The grand idealism of the free and open internet might be over for now, but in its place falls a more practical mindset. Just like Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurs are entering their “Hard Tech” era, the people building web alternatives are also entering their Post-Naive Era. Here are the names to know.
Sounds great in theory, but I feel like the minute one of those places becomes a viable alternative it will be sold for a pile of cash.
A lot of these spaces are reading, writing and designing around so-called “anti-capture” protocols exactly to avoid that.