But just remember how computer illiterate people were back then

And they havent gotten that much better

The Internet was a -much- better place before normies ruined it

Like

Imagine getting everyone here to setup IRC

90% of these guys would get lost

thats easy, x-window based IRC existed decades ago

Again

Most people

I haven't had a laptop since 2015 or something

MIRC for windows is pretty ancient

Cant use it

Wish I had a laptop or smth

Or pc

You are referring to a time when so few people were on the internet

Because you used to require a decent number of brain cells to use apps

I'm baffled by this insistence that if facebook and twitter went away, suddenly nobody would be able to use a computer

most UI/UX bloat is crap layered on crap so that theres a new product to sell or to support lavish websites that are barely usable

I didnt say that

Dont strawman

Then what is your point

@system11 barely usable to us, sure

Not for normies

Coolitic was kissed by alien technology n abducted that's why he's preaching like this

no, ive seen normal people struggle with (for example) windows 10

@Eccles SV is way more than just Twitter or FB

or the labyrinthine mess which is chrome now

What we're demanding is a level playing field with objective and fairly/equally applied rules, protections against monopolies, protection against political intereference and bias, and appropriate taxation

I'd enjoy FF if Mozilla wasnt gay

@Eccles irrelevant

I only struggle because I've literally been without a computer for like 6 years n all I did then was download mods for Halo CE look at memes and turn youtube videos into MP3 files

all browsers are shit, currently - you have to pick the one broken in ways that bother you the least

We were talking about the consequences of ending SV altogether

Overnight

the question is what you mean exactly by 'SV'

All the ventures

All the backend

All the management

It'd be like brexit - a shock followed by period of high entropy as people move platforms, and then back to normal

No

you couldnt nuke it without significant fallout, but if your focus is social media you absolutely could hit the big DELETE button right now and people would get by