The cozyweb has a weird rhyming version of fomo going on. Because each island is small, memetic competition is not efficient. It’s actually like a high tariff regime discourse. So stuff like the AI 2027 report and the Abundance discourse which would probably not even make the top 10 in an efficient public meme market like Twitter circa 2015 feel like they’re at oppressively must-read level. Because any cozyweb enclave they do penetrate, they’re big enough to dominate for a while. Main characters in small ponds. Discourse hackers have an easier job making memes seem bigger than they are. It’s like how movie villains always come at the hero serially. Real main characters should be able to fight 4 goons in parallel, minimum.

I honestly don’t like it. It is stupidifying. The cozyweb is nearly as stupid as when only trad media could opine on stuff. Memes should compete in discourses big enough to properly evaluate and price them. Now I can’t trust the memetic “price” of an idea (for which the incidence rate is a good proxy).

The “cozyweb” is one meme term I came up with that I regret somewhat. Most terms I come up with point to things I feel neutral-to-affectionate towards. Cozyweb… I kinda wish it would go away. I now wish I could have come up with a derogatory or snarky term instead. Cozyweb sounds cute and warm. It’s really the stupidweb. Frog-in-well web.

Many people who are naturally positively disposed to retreating to self-congratulatory small captive discourses react to the word cozyweb like it’s a compliment.