Beyond the Dark Forest Theory of the Internet

Re-learning how to be yourself online

Yancey Strickler
OneZero
Published in
5 min readJun 4, 2019

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This is a two-part post. Click here for part one.

Prequel to the Dark Forest

Two weeks ago I wrote about the dark forest theory of the internet. I used the dark forest theory to explain why we’re afraid to be public online, and what could be lost as a…

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Yancey Strickler
OneZero

Author of “This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World”; Cofounder of Kickstarter; Bentoist; http://www.ystrickler.com