Adrianna Tan on Nostr: Around a decade ago when I was doing work in the 'emerging markets' of SE Asia ...

Around a decade ago when I was doing work in the 'emerging markets' of SE Asia (Indonesia, Myanmar) etc there was a common saying that 'the Internet there is FB / Google / Whatsapp' and that the 'next billion users' were out there, somewhere, to be future users of those properties.

The open web was curiously missing.

Turns out, the big cos were just using other countries as a model

This post reminded me of that

https://den.dev/blog/be-a-property-owner-not-a-renter-on-the-internet/