All of this to say: hope is the warrior emotion and it's on the rise. We've had a lot of tech criticism over the past decade but now we know what *else* we can build. @mariafarrell.bsky.socialwww.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r.... Let's go!
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
This is such a good piece, and articulates so well my growing concerns about the clearly degrading internet experience. I'm old enough to remember a web that was navigated by directories rather than ad-optimized algorithmic search engines or - even worse - synthetic text-generating "AI" tools.
People are asking where I got the search/browser graph. It's my own work, see more at berjon.com/public-inter... (and much more on this to come).
What if the internet were public interest technology? Is that too wildly speculative? I think not. I am not talking about a utopian project here — a public interest internet would be a glorious imperf...