>>16532813Desktop restricted internet would suffice, again just take in consideration who powers these mainstream platforms, normies are the batteries. I remember the hackers of 90's - 2000's era, they were all libertarian, even 4chan in a sense had that feel. The internet would have that guild feel it once had, communities everywhere, using different stuff. Smartphones are such a cancerous snowball, eventually our SIM card will be our banking/ID. What they actually mean when they say they'll put a chip in us, is in fact a smartcard. But yep, it was the perfectly balanced back then, and that would have been the status quo if it weren't for smartphones, anything more portable than a laptop in fact.
>>16532816Yep now it's all one big slop.
>>16532830It would. I think the only realistic alternative is to create a custom protocol, let people scan the internet to find it(ipv4) or advertise it on certain places, let them connect to it raw bringing about a sort of BBS, especially with how cool text art is now, could create an aesthetic based non http forum, but it probably wouldn't be as active.
>>16532847>Before smartphones the internet was predominantly whiteThis, and thirdies were usually smart. We could consider the internet as a sort of model of our societies, trying to force everyone onto the same level only brings disaster and chaos. The internet had a reality of its own, seperate from real life, but one which you could escape into. Now there's no feeling of escape, we're constantly confronted with shit, let alone the power it once had is being taken away through centralisation of websites being the face. The quality of everything has significantly decreased, information and the people on it.
