Yesterday I wrote about preserving freedom by using replaceable parts to form a social web out of the web itself. Outside the silos. I'm getting comments on it. Nice to see other people thinking likewise. That's what we need to get a bootstrap going. People. #
In other words the social web is the web. It's made of people. Somehow we forgot that, and gave up so much.#
It's such a sexy idea, I had to get ChatGPT to generate it. #
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