A lot of people (six) have said that the alternative structure to social media is a "dark forest", where communities live in private discord servers and chat channels, never to be broadcast to the world. This is extremely stupid because actual conversations between real people standing next to each other on the planet I live on, Earth, are also not broadcast to the world, and they often don't take place in forests. Nor are they secrets. They are just regular conversations. What I say to the lady at the donut shop and what she says to me is not broadcast to the world. And if I write about it here, I'm not reporting, journalistically, on what happened in that conversation, but just giving my perspective and processing it into a form where I would like to comment on it.
It's in that spirit that I here (mis-)characterize and then answer four questions that someone on a chat with me asked the chat, because I think they're interesting questions. Here we go.
