2026-09-23 07:38:26
"Platforms are not useless. They help people find each other. They make publishing easy. They can carry a link farther than a small site can on its own. The problem starts when they become the whole mental model of the Internet. If every public conversation has to pass through a feed controlled by a company, then online life becomes less like a city of neighborhoods and more like a mall where every corridor belongs to the same landlord."
