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We need to transition to solutions for it though, and a "hybrid" approach would be a move in the right direction. i.e. you don't have to leave the platforms, just make your own website, too. Yeah, it's more work, but nothing good will come of just leaving it to the big players and what they come up with. To even have leverage, people can't just be completely dependent, that's a non-starter.

IndieWeb calls this "Publish (on your) Own Site, Syndicate Everywhere"[0].

[0]: https://indieweb.org/POSSE

There's actually a browser that basically does this, called Beaker [0]. It uses a protocol called Dat which is very similar to Bittorent, but allows you to update your files after you originally publish them (in the form of an append-only log, so you can always see old versions of a particular site if you want to).

[0]: https://beakerbrowser.com/

back in the days of BBS we would mail check money order or bravely a greeting card and cash to the POB as requested.

now that we have some crypto$ scheme, the prooblem is how to transform bitcoin into physical assets vice versa.