isn’t authoritarian the platform that suddenly decides to change by their own how billions of people can or don’ cannot talk? it’s time to remove such power from them

That's true but the internet should be the place where ever human being is allowed. Then it segregates into multiple well-protected communities.

Every human yes, every thought would be no in my opinion.

> the biggest failure of the internet was sharing it with the unwashed masses, we should have saved it for the (even less washed, if you look to the founders) elites.

Did you start to use the internet before or after september 1993?

> 20 years ago you didn't get lifetime-banned by an AI for going off the beaten path and experimenting. That's what I was pointing out

20 years ago a mod would do that and today they still do for example here in this forum

From one forum or IRC channel, sure. But you could spin up another, there were plenty. You couldn't get banned "from email" - maybe from one email host if you really pissed off the guy at one ISP, but that would only be a tiny fraction of the people you wanted to email.

You also can spin up another social network, it doesn't work well the same way it didn't work very well spinning up another irc channel or server. And spinning up another HN doesn't work as well.

Spinning up another HN or Twitter is hard because the web is a lot more centralised these days. Back in the old days you could spin up an alternate IRC channel or web forum and have a decent chance of succeeding, I saw it happen and even did it myself once or twice.

> Back in the old days you could spin up an alternate IRC channel or web forum and have a decent chance of succeeding

Yes I agree. It is like creating a new whatsapp group or a new instagram profile nowadays, which also has higher chances of succeeding, inside the walled garden of someone else.

> It is like creating a new whatsapp group or a new instagram profile nowadays, which also has higher chances of succeeding, inside the walled garden of someone else.

The point is it's now quite easy to get banned from the whole platform. Whereas in the old days it was pretty hard to get banned from a whole IRC network (it would happen if you were DDoSing the network or insulting an ircop directly, but never just because you said the wrong thing in your own channels, and worst case even the IRC networks were less centralised than today's social networks) and virtually impossible to get banned from the whole web to the point that you couldn't make a new web forum.

> Your theory of how addiction and homelessness work conflicts with what I've heard from many experts I've spoken to and that I've read. That doesn't make you wrong, but look up the research.

It is telling that your opinion isn't based on talking with addicted and/or homeless people.

> How disappointing that you are resorting to the ad hominem attacks; we could have learned from each other; we could have connected.

I think you should still consider learning from what Boogie_Man said.

not if you want to become an influencer

It is very common and nobody will shame you for asking water in Brazil. Some cities even have laws mandating that filtered water should be served for free.

Any attempt on doing something similar but as a browser extension?

That's definitely compelling, but not something we have in mind for the immediate future. Let me know if you end up building something here!

I'm currently working on it :)

See you in two weeks I hope

anything we can see already?

> I think many people bounced off React 5 years ago when in 2025 React apps are easy to get started with

I (and the post and many comments here) think many people are bouncing off React now, because of NextJS and Vercel.

You don't need to deploy orchestrators to serve static html/js files.

> In your opinion, because they’re stupid?

If they are doing that to keep nginx running, that might be the case or they are super clever to do that for a higher salary at the cost of their employer.