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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet – OneZero
(caution, semi-paywalled site, looks like you get 1 article for free)
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This is also what the internet is becoming: a dark forest.
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.
This very piece is an example of this. This theory was first shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I know or who have explicitly chosen to receive it. This is the online environment in which I feel most secure. Where I can be my most “real self.”
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And I thought: like
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These are all spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments. The cultures of those spaces have more in common with the physical world than the internet.
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Is this true? Are more and more people moving to closed-group spaces on the web?
And will the predators prowl the closed spaces as well?