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As much as I agree that copyright in its current form is a joke, I don't believe it's responsible for destroying the internet. The internet is a wasteland beca
by ravenstine 3y ago
As much as I agree that copyright in its current form is a joke, I don't believe it's responsible for destroying the internet. The internet is a wasteland because too many people are on it. It started out as a thing for academics, then became available to non-academics with enough skills to use it (and whom appreciate it), then young people got access to it in school, then smartphones put it in everyone's pocket, and finally we have virtually everyone in every part of the bell curve on it whether they comprehend it or not. The greater the audience, the more the internet is dragged towards the mean. Of course it will no longer serve the same purpose it once did. The original types who were on it early make up less than 1% of the current internet population.
Don't get me wrong, copyright enforcement has degraded many things, but the old internet wouldn't be significantly different today if all other variables remained static.
- partitioned 3y agoIt was right around the time everyone's grandma figured out how to get a facebook account that it all went to hell.
- renzobanks 3y agoi can second that
- batch12 3y agoThis debate predates facebook by a while. Napster came out 5 years prior, and that's when I remember the biggest push from media companies, but there were efforts even before this to limit the free exchange of information.
- wkat4242 3y agoI often wonder if we could start a new sub-internet. Like a wide area mesh VPN. Perhaps something like tor but not so focused on anonymity so it doesn't immediately degrade into the cesspool that tor has become.
- ravenstine 3y agoWhat you're describing is a lot like Yggdrasil, which I love and use for networking my devices: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/ Though I haven't really bothered joining a larger network yet.
- Spastche 3y agoI feel like new TLDs could fix a lot of issues but they've basically been made worthless by spammers and people charging too damn much
- fsflover 3y agohttps://geti2p.net https://geti2p.net
- jazzyjackson 3y agoAnother instance of this is Urbit. I wish it didn't use ETH for namespace but it is a pragmatic solution and funds development, the rest of the architecture is free of blockchains. I especially like the model of moving your "ship" from one "pier" to another if you don't like the moderation, tho the network hasn't really gotten big enough to actually experience a netsplit like mastodon - it's a couple thousand users if that. The fact that a 32bit name costs money adds a bit of a durable reputation factor, but 128bit names are free.