I was talking to a friend who was thinking about the internet we want to have, decentralized, less silos, a bit like the nineties where it was possible to have static pages, host email, write your own CGI scripts, and it was all step by step easy and possible if that was what you wanted. And we got talking about the kind of things we need to today to get this back. Do you have reading suggestions? Blogs to read? Projects? People to follow?
@kensanata You may also enjoy: https://0xadada.pub/2018/05/01/against-facebook/ The title is a little simplistic; it goes into an impressive amount of depth.
@eleanor I like it! «The platform takes our real authentic friendships and first commodifies them, reifies them, and then sells them back to us as an “image of friendship”, but one that is bankrupt of any genuine social value.»
Capitalism at work extracting value in novel ways!
@kensanata @eleanor it reminded me of the importance of, call it daydream time. This is when ideas happen, when things get figured out. I very much need unstructured time where I can just drift, wander, not really focus on anything. I used to do that on my walks, but more recently I’ve listened to podcasts instead while walking. And social media also eats so easily away at that time; so often we just open the distraction apps instead of just sitting and drifting.
@brook @eleanor Yeah! We all need more leisure. The kind of leisure classical Greek philosophers talked about except not financed by slavery.