We need to rewild the internet
noemamag.com
We need to rewild the internet
1–10 of 273 posts
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#2More people should be tending their "digital gardens" just to have something to curate and share. Bring back the weird, the odd, the deep-dives into topics you never imagined having such detail, bring back the strange animated GIFS, the websites always "under construction", give me your weird, give me your odd, this should be everyone's place to be free.
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#3More people should be tending their "digital gardens" just to have something to curate and share. Bring back the weird, the odd, the deep-dives into topics you never imagined having such detail, bring back the strange animated GIFS, the websites always "under construction", give me your weird, give me your odd, this should be everyone's place to be free.
I feel like letting my geek flag fly / Yes, I feel like I owe it to someone
__________
____\ /
| __ _| /
| | |\ \
| _____\
|________\
|
|
|Re: We need to rewild the internet
#4No, we don't. The issue was never and will never be the content, it is with the curation and mobility deeply and systemically taken over by social media and smart phone makers. If Google displays spam and AI generated nonsense, and almost everyone relies on it (including those who use "alternative front-ends"), then how do you expect anyone to find a healthy internet? Even if the "extractive and fragile monoculture" made up 0.001% of the internet, it doesn't matter if people can never reach the 99.999%.
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#5There's lots of these projects already, such as https://neocities.org/browse
And even people with weird myspace style social networking sites like https://spacehey.com/browse
Then there's telegram and discord, full of all kinds of strange stuff.
They're just not mainstream. Probably better that way.
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#6There's lots of these projects already, such as https://neocities.org/browse And even people with weird myspace style social networking sites like https://spacehey.com/browse Then there's telegram and discord, full of all kinds of strange stuff. They're just not mainstream. Probably better that way.
I was just about to post neocities, but then got distracted by all the cool sites.
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#7It reads like something a GPT model would write, they go all over the place.
I also wonder what would their point of view be if the internet truly was wilder, like 4chan or everything behind TOR.
On one hand, I kind of like the idea of spreading and atomizing the internet to the masses, a bit like it was at the beginning, but at the beginning the people that were part of the internet were a particularly well educated elite. It was definitely not for everyone.
Not everyone was online, what we had was people with disposable income to have a computer, usually with some form of college education and some technical knowledge.
Then the masses came, and social media thrived.
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#8More people should be tending their "digital gardens" just to have something to curate and share. Bring back the weird, the odd, the deep-dives into topics you never imagined having such detail, bring back the strange animated GIFS, the websites always "under construction", give me your weird, give me your odd, this should be everyone's place to be free.
I was just thinking today that I should just start posting my stuff on a personal site. Photos, blogs, life updates, etc.
It gives me that control that I want, and I don't have to worry about Meta, etc trying to monetize it. Plus I get to unplug from those "n liked your post" dopamine hits.
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#9There's lots of these projects already, such as https://neocities.org/browse And even people with weird myspace style social networking sites like https://spacehey.com/browse Then there's telegram and discord, full of all kinds of strange stuff. They're just not mainstream. Probably better that way.
[deleted]
Re: We need to rewild the internet
#10It is surprisingly easy to set up a phpBB forum or some such thing, on a tiny VM tucked into some obscure pool, set up a nameserver for it, invite a couple of your friends, and start your own community, completely disengaged from any major corporate shenanigans.
Big things can happen with such a virtual machine.
Even better, you could a mailman server, and get yourself a proper mailing-list of like-minded subscribers - for any subject under the sun - chatting away on a regular basis.
Fact is, all it takes to set up a decent social network is to do some social engineering. Even real, meat-space activities can be completely divulged of their toxic mainstream membership in the info-spectacle industrial complex, and replaced with a couple smart services, on a tightly bound VM, somewhere functional.
Big things happen because of the people, not the technology involved...