new internet
The internet really w as better, back before it turned into “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.”
Enshitternet – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
Noah Smithnoahpinion.blogBack in the 2000s, a lot of blogs were about blogs , about blogging. If that sounds exhaustingly meta, well, yes — but it was also SUPER generative. When the thing can describe itself, when it becomes the natural place to discuss and debate itself, I am telling you: some flywheel gets spinning, and powerful things start to happen.
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
The End of the Extremely Online Era
substack.comBecause of the internet we don’t need to define our identity based on where we physically live, who we’re born to, or what we look like, as has been the case in human history until now.
Yancey Strickler • The Post-Individual
Social Computing | CS 278
web.stanford.edu🚨This is the trap that social media, and by extension all of us, are in:
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
📈Toxicity drives use. Lowering toxicity drops ad sales (if you are ad supported) & engagement (even if you are not)
📉Toxicity spreads like a disease. It turns regular users toxic & makes networks awful
Noah Smith • The internet wants to be fragmented - by Noah Smith The internet wants to be fragmented
we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
Maxim Leyzerovichx.com