[spking]

“But to get that new, good internet, we have to support technologists of good will and character by terrorizing their venal and cynical colleagues by hitting them where they live: in their paychecks.”

Is the suggestion here an organized boycott of enshittified platforms? Support for government anti-monopoly efforts? I think both of those are unlikely to gain enough traction or have much impact, for all of the reasons outlined in the article.

[krapp]

One would think the answer would be competing against the bad platforms by offering alternatives with the quality of service the incumbents are denying to their users. If Google is shit, simply building a better, non-shitty Google should be enough. If it isn't, that's evidence that Google isn't actually shit for most people.

That or everyone retreats to small web alternatives like Gemini[0] which are purposely designed to be anti-growth and anti-capitalist, and gatekeeps the hell out of everything.

[0]https://geminiprotocol.net/