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In the context of changing the course of things early on, I'd make everyone post under their real name in any context. To be clear, I DO NOT support that today. The cat's already out of the bag and pseudonymous communities are the norm now, I don't think we can unscramble that egg.
But if somehow, from day one, you needed to attach your own name to everything posted online, I feel like we'd have ended up with a less toxic internet than we have in many places today.
Publish Piefed before Lemmy ever existed to minimize the tankie influence
I'm pretty sure this part of Lemmy has already outgrown that part, though. Probably, "weird conspiracy people started Lemmy" will just be a fun history fact one day.
Making email free was a mistake. Makes sense to encourage early adoption but long term it's been a no-lose proposition for spammers, phishing, and general aggressive marketing.
I'd argue the opposite. We need more things to be free and standardized. There is no universal way to send a file, store a file, send a text or picture message for example. Email, with a basic design that's over 40 years old has had to fulfill all of that itself, and does so reasonable well, all things considered.
~~They say, on a free email-like service.~~
TBF Lemmy might develop a spam problem yet, so that's a little unfair. It really has to be per-message microtransactions to make a difference, though.
That's what I was thinking. Just some minor amount to make senders do a cost benefit analysis.
No urls only the IP address and no hyperlinks.
Cookies and browser fingerprinting illegal.
Archival of all web pages. (Some exceptions such as takedown of CP or revenge porn).
There's a hybrid BBC / Commodore 8-bit computer I'd like to have seen, for sure.
I'm interested in what you're thinking with this.
European computer builders joining MSX and expanding it to 16 and 32 bits.
Hmmm, I got a few ideas, not necessarily to make a "better now".
One is for Unix's initial development to only begin in the mid 1980s, instead of the 1970s, which would hopefully result in some of its more obnoxious "features" not existing. rm -rf / - No asking for confirmation, because that will certainly not have any undesired consequences! The main downside is that we wouldn't have the Unix-Haters Handbook
Another is making RISC style CPUs the default for desktop computers, whether the originals by Acorn or even with Intel deciding to make their own ARM x86 series all the way back in the 80s. I'd pick this one.
Gopher.
Or Gemini (protocol, not AI). No fancy rendering, you get plain text.
Make it harder. Remove the gui. Require UNIX knowledge. Command line only.
Keep the mouth breathers out.
Given the ability, I'd get rid of the Internet completely.