What if you could start your own internet?

The single most important goal of the past decade online: Be seen. Get followers. Build an audience. Cash in. The internet was a stage and we were all performing.

It worked, sort of. Some people got famous. A lot of us got exhausted. Once every post became a performance, it wasn't long before every interaction became content. Life became a stage. The stage became a trap.

But this wasn't the only thing that happened. We also made friends online. Hung out. LOLd. These actually meaningful parts of life online lived in places the outside world didn't see. Texts. Group chats. Shared docs. Spaces with 10 people, 20 people, 100 people. Not audiences — groups. People who knew each other, in the internet sense.

That is a different internet. That is the real internet. The real internet is where you can be yourself because you trust who's watching. Where we talk and text instead of scroll and consume.

DFOS — the Dark Forest OS — is the operating system for this internet.

This week on New Creative Era, Josh and Yancey take you inside DFOS for the first time. What it is, how it works, what you can do with it. Listen through Apple, Spotify, or RSS.

Breadcrumbs into the forest await.

What if you could start your own internet?

Soon you can.

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