bignose<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@travisfw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>travisfw</span></a></span><br>> "using the internet" should always mean engaging directly with other individual humans, with nothing but routers in-between.</p><p>We need to un-shackle the internet from its current <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/monopoly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>monopoly</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SurveillanceCapitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SurveillanceCapitalism</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/feudal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>feudal</span></a> lords, and return the net to the proper <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/WorldOfEnds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldOfEnds</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20050828023214/https://worldofends.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2005082802</span><span class="invisible">3214/https://worldofends.com/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ProtocolsNotPlatforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtocolsNotPlatforms</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Federation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Federation</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BreakThemUp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BreakThemUp</span></a></p>