Dead Internet Theory

From the transcript of an interview with Jason Scott:

What I want to get to though is the fundamental lie of the
Internet, which is that the internet is decentralized and that it
functions as a a discrete series of interrelated parts that have to
some extent some sort of temporary balance of power between equally
powerful groups that causes the miracle of this interrelation to
happen.  But if you look at any aspect of it, it's been
centralized: digital certificates, domain names, network
allocation, and other aspects more Gentile like social media
accounts or being able to talk with central communities that exceed
anywhere past 5 to 10 million people.  So anytime you get up to a
certain number it just starts centralizing and as a result it
becomes shocking to people when a centralized authority, in the
name of anything ranging from benign to evil motivation, executes
something by fiat.  You wake up one day and now you can't have your
Facebook and your messenger client be the same client for a
technical reason you have no say in.  There's no number you can
call there's no one you can complain to: you're done.

The dead Internet implies that there's something that can be killed.

I totally get it if you've convinced yourself that you're on a
decentralized honest to goodness community made up of real people,
anything that pulls back that layer to show the circuits underneath
is traumatic.

If your perception of that tips over 50%, you're going to feel
besieged like "Oh, I'm drowning in robots, what is the point, this
isn't even people anymore."  Once you have that perception then the
Internet is dead to you in your heart.  So the conspiracy idea that
this has already happened and we can't tell, I find interesting.

It's going to be a more and more salient question.  It's already
real on dating sites.  As I understand it the chances of you having
a positive interaction with an actual human being is fairly low on
any well-trafficked dating site.

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