Goodman

no thank you, offer is appreciated though 🙏

You have a lot say on this. Its good that someone thinks about these thing. I'm sorry that I can't really provide you with a good discussion. I don't know enough about markets etc and I don't want to spend too long online.

I agree that can't really stamp out openness and anonymity online (which is beautiful in a way) but I think that will mostly be reserved to technically capable users in the cracks and niches of the web who can navigate the restrictions. This is a massive tragedy.

This brings us to the current state of the web with age restrictions popping up everywhere, deanonimization etc. I think that we are in agreement regarding where it is going. Where you think we should be heading. I'm sure you have opinios on that

I read one of your blog posts about empathy this mornjng. It resonated with me and my recent views on the world.

Thanks for explaining your thoughts. So to paraphrase you: you are saying that the market and by proxy, nations too, Are still adapting to the concept of the internet. One way to cope with the effects is to restricted access?

The internet can mostly die as far as I'm concerned. Just roll it back to file servers again, or something like gemspace. But being able to talk with people across cultures, borders freely is really important. It's a tragedy that all these people will be hurt by the dystopification of the web. The new web needs to have a safe way to converse socially that is safe and easy enough to use for lay people. I have so much more to say on this, but real life is calling so I'll leave it at this.

I don't really get your point about markets though. I'm genuinely trying to understand, so bear with me. This is what I got from your post:

Our market has coexisted with an extremely fast global communication network for decades now. Given that the market feels like a quite organic thing, on what authority is the market not meant to coexists with the internet?

I think that internet access is restricted because of technological constraints, a technological lag in rolling out higher speed infrastructure, and a the lack of demand for that access which is driven by technological and practical constraint. Some complex function of those factors haha. Still, I don't really know what you are trying to get across.

It took me an embarrassingly long to get the joke. I forgot what the original thread was.

Everyday the internet gets a little worse. I hate it here in this technological hellscape. I have more to say, but this bullshit makes me so so tired. Goodnight.

After contemplating on this: These companies that seek to eliminate thinking, spit in the face of agency. They call themselves agentic yet seek seek to kill all agency and authenticity in the users of their products which is contemptible enough.

We should all be more like Donald Boat.

If we can't change the material conditions that let these losers play with money and toys then we can at least hold them in cultural contempt.

A bit long, but well written. It read like a novel, quite enjoyable.

What a fucking world

A world of non-thinkers

At least Donald Boat found some wisdom.

Thanks for your comments. I agree with everything you said especially that these traits are desirable for broader life IRL. In a way the web culture is a reflection of our own cultures just more mixed, extreme, amplified and with a good dose of parasociallity. I desperately want people to break free of their cycles. Think, talk, discuss, empathize and form communities, use your free will for good damit. These are the real antidotes that will enable the cultural shift that will allow us to reject the smothering of the human spirit in the current way of life.

Anyways, it is a terrible thing that there is an armsrace to be authentic. This really ought to be solved on the user registration side. And also yes, saying something profound with hidden meaning through creative intuition is great, I write poems sometimes. But its not the solution to authenticity online.

Haha you did not answer my questions, but you are clearly passiinate about this vision and I like that. As I understand it you describe a sort of moral credit that has value within the community that hands it out. So I imagine that a board would mint these tokens? What would these tokens buy you?

We will grant that most in the community will be commited to the cause so they will want to participate, but other than respect, why and what should I grant/sell you (you having some credit) for helping the cause. Couldn't I just grant my effort to the cause directly? I get the renown aspect, but we also have commemorative mission patches pins and stickers for that.

So in short, I am not questioning the renown/trust mechanism of a moral credit system, but I am questioning the monetary function.

Don't take this a rejection of the idea, the rebirth of the internet has to start somewhere and that might be here by visionaries.

Yes! After winter comes spring, and who knows what that may bring. It is the belief in a better world that brightens my days. Even if hope can't heal everything it might heal some and that is enough for me.

We are not powerless agents! Use your free will to shape a better world. Unironically: live laugh love.