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.
the problems aren't strictly technological
With crypto breaking into the public consciousness we are starting to see an end run around the payment processor bottleneck. It will take time and initially, like all early technology, it will be clunkier, slower, and more expensive than current tech that has been refined for generations. But remember that the first cars also had significant disadvantages over horses.