Neil introduced me to the “mentions” function, and my phone filled up with a list of hundreds of comments, pictures, short videos of pillow fights, thank-yous, and general buzz about the event that had just occurred. After that, I was convinced. I haven’t left Twitter since.
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
Perhaps it’s just nostalgia, but despite having “little to hide,” I recall a better way to use the internet. My interest in the internet as a kid was entirely exploratory, rather than performative. Bored out of my suburban small-town mind, I wanted to play Starcraft and learn random things and chat on IRC with new people around the world who shared... See more
Sarah Guo • When we design our identities from scratch
tiny internets is a research inquiry attempting to answer the question:
And also
What does a more natural, soft, and quiet internet look like, one where the public spaces are actively shaped by us to not only use but live in?
And also
How do we facilitate serendipitous intimacy on the internet?... See more
How do we make people aware that they are co-inhabiting a space
Patricia Mou • [non-paywalled issue] The Rabbit Hole 🕳🐇 issue no.34
The internet is what allows what’s inside — our minds, our souls, our many selves — to interact with the insides of others. The internet is where our alts come alive, our internal monologues become dialogues, and a stray thought becomes a globally resonant meme. This is its miracle.
Yancey Strickler • The Dark Forest and the Post-Individual
You basically just dump anything that is interesting to you and watch how it intelligently intertwines with everyone else’s.