Maybe website guestbooks should come back.
Like the rest of the World Wide Web, they didn't go away. We did.
We got lured away from the World Wide Web into the shiny and green walled gardens. Now we forgot what's beyond that wall, and we're only just noticing that the garden's flowers are wilted and its grass is long since dead.
The World Wide Web is still there, only diminished by our absence and invisible behind the walls of the worst tech corporations selling us a utopia that isn't.
Thank you! Finally someone who remembers what the World Wide Web was, and will be.
Here I present some visions to take back our freedom, and escape the walled gardens.
Your feedback and collaboration is invited.
@ashwin GenAI, cryptocoins, & web3 are dealbreakers.
There is no way to ethically crowdsource an LLM, or any kind of database, with a financial motive, let alone yet another inherently harmful & fundamentally unsustainable blockchain scrip.
This proposal addresses superficial concerns with lofty goals while failing to address any foundational problems. These visions are neither the best of the past nor the best of the future.
@arielmt
Let's start with this basic question to clear things up, before we decide if a conversation is worth having:
Do you have an open mind about these matters? Or are you just going to be a critic?
The vision is not very well articulated in this article. The reason being that I was made homeless and systematically persecuted for the last few years.
What you see here is a brief outline of what is to come, poorly articulated, through multiple arrests, homelessness, and hunger. I am finally getting it off the ground.
Critics won't deter me. I have suffered extreme hardship in this pursuit. Critics do waste time, unless the criticism is constructive.
So if you are a closed minded person who is triggered by a few tech buzzwords, please state that upfront.
If you are willing to discuss and possibly collaborate, I appreciate and welcome you!
There's a whole lot more in the works, that I was derailed from, and which I am rebooting.
Beginning with this Free Software co-op.
https://gitlab.com/we-glue-earth/we.glue.earth
I am planning being the Steve Jobs of Free Software ( to Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak )
With meticulous UX design, tasteful aesthetics, and the right approach to publicity, this is the initiative that will democratize knowledge, and bring Equal Rights and Justice to all.
I am not in it for material gain, having already enjoyed material success upto the sweet spot. The aim is to spread wealth and get people participating in virtuous cycles that are non-greedy.
Please let me know where you stand with this. Thanks. ☺️