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• https://aeon.co/essays/before-minecraft-or-snapchat-there-was-micromuse?utm_source=Robin_Sloan_sent_me
  "Social systems have values – arguments baked into their design. For example, Twitter’s core argument seems to be: everything should be public, and messages should find the largest audience possible. Snapchat’s might be: communication should be private and ephemeral."

• https://chostett.com/blog/posts/2023-07-01-Finding-a-Home-on-the-Internet
  "Most online spaces like Instagram, Twitter, Medium and Tumblr feel like I'm renting, not owning. I am free to make myself at home...as long I abide by the contract rules and I don't put holes in the wall. In the mid 00's, I was happy to do just that. The online spaces made themselves welcoming, so I followed. But over time, the customization became meaningless, and the things I was writing or posting about to make my space feel like home became "content" and I became a "content creator." My friends became "my audience" and once-thoughtful comments were replaced with emoji reactions. I would try harder to get "engagement," i.e. thoughtful comments by making more "content." I can't blame my friends for not reacting, though. When everyone's a content creator, the world becomes a sea of things to react to. You get tired. You don't have enough time. And Facebook built a convenient "like" button. It wasn't until recently that I realized platforms were trying to solve for issues they'd created themselves. If they put too much information in front of people, they would become overwhelmed and not comment. But people like comments, so they made a button that is an easy comment—a react. Most landlords' end goals are not to help their tenants own a house; it's for them to keep renting so that they will receive money. And in this case, money is data, created by people but never owned by them. Social media platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter made it easy for me to sign a contract. They encouraged me to "make a home" on the web, but just like renting, there is almost never a future where my home on social media can truly be mine."

• https://indieweb.org/principles

• formatting your thoughts as captions

• anything that you use extensively will change the way you think and refer to things

• common values: (1) independent and ad-free experience, (2) freedom to wander without being guided by the algorithm, (3) embracing slowness, (4) control over your own content and how it is displayed

• https://annahilation.neocities.org/newweb
  "Rather than a creative act, web 2.0 was an act of consumption. In society at large, people can no longer create, creation only exists as an act of consumption." Even if you only use the internet to look at content created by other people, and you want to befriend someone in real life who is the same way, you are still competing for their attention and their interest against the entirety of the internet, against their entire online sphere of personalities which are algorithmically marketed to them

• the longevity of magazines and books….there's a limit on how much content you can consume at once when you buy physical copies of things. thus, you're more likely to revisit them, reread or revisit the pages.

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