build an alternative world using these standards and let people realise that it is better Has ActivityPub managed to eat the world yet?