Here's a bit of web history for you. Over-simplified.
It didn't start with social media, it kicked off with weblogs way back. Sometime around 1997, I think, somebody started surfing the web and jotting down their finds from wandering around online on a page. I believe it was the guy who invented RSS. Just simple links, like "check this out" and "look over here." Then others copied the idea, and some even added a little commentary to their links. That's how weblogs were born, pretty much right around the same time as RSS.
Nerds built weblog CMS tools, replies got added in, and the whole scene grew. From 2003 to 2007, there was this lively weblog community worldwide. The first real social media. We were weirder than Nostr back then. We already had all the tech you see today, except for zaps.
And then commercialization hit. The fiat kind of commercialization. Big companies started paying individual famous bloggers to test drive the latest BMW model and write about it on their blog, for example. The early version of influencers.
Then even more people flooded online, and they were lazy and not tech savvy, wanting everything simpler. Easier reposting, easier mentions, easier visibility, that led to classic social media being born. And weblogs died. All out of convenience and incentives.
And then Nostr showed up. That's why you see so many of us 40 and 50 year olds here. We remember that culture and mentality from the 2000s. The fiat commercialization screwed us over back then, and we got quieter in the meantime.
And then AI came along, with all that AI slop. The fiat commercial side folded it in and now they're churning out crap with it. They can even skip humans altogether, because they never got the internet or the vision from the web's inventor, Sir Tim Berners Lee. They were basically just hangers on and parasites of the web. We use AI to code more and faster, and to make cool music. But we don't like bots.
How's the story going to play out? The divide between these two opposing camps is only going to get bigger. That's for sure. But will it lead to some big explosion? Will the sides start fighting each other? We'll see.
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