Post #971318 · Elektrine

2026-03-31 13:56 UTC

The internet is broken. But was it ever whole? Error 417 Expectation Failed invites artists, curators, and collectives to reject the longing for a mythic &quot;old internet&quot; and confront #netNostalgia head-on. We don&#39;t need to resurrect a past that never existed. We need to ask: what protocols, networks, archives, and shared conditions can build the internet we actually want? Open call. Global. 🔗 https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable

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@tasket@infosec.exchange 2026-04-01 20:24

@dyne@toot.community Denial is not just a river in Egypt. Its now very difficult for independent services to remain online without getting DDoS'd by "legitimate" and very high-powered AI data centers. Search engines have gotten much worse (I won't explain.. open your eyes). Social media has shifted to a fascist project, and fedi hasn't seen growth in years. Web browsers are being shut out of essential services from banking to operating a laundromat device; you must run the Apple-Google-approved malware app on your personal device. (i.e. open protocols are no longer honored; proprietary code is required). Proliferation of proprietary IoTs, most of them bearing mics and other surveillance kit. AI being forced on everyone in every situation as a pretext to supercharge the exfiltration of private data to corporate data centers. Failure to recognize worsening conditions is one thing; insisting people fall in line with that failure is worse.

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