Stephen Downes

According to Jason Kottke, "Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler writes that netizens are retreating from the public square of the internet, resulting in many private & isolated worlds that don't communicate with each other, a la the dark forest." I think it's not so much that they're private & isolated as they are not distributed to the entire world. "These are all spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments.