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"Rewilding is a way to collectively see the counterintuitive truth; today’s internet isn’t too wild, even if it feels like that. It’s simply not wild enough." incredible essay about ecosystem health, power concentration, and diversification https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/
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buffets
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Just finished reading this and thoroughly enjoyed it. The ecological perspective is useful and apt. I just wonder whether there is a meaningful role for crypto in this quest to rewild the internet. 200 $degen
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elle
@riotgoools
"Instead of tech firms extracting and selling people’s personal data, different payment models will fund the infrastructure we need. Right now, there is little explicit provision for public goods [...] essential to making the internet work." crypto could have a role here maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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buffets
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Yeah, crypto is inherently wild, given that its ethos is centred on its permissionless nature. Lots of predation/competition/exploitation/deceit within the space as a result—but maybe this is what is needed to create something durable and dynamic and which do not take away agency from users.
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elle
@riotgoools
definitely – one of the ideas that the essay puts forward is how sanding away the rough edges, abstracting away complexity, and offloading personal responsibility on the internet create the conditions that lead to a more fragile ecosystem and result in a less informed and more passive userbase
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