[ziggus]

The internet is never going to be 'small' again. You can choose to deny the changing reality of the modern internet and stick your head in the sand, but it's going to be apps and centralization from here on out. Maybe DeFi will have some impact on moving the modern internet in a different direction, but indulging in nostalgia for the 'good old days' of Gopher and NNTP mean you're not contributing to the betterment of the current internet.

[puggsy]

I'm part of a small-moderate sized open source community.

We communicate via IRC/Signal, code via Git, and share knowledge via blogs, Mastodon, and talks.

It feels small and nice.

The fact that the rest of the Internet has grown into a different direction doesn't change that.

The pie is now bigger and largely corporate driven, and I'm okay not being part of that.

Is that so bad?

[grey_earthling]

If “the current internet” is centralisation and company control, then I don't want to contribute to the betterment of it. So this sounds like a win-win.