On this day in 2019, Brent Simmons wrote his post 'You Choose' in which he advocated for people to "choose the web you want." The downside was that you have to do the work. "A lot of people are doing the work. You could keep telling them, discouragingly, that what they’re doing is dead... colinwalker.blog

@colinwalker agreed props to the tech makers like Winer, but the real decider of success will be if influential creatives with direct normie audience adopt, so arguably more important persona is non-technical supporters like @jasraj & his writer network. I'm seeing trend there among thoughtful, introvert & educated subset of normie population steering away from BigSocials. That's 10% rather than 1% of population. That's where my hope lies, hence why I'm coaching musician equivalents in tech via SavvyIndie.com