The situation has been made possible by the enormous trust in progress and "technical fashion" that existed recently, that seems to be drying out.

Say, 10-15 years ago offline-enabled means of communication were a matter of toys for people with no clear idea of future.

Now people going to protests use them, and the dangers of mainstream Internet services and platforms are also common knowledge.

So there is some immunity being formed. It's even better that this happens slowly. I would be worried if this were some fashion spreading rapidly, but now we can see one crowd using Briar, another crowd using Bridgefy, another crowd jumping on Jack Dorsey's Bitchat, LoRa and Meshtastic growing in popularity, all those things picking different approaches to the same goal, which signifies evolutionary convergence onto a commonly understood set of problems.

People who were simping for corps no longer do. People who were simping for social media no longer do. People simping for Apple and Google and MS seem to be a rare kind now.

The response is happening.