Birbla

Join the discussion

Write your take first — we'll ask for email only when you're ready to publish.

Sign in
  • Hacker News
  • While I disagree with The Dark Forest hypothesis, the way AI and LLMs interact with the internet validate the theory in this specific instance. Individuals hosting their own slice of the internet have to deal with crawlers DDoSing them into oblivion and other islands retreat into privacy to avoid them entirely.
    by fzeroracer
  • The same people who would petition against ZKP Internet IDs complaining about the unregulated internet.

    You can't have your cake and eat it too...

    by keel-control
  • Slop is awful, but I've found networks like Mastodon and Bluesky where most users are actively antagonistic to still be enjoyable. Beyond that I've taken to leaning on RSS, private chats and automated filtering where it makes sense. Folks are setting up blogs again too. Most of the bigger platforms are flooded with slop, but their owners are encouraging that. Those spaces weren't healthy to begin with and they aren't now, but the reasons are different.
    by cdrnsf
  • There is Gemini (the real gemini) and gopher, so far there is a lot of interesting items. Some Links:

    gemini://gem.sdf.org/

    gemini://sdf.org/

    gemini://gemi.dev/

    gemini://gemi.dev/cgi-bin/wp.cgi/

    gemini://cdg.thegonz.net/infrastructure/search/

    gemini://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/~solderpunk/cia-world-factbook/

    gemini://geminiprotocol.net/

    gopher://sdf.org/1/

    gopher://magical.fish/1/

    gopher://gopherpedia.com/1/

    gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/1/overbite

    by jmclnx
  • Pay attention to what you consume. Find sources you trust, creators you enjoy, and communities that are real. Participate.

    Not sure what else to say. Yeah, if you consume the "internet" like some firehose of information you spray at your face hoping for the best then, yeah, even today you're going to wind up gargling mostly shit.

    The "internet" being a small group of well-minded people who largely shared a similar outlook on things was the anomaly, not what's going on now.

    by chasing
  • The Internet began to break at the same day you gave it away to Jeff Zuckermusk.

    NOW people start to complain. And it's quite transparent why. ;)

    by pino83
  • Don't romanticize the internet. The modern internet has torn society apart at the seams. It's made the world less tolerable and made civic discourse impossible.

    If AI forces people to re-weight their priorities (i.e. be less on the internet), perhaps that's a good thing?

    by postalcoder
  • It's not just the internet, it's everything.

    Every document I read at work has been AI generated at some capacity. It's becoming so annoying that I have to use AI to create a summary.

    I don't know if anyone agrees, but AI generated documents are so verbose and explain things in an overcomplicated way that makes me exhausted after reading. Sometimes I don't even understand what AI is trying to explain

    by gonzalohm

Explore Birbla archives