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"This amazing portal into the human experience has become a place filled with misinformation, corruption and greed." That's it in a nutshell. I have an idea.
by 8bitsrule 6y ago
"This amazing portal into the human experience has become a place filled with misinformation, corruption and greed."
That's it in a nutshell.
I have an idea. Allow the wild-wild-west only on .com (or segregate however you decide). There need to be domains with no ads, no tracking, no spamming, no 'social' behemoths, no companies, no for-profit org's, no begging bowls. (I'm sure you can think of more nos.) Person-to-community only; supplications need to be granted community-by-community.
The penalty for attempted transgressions will need to have serious teeth. Else we're screwed.
- dexen 6y agoI hear your points, and I too yearn for the "good old" internet of yore. The days when the 'weird side of the internet' was the main side. However, two observations: 1. removing the commercial interests doesn't stop even half the trouble. Aside of commerce, there is activism, there is politics, and there is social tribalism. You can't even meaningfully remove those. Given that those three stay, the commercial part allows a counter-balance to the ideological and tribal concerns. 2. the healthiest communities are the ones that don't shy away from gatekeeping. With communities and gatekeeping being the key words. Check out IRC, the Eternal September seems to be fading away and already half way gone. Heck, even HN is a half decent example of a community that self-improves through gatekeeping.