I am not even asking you to do anything. I am just asking you to think of an alternative.
The web?
FAANG is not the web, it's just some companies putting apps on the web
Go ahead and try to live on the internet without being forced to interact with any of FAANG services. It's impossible even for me, who tries to keep as strict of a "digital hygiene" as possible and use open source and open standards as much as possible.
If you think that we can not improve on the web that we have today, either your standards are way too low or you already got so used to be manipulated by Big Tech that you can't even imagine how much better and freer life could be without it.
There was a post recently on hackernews about forcing client support of SNI being problematic according to some people.
So the effect of FAANG is far more fundamental; beyond ads and content that is.
how exactly web3 is supposed to fix that?
> or you already got so used to be manipulated by Big Tech
assuming without knowing is the worst form of arrogance.
but even if that was true, I don't believe that the guy in the small village here in Italy that makes olive oil and sell it on Amazon to markets he could never even imagine existed is going to go decentralized and trustless just because Amazon is virtually a monopoly.
FAANG provided opportunities that have much more value for people than idealism (that doesn't even work!)
basically the whole thing
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> I am just asking you to think of an alternative.
uh thanks, alternatives predate them by decades
The "whole thing" is a mess of Surveillance Capitalism that serves no one but the elites, who is shaped to keep us in a constant state of anxiety and fear to try anything different and with enough energy to be able to do nothing but consume the crap they want us to consume.
Surely we can do better than that. We have to.
