True! Oniomania is not the same as an economic system that sets those with capital above others with less capital.

There are definitely some economic systems that might help both though.

Its all about the disruption. But protesting isn’t the only thing that people should be doing. Community building is just as important if not more so.

Source-available isn’t the same as free and open-source. You might not be able to distribute or modify as you like to the former and may have any sort of license provisioned with further restrictions.

I’m sure it would persist even after an event of malicious activity. It may just turn out like email with servers needing to be added to an allowlist at worst and more moderation. I think scalability might be the limiting factor at some point though and as a result we could end up with several disconnected islands of server clusters instead of globally meshed servers.

They were new in the 1700s. They are not a new thing for humans today. If you don’t use vaccines you are an outlier to modern society.