Well said, strong starting paragraph. Is it fixable? Only if we find a way to make the commercialized part a collective monetization that allows folks to produce content without shilling and not disclosing their advertising partnerships when pushing product. Incentivized internet is here to stay, but we can be clever. One such way would be offering services people who contribute are good at for tokenized earnings for positive content contributions. Just merit based rewards - I have to say crypto because it's a clear VC rug pull since the culmination of "FTX" but rather than NFT's we create a network with a better content policy, the lack of stealth advertising and unwanted exposer to commercialization attempts to where we site here disoriented like - what was I reading before that bogus 15 second ad clip... It can be done. It has to be creative, free, upfront funded by founders and community where it's worst contributors are 100x better than YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagrammers, and the airhead worthless walled garden/commercialized ad platforms mindless scrolling on steroids engulfs our attention and ruins the fact that we remember the true potential of producing quality discourse, sharing content that others have interest in, tech articles, how to DIY your own hardware and software mods to PC and jailbreaking phones. Running your own IRC community, using different protocols that TCP/IP...
The problem is commercialization. The second is social media walled gardens all trying to brainwash you into buying something you "must have"! to make your sad scrolling life better.
It's time to break the walled garden and even find other protocols to build. It can be done, but who will do it? How many days do we start on Google, scroll through the half-truths and un-truths of new and 40 days old news reports from news conglomerates paid to influence us, the reader and scroller, from the actual truth?
It could be a long fix, or we could just start small and try to find a modern path back to Web 1.0. We can use a platform front page that AI assists without search engines could pull info from many credible sources (trusted publications, books, journals, JSTOR, market data) and find a no nonsense story as opposed to a commercial masquerading as a news report.
Lastly a community for discourse. Free of speech but to discuss real things going on that we can understand through honest discussion and not have to find it on a platform with massive scrolling of pic to video to pick and settling on the girl in the bikini reporting "news and facts" she discovered without even putting clothes on after swimming in her "Content House"...
It can happen, if I could code I'd do it myself, but it is a goal. The real thing the walled gardens of Social Media from mobile to PC OG's and Web 2.0 did to us was make us scroll to death and believe anything being promoted by commercialized in feed ads and then go to Twitter where once stories were not majority lies or just dishonest from the truth.
The quality of the Internet makes it suck.
Had higher hopes for blockchains and web 3 where blocks could timestamp social mini-blog sites with crypto wallets run from a browser like HIVE and hive.blog in the browser as a reader. Content was good, but 2022, the scams, and exposure these "exchanges" - central on and off ramps for your dollars were actually providing staking programs that their bubble burst by using lending from a bank to fake pay your dividend profits even though the protocol never mentioned bank lending to fake the "DAO" rewards of the first attempt to fake "Web 3"...
Web 3 failed. Web 2 is too strong and walled off. Hopefully the Internet finds a way to become reborn to where the 2001-2024 WWW is a lot more creative, like it's early years.
Today it's only existence is commercialization. Which is creating famous terrible people not good for any youth to model after as they put these influencers everywhere.
The internet for me has sucked since 2011. Where will we find a fix.
Well said, strong starting paragraph. Is it fixable? Only if we find a way to make the commercialized part a collective monetization that allows folks to produce content without shilling and not disclosing their advertising partnerships when pushing product. Incentivized internet is here to stay, but we can be clever. One such way would be offering services people who contribute are good at for tokenized earnings for positive content contributions. Just merit based rewards - I have to say crypto because it's a clear VC rug pull since the culmination of "FTX" but rather than NFT's we create a network with a better content policy, the lack of stealth advertising and unwanted exposer to commercialization attempts to where we site here disoriented like - what was I reading before that bogus 15 second ad clip... It can be done. It has to be creative, free, upfront funded by founders and community where it's worst contributors are 100x better than YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagrammers, and the airhead worthless walled garden/commercialized ad platforms mindless scrolling on steroids engulfs our attention and ruins the fact that we remember the true potential of producing quality discourse, sharing content that others have interest in, tech articles, how to DIY your own hardware and software mods to PC and jailbreaking phones. Running your own IRC community, using different protocols that TCP/IP...
The problem is commercialization. The second is social media walled gardens all trying to brainwash you into buying something you "must have"! to make your sad scrolling life better.
It's time to break the walled garden and even find other protocols to build. It can be done, but who will do it? How many days do we start on Google, scroll through the half-truths and un-truths of new and 40 days old news reports from news conglomerates paid to influence us, the reader and scroller, from the actual truth?
It could be a long fix, or we could just start small and try to find a modern path back to Web 1.0. We can use a platform front page that AI assists without search engines could pull info from many credible sources (trusted publications, books, journals, JSTOR, market data) and find a no nonsense story as opposed to a commercial masquerading as a news report.
Lastly a community for discourse. Free of speech but to discuss real things going on that we can understand through honest discussion and not have to find it on a platform with massive scrolling of pic to video to pick and settling on the girl in the bikini reporting "news and facts" she discovered without even putting clothes on after swimming in her "Content House"...
It can happen, if I could code I'd do it myself, but it is a goal. The real thing the walled gardens of Social Media from mobile to PC OG's and Web 2.0 did to us was make us scroll to death and believe anything being promoted by commercialized in feed ads and then go to Twitter where once stories were not majority lies or just dishonest from the truth.
The quality of the Internet makes it suck.
Had higher hopes for blockchains and web 3 where blocks could timestamp social mini-blog sites with crypto wallets run from a browser like HIVE and hive.blog in the browser as a reader. Content was good, but 2022, the scams, and exposure these "exchanges" - central on and off ramps for your dollars were actually providing staking programs that their bubble burst by using lending from a bank to fake pay your dividend profits even though the protocol never mentioned bank lending to fake the "DAO" rewards of the first attempt to fake "Web 3"...
Web 3 failed. Web 2 is too strong and walled off. Hopefully the Internet finds a way to become reborn to where the 2001-2024 WWW is a lot more creative, like it's early years.
Today it's only existence is commercialization. Which is creating famous terrible people not good for any youth to model after as they put these influencers everywhere.
The internet for me has sucked since 2011. Where will we find a fix.