Touching_Grass
Seems like a big moment in what the internet will be.
Early on the internet thrived on being open. Lots of amazing builders embodied the idea of open source collaborative environments and the website’s other people built on their infrastructure and tech followed those principles.
Now we’re in a new era. The business class saw how popular these spaces and communities were and bought them out. Now were in a place were they lock everything up, force scarcity fucking it all up
I don’t know the solution but I do know that we’re losing what the internet was suppose to be.
I remember in the early days how we all thought it was insane and unethical to create scarcity in data.
We all knew data could be copied and shared almost limitlessly and so the internet was headed towards this new post information scarcity world were we could all collaborate and share information and knowledge and culture.
It seems like now we’re putting up walls everywhere and charging for access to every bit of data we can. I think as an online culture that we lost a lot of that early 00s mentality of what the net would be.
I feel like we dropped that baton and the newer generation is almost pro data scarcity.
Just like my first girlfriend
Touch grass, indeed
From what I’m reading its saying a rare event with vaccines vs common event with covid.
