The human bridge between context and content.

https://index.as/

Decentralization requires bundling

Our focus at [index.as](https://index.as/) is on prioritizing context in the fragmented digital world with the help of curation, which provides maps and useful directions. With this article, we aim to explain whys and hows of reorganizing information in a decentralized world through human curation.

**📍Part #1: Information abundance: Is it the real issue?**

📍**Part #2:** **What is preventing curation from escalating?**

**📍Part #3: index.as: The human bridge between context and content**


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### 📍Part #1: Information abundance: Is it the real issue?

3 truths:

1- The internet is [messy, chaotic, and fragmented like never before.](https://digitalnative.substack.com/p/the-internet-killed-mainstream-culture#:\~:text=Internet%20Culture%20is%20Messy%2C%20Chaotic%2C%20and%20Fragmented)
2- Information organization is highly underrated.
3- We need to stop putting the blame on "the information abundance"

There is nothing wrong with information abundance. It is the natural consequence of the exponential increase in channels that we create and receive information. We cannot and should not prevent people from creating content.

The problem is that people cannot find the right information or they can't be sure whether the information exists as it isn't organized well. As Clay Shirky's stated,["It's not information overload. It's a filter failure.’](https://www.cnet.com/culture/shirky-problem-is-filter-failure-not-info-overload/)

> ### The web lacks filters, maps, and directions that include human sophistication.

🏷 **Why context matters?**

Considering how knowledge is created alongside its nature, we can see that each context delivers its own content. It is easier to understand information when it is analyzed in a context. Therefore, [meaning and context are interdependent.](https://www.eajournals.org/wp-content/uploads/Meaning-and-Context-Three-Different-Perspectives..pdf) Meaning cannot be communicated without context, and context cannot be established without meaning. Information becomes meaningless in the absence of context, as a result of which it becomes data requiring additional interpretation from humans. This is the problem we are experiencing right now with information organization: *[The scarcity of context, rather than information abundance.](https://indieweb.org/context_collapse)*

We can find the reason behind the problem by looking at the business plans of social media platforms. They develop algorithms that either keep users on the platform longer or persuade them to purchase. In such algorithms, 'words' function as price tags rather than means of definition and explanation. Context becomes irrelevant in an environment where definitions, explanations, and meanings are secondary. That's why we feel there is content everywhere. In fact, there are fragmented contents separated from their context everywhere. With the web atomized like this, context becomes increasingly important to navigate through the internet.

As humans, we are driven to connect the dots and discover micro universes of atoms. Let's take a look at an example from our daily lives: We're constantly surrounded by details; nevertheless, we usually don't feel overwhelmed by the amount of information we receive. We are able to organize so much information because we categorize it through tastes, emotions, and motivations. Intention, intuition, emotion, feeling, and taste are all parts of the context. In this way, we stay motivated to discover more with a clear mindset. Just like this, we need tools to transfer how we understand and analyze the world through the human lens to the web.

🔎 **In search of 'discovery'**

Web navigation tools of today are unnatural and inauthentic to trust due to SEO spamming and algorithms that prioritize the marketing objectives of brands. The system tends to classify and generalize human needs and motivations using the so-called term 'personalization' rather than responding to human complexity.  *The funny thing is there