[jauntywundrkind]

The actual Eternal September challenge is to upconvert the newcomers into your better higher order more agentic societies. Raise up the newcomers.

The digital gardens of the early internet were bound to get paved over as it scaled from millions to billions of users. Being a consumer was easier and simpler, and frankly, far better connected via centralized social-network hub sites.

We can blame outside powers and forced that be. But the path through doesn't really hinge on that. Can we create a powerful culture that has its own will and liberty, that is interested & active in shaping it's way forward? The internet for a while was a magnet for seekers, for people interested in participating in these optimization loops. If we can create the conditions where people can see empowerment, where people can and do connect I'm new and interesting ways, if we make and show off malleable systems we tune and adjust and shape to ourselves, I still believe we can get back on a path of the internet being a way to amplify the better "man the toolmaker" instincts. Opening the door, letting folks peer under the hood & improve, via coding or via other higher order systems, that can culturate & improve people... That's how we respond to the long Eternal September crisis of the digital.