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i do relate to the underlying sentiment. I grew up on the internet, it felt like home to me when/where my actual home didn't. it's why I have a blog, why I spend so much time doing things on it (not just passively consuming content but organizing communities, moderating, etc)
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I don't want to be discouraging, but something strikes me as weird about that. It feels like a clinging-to of a thing that is fundamentally about flux and change. Our digital home is different every day, to attempt to protect "it" with fences strikes me as a sort of taxidermy
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I get the feeling that your overall philosophy works perfectly given a sufficient level of enlightenment. I actually agree, I'm just targeting one level of enlightenment below yours (with an eye toward my family stuck in southern Missouri, actually enmeshed "real fake news").
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Also unclear what you mean by enlightenment here. You can build online homes around any sort of interest and connection tendencies. 4chan is home on internet and they're more orcs than elves.
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For 99% of people, you're going to get stuck on Gab.ai or SomethingAwful or other anti-useful community traps. You've been too long out of the muck, man, the internet is purely awful for people who didn't build graphs in 2003-2010 era.
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Having a "highly curated social graph", dense enough to need only small # of people to provide you situational awareness of important topics, is definitely a strong modern form of wealth. If Twitter shuts down, you could contact ~70 people through vgr@ribbonfarm.com or whatever.
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