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The word for web is forest
- Ecologists have re-oriented their field as a “crisis discipline,” a field of study that’s not just about learning things but about saving them. We technologists need to do the same. Rewilding the internet connects and grows what people are doing across regulation, standards-setting and new ways of organizing and building infrastructure, to tell a s... See more
from We Need to Rewild the Internet by Maria Farrell
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The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.
from The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by maggieappleton.com
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- Looking back five years after the initial Dark Forest essay and pangs of concern, what most stands out is something that those of us who are drawn to Dark Forests have felt longer than most: that the internet is real life. What we do “in here” matters just as much as — and for some of us, problematically, even more than — what happens “out there.”
... See morefrom The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual by Yancey Strickler
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- Looking back five years after the initial Dark Forest essay and pangs of concern, what most stands out is something that those of us who are drawn to Dark Forests have felt longer than most: that the internet is real life. What we do “in here” matters just as much as — and for some of us, problematically, even more than — what happens “out there.”
... See morefrom The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual by Yancey Strickler
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- The web is called the web because its vitality depends on just that—an interconnected web of individual nodes breathing life into a vast network.
from My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be? by Laurel Schwulst
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- “the dark forest” region of the web is becoming increasingly important as a space of online communication for users of all ages and political persuasions. In part, this is because it is less sociologically stressful than the clearnet zone, where one is subject to peer, employer, and state exposure.
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