streaming is already out the window for me and even before ai slop I felt media was really getting crappy. So for myself I will likely continue to consume older things.
If you asked me this years ago I would have said no. Today though it would seem like such an opportunity to mitigate the effects of climate change and pollution and greed.
I don't think it can. Negativity and conformity have been things way before the internet. Best way to fight it is for people to as much as possible be their authentic selves.
I would like something like nostr for user accounts so that you could just go to any federation thing and be on it but I would like every federated thing to have a config tab combined with something like trust cafe where you can rate everything and your view would be based on your own private ratings (I don't think they are private in trustcafe. make make public private a user option) and then cap it off with as much configuration and more that piefed has to allow for configuring your feed.
I can say that for weeks before voting there has been one around a scandal for one figure. Then days before voting you start getting one that is about how another politician has supported the first one in the past. Not the most disgusting but its kinda funny to see complex tactics.
whats the point of a modern replacement? idioms connect us across time and when they really have not modern sense (which there is enough understanding of cookware I don't think we hit that with pot and kettle) then it becomes an interesting backstory.
streaming is already out the window for me and even before ai slop I felt media was really getting crappy. So for myself I will likely continue to consume older things.