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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Wrote this up as a newsletterhttps://breakingsmart.substack.com/p/the-extended-internet-universe …
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Probably "stories" would evolve into a searchable and addressable medium. They are already somewhat interlinked, at least on TikTok (duet feature).
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Sorry for the stupid question but what is the underground internet?
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Plus Disqus UI is awful. Plus anything on Disqus can be vanished as “spam” whenever their (terrible!) spam filter changes, and you neither know this has happened nor can do anything about it.
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1/ This was the discovery web of StumbleUpon, Google Reader, and Stellar. The problem is the asymmetry of content delivery. One guy delivering his view of the world gets no recognition for blazing a "digital path". Unless you tie it to a "status game" like Patreon or followers.
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2/ You can only sustain it as long as that person remains personally invested or a platform makes it easier to digest. i.e. all the tweetstorm collectors on Twitter as an example of collecting breadcrumbs.
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isnt this basically xanadu
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