The internet needs more benches

This is David, your diligent collector of precious internet magic. You're reading the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». As every Friday, I'm here to help you make sense of what’s happening, and imagine what could be. It's great to have you.1. The Internet has no benches«The Internet uniquely brings people together who would have never met in the real world on a global scale.» It's hard not to become nostalgic and think back to a time when this sentence felt much truer than it is today. I like how this essay doesn't dwell on the negatives and instead imagines how we can «retrofit and reshape our digital space» to enable meaningful chance encounters. It very much echoes what I meant when I wrote about the «necessary rebellion against the enshittification of the greatest information ecosystem we’ve ever had» in early January.The Internet has no bencheson building free public infrastructure for…