Internet Layers

The internet is a multilayered thing.

On top you have sites that you can get to from the front page of Google results that tend to be a one way transaction of information - knowledge passes from some server through the magical internet wires to your computer and into your brain. Anybody with internet access is familiar with this level.

Scratch the paint on that just a little bit and you find a massive turf war of "communities" and "families" and "interest groups" with names that sound like made up words. This is where all the fun happens because it depends on a two way interaction with three parts - someone makes or does a thing then sends it through the aforementioned internet wires to you, and you can internalize it and call the first person a "f&#@ a#-$+# q1@-$+# of a k-$+#(" - and they'll see it! (through the magical internet wires of course)

The social internet is not usually a bad thing - crowd-sourced sites like Wikipedia or GitHub show that people are drawn to create order as much if not more than they are to create chaos. It's a place to connect with people you never thought you'd know - and, while some are inevitably horrible people, most of them are nice and empathetic and a little bit weird - and they are people on the other end.

In my personal opinion, this is the best place to hang out. You can be as anonymous as you want, say whatever you want, disagree with anything, or find people who are just like you in unexpected ways.

Then of course, there's the dark web, which you need a Tor browser and some savvy to get to where Bitcoin is king and you can get whatever you want - but you can't watch Netflix there so what's the point?