What we want and don't want from the dark forest era

Josh and a co-host close a season on private online communities, which they call dark forests, by listing five things they want from this "Dark Forest Era" and five they don't. Among the wants are cooperation over competition, a return of editorial vision, and organizational structures light enough that groups can act without first becoming a "real" company. The unwanted outcomes include a "million tiny fortresses," high-priced country clubs, and network states replacing public institutions, and the hosts call for data portability and decentralized identifiers as safeguards against spaces becoming extractive.