Comment by groby_b

5 days ago

It's a beautiful goal, but like so many things on the Internet, it wants a social change and hopes to achieve it via a technological solution that rejects most of the things people want from their Internet. And neither nostalgia nor technology will fix social issues.

If I were to put it in a quip, I'd say "Doesn't support cat pictures, dead".

If you truly want to fix what's broken about the Internet (and there's so much!) you will need to engage with why it's broken, why those forces shaped it the way they did, and how you will address those forces in your new proposals. You will need to think about why people would want to change their behavior.

I mean, don't get me wrong - it's still a very cool experiment & art project, from the builder perspective. But like most art projects, it will only reach a small audience.

I think this is pretty clearly not a project which intends to be used except in an experimental way. It's fine to write software just to help you understand something, same as you would an essay.