Internet Manifesto by sadgirl.online

This article was written by sadgirl.online which details the way the internet has changed and a path to move forward from our hell. :RedWojak:

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The internet has changed...​

It's surprising how many people equate "the Internet" with "social media". It's like having access to 1,000,000x the Library of Alexandria every day, and only being interested in keeping up with what people are talking about in the lobby.

The internet used to be:
  • a place for creative expression
    vastly customizable
    a space for people, by people
The internet has become:
  • a marketplace (and we are the product)
    a one-sided social experience
    a capitalist hellscape

We, the people of the internet, have the power to transform the internet.
The goal is not to go backwards, but to forge a new path forward.


I wrote an article detailing the topic in-depth.

What is the old web?​

The old web refers to the internet's former iteration. It includes Web 1.0 and the early parts of Web 2.0. It is known as the age of chat rooms, message boards, Myspace and Livejournal.

The development of Web 2.0 emphasized user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture and ease of use for end users. The early days of this era refer to a time when social platforms allowed the careful balance of an easy-to-learn interface and optional stylesheet customization. What started out as a huge leap forward snowballed into the SEO-crazed, overly sterilized internet we are faced with today.

Early social platforms such as Myspace, Xanga, Livejournal and Tumblr offered a balance of visual editors for formatting blog posts with ease, the option of using a premade layout, or the option of customizing the look and feel yourself entirely with CSS. This was a crowning achievement of the internet in the context of genuine social development and expression of social creativity.

What is the personal web?​

The personal web isn't a reboot or a revival. It's been here all along, overshadowed by fast-paced modern platforms. The personal web about making the internet into a satisfying, expressive and creative social space. It's about having a space of one's own that isn't dictated by arbitrary limitations of a platform (such as word count).

A website of one's own​

Isn't there something exciting about having something that's all your own, that you can customize in millions of ways? Websites are a great medium for:
  • sharing creativity (visual art, writing, music, comics...)
  • spreading information or resources
  • writing about things that you love (hobbies, media, yourself, philosophy...)
  • meeting others with shared interests (via web rings, Neocities...)
  • creating a virtual space with any kind of vibe that you want (or all of the vibes at once)
A website is a blank slate that you can mold into anything.

If the only barrier for making your own site is a lack of technical knowledge - don't let that hold you back. There are some great tutorials online, and also lots of websites that offer free layouts for you to use on your site. No coding knowledge required.

How to start​

I can't recommend the platform Neocities enough, because of it's unique dashboard that connects every website on the platform. It allows you to follow websites, leave comments and receive updates on a dashboard in a social media/website fusion. Plus it's free!

A Case Against Modern Internet​

The necessity of the personal web becomes even more relevant when the current state of the internet is analyzed.

Search Engine Optimization​

Ever Google something and get a bunch of results like this?
  • 10 Tell-Tale Signs You Need to Get a New Cat
    The Best Advice You Could Ever Get About Cats
    11 Embarrassing Cats Faux Pas You Better Not Make
    The 12 Worst Types Cats Accounts You Follow on Twitter
    20 Gifts You Can Give Your Boss if They Love Cats
You can blame SEO for that.

The sharp rise of search engine optimization, or SEO. If someone develops, designs and writes their website in a particular way, their site has a higher chance of being found higher up on the list of results when people perform a related Google search.

To properly utilize SEO, you must follow a lot of rules, such as making 'punchy' headlines like the ones above, and peppering your writing with images. Since SEO is determined by a bot, many have found ways to 'game the system' so to speak, to bring their websites to the top of search engines. These websites have a lot of very shallow content, and much of it might even be labeled clickbait. Some of these sites are used by people as sources of passive income which they make via a combination of their large audience and ad revenue.

This type of content drowns out real genuine content from people. Nowadays, if you want to see people-made content, aside from the personal web movement, the easiest way is via social media.

Social Media or Social Marketing?​

Modern platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are free to use in exchange for giving up your data and consenting to be a commodity.

When a platform has collected enough data on an individual (by tracking what the user reacts positively/negatively to), it builds a highly specific profile on that user which they can sell to advertisers - because advertisers always want to target specific audiences. This allows social media platforms to turn a huge profit while offering their platform for free.

In the beginning, ads lined the sides and tops of a website. The more annoying ones would pop-up in a new window. Still, there was a clear separation between ads and content. Soon, platforms learned they would make more money by interspersing ads with a person's social timeline and they made it so.

