@bravojohnson

People who dislike people shouldn’t build social networks. You can’t design a public square if you resent the public. It’s not ideology; it’s temperament. When builders treat their own aversions as irrelevant, the product ends up haunted: features lean toward control, moderation toward sterilization, and the whole thing reflects the founder’s conflict more than user needs. Seeing what’s wrong isn’t the same as being suited to fix it. Fixing problems usually means doing more of the thing you already can’t stand. Move fast and break things wasn’t a strategy; it was a personality tic. Zuckerberg liked the technical puzzle, not the humans using it and it created tye current hellscape. Web3 is this problem distilled. Its builders hate platform power but avoid anything that accounts for normal users. They distrust institutions, resent hand-holding, scorn existing habits, and idolize complexity. Then they’re baffled that only people like them—or grifters—join.

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