The Internet is broken. Or to be more precisely: the World Wide Web is broken. It is not representing the idea we have had in the year 1990. And I think we should fix it now. And the solution cold be very simple.
Why is it broken?
Today the Internet is full of unnecessary, unhelpful or very bad content. We all know the reasons – the commercialization and the outrageous idea of large corporations dividing the Internet into closed platforms that are called ‘social media’. As a result, it has become almost impossible today to find meaningful or valuable content on the internet. AI is currently dramatically worsen this situation day by day.
How to fix it?
So I believe it’s time to fix it. And I think this could be very simple. We can use the basic tools invented 40 years ago. The solution which I have in mind is the Proxy Server. A proxy server defines which request is valid and which one is not.
The only thing we need to organize is a Proxied-Internet based on the concepts of Mastodon .
- Every Member of a Proxied-Internet space can register new content in the form of an URL.
- Every Member of a Proxied-Internet space can report inappropriate content.
- The community members can decide whether a member should be banned and no longer allowed to register new content.
Every user of the world-wide-web can simply use a Proxy in his Web-Browser to get rid of the Internet Slop.
What did you think?