Like if I look at places like Weibo it doesn’t seem like the pre-corpo net at all.

  • chgxvjh [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    The wild internet never went away. It’s just that “nobody” cares to use it.

    Renting a webspace and putting up some random HTMLs or PHPs hasn’t gotten more difficult. And some people do it too. You can still just put up a phpbb on a free webhoster. Many of the 20+ year old websites & forums are still around.

    That corporate web has won based on convenience, appeal and psychologic trickery not by killing off the old web.

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      And in my opinion, socialist governments should take advantage of this new centralized structure and force corpos to invite wild culture into these large structures