When the internet created 'celebrities', businesses and brands started using those celebrities to market their products and services. After all, these celebrities already had an audience, which allows the brand to skip all of the would-be salaries of their marketing team and assign the responsibility of gathering a sufficient audience to an individual.

The Timeline Format and Why It Sucks

Something all of these modern platforms have in common is the timeline. Sometimes this is called the dashboard or the news feed. This is usually a mix of content from everyone you follow (plus ads, but we'll get to that...) In the early days even on these modern platforms the timelines were reverse-chronological and simply showed the latest updates from everyone that you followed.

On modern social platforms, that experience is much different. Instead, platforms use algorithms to determine which posts you will see, and which you won't. These algorithms are meant to filter out "irrelevant and poor-quality posts so that the highest-quality content gets through". Instead, one might argue that these algorithms take the power away from the person scrolling through them, and filters them based on data that has been collected from their activity.

Even before algorithms and increasingly intrusive ads, the idea itself of a timeline was terrible. Timelines are designed to keep users on their platform for as long as possible (so the user sees as many ads as possible), usually scrolling vertically. This means that for the majority of users, they only see each post one time. Anyone who has ever mindlessly scrolled through Tumblr, Instagram or >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk, it can be easy to simply like a post as a bookmark and make a mental note to go back to it later.

I almost never go back to it later.

Rather than user's posts being solely viewed on their own individual pages, they are neatly ordered into a single-file line for maximum advertising efficiency. In this way the user is also alienated from their content, their identity/person made secondary.

This is because the modern timeline was not designed for creators. It was designed for consumers. It's no secret that it's getting more difficult to promote yourself as an artist online. Anyone who has read a guide to marketing yourself on social media knows that it's a full-time job which requires constant activity and new content creation to keep followers engaged.

The timeline was designed for maximum profit

The "Follower" Model​

Modern platforms use the terminology follow and follower to describe the interaction between two individuals. Following is a one-sided action - you can choose to follow an account but that account may not follow you back. In that situation, it's kind of like looking into someone's bedroom and reading all of their journals invisibly, like a ghost. Those who do follow you back are affectionately termed mutuals.

The goal is, and always has been, to gain more followers. Gaining followers means your posts will reach a wider audience. At the most basic level, this may indicate that people like you. If you are a creator, it may indicate that people will see your creations. If you own a business, or start a Kickstarter or a GoFundMe, it indicates that people may give you their money. At its most sophisticated, brands and businesses will reach out to you to promote their products.

Having a large following also has its consequences. The larger a group of people is, the harder it is to please everyone. But this is consequence is relatively harmless compared to the others. With more exposure and popularity, that person has a higher chance of being stalked and harassed, just like real-life celebrities. They also risk being doxxed, or cancelled (which tends to attract angry mobs).

The follower model promotes social imbalance, a one-to-many kind of connection rather than many-to-many - which could be seen in Myspace's Friend Request model.

The act of following another account is impersonal and one-sided. Building meaningful relationships with other people is second to amassing an audience.

Possibly more coming soon...

How you can participate​

  • Learn & teach others how to surf the web.
  • Stop or reduce activity on modern social media (especially Twitter, Facebookand Instagram).
    • Convince your friends to do the same!
  • Speak out on social media about the harms of using those platforms & promote alternatives.

  • Speak out about why the structure of social media & SEO is ruining the internet.
  • Create your own spaceon the web.
    • Convince your friends to do the same!
  • Socialize with & collaborate with other webmasters & artists.
  • Write your own manifesto.
Most of all, never stop creating & making connections on the internet. We will never give up!


 
Can we not still enjoy things?
You can enjoy overwatch, just like you can enjoy crack but it won't change the fact that it is a net negative on your life.
 
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You can enjoy overwatch, just like you can enjoy crack but it won't change the fact that it is a net negative on your life.
I think crack is more enjoyable than Overwatch. :LeDoritoFace:
 
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You can enjoy overwatch, just like you can enjoy crack but it won't change the fact that it is a net negative on your life.
As long as you can find balance it's okay. Obviously it can be a slippery slope
 
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If I made a blog with a forum how would that work?
If you were expecting it to go big then it will run out very quickly. I would suggest just having the blog. This forum currently is at 39gb used out 50gb. Gonna have to upgrade soon
 
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I think in having an explicit call to action, that we have to move forward if we want to create a more positive and people-focused internet, this post hits the mark of why the internet has changed for the worse but also shows why it is unlikely to improve. It's not that the internet itself was explicitly better during the "old web", it's that the motivations for most people using it were different than what most people want out of the "modern internet" (I think contemporary would be a better term but w/e). These motivations in turn shape the content on the internet. As acknowledged, the vast majority of people only desire to use the internet to "[keep] up with what people are talking about in the lobby." But normies also wouldn't make use of the Library of Alexandria IRL, it just isn't in the average person's life plans/conception of how they want to live their life. While the present corporate hellscape has shaped people's desires and interests, it's fundamentally responsive to what people want and their basic psychological mechanisms (which is why social media is all designed to be a microdose of crack). They merely exploit or distort rather than create what people want.

