There's a focus on making games here for obvious reasons, and more generally social networking is the big thing (which is possibly justified). But what do you think alt-tech's biggest priority should be at this point?
A couple possibilities:
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A genuinely free-speech social network. Not "we'll cave to the big corps as soon as they threaten to delist us" but a network that doesn't count on being listed in the App Store, is willing to distribute its own ipas/apks, etc.
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An alt-tech search engine that doesn't just get its results from the big corp search engines and only indexes non-woke sites. For example, pulling results only from Infogalactic, and not Wikipedia.
Same group, different department.
It's like this:
Say I want to make a donation to Styxhexenhammer. If I use my credit card, Visa can say "it's our money, and we don't want our money going to Styx, so we're denying this transaction." Technically, they are allowed to do that.
If however I write a check to Styx, my bank cannot say "we don't like styx, so we're not going to clear this check". They're not allowed to refuse to clear a legitimate transaction authorized by me. Because legally, it's not their money. It's mine.
There are electronic mechanisms in place to do this stuff, people just use credit cards instead because they're easier.
But if we set up a paypal like system, but have it registered as an actual bank, then it has access to all those same transaction clearing systems and is insulated from any corporate bullshit.
You don't hear about any drama from the part of the Federal Reserve that does transaction clearing. Because it's an uncontroversial, bland, boring thing that just works.