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Part of me thinks we need a new protocol, and a new lightweight web built around markdown with absolutely no (client side) active content allowed. What I'm not

Part of me thinks we need a new protocol, and a new lightweight web built around markdown with absolutely no (client side) active content allowed. What I'm not sure about is how to combat bad actors / spammers / low-effort pages and AI slop. I'm leaning towards some kind of git-like storage with history as a mandatory part of the protocol, and some kind of cryptographic web-of-trust endorsement system.

linguistbreaker 2y ago
I'm starting to use Claude.ai more and more instead of googling. For the moment this seems to cut through the noise of the modern web.
- spencerflem 2y ago
  I believe that it does, I'm worried long term that it will discourage people from making and curating webpages themselves though.
  - linguistbreaker 2y ago
    Definitely a possibility - hopefully AI will similarly empower creation of better content instead of AI slop noise. In fact I wonder if Claude.ai could come up with similar CPU teaching tools and a syllabus based on some of the great resources linked in this discussion.
    - spencerflem 2y ago
      I mean, probably, but only because it was trained on this already. For new things though, why would you bother posting them to the internet if you can't use it to build an audience or make a connection.
      - linguistbreaker 2y ago
        and possibly not even credited for the content you created... True
spencerflem 2y ago
Sounds kinda like Gemini on top of IPFS/Dat/Hypercore. Imo some cool things but I'm not sure the problem is a technical one. Content addressing has some real benefits in allowing something like the internet archive to be transparent (ie: it doesn't matter who hosts it). But that's mostly solving linkrot. Searching through everything is still as hard as ever, and if the incentives are the same will be just as gamed. And people would have to make good content in the first place which is hard to justify without a good audience at the same time

linguistbreaker 2y ago

I'm starting to use Claude.ai more and more instead of googling. For the moment this seems to cut through the noise of the modern web.

spencerflem 2y ago
I believe that it does, I'm worried long term that it will discourage people from making and curating webpages themselves though.
- linguistbreaker 2y ago
  Definitely a possibility - hopefully AI will similarly empower creation of better content instead of AI slop noise. In fact I wonder if Claude.ai could come up with similar CPU teaching tools and a syllabus based on some of the great resources linked in this discussion.
  - spencerflem 2y ago
    I mean, probably, but only because it was trained on this already. For new things though, why would you bother posting them to the internet if you can't use it to build an audience or make a connection.
    - linguistbreaker 2y ago
      and possibly not even credited for the content you created... True

spencerflem 2y ago

Sounds kinda like Gemini on top of IPFS/Dat/Hypercore. Imo some cool things but I'm not sure the problem is a technical one. Content addressing has some real benefits in allowing something like the internet archive to be transparent (ie: it doesn't matter who hosts it). But that's mostly solving linkrot. Searching through everything is still as hard as ever, and if the incentives are the same will be just as gamed. And people would have to make good content in the first place which is hard to justify without a good audience at the same time