«The Internet uniquely brings people together who would have never met in the real world on a global scale.» It’s hard not to become nostalgic and think back to a time when this sentence felt much truer than it is today. I like how this essay doesn’t dwell on the negatives and instead imagines how we can «retrofit and reshape our digital space» to enable meaningful chance encounters. It very much echoes what I meant when I wrote about the «necessary rebellion against the enshittification of the greatest information ecosystem we’ve ever had» in early January.

From Weekly Filet #571, in May 2026.