Comment by sodapopcan
13 hours ago
SEO is what ruined the web AFAIC.
> Time to start some human-only darknets.
I know very little about darknets. How could you ensure that they are human-only?
13 hours ago
SEO is what ruined the web AFAIC.
> Time to start some human-only darknets.
I know very little about darknets. How could you ensure that they are human-only?
The only way to generate a human-only net is to figure out how to remove all economical incentives from there. The “golden age of the internet” a lot of people, including myself, are nostalgic for had very very little economical incentives. I missed usenet, but I remember being active on small forums in the late 90s and early 2000s that were almost entirely passion projects. I recall a huge controversy in one forum when the guy who was maintaining it asked if it’s ok if he puts a banner ad at the top because someone was offering him $200 to advertise another forum.
Removing the economical incentives is very hard though. Even HN is gamed by many tech companies and projects. Reddit is obviously a lost cause. It’s a sad state of affairs, but I don’t think there is an alternative.
Lose anonymity and bring back key-signing parties. Maybe you can't guarantee that everything is human-generated, but at least you know the chain of trust that leads to the human that signed off.
Yes, I'm aware of the irony of creating a darknet that only works by removing anonymity.
Aka altman's world coin. I'm sure this darknet infra and party beer will be sponsored by mysterious people who turn out to be LLM companies and investors.
The golden age of internet was during seo, what are you talking about?