How Metanet restores the concept of the World Wide Web: a thread
1/6 The internet was never meant to be owned by gatekeepers. Metanet is the correction of this. I’ve seen where we went wrong, and now what is coming next...
2/6 I love reading histories of the internet’s early days and the vision of those who saw the promise of this technology. But history also records how that vision ended up compromised by corporations that constrained the technology for their own benefit. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
That article link concludes just before Tim Berners-Lee unveils his concept of the world wide web. The web was the sizzle that sold the internet’s steak, unleashing a wave of creativity and allowing millions to realize that what they long believed were niche interests were in fact widely shared. This gave life to countless tight-knit digital communities offering great benefit to members who might otherwise have never found each other.
3/6 Metanet represents both the next evolution of the internet and a return to the world wide web’s original decentralized peer-to-peer design. Metanet is the antidote to the overly centralized ‘Web2’ social media networks that lock your data behind their walled gardens..
4/6 Metanet will combine AI, IPv6 and enterprise blockchain technology to enable a new economy based on cost-efficient micropayments. The explosion of IP addresses available under IPv6 will allow the creation of an unprecedented number of new sites. Creators on these sites will foster direct connections with their audiences, eliminating rent-seeking middlemen from this interaction.
5/6 On Metanet, all activity—blog posts, videos, music, art, whatever—becomes data you can track and verify on an immutable ledger, preventing content from being used or altered without your consent. The data you create on Metanet remains under your control, not endlessly repackaged and sold to third parties by social media gatekeepers that view you as their product, not their customer
6/6 All digital interactions on Metanet—posting, liking, sharing, etc.—will be capable of monetization, thanks to enterprise blockchain’s ability to process millions of transactions in a single block. This ensures transaction fees remain small enough that micropayments make economic sense.
Calvin Ayre
Apr. 24, 2025
https://x.com/CalvinAyre/status/1915402190929232336?t=vPjbcXekAyXmaHSyw-86EA&s=19
https://t.me/CalvinAyre/976
1/6 The internet was never meant to be owned by gatekeepers. Metanet is the correction of this. I’ve seen where we went wrong, and now what is coming next...
2/6 I love reading histories of the internet’s early days and the vision of those who saw the promise of this technology. But history also records how that vision ended up compromised by corporations that constrained the technology for their own benefit. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
That article link concludes just before Tim Berners-Lee unveils his concept of the world wide web. The web was the sizzle that sold the internet’s steak, unleashing a wave of creativity and allowing millions to realize that what they long believed were niche interests were in fact widely shared. This gave life to countless tight-knit digital communities offering great benefit to members who might otherwise have never found each other.
3/6 Metanet represents both the next evolution of the internet and a return to the world wide web’s original decentralized peer-to-peer design. Metanet is the antidote to the overly centralized ‘Web2’ social media networks that lock your data behind their walled gardens..
4/6 Metanet will combine AI, IPv6 and enterprise blockchain technology to enable a new economy based on cost-efficient micropayments. The explosion of IP addresses available under IPv6 will allow the creation of an unprecedented number of new sites. Creators on these sites will foster direct connections with their audiences, eliminating rent-seeking middlemen from this interaction.
5/6 On Metanet, all activity—blog posts, videos, music, art, whatever—becomes data you can track and verify on an immutable ledger, preventing content from being used or altered without your consent. The data you create on Metanet remains under your control, not endlessly repackaged and sold to third parties by social media gatekeepers that view you as their product, not their customer
6/6 All digital interactions on Metanet—posting, liking, sharing, etc.—will be capable of monetization, thanks to enterprise blockchain’s ability to process millions of transactions in a single block. This ensures transaction fees remain small enough that micropayments make economic sense.
Calvin Ayre
Apr. 24, 2025
https://x.com/CalvinAyre/status/1915402190929232336?t=vPjbcXekAyXmaHSyw-86EA&s=19
https://t.me/CalvinAyre/976
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