Relying on your adversary for the resources you need for your operations seems a trifle - shall we say - "foolish"?

This is honestly my biggest break with activist communities, and my biggest personal frustration.

I have been consistently mocked for my allegiance to OSS platforms and my disdain for mainstream ones. I've been told several times how the goals of OSS are a sky-castle that can never be (nevermind that we actually *did it*).

And then something like this happens.

i bet you anything they just start a new account with instagram, or make a facebook group.

Face it, those exclusively locked into the big tech siloes are a lost cause. Until the siloes are broken.

I think you are correct.

The people who won't change their habits simply aren't in enough pain yet.

But also, I think, we've been brainwashed into believing that democracy is easy - that it should be easy.

And for a while, for many, it really was. But no more.

Right. There's no back to go to, though I didn't have that in mind. All i meant is it means not swallowing the ideologies and myths about the Internet as freedom. The 1995 promises (implications, really) run deep. Phone lines were bad enough; but they were at least regulated, fwiw. Those don't even exist any more.

We have Internet tools that work, but none of them are "convenient" in the way meta google apple's are. Almost no one I know irl wil change their the daily habits. Its maddening and frustrating.

Maybe metas recent act will have some effect.

Love it or hate it, the internet has changed us profoundly - socially and individually. It isn't going away. The challenge is, to find a way to keep the things we cared about before it came, and to mitigate the obvious damage it can do.

We can never go home. But we can have some say in the new place we find ourself in.

I apologize for the rant. In my heat about it i was reacting to this common groundless myth of the internet as the modern thing better than what came

And if you have looked at the totality of my timeline, you would know that.

But when criticism is due, it's due. And better now than when all the accounts on all their tech-bro owned plaforms disappear at once, perhaps my criticism will have prompted them to diversify.

No Kings. No Demands. What Happened?
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/no-kings.-no-demands.-what-happened

The myths that you have to be on the platform because everyone else is there and they won’t go elsewhere is bullshit.

Ask MySpace.

National Indivisible is here. Local Indivisible's are pretty rare here. My local had not heard of mastodon. I suggested that they organize here. Not enough reach they say. I don't want to download another app they say. Don't make me learn something new they say. It's too complicated they say. Blah blah blah.