I think we need to look Google and Facebook and the other slop-platforms in the eye, get down real low, and hit them in the jaw so hard they see binary:

The platform-internet has proven that it has no responsibility to its supposed tenants or users:

https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-killed-google

will chase any trend that appears to be making money:

proliferates scams and worse using the most powerful advertising algorithms known to man:

and has brought these evil nerds into a position where they are choking the life out of democracy, the rule of law, and the truth:

It is incumbent on all right-thinking Internet users to retake the freedoms we have ceded to these wannabe autocrats. I believe that a broad-based federated set of hubs of links to various mixed media channels will be a good start to the goal of a free Internet.

If you have ever felt like you are being served slop by these hucksters then you already agree that something must be done. Check out thebigfeed.moe/get-started for many simple ways to contribute or thebigfeed.moe/documentation if you know what you’re doing better than I do.