How will both Internets exist with each other?

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There will be many eras between both Internets, as the Autonomi network grows.

Places like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, etc. etc. (ChatGPT is in top5 now wow), almost feel like they don’t even have the dot com after their titles.

But what if I wanted to create some unique website? Like thestoryoflife dot com. Let’s say it becomes more popular than the Christian Bible (terrible book btw [ok just practicing my rage-baiting skills; don’t mind me?]). Hypothetically if this website grows a lot, people will be typing it in manually, t h e s t o r y o f l i f e . c o m, and that will feel like something unique in their mind.

What about on Autonomi? Will people want to put their content on both Internets? Does this one exist as just a backup, or the main one? Maybe it can be the main one if the features are convenient enough. And it’s not even really about being convenient, because what people really flock to is whatever larger organizations decide to use and proliferate, with their advertisement and greed techniques being the fuel for grabbing attention—the shepherd, so to speak. (Hopefully some genuine growth would be in mind and not just said techniques.)

Since I’ve been here way long, I should know the answer to the following (though consistency really is the key to memory formation, and my consistency currently consists of using the current Net, so I guess this goes to show the power of consistency vs. the activist/involvement spark of being in a greater cause), but: what is the extension for Autonomi sites? I think: there is some technical extension that makes it unique as a platform. But is there (also) a way to overlay some kind of familiarity in the syntax? So, maybe the most basic new foundational domain would be a .autonomi or whatever it is, but people could still type-in thestoryoflife .com while using autonomi protocol/browser, and have the result be the same thing that someone would see if typing in thestoryoflife.autonomi.

I don’t know if this thread will die in a disappointing manner, but I felt compelled to make it, so maybe that gut feeling could amount to something. I kind of add a bit much to chew on the sidelines of my main points/questions, maybe in the hopes of finding what I really hope to communicate (i.e. something that I don’t even realize is the thing I wanted to communicate).

I feel like people will want to create two versions of all their domains, one on each Internet. There’s something about the feeling of a more “free” internet, even if that means that their free version will be immediately devoured by the worst that human greed has to offer.

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“There will be many eras between both Internets.”

I agree.

What happens when provenance, creativity, and community meet halfway between today’s algorithmic web and tomorrow’s autonomous one? It’s going to be fascinating.

You shouldn’t have to abandon what’s familiar (even though I think the web’s evolved into a bit of a scam) to explore what’s next. Just add a layer,at least in the short term , and keep creating. A more pragmatic, less pressured approach, because real change takes time.

Reconnecting ownership with expression , even if a bit rougher or less convenient at first ,feels like the real key. The next wave of adoption won’t be about features or speed; it’ll be about emotional migration imo.

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Imo, AntTP is part of the solution to this.

AntTP allows Autonomi native sites to be viewed via regular browsers. It also allows those sites to be accessible via a gateway, such as AntTP Index

It is easy for tech folks to spin up their own AntTP instance and point their own domain name at it.

It is also possible to use AntTP as a service layer behind a regular clear net site. So, yoursite.com could use only as a data store or whatever.

This is the benefit of AntTP talking in HTTP - it’s the protocol used by most of the existing internet. Leveraging that bridges the gap.

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Not to mention AutonomiDweb app [cough] :rofl: which works out-of-the box for anyone wanting to view websites on Autonomi.

I’ve been publishing my Publii blog (and other sites before it) to the web and the AutonomiDweb for years. I just don’t get time to blog!

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I think you are limiting your ideas of what is possible by projecting the current web onto autonomi.

From what I understand so far, what this platform represents, has the potential to redefine how we classify and navigate information in the first place.

The network has barely hatched (you could even argue it is still in a kind of gestational incubator). It is natural the initial tools are being made in shapes we are familiar with, it will help navigate this early primordial stage in it’s development.

This is the time for imaginative individuals to go “what about if we do this?”, but not just once, this needs to keep happening, and if we’re lucky, each new idea sparks another new idea.

The network needs to grow and keep evolving, and it will all come back to the foundations it was built on that will determine how far that can go.

And yes, whilst this happens, the original internet will churn along. Honestly I would expect it to continue to do so until there is a reason for it to die.
What matters is adoption of this network, which as most people seem to agree will come down to what it offers, if this network can cater to people’s existing needs (or redefine what they want) and give them no reason to need to hold onto the classic internet, that is when autonomi cements it’s position in the digital landscape.

Those reasons can be numerous and will ultimately be a combination of Freedom, Privacy and Security, of which any other reasons I can think of seem to fall under one of the aforementioned (such as Government overeach, financial opportunity, popularity and community).

Unless I’m talking out of my arse, in which case, I’ll happily sit back in the corner again… :face_in_clouds:

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