We write from our new home in the Dark Forest. This week we fully committed to our new universe: we abandoned Slack and moved all operations into DFOS, our new tool, available more widely in the coming weeks. It feels good in here. Calm. Cozy. Just enough activity for things
Against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
Settling in, and looking ahead - pckt - Dev Journal
Hey Bloggers ! A lot has happened since our last post. Which always seems to be the case... We've been hard at work crafting new features and refining existing...
It's Time To Rethink Everything by @t3dotgg
Dead Forest Theory
Internet darkness is turning into deadness and time is running out
What's good?
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.
Trust — Moving Castles: Modular and Portable Multiplayer Miniverses
Something is crawling out of the dark forest.
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
Root Systems: towards a decentralized internet at Dweb Camp
This July, I spent an amazing five days at DWeb Camp, a gathering at a former Stasi holdout in Germany’s Brandenburger forest, that has been repurposed by the Alte Hölle collective striving towards sustainable and equitable futures. The event, organised by the Internet Archive Dweb-community and the
A Bestiary of the Digital Wilds: The Score - Astral's Blog
On Thickets, Enclosure, and Leaving
Every platform I left, I left for the same pattern: enclosure by othering — systems that define what is shameful, create targets, and point an aggressive majority at them. Substack's AI-detection turn is the latest, and it is Dark Forestry in action. The escape is spatial: go where the platforms ar…
Very excited to be opening the sf work/shop for this fall. Applications are open now: everythingchanges.us/workshop/sf
speculative fiction work/shop | everything changes
everythingchanges.usI've had my (mostly) offline weekend before #AtmosphereConf and now have a stack of things to read, write, and grind on. First up is giving chipnick.com/stratos-lets-get-technical/ a read and writing some thoughts on spaces.
Stratos: Lets get Technical
chipnick.com
