>>9801
>Do you think platforms such as Mastodon, Peertube, Pixelfed etc. will ever get normie adoption?
Not that anon, but no, I don't. I'm fairly blackpilled insofar as the technological literacy of normies goes. These are people who struggle with the most basic tasks. You summed it up pretty much perfectly in your boomer to zoomer video.
Of course it would be great if people started using federated, open source platforms. Centralized anything is generally bad (or at least has the capacity to become bad). If people actually adopted decentralized online services, there would be no need to use centralized social media like Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, etc. Problem solved, overnight.
Search can be decentralized too, but I'm willing to bet nobody here has ever heard of Presearch (https://presearch.io/) and probably the first time a lot of the posters here heard heard about Searx was through Ashley.
Ash also advocates for Monero, which is really the only "true cryptocurrency". All problems with shady banking practices and financial privacy would be immediately solved. Forcible taxation would also become significantly harder for governments to conduct, so if everyone used Monero governments would be smaller (as they should be).
Most problems relating to modern technology and "big tech" overreach could be solved almost instantly if everyone started to use free-as-in-freedom alternatives.
But I just don't think your average person will ever realize this or, if they do, they certainly won't care or be willing to put in the (minimal) effort. It's too hard for them. If they can't jab at the "receive dopamine" button on their smartphone screens with one of their fat greasy fingers, it's not interesting or worthwhile to them.
I do however believe there will be an increasing number of "digital breakaway civilizations" where people who understand technology, both the good and the bad about it, will congregate, eschewing the usage of normie-tech and building their own internet islands.
Thoughts?