Digital pollution | Derek Sivers
When things become easier – anyone can make a website on Squarespace, anyone can produce images in Midjourney, practically anyone can start a startup, whatever – the vast majority of the things produced the easy way are total dogshit. When algorithms embrace the dogshit, or the dogshit contorts itself to please the algorithm, the whole visible inte... See more
Packy McCormick • Make the Internet Fun Again
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
technologyreview.comThere is currently a quite monocultural digital life, especially compared to the digital world that we came up with in the late nineties and early two-thousands, when individuals created the web. We had our websites and our hodgepodge content management systems, which we’d built for ourselves. Because of that, the web felt more like a city with dif... See more
Patrick Tanguay • Conscientious Urban Technology
What happens when the Internet becomes a never-ending firehose of malicious garbage?
This is what happens: You start logging off the Internet....
... and logging in to more curated, closed communities.
No more talking to fake people on Twitter or Facebook. No more using Google for search.
Instead, everything happens in closed Slack or Discord commu
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