The current state of the public square is confused. During my lifetime it went from a semi single national conversation direct by discussions of things from mainstream media. It was located in bars, living rooms, dining tables, and churches across the nation. But abruptly while I was a child this media environment was shattered. Exploded from the inside by platforms that allowed anyone with the will to become their own media outfit, and many did. This, aided by the first real mass proliferation of AI created massive human attention farms that boxed us into to feedlots where in ever isolating content slop gets fed to us to turn us into the perfect consumers. The place where this clearest for me is the difference between the Obama Administration's posture to the internet and the Trump administration's. Obama was seen as an extremely internet forward president for the time giving interview to Youtube, having a twitter and overall being new media savvy. But looking back his posture was this is a new form of the same old thing: PR. While Trumps posture was much more internet native he tweeted like the rest of us fast, full of typos, and about everything. This is what real internet savviness looks like, not engaging it as you would old media, but utilizing it's unique advantages to cultivate a memetic echo chamber. This chamber can engage people enough to the point that they're no longer just consuming your content but that the algorithm hops in to help create a media ecosystem all your own. This doesn't lead to a high functioning, nuanced, open-minded, consensus building culture. This is for a simple fact the current public square isn't a forum, pub, church, or dinner table, it's a farm and we're the livestock. It doesn't have to be this way, but unfortunately any sense of broad consensus seems to be completely dead and not respectable. So what are we to do? I think that through the destruction of the monoculture we have created an interesting new set of tools ## Idea for later crypto zenternet activity pub like thing with two axis for rating posts and a dynamic adjustable recommendation algorithm that links with a persistent ID system