The internet used to be a collection of homes.
Now it's a row of malls.
We traded the hobbyist era for corporate walled gardens. ICQ is dead, Skype is dead, and the open web is being strip-mined for data.

But remember: the #hashtag was born in 1980s IRC rooms, not a Silicon Valley PR firm.

The Fediverse isn't just a trend - it's a return to what made the web work in the first place.

Protocols over platforms. Always.

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