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Against the Cozy Web
In We Need To Rewild The Internet, Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon make a very compelling and urgent case for aggressively rewilding the internet, as Big Tech monopolies have turned what was once a thriving ecosystem into single-crop plantations: “highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farming of the cattle fee... See more
The cozy web is a turn of phrase describing the growing phenomena whereby web users seek refuge from public algorithm-driven social platforms and services that very often rely upon a surveillance business model. It’s characterised by comparatively small invite-only groups across a variety of applications many of which employ end-to-end encryption f... See more
Cyborg Social
The longer I work in networked spaces, the more convinced I become that increasingly inescapable and seemingly innocuous forms of context collapse in our media and social internet systems secretly explain a shockingly large proportion of every weirding, every derangement, and every rollercoaster terror/joy of the systems we live in online. So no su... See more
Erin Kissane • against the dark forest
Going dark is one strategy of the savvy and privileged. VPN hopping cosmopolitans with the increased risk of exposure online from both the state and their peers began fleeing to the Dark Forest of the internet; off mainline socials where their speech and behavior was broadcast to anyone and into small niche communities on invite-only forums, p2p ne... See more