.@curtis_yarvin predicts the future belongs to invite-only social networks because the open internet destroyed reputation: "I think the future entirely belongs to invite-only social networks. An open space with no reputation system, you get what we called Eternal September 30 years ago. Low-quality people flood in, and all the high-quality people leave." "Everything in the world happens on little group chats now. There's a huge amount of reputation capital that's locked up in who's in what group chat." "There's only four billion names. Having a limited supply of identity and having to lay down a couple of bucks to get in the door greatly reduces the bot problem." "The internet has become an incredibly low-trust society with no reputation signals, and creating a new commons is gonna be incredibly hard." @urbit