&gt;  it&#x27;ll be useless because all your non-nerd friends (and most of your nerd friends too) won&#x27;t have accounts there<p>Call it Eternal September, the unwashed masses, the quality of online communities dropping as they grow, call it whatever, I&#x27;m ready for a reboot, desperate even.<p>You are probably right — there&#x27;ll be a chicken and egg problem even with hardcore nerdy gnu fans, but if new networks are created that attract nerdy passionate people, they will already be an interesting place, and if they ever happen to go mainstream then we will have at least taken our online &quot;town squares&quot; and public spaces back from private ownership.<p>An exciting new world where people aren&#x27;t forced to use their real name (and prove it with government ID), where people can post their photos even if they contain nipples, where you might even have control over who can access your data.<p>I&#x27;m ready to jump ship, just looking for the boat to jump to.