@randomgeek @amydentata My impression is that Gemini and net news and tilde towns and other small collective efforts and maybe in a way also blogs are each not destroying the corporate Internet but maintaining bubbles that show how it can be done, to keep that flame alive, not in order to return to that world but as a reminder of what we had so that the next iteration after the corporate Internet can be even better. To pick a negative example: I really don’t like the lack of moderation tools for net news and I don’t like INN the software as a sysadmin.

I guess being part of these small bubbles is a bit like inhabiting a zoo as an endangered animal – a teaching moment.