It might be that we just have to accept that the internet and us simply grew apart. But right now, we still seem to be lacking the imagination to engineer new spaces beyond it.

And the stamina, probably. Convenience bred laziness.

It might change though. Change through disruption. Disruption that will not be without collateral. As always.

I for one am curious how hostile of a place the internet will become before the successor arises. How will it even look like? Will it be using IPv12?

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Man, I wish reticulum wasn't broken by design. It has so many cool future ideas, but pinning all that on a hard dependency to crypto that _will_ be broken is just so dumb.

That and lack of hardening against really any sort of malicious actor.

Someone please build reticulum with those things fixed.

It could be so cool. Decentralized, medium-agnostic, meshing. The spirit of the old web, transported partially via LoRa radio, partially via fiber and partially via pigeon (optional) without you as the user noticing + without the Lord Jesus Christ denying your connection before marriage.