Why I Built the Human Filter

Walking through the dead internet, I sometimes come across something alive.

Most of what reaches us today was written, ranked or summarised by a machine. I wrote about this before: the dead internet is becoming reality. And one essay names the consequence better than anything else I have read. Maggie Appleton saw it coming years ago: an open web turning into a dark forest, so flooded with generated content that real people retreat into smaller, trusted spaces to find one another.

This led me to create a new simple page on my site: the Human filter. There I share authors, blogs and articles that I have read and consider good.

The first entries are already there. Maggie Appleton with the essay that predicted the retreat this page is part of. Or Lionel Dricot, a witty and intelligent author who makes me think about things in a way I never have before.

If you have read something that belongs there, or written something yourself, send me the link.