Ringspace: A Proposal for Creating a More Human-Centric Web Experience
By
todsacerdoti
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The author introduces Ringspace, a project aimed at preserving humanity on the web by creating a more personal, human-centric internet experience. The proposal critiques the current state of the internet as increasingly commercialized and dehumanizing, and presents Ringspace as an alternative that emphasizes personal connections, meaningful content, and human-scale interactions over algorithmic optimization and corporate control.
Key quotes
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The promise of the internet was that it would connect us, but the reality is that it's increasingly designed to optimize for engagement, not connection.
Ringspace is my attempt to demonstrate how we can preserve humanity on the web.
The web should feel like a place where people live, not just a platform where content is consumed.
Having established my elder millennial bona fides, I want to make clear that the worsening of the internet is not just because things are different from what they were.
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