dreaming of a better internet
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dreaming of a better internet
what Yancey Strickler calls Dark Forests . According to him these are “spaces where depressurized conversation is possible because of their non-indexed, non-optimized, and non-gamified environments”.
It might seem that the close coupling of digital innovation with the market was inevitable, but our present reality is only one possible digital world — creating others is still possible, and there is little time to waste.
a place where I can unearth the stories within the landscape as it is still unfolding. It is a place where I can dream of what could be…not only for myself but for the collective, the real world that I’m a part of
the next era of the Internet

via lauren hough
I don’t know how to explain it, exactly, but when I scroll down the timeline now it feels like everyone has gotten 100 times more smug? And literal and pedantic? They always think they are dunking on someone. But on who, and to what end? It’s so weird. Everybody is like, sticking their tongues out all the time. It’s very “be careful or your face
... See more“if we’re setting out to change the character of technology in our lives, we’d be wise to learn from the character of places.”*
Realistically, though, I won’t quit Twitter until it shuts down completely. It’s habit. It’s sense memory. It’s compulsion