🙋🏾♂️🤳 Exploring new concepts for a people-powered internet
Nick Couldrynewpublic.substack.com
🙋🏾♂️🤳 Exploring new concepts for a people-powered internet
alternatives forms of control via reputation systems,
Nick Srnicek • Platform Capitalism (Theory Redux)
Illich’s anecdote is, of course, a provocative reversal of the usual way that new media tend to be presented as a necessarily democratizing and empowering force, and it seems closer to mark as the events of the last decade or so have illustrated. The ostensible promise of social media was that anyone’s voice could now be heard. Whether anyone would
... See moreL. M. Sacasas • Impossible Silences - The Convivial Society
The internet's infinite private worlds at times feel more like the clan-based societies that predated individualism. But where past worlds were bound by blood, today’s are bound by interests, desires, identities, and what the algorithms governing these spaces — helmed by capitalistic KPIs —nudge us to do.
The Post-Individual
The project of decentralizing the web is vast, and only just beginning. It means finding a way to uproot our expression and communication from the walled gardens of tech platforms, and finding novel ways to distribute the responsibilities of infrastructure across a collective network.
newpublic.org • The word for web is forest
... See moreThe problem with non-hierarchical models is human beings are not non-hierarchical creatures. Like all anarchist ideals, the dream of infinite digital liberty turned out to be more corporate talking point than reality. We took the agenda-setting function away from individual power brokers and gave it to trillion dollar tech companies, whose faceless
“Decentralization”—the idea that we’ll have separate small communities—is a hoax.
“Decentralization”—the idea that we won’t need crude coordinating mechanisms like channels/subreddits/rooms/followers to find the people we need to connect to—is prophetic.