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Third - a little bit of copium. We grew complacent with new shiny corpo platforms. Merely 15 years ago I would shrivel away in disgust from any website which would like to know my phone number. Now it's a norm. As well as using shitbucket payment processors and install spyware on your phone. At the same time, there aren't any places left to go, and aren't much things to see. Corpo platforms feed you with an unending stream of targeted slop and ads, and you gain nothing by participating in it, except venting off your frustrations as you see things you hate in your feed. It had to end. It's not a bad thing it finally will.

Finally, isn't it like it always have been? We had forums for niche async talking, MSN for normie communication and IRC for our creepy internet friends, then - we had Facebook, Skype and Jabber, then - imageboards, Viber and Discord. We always switched places we hanged around, as soon as the old ones became shitty. It will continue.

Buckle up frens, ride isn't finished yet. Surely, it sucks. We fucked over the crypto and it never bloomed into the truly free payment instrument - now it's entangled with restrictions. Dark web is underdeveloped and isn't user friendly, but, as I said, it will evolve. There's no alternate physical medium for our new free internet, but it will probably emerge - either wireless, legacy land phone lines or maybe something even more exotic. Powerline anyone?

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