>There's no such thing as people. There are demographics, and they all have different interests. Ouch! Your comment literally hurt me. I upvoted you anyway, as

>There's no such thing as people. There are demographics, and they all have different interests. Ouch! Your comment literally hurt me. I upvoted you anyway, as I think the rest of your comment is excellent. But I want to address that first line. I know where you're coming from and it is the reality we find ourselves in nowadays. But. In my opinion, we are at the cusp of having the technology to break that mindset. Demographics are an antiquated way of dealing with the "there are too many people to deal with!" problem, so we put them into buckets. But here's the rub: privacy. To break the idea of demographics we would have to be even more intrusive on how we track and profile individual users. Or maybe not... Going back to the original article, maybe it is centralisation that sucks. If I want one place to give me want it thinks I need, or even what I really need, then yes, privacy suffers. But how about if I just have the tools to find what I like, and not have them all under the same umbrella? The way it was a long time ago, where I could be involved in various different communities, and there was no link between them except for my own list of links. /rant