2006 - 2022: Corporate content hosts are so cheap and easy that no one has an incentive to learn to self-host content, and people who were previously self-hosting content move over to big "social" platforms

2022 - … : Platforms close off in every imaginable way and start taking every opportunity to extract rents from users, benefits that originally got people to move over now gone, but the network effects are such you can no longer switch to open alternatives or convince other people to do so

@mcc

It wasnt and unfortunately isnt only a question of price: Increasingly harsh and often poor regulation has made hosting for yourself or using a smaller platform less attractive.

Take for example the disastrous #Uploadfilter and #Linktax (#Leistungsschutzrecht) introduced with the 2019 EU copyright reform.

It created expensive legal risks for all internet services but small and medium ones cannot handle such risks remotly as good as a large company. As such the already huge companies benefit the most from it while smaller ones have one more reason to go bankrupt.

@AdrianVolt @mcc I'm actually hoping that massive corposcum's willful #enshittification alongside the impracticality of smaller corporate hosting will lead to mass abandon of the #clearnet for #FreeSoftware services on the various #darknets and #AnonymizingNetworks that can mitigate that liability.

If we're to give up on realism, then I would also hope it brings back the #P2P-first approach into the fore.

#Privacy #Anonymity #Anonymous #Networking #SelfHosting #darknet

@lispi314 @mcc

Thats a nice dream but in practise the same lobbyist that ruined the net will quickly call for the ban of such services. God forbid people communicating without goverment oversight. 🙄