I genuinely think that people fail to understand either how little tech-related literacy people have as a result of most of the web being corporate bullshit (e.g., Facebook, Google, Xitter, etc) and how many people genuinely conflated the internet with Facebook (as a result of them primarily using their phones, setting up Facebook because it came bundled and was cheaper than other internet-related media, and Meta intended that to be the case).
We have a lot of shit to do so that we can either actually learn about online infrastructure or unlearn the bullshit we've imbibed for decades at this point (which is, for some people, their whole lives).
So I really think that if you want people to work on better infrastructure, we need the support of people who know how and can. And my experience right now is that not a lot of tech people really want to and that those who do are few and far between.
So if you're demanding it and you know? You know what your role should be, rather than looking down on us for doing what we can and know we're able.
I'm seeing a lot of people making demands on groups and individuals without considering how not-simple many of their suggestions are.
These things tend to focus around infrastructure, particularly around communications and online infrastructure. There's a lot of work to be done here for sure to create 'open communication' where people want it but to also develop agreeable moderation policies (though, this last bit is frustrating in some ways as an anarchist because... it still implies a top-down approach).
A lot of people do not have the necessary knowledge to build the systems people keep demanding. They do not know how to make their own self-hosted web servers; they do not know how to manage a VPS. They may not know what the safest place is to buy access to either a VPS or shared hosting is (I sure as fuck don't).
We just don't have the necessary infrastructure to make all of this widely available, but so many people keep getting all up in arms about people not knowing what to do or how to do it. And the more frustrating thing is that they're demanding it without even trying to offer any assistance.
It's so tiring.
Interesting how often RTFM [read the fucking manual] folks refuse to read any form of manual or tutorial for anything other than a Linux distro.
You'd think their proclivity for demanding assistance in any other realm of life where there are written instructions they could take time out of their life to read would also make them sympathetic to those for whom a manual isn't legible or coherent.
Or at least coherently maintain their so-called “principles.”