Alternative Narratives and futures

In response to the ads, the tracking, the trolling, the hype, and other predatory behaviors, we’re retreating to our dark forests of the internet, and away from the mainstream.

This very email is an example of this. This theory is being shared on a private channel sent to 500 people who I know or who have explicitly chosen to receive it. This is the... See more

La saturación constante de contenido dificulta el acompañamiento del dolor colectivo que estamos experimentando. También lo advirtió Susan Sontag en su libro Ante dolor de los demás , en los ecosistemas mediáticos masivos existe el riesgo de que la compasión, extendida hasta sus límites y sin sujetos cercanos con los cuales vincularla, lleve a un... See more

Within that framework of design changes, we're coming to conclusions that those that provide people choice and information and autonomy will be more successful than ones that filter or just work through algorithms or just work on the back end.

This is the Bowling Alley Theory of the Internet: that people are online purely to meet each other, and in the long run the venues where we congregate are an unimportant background compared to the interactions themselves. Did we meet on MySpace, Tinder, or LinkedIn? Does it matter?

We're really open to trying to understand the ways in which platforms can be designed, that will simultaneously promote people being more civil with each other, while reducing the things that platforms seem to be more concerned with, which is getting rid of hate speech and harassment and bullying and misinformation.

Are human beings fundamentally good and capable of change, healing, and growth? ...Or are we selfish individuals who must be kept in check?

Those who push a dark, divisive vision of humanity are highly organized in using social media to spread their stories. We must be just as strategic and collaborative in telling and amplifying stories that

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cussed earlier, which came from the actions of the people who run its instances, with how the alternative commercial chat platform Discord handled similar problems. Discord is a closed-source platform that is centralised, not federated, although it devolves moderation down to its groups on the basis of some powerful shared moderation tools. It is... See more

[Vitor] : En cambio, Leão ya no cree tan tajantemente en esa frase de «good news, no news». Hoy en día enseña ética en una universidad de periodismo y habla de esto con sus alumnos.

[Leão] : Hoy estoy convencido de que maximizamos las malas noticias en el periodismo Y esto hay que cambiar.

[Vitor] : Piensa que, de algún modo, los medios... See more