I’m old enough to remember USENET and IRC. They were free, decentralized, and full of terrible. The solution isn’t as easy as just removing advertising as a business model.https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1074410762637008896 …
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Old browser based mmos where you had to recruit troops by sharing a link and getting people to click on them did a decent job of incentivising people on IRC.
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Viral content always existed because humans. I remember goatse, Bantown, LOIC, and all sorts of voluntary human “botnets”.
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