Rabbit Holes đłď¸ #69
The network of algorithms makes so many decisions for us, and yet we have little way of talking back to it or changing how it works. This imbalance induces a state of passivity: We consume what the feeds recommend to us without engaging too deeply with the material.
Kyle Chayka ⢠Filterworld
Somewhere between the late 2000âs aggregator sites and the contemporary For You Page, we lost our ability to curate the web. Worse still, weâve outsourced our discovery to corporate algorithms. Most of us did it in exchange for an endless content feed.
Where have all the websites gone?
âWeâve never had more freedom, more choices. But in reality, most people are subtly funneled into the same streams, the same pools of âsocially approvedâ culture, cuisine and ideas.... You might think youâre choosing, but you never really are. When your ideas, interests, and even daily meals are largely inspired by whatever was already approved, al... See more
320 / Resisting algorithmic comfort
We shifted from cyberpunk manifestos, to corporate networks and the commoditization of the user for economic extraction.
Cyberspace is a black hole. It absorbs energy and personality. And then represents it as an emotional spectacle. It is done by businesses that commodify human interaction and emotion. And we are getting lost in the spectacle.... See more
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Reggie James ⢠Political Expectations
Weâve never had more freedom, more choices. But in reality, most people are subtly funneled into the same streams, the same pools of âsocially approvedâ culture, cuisine and ideas. Remixes and memes abound, but almost no one shares anything weird, original or different. People wake up, perhaps with ambitions to make unique choices they believe are ... See more
Adam Singer ⢠Don't Let Machines or the Crowd Decide Your World
I think that at this point in lifeâafter ten or so years of a proliferative mode in the online idiomâthere is a craving to return to an earlier, slower internet. Before real chronology and temporal relationships were replaced with sped-up simulations of real-time.
Substack ⢠martin luther's wordle starter
going back to that idea of awareness of algorithms, I think one thing that really separates people online generationally is the divide between who has really tried to create stuff online. The savviest older-generation users are usually people who work in media, and they are exposed to how online content is made and travels. Itâs not that they canât... See more
The Atlantic ⢠How to Leave an Internet Thatâs Always in Crisis
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