Beyond the Feed

• It’s imperative that we situate the public algorithmic feeds as more equal to the rest of our information ecology. It’s not the beginning and end. It means going back to using group chats. But also, simply going offline again and investing in local communities. It’s not saying we should toss out the public web and algorithms. But, it’s one part of

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When everything turns into television, every form of communication starts to adopt television’s values: immediacy, emotion, spectacle, brevity.

The platform’s allure is the infinitude promised by its algorithm. It is the flow, not the content, that is primary.

When I say “everything is turning into television,” what I mean is that disparate forms of media and entertainment are converging on one thing: the continuous flow of episodic video.

we need semipermeable membranes