That’ll just have to be 100% analog, and that’s until Physical AI has a massive breakthrough where they’ll make the analog also possible to be automated away.

It’s not over… “OVER” but it’s sure feeling that we are heading there, though.

Be the curator yourself, browse the small web.

Browsing the small web is not that simple right now. Even if tools such as Marginalia help, it's still quite difficult for discoverability.

help us, Google!

There is, something like that all over the internet. But it's not on any popular website or platform. Barely anyone knows about those places. And they're better that way.

I won't post a link here, but check out KamTape.

That's the thing about human intervention: It can't be hyperscale. I think that's a feature, but until we as a society come to the conclusion that not every aspect of life has to be the biggest and the only, we're not going to get there.

about the not-hyper aspect: aren't you assuming some technical factors? for instance, if you assume a central mechanism capable of conducting a realtime ad auction, then yes, going hyperscale is resource-consuming.

without assuming such centralization, we end up with more distributed, even async networks. I'm not sure such a network would even need to be mainly supported by permanent hosts (like mastodon is). It could use more torrent-like ad-hoc mechanisms.

They'll reinvent it but possibly not in the way you like. See Altman's Worldcoin for example.