To reach an internet that cultivates mutual love, we have to move through the hate, pain, and existing preconceptions of what it is for and can be. We have to be able to first imagine, and then, create different possibilities for how technology can bring people together and help us create a better world.
My new social media will be a giant shared Google doc to which I will add all the cool people as "editors," and there will be no ads, and no algorithm, and you can type into the doc at the same time with whatever dang font you want, and the party in that doc will NEVER END.
Above all, people need agency. They need to feel in control. Sometimes, that means designing for subversive behavior. I mean, isn't the most fun often had when you're breaking rules? But this is enormously difficult in software, where you must design almost everythingfrom scratch. Unlike life, you don't get a common repertoire of actions for free –... See more
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
suddenly craving a different kind of internet experience, something very specific yet i'm not sure if i've articulated before, something somewhat collaborative but really simple. i think... something that I approximate with twitter but it's like an itch I can't quite get to