About - Ringspace Trusted Webrings: Protocol Specification

(ringspace.net)

I agree with the desire for decentralization, but in all my noodling on this, maximal decentralization becomes vulnerable to abuse and inability to establish real trust.

Theft, kleptocracy, corruption. There are words for what’s happening.

If that happens, i might as well use Reticulum rather than something that left after Internet got sloppified and commertionalised

Reticulum Network

(reticulum.network)

For example, what do the people making and selling things think about this? Handing over their lifeblood to a cartel of corporations that want them to pay to be in a market place, accessible to the corporation bots which answer queries from users who pay for the stuff with little agency over which stuff they get shown.

It's bonkers from everyone's perspective, and Zuck et al can't see this?

Yep

eclexic (@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social)

@tante@tldr.nettime.org I am pretty sure their ideal world, and the ideal world of all these companies, is to have their chatbot intercede twice in _every_ communication. It should change your outputs to remove nuance from your meaning, and then expand it so the entropy goes too low for a person to stand reading it. So, others must summarise with a bot. A second chance to inject what they want. They want us to feel small if we don't use it to produce, and to feel overwhelmed if we don't use it to consume.

Mastodon 🐘 (mstdn.social)

xAI manages to have a worse ratio than them although with less invested they have lost less.

The man who wants to stick himself between us and reality and everyone else..

What a fucking pervert. Whatever relentless fucking pervert.