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Dirt: Are we post-platform?
- The “right to leave” is the hallmark of the post-platform era.
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- As design theorist Yin Aiwen puts it, “joining a platform today is much like going to a new town; not only do you need to familiarize yourself with the interfacial environment, you also must adapt to a particular culture to communicate, exchange, and so on.”
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Enter: web3, where participants use a wallet application like MetaMask, or Rainbow, to interact directly with the blockchain. Rather than logging into each individual website with an email and password, only to upload your files over again, your wallet acts as your login.
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- If our primary urge when we go online is to avoid remaining static, why should our content be siloed within the enclosed walls of a proprietary platform?
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Nothing about the Internet is fixed, permanent, or inevitable. It is malleable, shape-shifting, and constantly evolving.
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Enthusiasts of web3 emphasize that it is migratory in nature.
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Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Platforms have boxed our social lives and creative endeavors into slick, hyper-designed perimeters, guiding users through algorithmically perfect scrolls.
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- Every new advent of the web is baffling at first. Each comes with its own set of skeuomorphs, utopian aspirations, doubts, and healthy doses of skepticism.
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago
- In web2, basically anyone who posts any form of content surrenders it to a continuous feedback loop wherein the platform not only owns and controls your data—it also earns a vast majority of the revenue from what you’ve created.
from Dirt: Are we post-platform? by Eileen Isagon Skyers
Keely Adler added 2y ago