@oblomov@sociale.network @oluOnline@social.gfsc.studio yes indeed, while these things are far from mainstream there are rich communities thriving outside the corporate web, i'm on many cool and active IRC servers, there are numerous private torrent trackers with wholesome communities, there's the whole pubnix/tildeverse thing or MUDs or other cool niches if you're a serious nerd, and of course Fedi which is at a place that was hardly imaginable a decade ago.

These things aren't going away and will likely only grow as corporate platforms become worse and worse, there are other possibilities that haven't been explored, like self-hosting fedi instances or other services over tor, making things much more private and less dependent on Domain registrars and data centers.

This also opens up possibilities for grassroots political action like we once saw on twitter or facebook since we don't have to worry about corporate manipulation/censorship.