Interesting article. You say that different 'spheres' of the Internet controlled by different geographic elites is a problem...but one unified internet controlled by one elite/group of people would be even worse. At least the way I is, we can compare different opinions and seek out alternative truths - however untrustworthy and unreliable they each may be.

What you say is completely correct. But I have only vague guesses at how you got to talking about a unified internet controlled by one elite/group. T

This article is explicitly talking about protocols to let neurons talk with each other. Directly. About disintermediation. So, I'm not sure what your seeming sense of alarm is here. Provided the protocols do what they say on the tin. I feel like your getting tripped up on fear uncertainty and doubts, but it's exactly what's trying to be addressed here, so it's really confusing to see your post. From the article:

> This separateness is not the biggest problem; what is more dangerous is that in each of these versions of the Internet, the neurons can’t talk and express themselves directly to each other.

I think a local first alternative and a direct connection of nodes in the network would lead to a healthier network if we think of it as a nervous system that connects us

actually, I agree, one unified internet that is controlled by one group could be even worse than the different parts we have today

Yep...E2E encryption just doesn't cut it when the company still owns your data & accounts on their servers.

I've adopted Anytype; encryption + self-hosting + open-source backend is rock solid.

Here's a Notion vs Anytype comparison from the company's blog

https://blog.anytype.io/notion-alternative/

I'll check again Anytype in maybe a year or so, because currently their whole "typing" thing just isn't up to snuff (I wrote about it here before so you can check my comments history of you are curious and find a lengthy post about it and why I think only Trilium notes is sound -as in enforcing type consistency- in this space).

Advertises local-first on top of their page. Immediate account creation requirement on iOS, not even a demo mode.

And...this is why E2E encryption isn't enough to protect your data. E2E encryption + self-hosting + user-controlled keys is the way. For docs & stuff switched to Anytype a while ago, I think there are others that at least offer encryption + self-hosting: Affine, Joplin, Obsidian.

And trillium.

Hard to make a blanket statement about analytics being 'good' or 'bad'. They are there as one of many tools to provide a compass and let you know whether you're headed in the right direction.

I think there's a bit of nuance here between an artist's approach versus that of a product designer, for instance. Artists seek to express an idea, feeling, or concept. Analytics, which (in the case of Youtube) optimise for a certain outcome, can easily befuddle. Designers seek to solve a problem. Analytics can help shed light on whether the problem has been solved.

Hi I wrote this post! You're right - that's what I was getting at in the post :) I've seen lots of people say analytics are "bad" recently, and that's what inspired this post (as well as starting to write an analytics-free blog).

I think it's especially twisted when analytics companies (like google) try to manipulate me into changing from an "artist analytics user" into a "engagement engineer analytics user". That's bad.