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It is time to build a new internet
Key takeaways
- Every morning that we open our phones and laptops, we are staring pitifully at a necrotic digital organism.
- It's sad and fucked up, no way around it, and there is no reason to go on what I'll call the Obvious Internet at all anymore IMO unless you are morbidly curious about how far we have fallen.
- There are tiny safe zones, like secret closed invite-only forums (i am part of one and it is great), Hacker News is still solid, and bearblog has lovely little corners.
Every morning that we open our phones and laptops, we are staring pitifully at a necrotic digital organism.
It's sad and fucked up, no way around it, and there is no reason to go on what I'll call the Obvious Internet at all anymore IMO unless you are morbidly curious about how far we have fallen.
There are tiny safe zones, like secret closed invite-only forums (i am part of one and it is great), Hacker News is still solid, and bearblog has lovely little corners. Kagi makes it easier to find these remnants of our more honest past. So all is not yet lost. But it is so, so close to being lost. And there is no longer a true decentralized public commons for discourse in the digital realm.
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