So unless the internet can shrink back to a period where NPCs aren't the main inhabitants or some radical social change affects the average person's motivations for how they intend to use the internet, we don't have many options (or at least I can't imagine any). The only real thing that we can do is to foster tiny corners of the internet like this one, sitting and waiting from the shadows, and hope that at least some people are drawn in. The call to action, while admirable, seems hopeless to me. Maybe I'm just too much of a nihilist :binTot:
 
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the vast majority of people only desire to use the internet to "[keep] up with what people are talking about in the lobby." But normies also wouldn't make use of the Library of Alexandria IRL
I think this explains perfectly the current situation. We are used to thinking that the Internet is a single separate place when that changed years ago. The Internet became an extension of real life.
Just like we can't expect everyone to become intellectual scholars or genius artists IRL, we shouldn't expect that they do the same on the Internet.
The creative and "old web" became a niche club while the main central places are the social networks and SEO'd search engines. Again, just like real life where we have lots of niche clubs, but still most people just go to the main popular places.
We aren't the whole internet anymore, we are just a corner of it, and trying to change the rest is an impossible task unless we change the corporate reality. This place is a reflection of reality.
 
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I think this explains perfectly the current situation. We are used to thinking that the Internet is a single separate place when that changed years ago. The Internet became an extension of real life.
Just like we can't expect everyone to become intellectual scholars or genius artists IRL, we shouldn't expect that they do the same on the Internet.
The creative and "old web" became a niche club while the main central places are the social networks and SEO'd search engines. Again, just like real life where we have lots of niche clubs, but still most people just go to the main popular places.
We aren't the whole internet anymore, we are just a corner of it, and trying to change the rest is an impossible task unless we change the corporate reality. This place is a reflection of reality.
Well, there certainly is a reason these services became popular, and I won't blame people for using them since they can be useful. Which would be fine if these services didn't exploit everything around them and also didn't made the unique part of the web die out simply by hiding it away more and more. But they do so I'm against them.

Also I believe the internet is the way it is cause people don't know it can be better. There are lot of people who would be fond of a personal page on the net or a forum to talk about their interests, but from where could they even learn it's possible? Do you really think an artist online wouldn't like to have his whole page be designed to express his personality and art? That's just one audience who would enjoy it already, but I can assure you most of them don't even know there is such a thing as personal pages. They literally grew up with instagram or facebook being the internet. At least a vast majority of it. So that's what they are stuck with.

As for the corporate reality of this, while yeah, it's true that we live in a commoditized world, I feel like making social media obselete or using it against itself somehow would be the only way things could turn around. Because so long it exists, nothing will ever be done cause you won't be even heard. Zucc can literally silence everyone's voice he wants on his platform in a way that looks organic to the average user. You need to overcome that somehow first.
 
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Also I believe the internet is the way it is cause people don't know it can be better.
But isn't that true for everything in life? The average person generally does little to imagine otherwise and improve the world around them.
 
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This article was written by sadgirl.online which details the way the internet has changed and a path to move forward from our hell. :RedWojak:

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The internet has changed...​

It's surprising how many people equate "the Internet" with "social media". It's like having access to 1,000,000x the Library of Alexandria every day, and only being interested in keeping up with what people are talking about in the lobby.

The internet used to be:
  • a place for creative expression
    vastly customizable
    a space for people, by people
The internet has become:
  • a marketplace (and we are the product)
    a one-sided social experience
    a capitalist hellscape

We, the people of the internet, have the power to transform the internet.
The goal is not to go backwards, but to forge a new path forward.


I wrote an article detailing the topic in-depth.

What is the old web?​

The old web refers to the internet's former iteration. It includes Web 1.0 and the early parts of Web 2.0. It is known as the age of chat rooms, message boards, Myspace and Livejournal.

