I agree with most of this thread, but those of us that have worked at Mozilla can tell you that the answer is almost never "Mozilla should do this." And I say that with love.https://twitter.com/benwerd/status/982646916281348097?s=20 …
The superpower/curse of the internet is that it enables asymmetric engagement of hegemonic power structures. Small groups can solve big problems, and unpredictably impact the well-organized and well-monied players.
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But I think all sizes of project are important in this way. If we all work to make the stuff we want to see to in the world, even in small pieces, it'll move the big pieces.
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Diaspora and Mastodon beg to differ. These things are going to take concerted effort from the ground floor from people who have the expertise and resources (and designers) to make them what they need to be.
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I love me some David and Goliath, but I think it's a long fight to restructure the data and economic model of the web. We need enough organization and leverage to make that happen.
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I see it a little differently, the Web is mostly fine, but in order to take advantage of the decentralized features we already have we need new primitives and a lot of tooling. Looking at IPFS, which can run on WebRTC just fine, it just needs more tooling and expertise.
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