Dorsey's arm wavey Block is a reboot of Nelson's Xanadu dream. Replace transclusions and zippers with blockchains. Though Nelson never pretended Xanadu would o

Dorsey's arm wavey Block is a reboot of Nelson's Xanadu dream. Replace transclusions and zippers with blockchains. Though Nelson never pretended Xanadu would or could be democratic, explicitly stating it'd be a new rent seeking regime. Eschewing ads for fees. I wonder if Dorsey feels any contrition over Twitter. Square (SQ $77b) runs on fees and uses ML to mitigate fraud and protect commerce. Twitter (TWTR $36b) runs on ads and uses ML to amplify fraud and sabotage civil discourse. Imagine if Twitter had been run like Square. Would Twitter's market cap be more proportional to it's cultural impact? Or would it have simply ceded the parasocial mediums to the other amoral profiteers of fear and outrage? Stretching my capacity for both creduality and principle of charity, I hope Dorsey is trying to find out with Block. And if DeSo, DeFi, FyFoFum, or whatever other magic beans fiction serves the end goal of restoring civil discourse, the suspension of disbelief would be a small price to pay.