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>Back in my day, we made mods for fun, and then we used the skills we learned to get jobs doing something corporate.

No, actually, we can't. By "we", of course, I mean garden-variety consumers.

The legal, financial, and social barriers to entry are far too high.

Anyone attempting to make the next youtube would be priced out of existance, anyone trying to make another reddit would be reduced to a smouldering crater by the time the lawsuits hit them, assuming that paypal doesn't force them to do an onlyfans first.

It's not 2003 (when 4chan started) any more. The internet game is fixed, rigged and it will only become more restrictive, not less.

Fuckerberg pulled the ladder up after him; there's not gonna be another movement -at least not coming from the internet.