phiofx
@danilo on past form nothing will come of the new web. Unless it does :-)
The root cause is what economists term "coordination problems". People not getting their act together on their own. Which creates room for opportunists to intermediate and benefit immensely. This is a social flaw as old as the first temple collecting grain tax. Capitalism is literally built on virtual intermediaries we call "companies".
The digital age makes coordination easier but we haven't seen much good from this yet
Danilo Campos 🇵🇷
The old web is dying. The commonses have been enclosed, and without the dynamism of a prosperity shared between platform and participant, stagnation will rule
Now is the time of new internet.
You can’t predict it from here. You can’t just guess. It’s a whole new chapter of building substrate for our communities.
We get to build and shape what comes next. It’s worth imagining how vesting the community with power and self-determination changes how our web technology works
P2P did it.
Danilo Campos 🇵🇷
This was not a perfect system.
I liked score. TV, movies, whatever, I wanted the score. Loads of stuff mis-tagged as John Williams.
The whole thing was an IP archiving coop. Not everyone was an expert librarian.
But it didn’t matter. Whatever fucking music you wanted, you could get it.
It’s funny: the difference between streaming and piracy is that while the artists get paid in neither arrangement, the copyright cartels win at fan expense with streaming.
(betcha that won’t stand forever)
Danilo Campos 🇵🇷
It was miraculous.
Madonna’s cover of American Pie was one of the first things I downloaded from Napster, to help you calibrate.
This was the turn of the millennium and cable modem bandwidth was first appearing in people’s homes.
Suddenly our hard drives were not that far away from each other. The digital boundaries between us were more porous than any time in history.
And culture? Culture finds a way. The music
FLOWED
Danilo Campos 🇵🇷
There was a fork in the road, 20 years ago.
We went down the path we did. Centralized social media networks. Streaming services. The cloud.
But for a moment, there was a different conception of the internet than we know today. An internet built on the threads between us.
They called it “P2P.”
And through the courts, media capitalists killed it.
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