Making and mending networks for humans, from Erin Kissane.| wreckage/salvage
I work on problems with networks because I am an ordinary person and I care about ordinary people. Sometimes caring about ordinary people means finding new ropes to pull on and throwing your weight into it. For those of us inside the US but outside the VIP lounge of American| wreckage/salvage
For your own sanity, you have to remember that not all problems can be solved. Not all problems can be solved, but all problems can be illuminated. —Ursula Franklin| wreckage/salvage
Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.| wreckage/salvage
I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.| wreckage/salvage
Discussions on wreckage/salvage will take place in a semi-sheltered space to encourage generative and generous conversations.| wreckage/salvage
The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.| wreckage/salvage
Or really, what some people in the global majority/Majority World need from networks, but that's too long for a headline.| wreckage/salvage
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A lot of people are looking for ways to get off networks run by dipshit billionaires right now, and also for refuges online that don't come with their own terrible problems. I want to help them find some.| wreckage/salvage
If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?| wreckage/salvage
What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be expected to do—how should they function?| wreckage/salvage
It's hard to get settled into the fediverse for a set of distinct but interlocking reasons, starting with "How do I pick a server?"| wreckage/salvage
One of the things required for doing good work is stability, of even the most provisional kind. Right now, I'm working from a one-legged stool; it needs more legs.| wreckage/salvage
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.| wreckage/salvage