Sorry, I have to dive into the abyss, I hope you'll come with me. Or we'll both drown.
The Death of DeviantArt and the art-site shaped hole haunting the Internet - Multi-hyphenate
Why every new "Art Community" fails. Equal parts eulogy, condemnation, and mourning.
I got banned from Bluesky last weekend, let's all have a talk about it - Multi-hyphenate
about user experience and atprotocol and silicon valley
Thoughts on Communities | unDraw Blog
Even with the best intentions and people eager to join, most attempts to create communities fail and will continue to do so.
Platforms Want Centralized Censorship. That Should Scare You
Opinion: Controlling the spread of insidious content online is extremely difficult—but combining efforts across platforms raises serious threats to free expression.
An open letter to Bluesky Social PBC.: Please stop posting and listen to users and devs - Multi-hyphenate
I'm going to try to be nice and professional
Opinion | Meet the Renegades of the Intellectual Dark Web (Published 2018)
An alliance of heretics is making an end run around the mainstream conversation. Should we be listening?
An actually fucking good NSFW-friendly webcomics platform that isn't fucking webtoon is here - Multi-hyphenate
Y'all know I wouldn't say this shit if it wasn't true also please be normal to the dev guys
Permissioned Data Shapes: Community-Moderated Content - Nick's Blog
A community can own spaces the way a person does: a club's members post to each other under a dedicated community DID, with a feed space for content, a moderation space for notes, a labels space for filtering, and a single app view as the only window into any of it.
An open letter to Bluesky Social PBC.: Please stop posting and listen to users and devs · Multi-hyphenate
I'm going to try to be nice and professional
Trust and Faith in Our Web
I’m not Brennan, but I’m very interested in decentralization and a fan of AtProto specifically, so I’d like to weigh in. First I should mention I’ve personally never been able to get into microblogging, so I haven’t touched bluesky myself, despite having an account for ATProto reasons. But I agree it’s concerning that the company chooses to continue to host the content of harmful individuals and calling that act “neutral”. I’m certainly against the idea of the “marketplace of ideas” as it’s cle...
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The Web has lost its Soul - LOVEWEB
What Kind of Literature Lives on the Dark Web?
Depending on who you ask, the “Dark Web”—the Internet’s mysterious undercurrent accessible only through specialized software—is either a libertarian utopia or a criminal hellscape…
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I care about an ethical internet. I write about Bluesky, the atmosphere and open social protocols at connectedplaces.online 🇳🇱