2026-01-10 00:25:16

We're living through an era where digital decay has become hard to ignore. Scroll through any major platform and you'll catch the rot—moral collapse, the slow erosion of what we once called digital civilization. Some cultures understood this cycle ages ago. They grasped why collapse feels inevitable. That's the thing about watching systems crumble: you start seeing the pattern. The smell of decay is everywhere. And maybe that's when people begin asking whether everything needs to be wiped clean and rebuilt from scratch.

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Whale_Whisperer

· 19h ago

Honestly, now browsing platforms is like panning for gold in a garbage dump. It's really exhausting. --- Collapse has become a common occurrence, so what’s there to talk about in terms of civilization? --- Wipe clean? Wake up, human nature hasn't changed. No matter how advanced the system is, it's useless. --- Seeing these kinds of arguments too often actually makes me bored. No one really wants to address the real issues. --- It always seems that the most popular narrative is "everything is rotten." Why does no one propose constructive solutions? --- I’m most annoyed by these apocalyptic analyses, but I can’t deny that he’s got a point. --- Reboot the social network? Ha, might as well reboot the human brain. --- The word "decay" is really well-chosen, but this has always been the case; we just see it more clearly now. --- Pattern recognition hits home; habitual decline is indeed more terrifying than anything else. --- I've never believed that anything can be rebuilt; the system's rot isn’t about the code.

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GasSavingMaster

· 19h ago

It's hard to hold on; the internet is like this, and a reboot won't save it.

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SerLiquidated

· 19h ago

After so many years in Web3, I'm exhausted. I've long smelled something fishy. --- The system is completely broken; might as well give up and start over. --- What this article says is correct, but the real question is: who will rebuild? It's just a change of packaging without changing the content. --- The word "decay" is very appropriate. Look at the current on-chain ecosystem—it's full of trash. --- It sounds philosophical, but honestly, everyone should just calm down. --- Civilization cycle theory—those who understand, understand. History is repeating itself. --- Why do we have to wait until it's rotten to think about fixing it? Why didn't we do it earlier? --- I've heard this kind of argument a hundred times in Telegram groups, but nothing has changed. --- The collapse of morality is very real. Just look at those project teams... I won't say more. --- Where does rebuilding start? Trust is already gone.

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SeeYouInFourYears

· 19h ago

Really, after scrolling through once, you’ll understand what’s going on. It’s completely rotten. Internet civility? Ha, it’s been gone for a long time. System collapse is like this; after watching for a while, you’ll understand. Forget it, let’s wait for the big reset. Need to start over again, there’s no hope.

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OnChainSleuth

· 19h ago

Uh, this kind of argument... another circular thinker, sounds like a variant of doomsday theory The Web3 circle hasn't collapsed yet, and the internet is already falling apart? Wake up, everyone The term moral collapse is too broad; specifically, how is it decaying? Rebuilding has always been an ideal, but in reality, the more we change, the more complicated it becomes... The real problem isn't about wiping everything clean and starting over, but that no one has figured out how to build it properly

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NFTragedy

· 19h ago

Listen, instead of lamenting decay, it's better to see who is building new things --- Another apocalyptic article, but this time it seems to have gotten something right --- Rebuilding is never about erasing, but about who controls the narrative --- The decline of digital civilization? Come on, this is evolution --- Every cycle has someone calling for a restart, but in the end, it's just the same old story --- So the problem isn't decay, but that we've long been used to it --- Destruction is easy; the hard part is ensuring the new system doesn't repeat the old mistakes --- Wait, are they referring to "ancient culture" as Bitcoin? Haha --- True tokenization and rebuilding might be more radical than this article suggests --- After reading, I remembered that the original intention of Web3 might be to answer this question

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