Against the Cozy Web

The ultimate, hidden truth of the internet is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” Maybe we should stop publishing essays encouraging companies and people to divest from the open web and instead show how they could contribute to a rich and sprawling public internet.

For those who are blessed by not knowing what the cozy web means, it is a term used to describe the group chats and similar gate-kept spaces we use to communicate online while we are hiding from all the trolls and extremists who, assumingly, have taken over the internet.