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One of the reasons that Here Comes Everybody holds up comparatively well in 2022 against its contemporaries is Shirky’s willingness to recognize how broader social forces might thwart the “inevitable” effects of a technology on society.
Tim Hwang • Here Went Everybody
Reading the short Stratechery updates each weekday has allowed me to drop dozens of other news sources and still come away with a better understanding of what’s happening in technology and why.
Tiago Forte • The Heart Is the Bottleneck
Instead of building rooted, meaningful communities what we have is a worldwide eternal mosh pit. You can log out any time you like — but you can never leave.
stealing • Retrofuturism
-Permanent data storage - We cannot keep locating our social connections and memories inside servers controlled by for-profit companies.
Ric Burton • Social Networks & Sociable Protocols
Against Waldenponding
studio.ribbonfarm.com
Social networks aren’t just the interface, or the algorithm, they’re also about the people in them. When I wrote “The Network’s the Thing” I meant it; the graph is inextricable from the identity of a social media service. Change the inputs of such a system and you change the system itself.
How to Blow Up a Timeline
While a stack run from above provides mere service, a governable stack can introduce experiences of shared power.
Nathan Schneider • Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life
I want this to work, furthermore, whether those people are sharing a random thought every day, a blog post every week, or an art project every two years.And I want it to work, of course, across media, so I can follow writers, musicians, programmers, theorists, troublemakers …
Robin Sloan • Specifying Spring '83
