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by rektide 1103 days ago
> there's no one place i can go to that i trust on the web anymore

Trusting one place is what got us into this mess. Maybe we can have new great times some other place. But on a long enough timeline most sites turn to shit. Enshittification is a probabilistic function, and every year is another dice roll.

Protocols on the other hand can endure and grow. Ones that can create lasting value are not far out, but society has rarely valued these kinds of principles or thoughts so far; we haven't had to. We've been able to take for granted. And there's been a chorus of folks insisting anything new was going to be unadoptable, for any of various myriad reasons.

It's still not certain either way, but at least a much wider scope folks are being adequately radicalized, are seeing the horror of leaving mankind's legacy in the hands of these.

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You can trust 1+1=2 and that's about it.