I have been thinking about this a lot lately. The internet fundamentally changed human society because it changed who you could be connected with. But the problem that arised was that you couldn't reach other people based on the offline connections you already had and big tech / social media algos became the permanent proxies
This is a video not directly related to the topic we are discussing but opened my mind to why web of trust would be very very important for nostr. Also, with the advancements in AI, without WoT, you'd need more and more privacy invading stuff to keep the internet working which can't last very long
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This video connects to the conversation. If everyone is hyperconnected, both from a network theory + math perspective, and we actualize it with a persistent connection in your pocket available 24/7…. Why would people end up more isolated and disagreeable?
I think there is something to the idea that technology itself satisfies so many of our idiosyncratic desires that we are increasingly having a harder time communicating. If you have 8 billion unique worldviews, each getting more fragmented… then conflict and the resulting isolation is a natural result.