Syn-(h)ACK on Nostr: Getting kind of tired and irritated with all the recent hand-wringing pieces by the ...
Getting kind of tired and irritated with all the recent hand-wringing pieces by the media with headlines like "Are we witnessing the death of the Internet?"
On the one hand, yes. But it's the death of the centralized, surveillance internet, not THE Internet. And to that, I say good riddance!
On the other hand, absolutely NOT! What we are witnessing is a huge opportunity for the Internet to not only live on but thrive as it was MEANT to be - a free and open exchange of ideas. People are starting to host their own servers again; FOSS software is on the rise and reclaiming its rightful place as the "software that runs the Internet"; projects like #Veilid, Sessions, and Signal are giving us new and secure communication frameworks; federated social media, webrings, personal servers, and point-to-point chat are gaining in popularity every day.
Sure, it might be the death of the overly-monetized, surveillance-capitalized, AI-twisted, ad-fueled, spam-filled dumpster fire that the media knows (but doesn't understand) as "the Internet", but the Internet is not dying. It's just being recast into the image that it should have been in the first place and not the techbro gift that we were swindled into accepting.
It is becoming the Internet that we were promised. And each one of us can help make that happen!
On the one hand, yes. But it's the death of the centralized, surveillance internet, not THE Internet. And to that, I say good riddance!
On the other hand, absolutely NOT! What we are witnessing is a huge opportunity for the Internet to not only live on but thrive as it was MEANT to be - a free and open exchange of ideas. People are starting to host their own servers again; FOSS software is on the rise and reclaiming its rightful place as the "software that runs the Internet"; projects like #Veilid, Sessions, and Signal are giving us new and secure communication frameworks; federated social media, webrings, personal servers, and point-to-point chat are gaining in popularity every day.
Sure, it might be the death of the overly-monetized, surveillance-capitalized, AI-twisted, ad-fueled, spam-filled dumpster fire that the media knows (but doesn't understand) as "the Internet", but the Internet is not dying. It's just being recast into the image that it should have been in the first place and not the techbro gift that we were swindled into accepting.
It is becoming the Internet that we were promised. And each one of us can help make that happen!