@dansup That is how the internet was supposed to work.

If you are not old enough to know Google, Facebook, etc all used federated XMPP. So you could chat with your aunt who only uses facebook from steam.

But they rolled back technology for financial benefit. Becoming a walled garden means you have to create an account at facebook to talk to your aunt.

Capitalism doesn't actually make technology develop faster.

Hell the closest wages between men and woman ever got in history was under Mao