Summary
The Decentralised Open Indexes for Discovery (DOID) proposes a new way to find resources on the web without relying on traditional search engines that prioritize ads over quality. It suggests using community-curated, machine-readable indexes that can help users discover valuable content buried in spam and low-quality material. This approach aims to create a more trustworthy and decentralized method for resource discovery on the internet.
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With each passing year, my conviction in the inevitability of the rather dramatic sounding Dead Internet Theory,[4] grows stronger. The WWW has become a cesspool of bot-generated spam and lowbrow, eye-catching, clickbait “content” churned out non-stop in bulk, driven by perverse incentives. There is significant amounts of good stuff of course, but buried deep, di With the advent of generative AI systems like LLMs that enable mass production of content in various forms, thePandora’s box has been busted wide open, accelerating the decay. While it should worry us that a large population consumes and enjoys such content, an even more alarming thought is that this version of the web is becoming the baseline for young people growing up with it. The spam, ad, bot, and clickbait-filled, social media-centric internet, curated by BigPlatform blackboxes, is becoming the defacto mental model of the WWW for many. This trend is so pervasive that the very foundation of the internet—a decentralized network of networks—may eventually be forgotten.