So TIL about ‘dead internet theory,’ which is the theory that the internet is mostly bots, and we’ve spent the last 4+ years not realizing it:

https://futurism.com/conspiracy-theory-internet-died

 The things that get to me about dead internet theory:
- it’s basically unfalsifiable (hard to prove right or wrong so it’s perfect for the culture war)
- the article goes into more detail but arguably the cornucopia of content on TikTok suggests that given the cost of making complex whole deepfakes of people, there’s just actually a metric boatload of people connected to the internet
- Reddit in its early days was full of sock puppets 
- one of the cofounders of Reddit’s core theses, web3, stands to build the tools to make those sorts of Sybil eclipse attacks harder to do

Excited to see what is built on Lens. 