📈 Doctorow's post deserves all the boosts it is getting and more! @pluralistic reminds me of the BBS/FIDONET days when I had so much hope for human connections across the network. I wished for a world where ideas are exchanged and evaluated based on their (then largely text-only) content.
Perhaps that hope can be rekindled with the rise of decentralized social media.🤞
#Mastodon #FediverseMigration
https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies
@rob_fulwell @pluralistic I loved the article Doctorow references: a righteous rant by Cat Valente, about the pain of losing online communities, again and again, to corporations and despots and jackass billionaires:
"Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media”
https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start
@rgs @rob_fulwell @pluralistic raise your hand if you are "the internet is not for selling things" old
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It occurred to me after reading this article yesterday that the same thing is happening offline to HBO. Once a refuge of cutting edge cutural documentaries and a truth-to-power stance, since being merged into AT&T it's been getting squeezed into just another corporate uncontroversial streaming service.
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@rgs @rob_fulwell @pluralistic I need to read more from her... Read Space Opera and loved how she did a HHGTTG ripoff without doing a HHGTTG (and take this a a complement)
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Maybe we should just go back to using blogs and message boards as the primary form of internet communities.
Goodness knows properly-moderated message boards are a whole lot better for marginalized groups and special interests in my opinion.