@jerry@infosec.exchange I need my keywords back

@jerry if the whole of the internet moves into Facebook idk. I mean on the one hand a bunch of people will be trapped behind that walled garden and that seems bad, but on the other hand a sliver of very technical people will have a whole internet to themselves outside it, just like the 80/90s...

@jerry it's as if people cannot differentiate between protocols and platforms. 🤕

@jerry A lot of us techies share in the blame, IMO. We tell each other that teaching users the basics of the domain name system (and HTTPS) is a waste of time..... so most ppl do not understand their significance. After a while, they start looking at different addresses as noise that just gets in the way of using "App".

I think if we as a society can't be bothered with "who" we communicate at a semantic level, then we can't sustain an open Internet (and probably not an open society, either).

@jerry "you can have your internet on any platform you want so long as it's owned."

@jerry Elmo has already said he wants X (currently vaguely remembered as Twitter), not the desktop X, to be exactly that - a one-stop shop and pervasive echo chamber for Republican-style free (free as in herpes) speech

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It’s the user base that creates the possibility.

Level 0 computer users struggle enough with just email and Facebook.

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Personally I would shout for joy if Facebook disappeared tomorrow.

I used to work for CompServe and then AOL so I'm not going to comment on that except to say that both offered a full Internet experience 😇🤷‍♂️