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The internet is not broken.

It is certainly not perfect, for example IPv4 has a scaling problem, but it still works damn well. It can be improved so that it can fit the needs it didn't have originally (ex: with IPv6), but it is not fixing, it is an adaptation.

None of the points in the "fix-the-internet" are things that are broken. They are new needs. Everything privacy-related for instance. The base internet protocol are all clear text, then we started encrypting secrets like passwords, then personal data, then full end-to-end encryption. Decentralization went from providing a reliable link between two computers, to services that are fully accessible even when part of it is offline, to services that simply can't be shut down.

There is no fix here, it is just building stuff on top of an internet that works better than I ever hoped for. Good, but calling it "fixing" is a bit pretentious.



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