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They've gotten the people to scrub it for them by making them moderators and administrators of user content. Independent websites barely get traffic except by people who know they exist.

A lot, dude. If they were willing to off 270+ people just to take out Bentov, a little bit of internet censorship isn't even cracking any eggs. View quoted note →

Yesterday I was thinking of a forum setup that I would call Dunbar’s forum” where you could create invite only private forums each that had their own topic or theme but a maximum of 150 active users. Take the concept of Dunbar’s number and apply it to our online communities. Create small niche groups where people know each other and have a reputation. The side effect is the benefit of being a bot or paid influencer is small as your reach is limited. Being private in nature allows for moderation to be determined by the individual group. The internet is build on connections and does not need to be one big bucket of internet. Not everyone needs to see everything or be connected to everyone. It is the “web” that is important. The fact that information can travel between these nodes not that it is available everywhere at once all of the time.

You might want to sub to Brian Rommele on Twit/X. He’s a respected, popular, early AI garage-pioneer who’s been a proponent of off-line feeding of AI from a vast majority of old magazines and such, precisely to avoid the obvious weighted bias of the internet in such an important new technology.

Here we can reason and criticize each other without killing each other in a censorship resistant way. Isn't that the wet dream of the natural law? Mentioning the laws of our nature just through hearing the arguments of each other and reaching our own conclusions? In that sense, doesn't Nostr make states completely "obsolete"? If you know the laws through seeing the memes that flow through nostr, why would you need a state to say what is good and what is bad?

They are after you. For sure.

Even if it was, why would it matter? 99% of stuff on the internet is not useful to humanity and even the authors didn’t ever intend it to be

From the few relays I get automatically connected (on iris web i cant even post), most interations to my posts are automated likes or llm replies.

I guess we should go outside and interact with reality instead of trusting the internet 🤝

We're not building the internet for humans, but for machines

the internet scrubbing reveals the nature of totalitarian tendencies. the even bigger existential crisis for me, was thinking about every written record in history having passed through the same process. how much do we actually know about our past?

*sigh* what news have I missed? There is evidence that things get completely removed from the internet?

Wikipedia is being changed. The really scary part is that AI uses wikipedia as a source of information more than anything else. It is already better and faster at fact checking than most humans. How long before we see it as the oracle of all truth?

THEY can do whatever THEY want and THEY get away with it!

With a couple of decades of bookmarks and downloads, It’s pretty damning already. In the not too distant future I hope to create an index of content and call out the “404s.” Eventually I’ll throw Ye’s (Kanye West) “Drink Champs” interviews one, two and three up. “I’ve got receipts” as Bill Ackman said, but I REALLY do!

Would be great marketing for nostr if we could prove it. I guess there’s plenty of proof that the money printer exists but still nobody gives af about bitcoin 😂

Welcome to the dead internet.

Yeah … that’s a question 🙋🏻‍♀️