It is time to build a new internet
The article discusses the need for a new internet due to the current state of digital platforms being overrun by commercialization and low-quality content. It expresses a desire for a decentralized and honest online space where meaningful discourse can thrive. The author calls for ambitious individuals to help create this new internet, emphasizing the importance of a collaborative and enriching digital environment.
- ▪The current internet is described as a 'necrotic digital organism' that has lost its value.
- ▪Many existing platforms are filled with AI-generated content and commercial interests, leading to a decline in quality discussions.
- ▪The author envisions a new internet that fosters genuine knowledge sharing and community engagement.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 7 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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| Original publisher | Bearblog |
| Canonical URL | https://mrmarket.bearblog.dev/it-is-time-to-build-a-new-internet/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 02:19:53 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T02:30:24.023Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T03:13:59.322Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | oX9xuPZjCyFJ · 2 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
It is time to build a new internet 22 May, 2026 Every morning that we open our phones and laptops, we are staring pitifully at a necrotic digital organism. It's sad and fucked up, no way around it, and there is no reason to go on what I'll call the Obvious Internet at all anymore IMO unless you are morbidly curious about how far we have fallen. There are tiny safe zones, like secret closed invite-only forums (i am part of one and it is great), Hacker News is still solid, and bearblog has lovely little corners. Kagi makes it easier to find these remnants of our more honest past. So all is not yet lost. But it is so, so close to being lost. And there is no longer a true decentralized public commons for discourse in the digital realm.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Bearblog.
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