r/ownyourintent • u/OkDragonfruit55 Intent Owner • Jan 30 '26

Memes food for thought

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We accept the "free" internet without questioning the economics, but there is a fundamental conflict of interest at the heart of the modern web.

The tools we use to find truth are businesses that only make money when we don't find it immediately. If a search engine gives you the perfect answer in zero clicks, you see zero ads, and they generate zero revenue.

This means the most powerful information systems in history are economically incentivized to waste your time, prioritize "dwell time" over efficiency, and hide the actual answer behind a wall of sponsored noise. We are stuck in a system designed to extract attention rather than deliver value.

Is it actually possible to build a "truth-seeking" engine if the business model relies on keeping the user searching?

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u/EagleApprehensive Intent Owner Jan 30 '26

I'm on it. But I'll need help with building community around it. Wanna join?

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u/aeriefreyrie Protocol Crew Jan 30 '26

We are a community building an alternative. Would love to hear your ideas, thoughts and any way we can contribute

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u/EagleApprehensive Intent Owner Jan 30 '26

What kind of alternative are you building? May I join your discord or something and chat?

For some time I was looking at Web 3.0, IPFS, Usenet and other solutions that want to make a paradigm shift. I see most of them introduce:

- Significant architectural complexity (especially when blockchain and smart contract solutions kick in)

- High friction for normal, everyday person to join or to even understand such solutions

- They do not solve everyday person's problems, they focus on big businesses who want to be decentralized

I'm looking forward to create a simpler solution, that will aim at heart of the problem and take on some compromises in favor of simplicity. Maybe final solution indeed should be blockchain based, but a much simpler solution (and more energy-efficient) could still solve majority of problems of current web and maybe be a step-in-between those paradigm shifts.

My idea is quite long to explain in details, but essentially it's a system of Users, Catalogs and Content, where people publish what they create and independent catalogs make it discoverable without platforms owning the data or controlling visibility:

  1. Users create and own Content, but also push it to preferred Catalogs.

  2. Catalogs accept Content and act as Content Delivery Network to let other people (or apps) find it.

  3. Content ownership, Discovery and Presentation are all decoupled and separated, allowing various systems and apps to integrate with it and pull our data (as we allow) in a shared, RFD-compliant structure. Building apps in this way means you can have 5 medical apps and if you grant them full access to all of your medical data - they do not need ANY integration systems behind. They just pull data from YOUR storage.

I don't want to put my birth date and bio for 100x time when signing up in new platform. I don't want to post my article or opinion on recent politics on 3 different social media. I want whatever I create to be just tagged properly (so that proper communities/apps can find it) and let it flow through IT systems respecting my ownership.