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> Yet at least in my social circle, I don't really hear anyone pining for an 'artisan internet'. In network engineering and telecom infrastructure circles, the
by walrus01 2mo ago
> Yet at least in my social circle, I don't really hear anyone pining for an 'artisan internet'.
In network engineering and telecom infrastructure circles, there's already a near universal opinion that big walled garden mass market social media (facebook, instagram, twitter, whatever) are permanently ruined and good only for shitposting. Or keeping up with posts from boomer generation / older gen-x relatives who don't know any better and won't use any other method to communicate.
Anything serious has moved into things like private Signal groups where the participants all know each other, and similar.
I also find it interesting to see people who started in-depth technical use of the internet well after 2010 "discovering" the concept of self hosting and running some of their own infrastructure, or even getting entirely fed up and removing anything google or microsoft (or similar subscription based) from their lives entirely. These are people who weren't there in the early days of the Internet and are now voluntarily choosing to say "no thanks" to lots of easy to use, subscriber-forever cloud based business models.
- wolvoleo 2mo agoYes I noticed that chat apps have kinda taken over the role of social media. At least for the usecase of staying in touch with friends. I'm sure why too though, it's because all social media push these algorithmic feeds on us meaning we get bombarded with shit we didn't choose to follow. With chat apps we can once again communicate with just the people we want without all the crap being shoved in between.
- navane 2mo agoAlso chat is private. We went from public but anonymous to private and unanimous.
- wolvoleo 2mo agoWell on facebook you could originally choose who you wanted to share things with. Not sure if that's still there because I haven't used it in years.
- rcxdude 2mo agoIn theory you could do this with facebook but the defaults matter and they defaulted to sharing very widely. With chat it's obviously and understandably bounded (at least unless a member of the group takes a positive action to forward/copy messages elsewhere, which is not generally very socially accepted to do without some level of permission or least a good reason).