dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
The Internet Vs. The Care of Your Soul
1. No laptop in bed.
2. No internet for at least 30 minutes before you got to sleep.
3. Nothing on your feed reader that posts more than X times per Y.
4. Being bored does not mean you have to check your email.
5. Don't only read websites related to subjects you know inside and out.
6. For every X feeds that you add... See more
1. No laptop in bed.
2. No internet for at least 30 minutes before you got to sleep.
3. Nothing on your feed reader that posts more than X times per Y.
4. Being bored does not mean you have to check your email.
5. Don't only read websites related to subjects you know inside and out.
6. For every X feeds that you add... See more
Large parasocial platforms transformed the internet into a hostile and impersonal place. They feed our FOMO to keep us clicking. They exaggerate our differences for "engagement". They create engines for stardom to keep us creeping. They bait us into nutritionless and sensationalist content. Humanity cannot subsist on hype alone.
Small and sincere... See more
Small and sincere... See more
Digital gardens are not about creating utopias. Rather, they design towards the small and slow progress of protopias, as defined by futurist Kevin Kelly as “a state that is better today than yesterday.” We need protopias, alternatives, and the seeds of gardens. We need space to dream, and for that dreaming to connect to concrete action.
Annika Hansteen-Izora • On Digital Gardens: Tending to Our Collective Multiplicity
The first thing I’ve come to learn is that pursuing something as open-ended as internet reform requires intentional scoping and goal-setting. The New Internet was never a single thing. It was fractured and messily connected from the jump. This messiness was used as feedstock to accelerate its consolidation under what became the crypto industry. It... See more
People in my profession say all the time that they can't do their jobs without Twitter, and it drives me so crazy because I think most of them are worse at their jobs because of Twitter. The reason is that Twitter, as do other forms of social media, gets you to lose control of what you care about. You lose that intentionality with your own... See more
Clay Skipper • Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things
make a space where you feel free to breathe…a space where you can invite others to do the same
Morgan Harper Nichols • A Necessary Imagination
the ascent of Bluesky. The decentralized social network hit 15 million users last week, and claimed the no. 1 spot on the App Store, above ChatGPT and TikTok. At time of writing, it still held that spot, all thanks to users fleeing Musk’s X-né-Twitter, the introduction of some good and innovative features, and the refreshing sense that someone is
... See moreBrian Merchant • Bluesky's Success Is a Rejection of Big Tech's Operating System
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
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