[throwawaysml]

It's ironic since there are more content creators now if we count all the users of the silos.

My theory is that it's all about convenience and network effects. So if a fully decentralized IPFS based/alike social network would come out with mobile apps and was marketed as the way to communicate, it could have success. The big fault such projects make is to stress the technical merits and forget to play the psych-advertising game.

I've seen non-technical people have the most number of messenger apps on their phones, and some even advocated the security of their favorite messenger. Technical folks seem to be harder to persuade to join a messenger network to communicate with a new person in their life.

So I want to say once we will have a couple more high profile data breaches and centralized SPOF downtimes, people will care about security and availability, though history doesn't support they would.

[JoshMnem]

Creating isn't just about "content". Posting vapid updates and linking to articles that other people wrote isn't really creating anything. For most people, posting on social media is consumption, not creation. The Internet is on its way to becoming TV 2.0.

There are at least two ways to perceive the world: as an "architect" or as a "consumer". The Internet/WWW should teach people how to be architects, but it's failing in many ways.

[TheSpiceIsLife]

I've never understood this.

We can't all do the same thing. We can all be sandwich makers.

The internet is teaching people to do all sorts of things other than be architects.

[JoshMnem]

I think that not everyone can be a large-scale architect, but those numbers can be increased.

People can be taught to at least think like architects in order to make better choices in life and understand when and how they are being manipulated by malevolent architects.

Also, one doesn't need to build million-user products to architect small changes in local communities.

An analogy: not everyone can be a good philosopher, but they should at least read philosophical ideas and be aware of them as they make decisions in life. Collective intelligence/wisdom can increased, even if most individuals are not professional philosophers.