Brandon's Journal
I'm not sure about you, but for me, the web feels untrustworthy these days. So much of the content is either AI generated or created just to sell something, it's really hard to find authenticity online. How do you know what sites to trust? Where do you find quality content?
I've been thinking about this problem for a couple of years now, trying to figure out a solution. I feel like we need to wall off parts of the web. You know, have a gated community to keep the riff-raff out. Of course, that feels a bit icky, and keeps out people who might be looking for a better web. It also creates an echo chamber, and that is another pressing issue with the internet. There is also the logistics of how you could do this. I mean, in a way, Medium does this with a login and blocking of articles and that is just annoying.
Gemini, which I hear less and less about these days, was another alternate way to access blogs and content. The need for a specialized browser created a hurdle that automatically filtered a good portion of the web. In a way, it reminded me a lot of using the internet in the 90's. Sadly, it wasn't widely adopted, was full of spam, and quite unstable. The one blog I followed on there was wiped out when the service she used to host it just up and closed down out of the blue.
