i’ve been trying to figure out a way to articulate something that i keep seeing on here (and other places to a limited extent, but mostly here) the idea that ppls perceptions of the internet changed bc of big walled platforms like facebook or twitter,

but im not sure if that’s ACTUALLY the case or if what those platforms actually did was make the aspects of the internet most ppl find confusing, like servers, more accessibility to ppl who now feel lost