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It's too bad that so many of the younger generations seem to think that they cannot learn from older generations and that being "tech savvy" means being loyal to the right brand of siren servers. I mean, imagine thinking that you know more than others about "tech" because you are familiar with the currently popular siren server in which you are the product. It's so jaw-droppingly stupid, but I hear/see this kind of sentiment all the time. A fucking monkey could learn how to use something like TikTok; it was designed to be something any idiot could use.
I mean, FFS, it was bad enough when certain types of low-tech people first got on the 'net and thought that because the branding they saw were things like AOL (for their ISP) and MS (for their OS and their browser) that those were the leading lights of the 'net and that they should look to brands like that for how things were supposed to work. You'd hear that kind of thing from idiots all throughout the 90s, honestly - "what does Bill think about X in relation to the net?", when the reality is that MS was caught rather flat-footed and was wildly trying to catch up. Same for AOL, which just basically was buying up lots of ISPs because people just needed a bridge to the 'net and didn't GAF about the pipe so much.
Now, you have to know even LESS about computers to get online and people seemingly have even less awareness of notions of trying to host something themselves and forge a path to more privacy and more freedom - it's all about branding, and everything is just assumed to be "in the cloud", most especially if you use only or primarily a phone/tablet because those things are mostly designed to remove the general computing aspect out of the equation (and thus your power).
Sigh.
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