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What's the endgame of a dead internet? Everyone leaves and most interactions happens in private group chats? It's the serendipity of the original internet I'll
by arnaudsm 2y ago
What's the endgame of a dead internet? Everyone leaves and most interactions happens in private group chats?
It's the serendipity of the original internet I'll miss the most.
- causal 2y agoOne of two possibilities I foresee, unsure which will play out: 1) People surrender their perceived anonymity in favor of real interactions, embracing some kind of digital ID that ensures some platforms are human-only. or 2) AI gets good enough that people stop caring whether they're real or not.
- 9dev 2y agoI bet my money on 1). Verifiable credentials are currently in the making, I can build products around this in my head immediately (a good sign that someone smarter than me has it figured out already), and huge platforms know so much about you, they’re almost there. It’s going to make interactions online safe, solve fraud, make everything personalised and wholesome. At least that’s going to be the narrative. Just wait for it.
- pixl97 2y agoThe problem is it will be the narrative and not the reality, which just promotes the system as untrustworthy and pushes people away from it.
- naveen99 2y agoI think #2. As they join the web of reputation, and they start protecting their own reputation. I mean we are already knowingly, increasingly, interacting with chatgpt instead of real humans.
- jen729w 2y agoIt just gets a bit smaller. See Mastodon, and why most people's criticisms of it are in fact its strengths. For ~5% of the current internet.