I’ve been thinking about this a lot. Still framing my thoughts, but here are two essays I found interesting, which look at other sides of the debate.
By Cory Doctorow (who I think is on this list?) https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/#free-as-in-puppies And on Ars Technica: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/01/mastodon-highlights-pros-and-cons-of-moving-beyond-big-tech-gatekeepers/ On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 9:38 PM Udhay Shankar N via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > There seems to be a movement, as exemplified by the move to Mastodon, > towards going back to actual social media. By this, I mean people talking > to people, not some company trying to monetize your address book. > > Below is one example of such a mindset, although the author seems to think > that personal blogs were the beginning. Far from it. Mailing lists like > this one predate them by a few decades. > > Are people here moving away from Social Media back to social media? > > Udhay > > > https://www.theverge.com/23513418/bring-back-personal-blogging > > In the beginning, there were blogs, and they were the original social web. > We built community. We found our people. We wrote personally. We wrote > frequently. We self-policed, and we linked to each other so that newbies > could discover new and good blogs. > > I want to go back there. > > <snip> > > -- > > ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @ pobox.com)) ((www.digeratus.com)) > > -- > Silklist mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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