Your precise wording was “centralized networks” which I interpreted as the ISP providing traffic between you and other services. Perhaps you meant monopoly?

Couldn’t this be much different if “web 2.0” hadn’t taken over?

Probably not, even if you have time to maintain your site by updating it occasionally then it still falls upon individuals to fund the hosting services and hold the domain name. Even Hexbear’s domain wound up for auction a little while back because they forgot to pay their bills.

Many of them are still alive but don’t get the exposure they deserve because of centralized networks.

Since Net Neutrality has been off and on enforced, it’s generally been considered illegal to block, hide, or throttle traffic, but I agree those small sites didn’t get as much search indexing unless they paid for ads.

Forums lifespans weren’t all that much anyways. Most sites that were hosted before 2010 are gone now.

The real downside to everything being on StackOverflow, Reddit, Discord, etc is that it has made it easier for big tech to run their shady data collection and analysis schemes including AI Training.

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So there is this thing called a Primary Election which Bernie lost by a huge amount of votes every time. Luckily Bernie agreed with me on this and desperately asked us to vote for the candidate who won.

Fun fact, Bernie isn’t even in the DNC and they still let him on their tickets to begin with.

In 1995 until 2002 they attempted to ban large campaign contributions and SUCCEEDED until it was struck down in 2010 by a conservative split SCOTUS decision 5-4 in Citizens United

In 2013 they used the caucusing IND supermajority to vote for public option healthcare coverage and it lost by 1 vote (the IND betrayed us) so instead we got Medicaid Expansion which combined with Childrens Health Insurance Program payed for the medical costs of 79 Million Americans currently.

The previous Tax Plan was written and passed by the GOP after 2016 elections, and it expires THIS YEAR meaning the GOP get to write the next tax plan, too. Can you guess what Kamala Harris’ tax plan was? It was to lower taxes for earners below 400k, tax unrealized gains for the rich, raise taxes for the wealthy in general.

Those are literally laws they have written, voted on, and in some cases actually passed before.

Socialized healthcare, removing money from politics, and taxing the rich is not “the lesser evil” it’s fucking good. It’s blatantly a force of great good that we keep snubbing and blaming for no reason at all.

What we should be doing is giving them majorities and supermajorities and praising them for the great work they do.

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I feel like the DNC are being pushed into a blindspot for the general public.

All Bernie has done is go around to speak at different events, and he is far from the only politician to do so.

I’ve heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.

Probably not, they sell your traffic data to plant trees, they’re not privacy oriented its just that their greed serves a common good.

So thats why it was slow for a while.

You either only federate with a select few instances who vett each seller carefullly or you won’t be able to keep track of reputation for each market user.

This isnt a mom and pop shop, its the internet. People won’t give af about reputation they’ll just keep making new accounts.