[MrVandemar]

How to fix "the internet" is a largely insurmountable problem. It is a particular specimen of "The Tragedy of the Commons" in many ways.

One approach is to simply disappear into a parallel universe designed to somewhat resemble the old internet, but also guard against what it turned into.

The Gemini Protocol was a remarkable attempt at this, and while it isn't (and will probably never be) mainstream, it seems to me to be a little pocket of sanity (although its jettisoning of semantic HTML-like structures pains me greatly).

To forestall any unnecessary commentary on the design and choice of the GemText markup language: Markdown is difficult to parse and not standardised, and a subset of HTML is also not trivial to parse, and still potentially leads to the same problems as exists today with HTML. GemText was well-designed for its goals.