I think OP’s just trying to say that we’re the vocal minority - Google has literally billions of users yet HN gets ten million or so unique monthly viewers[0] (my estimate from 2015 stats). I think we’re nostalgic but for different reasons than what OP suggests - that is, we want a web not driven purely for profit at the expense of privacy (and whether or not FLoC solves this is discussed elsewhere in the comments).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9220098