On Extraction
The best sites and apps are the ones that do one thing exceptionally well.
They donât try to be everything for everyone. They donât clutter your brain with noise. Theyâre often fast, clean, and simple.
And because of that, you actually feel good after using them.
They serve a single purpose â and they serve it perfectly.
by Kyle Vallans, Why I love the simple internet
This is it. This is the horror. The scam. Extraction. Not metaphorical, not digitalâpsychic. A vampiric economic ritual performed with VC blood contracts and methamphetamine smiles. Web 3.0 is a pit. A shimmering trap disguised as freedom.
Where Web 1.0 was a raw frontierâcode scribbled in basement notebooks, explorers riding dial-up ghostsâWeb 3.0 is a luxury cruise run by data leeches. Itâs not building. Itâs bleeding.
But then I stumble into Bear. Not a platform. A back-alley zine party for the disillusioned. No algorithm, just ink and breath. Iâm wandering, eyes bloodshot, brain buzzing from caffeine and pixels, when I landâ220 pages deepâon something real.
A human signal in the noise. I feel it: Not the drain. A lift. Wonder. Curiosity. The unhinged hum of discovery.
Thatâs a rare feeling these days. Thatâs the good stuff. The untainted frequency.