I keep thinking of how incredible the internet would be right now if we were doing what we’re doing, but semi-privately on personal servers. 100% personally owned content. Forever.
Imagine DJ D-NICE streaming from his own live thingy, easily promoting his sets and shows on his website (for the past 20 years) where you could buy his stuff easily while he would not be giving a 30% cut to anyone but himself.
Imagine all the journalists and sources of real life events, on some WordPress-like stuff, using their own photo galleries, widely available and shareable in a click regardless of where you are, what OS you’re running or how old your computer is.
Imagine that using the internet this way is so useful and spread out, that anyone trying to do something wrong/unethical would immediately be found out and chastised. Ethical hackers taking care of our systems. Original Posters would be respected across the world.
Imagine a single group chat or video chat protocol. And everyone can join from 2005 desktop to 2020 fridge.
Imagine how interesting things would be in our crazy, current times. How easy it would be to show up for each other, buy and sell stuff (every single irl store would have an online store). Share things a lot more freely (which means there would be more meaning in sharing those things) than under the scrutiny and stress of giant companies and dozens of technical/branded “solutions”. Communicating instead of performing.
Maybe there would be a whole lot less noise online, and a lot more folks doing the right thing offline. Maybe that would be good.
I like to dream. I love to visualize.