Alive Internet Theory: Counterweight to Dead Internet Theory
floguo · x · 2026-08-21
The post proposes the 'Alive Internet Theory' as a counterweight to the pessimistic 'Dead Internet Theory'. Despite bots, slop, and algorithmic noise, the internet remains full of real humans trying to find and understand each other. The author wonders about the conditions producing this aliveness and what it would look like to design for aliveness as a primary objective.
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