> a small fraction of kids branching off into fringe networks that are off the radar and will take them to very dark places very quickly.

‘Fringe networks’, and ‘off the radar’ feel like a very negative framing for a kind of smaller, more intimate, and often pleasantly communal feeling internet that I quite like!

Old fashioned online forums—maybe even Hackernews itself?—would likely fit into this ‘fringe’, ‘off the radar’ internet, and yet, it still feels much less toxic here than it does on twitter.

> The real problem is social media. Their machine learning algorithms are optimised to boost toxic content

…and you need a massive network to enable this, right? You can’t do it without the money, and the volume of content, that the giants in this space have.

If this just pushes kids onto the small web—sure, it’s not _all_ wholesome—but at least it’s not as carefully, as deliberately manipulative.