The underground internet is really inefficient. It consists of people cutting/pasting urls from one private context to another: slack, FB groups, dms, messengers. Or private <—> public
It’s like how surface croads are point-to-point by car, but subway use needs on-foot transfers
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The concept of “clipboard” is severely under-productized. We ridiculously overuse screenshots as well. Serious defeaturing of content for stable portability. Notebooks and highlighters aren’t sharing focused. Plus any mechanism that relies on a trusted 3rd party SaaS is weak.
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I think personal anon-blockchain of context-permissioned, addressable, searchable, interlinked clips.
Disqus came architecturally close with its commenting system, but required publishers to cooperate with no incentive to do so. Plus it was public rather than underground.
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Clipboard is centralized by nature, no? The easiest solution i came up with to copy-paste stuff between my devices was to plug it into my cloud network.
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can we make a personal blockchain of clips eventually? addressable content in a distributed store for 1 person?
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has there ever been a form of portability that doesn't involve "defeaturing?" I'm thinking it's necessary, or portability would be moot as a feature itself.



