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I've been typing for a couple hours now and have to get moving with my day, but I want to leave this thread with a few clarifying statements. 1. What I'm pitching is a verifiably half-baked utopia. It will never shake out like this in real life. 2. I still think it would be a cool social experiment.

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As you interact with others in real life, that interaction gets logged as an authenticated node, and as others interact with the person you interacted with, those interactions are authenticated by proxy. It's the utilization of the same predatory data gathering technology big tech uses, but for good

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I think this part's open to discussion, but I get a personal kick out of imagining it being something much simpler than that: it's literally driven by genuine human contact. You literally start a chain of interactions where you are the first genuine human being in the network.

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So... what's the mechanic that vets users? Is it biometrics? 2FA? Some sort of blood-drawing dongle you carry around on your keychain with NFC or bluetooth capabilities? Is it a crypto auth coin?

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We live in an era of distrust. The Bright Web is a half-baked take on what a solution to that distrust might look like. If nothing else, it would be an interesting social experiment.

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The Bright Web would aim to be a space where we go for complete authenticity. It would also be a place where real, genuine connections with other people could happen earnestly and organically. It would be a place where users would be allowed to let their guard down and take things at face value.

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The difference is that was a side-effect of an aspirationally trustless space that also sought to be anonymous. The entire point of the Bright Web from the jump is to reduce anonymity of its users in order to create a trustworthy space.

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Now... for anyone that's watched through that video (and especially anyone whose watched through it as many times as I have) (it's a lot) you might be surprised by the suggestion of an authenticated internet. That is, after all, what MetaMask and other auth tokens were seeking.

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Line Goes Up – The Problem With NFTs

The dark side of this can be seen with the boom and bust of Web3, aka NFTs. The details of which are summarized well in the YouTube video "Line Goes Up" by Folding Ideas (aka @foldablehuman.bsky.social ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_x...

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Imagination Age - Wikipedia

Increasingly, we can't fully trust what we see. We are in the age of the grifter; of the scam artist. Broadly speaking, we've gone from the Information age to the disinformation age (though I've come across a more cheery classification of it as "The Imagination Age" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imagina...)

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As the internet has become more and more an all-encompassing aspect of the average person's daily life, we find ourselves increasingly exposed to bots, scams, and deception. Everything from the news we watch, to our online social interactions, to the content we consume is unverifiable.

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The Bright Web is *less* anonymous and, as a result, you can trust what you're interacting with is real, above board legally, and carries societal protections. There will be a real-world mechanic that validates the person on the other side of the interaction - everyone will have an IRL issued ID.

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In the same way that the "Dark Web" can be broadly categorized as a place where people are trying to hide their identities as much as possible (mostly to dodge law enforcement, government monitoring, or prying eyes in general) the "Bright Web" is its foil.

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I've seen a lot of consternation online about how impossible it is going to become to tell whether what you're seeing online is real. The absence of trust in what you're seeing and interacting with renders a lot of the internet useless. You can't learn, you can't verify, you can't authenticate.

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Introducing our state of the art video generation model Veo 3, and new capabilities for Veo 2.

Idea of the day: The Bright Web project. With the recent unveiling of #veo3 deepmind.google/models/veo/ I think we're getting our first real glimpses of what the "Death of the internet" might look like (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_In...)

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

In times of crisis, I wish I could offer more than the illusion of safety. Being powerless to make the material conditions of those around me better has been a constant pain point and source of shame and self-deprecation for the vast majority of my life.

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

. Due process is the only reason Trump isn’t rotting in a cell right now. And what’s he wanna do with it? Rip it away from immigrants, protestors, and anyone who told him “no.” Man used the system to dodge justice and now he wants to burn it down. .

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Ok new app idea: Sandwichinator. You send it a picture of your fridge and it suggests a sandwich you can make with what it sees - regardless of what it sees.

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Libra on Fire 🔥 ⚖️ @libraonfire.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

. The new U.S. trade strategy: insult your friends tax your own people and hope no one notices you have no idea what you’re doing. Nailed it. 🥴 .

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Talking to an old friend recently and mid-conversation it dawned on me that I've tried therapy twice, and in both cases had the deep insecurities I shared be openly laughed at to my face by the therapist. I know I should still try to go back to therapy, but... it's hard to find the right one.

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Think I'm going to start regularly streaming LeetCode solutions

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thoughts and vibes today?

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Bet you can't say "Duolingo English" five times fast

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I think I'm genuinely scared for the first time about the times we're about to be living through. Usually the belief that the evil will be thwarted by its own stupidity keeps my anxiety leveled out but... This time, the more I learn, the more I realize they're actually doing it.

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...in the wake of the #CFPB being dismantled, my CrispHighFive idea is actually starting to sound more and more reasonable. ...God we're living in the dumbest timeline.

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BOOM! You can now trust that they are who they say they are. It will obviously only work on a limited, local level - but if this catches on, we can have "ambassadors" that fill in this role for me in different locations - all people I've exchanged a crisp high five with.

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So how do you get verified? You gotta have a video clip on your profile of me, personally, giving you a crisp high-five! So how do you get that video? We arrange a time to meet up in real life, and I record the high five then add it to your profile and give you "verified" status.

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On CrispHighFive, after you make your account, you'll be locked out of doing anything until you're verified - You can browse the listings on the site anonymously, but you can't meaningfully interact with the site until you're verified. (create a listing, respond to one, etc.)

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Ian Karmel @iankarmel.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

New app idea: It's an online marketplace like Facebook Marketplace or think Craigslist - and it will be called "CrispHighFive", and it will have a unique mechanism for verifying its members and filtering out scammers and scam accounts.

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When you're in a Sublime cover band you actually DO have to practice Santeria.

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DrewB @drewbcancode.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I feel like this has potential as a meme format

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That's a really cool idea! I've had something similar rattling around in my head for a number of years now, but it was arranged along a timberline so users could see how events related to each other chronologically

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So you ever use React for your projects, or so you primarily go to svelte? I've been trying to get into learning webdev frameworks and React is everywhere so i figured it was the only one worth diving into.

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What were they thinking? That looks so uncomfortable

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What tech stack did you use to make this with? This is really impressive!

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I never understood the hydraulic press videos' appeal. Give me someone silently doing wood work though and I'm set.

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Wow! That's really impressive! Yeah it's a similar idea to that, i think her solution is more open ended than mine and is definitely more flashy than what i had in mind. Its humbling to see great work like that.

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Looks good! Better than the doodles I used to draw in the margins at school

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Might be time to create a house remix of the axolotl song

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The big problem is figuring out how to source the history factoids that will end up making up the (initially completely hidden) network of all nodes that the user can potentially explore. Either it will have to be built up node by node from a dedicated user base or scraped from somewhere like wiki.

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The overall experience is: you slowly discover the history of something (the network of connected events you end up creating) by exploring the different historic connections that exist organically, at your own speed, in your own order, in bite sized chunks, starting from somewhere familiar to you.

Some can add TikTok-like short videos to it as a form of response as well: clips they've taken of live tours, memes, show-and-tell shorts from people who still have a relevant artifact, etc.

Each node is also a discussion board all its own, where the community can add context and information as they see fit. (Highlight discrepencies in opinions, offer question-links to other relevant nodes, etc...)

But... this isn't like reading a history book. Each question and node is extremely focused and bite-sized - and the community can propose new questions to attach to nodes, and suggest nodes for those questions to connect to.

Each question is actually a link to another node on the timeline. As you go from node to node, or explore all the questions of a single node, your history timeline starts to fill out. Eventually you end up with a graphically compelling network of nodes along a timeline that shows how things connect