The web has become a dominant epistemic environment, influencing people's beliefs at a global scale. However, online epistemic environments are increasingly polluted, impairing societies' ability to coordinate effectively in the face of global crises. We argue that centralized platforms are a main source of epistemic pollution, and that healthier environments require redesigning how we collectively govern attention. Inspired by decentralization and open source software movements, we propose Open Source Attention, a socio-technical framework for "freeing" human attention from control by platforms, through a decentralized eco-system for creating, storing and querying stigmergic markers; the digital traces of human attention.

翻译：网络已成为一个占主导地位的认知环境,影响着全球范围的人们的信仰。然而,在线认知环境日益受到污染,削弱了社会在全球危机面前进行有效协调的能力。我们争辩说,中央平台是流行病污染的主要来源,更健康的环境需要重新设计我们集体管理注意力的方式。在权力下放和开放源码软件运动的启发下,我们提议开放源码关注,这是一个社会技术框架,通过分散的生态系统,通过平台,通过创建、储存和查询标准标志,“消除”人类的注意力,从而“消除”平台对人的注意力的控制;人类注意力的数字痕迹。