A few months ago, we buried a URL at the end of a podcast episode and said only sickos would find it. More than 250 did in the first week.
A few weeks later, we opened the floor. The community came with the questions most platforms avoid. Who pays for this? Who owns it? Who decides?
One listener, Robert, wrote in about the two wolves inside every person. One who wants to save the world. One who keeps the trains running. A dark forest, he suggested, might be a place to feed both.
This is NCE S2 E11, part one of a two-part AMA from inside DFOS with Yancey Strickler (@ystrickler ) and Joshua Citarella (@joshuacitarella ).
Listen at the link in bio.
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The Renaissance invented the Dark Ages to make themselves look enlightened by comparison.
Medieval people weren’t lost. They were building guilds, hermetic circles, keeping rituals. Small worlds that held when the large ones collapsed.
We’re there again. No shared truth. No one in charge. Just signals in the dark and who you trust with them.
Go inside — nce.dfos.com
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The public internet taught us obscurity was a problem to solve. We were wrong. The most meaningful parts of our lives online have always happened in places no one could see like group chats, shared docs, spaces where people actually know each other.
But building those spaces is a chaotic mess. For five years, Joshua Citarella has run Do Not Research (@do.not.research ) across Substack, Discord, PayPal, Venmo, ProtonMail, and a handful of other platforms held together by volunteer time. Four books, sold-out courses, 300+ active contributors, all stitched together with tools that were never designed for this.
We’ve built a solution.
In Season 2 Episode 10 of New Creative Era, Joshua (@joshuacitarella ) and Yancey (@ystrickler ) reveal the Dark Forest Operating System for the first time talking through what it is, how it works, and what becomes possible when creative groups get their own internet.
We invite you into the New Creative Era DFOS – nce.dfos.com
Listen to the full episode at the link in profile.
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