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From Yancey Strickler, after Cixin Liu:

In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.

Dark forests like newsletters and podcasts are growing areas of activity. As are other dark forests, like Slack channels, private Instagrams, invite-only message boards, text groups, Snapchat, WeChat, and on and on. These are all spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments.

An increasing number of the population has scurried into their dark forests to avoid the fray.

But we can anthologise the hell out of this scurrying:

Warren Ellis:

[A]ll the interesting writers are hiding in internet spider holes with their friends and they ain’t coming out. Who can blame them?

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we’re back to what we had before Google and social network services. Curation.

https://www.ystrickler.com/the-dark-forest-theory-of-the-internet/
https://orbitaloperations.beehiiv.com/p/the-dark-forest
https://darkforest.metalabel.com/