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This was a weird post. Kinda a grab bag of random thoughts around identity:

* we have fractured identity online

* FB/Google might be going away

* Web3 may protect against that

* Large Language Models might cause the death of the internet.

I'm not really sure what to take away from the post. I found it confusing.

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Those three points are related. Facebook/Twitter/Et al wanted to play gatekeeper and now are becomining festering corpses, which has made the disparate online identity problem worse.

Because these platforms are gamified, they are worth gaming and gave rise to lots of fake automated content. Go search "best tablet" or "best lawnmower" for several hundreds of thousands of examples. Or look at Twitter.

Instead of any of these achieving a plaza of conversations, people are farther apart than they were to begin with.

The conclusion I got from it is that he wants to get 1000 followers on TikTok so he's got to do something to inflame people and get attention.

The first idea I had with this post was definitely: it would be funny to make an over the top long identity archipelago with unrelated identities. So I guess you're sort of right.

You're right. It is four only vaguely related topics that don't come together into a real thesis besides 'online identity feels a little noisy and precarious'. The fact that I couldn't come up with a better title than 'Online Identity' maybe should have been a clue that what I was writing was a little unfocused.

Thanks for reading though!

Agreed, simple things like 'there identity' also make it hard for me to focus too much on it as well. Everyone has a lot of different personas online, it's free to do and there's zero downside.

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