The development of Web 2.0 emphasized user-generated content, ease of use, participatory culture and ease of use for end users. The early days of this era refer to a time when social platforms allowed the careful balance of an easy-to-learn interface and optional stylesheet customization. What started out as a huge leap forward snowballed into the SEO-crazed, overly sterilized internet we are faced with today.

Early social platforms such as Myspace, Xanga, Livejournal and Tumblr offered a balance of visual editors for formatting blog posts with ease, the option of using a premade layout, or the option of customizing the look and feel yourself entirely with CSS. This was a crowning achievement of the internet in the context of genuine social development and expression of social creativity.

What is the personal web?​

The personal web isn't a reboot or a revival. It's been here all along, overshadowed by fast-paced modern platforms. The personal web about making the internet into a satisfying, expressive and creative social space. It's about having a space of one's own that isn't dictated by arbitrary limitations of a platform (such as word count).

A website of one's own​

Isn't there something exciting about having something that's all your own, that you can customize in millions of ways? Websites are a great medium for:
  • sharing creativity (visual art, writing, music, comics...)
  • spreading information or resources
  • writing about things that you love (hobbies, media, yourself, philosophy...)
  • meeting others with shared interests (via web rings, Neocities...)
  • creating a virtual space with any kind of vibe that you want (or all of the vibes at once)
A website is a blank slate that you can mold into anything.

If the only barrier for making your own site is a lack of technical knowledge - don't let that hold you back. There are some great tutorials online, and also lots of websites that offer free layouts for you to use on your site. No coding knowledge required.

How to start​

I can't recommend the platform Neocities enough, because of it's unique dashboard that connects every website on the platform. It allows you to follow websites, leave comments and receive updates on a dashboard in a social media/website fusion. Plus it's free!

A Case Against Modern Internet​

The necessity of the personal web becomes even more relevant when the current state of the internet is analyzed.

Search Engine Optimization​

Ever Google something and get a bunch of results like this?
  • 10 Tell-Tale Signs You Need to Get a New Cat
    The Best Advice You Could Ever Get About Cats
    11 Embarrassing Cats Faux Pas You Better Not Make
    The 12 Worst Types Cats Accounts You Follow on Twitter
    20 Gifts You Can Give Your Boss if They Love Cats
You can blame SEO for that.

The sharp rise of search engine optimization, or SEO. If someone develops, designs and writes their website in a particular way, their site has a higher chance of being found higher up on the list of results when people perform a related Google search.

To properly utilize SEO, you must follow a lot of rules, such as making 'punchy' headlines like the ones above, and peppering your writing with images. Since SEO is determined by a bot, many have found ways to 'game the system' so to speak, to bring their websites to the top of search engines. These websites have a lot of very shallow content, and much of it might even be labeled clickbait. Some of these sites are used by people as sources of passive income which they make via a combination of their large audience and ad revenue.

This type of content drowns out real genuine content from people. Nowadays, if you want to see people-made content, aside from the personal web movement, the easiest way is via social media.

Social Media or Social Marketing?​

Modern platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are free to use in exchange for giving up your data and consenting to be a commodity.

When a platform has collected enough data on an individual (by tracking what the user reacts positively/negatively to), it builds a highly specific profile on that user which they can sell to advertisers - because advertisers always want to target specific audiences. This allows social media platforms to turn a huge profit while offering their platform for free.

In the beginning, ads lined the sides and tops of a website. The more annoying ones would pop-up in a new window. Still, there was a clear separation between ads and content. Soon, platforms learned they would make more money by interspersing ads with a person's social timeline and they made it so.

When the internet created 'celebrities', businesses and brands started using those celebrities to market their products and services. After all, these celebrities already had an audience, which allows the brand to skip all of the would-be salaries of their marketing team and assign the responsibility of gathering a sufficient audience to an individual.

The Timeline Format and Why It Sucks

Something all of these modern platforms have in common is the timeline. Sometimes this is called the dashboard or the news feed. This is usually a mix of content from everyone you follow (plus ads, but we'll get to that...) In the early days even on these modern platforms the timelines were reverse-chronological and simply showed the latest updates from everyone that you followed.

On modern social platforms, that experience is much different. Instead, platforms use algorithms to determine which posts you will see, and which you won't. These algorithms are meant to filter out "irrelevant and poor-quality posts so that the highest-quality content gets through". Instead, one might argue that these algorithms take the power away from the person scrolling through them, and filters them based on data that has been collected from their activity.

Even before algorithms and increasingly intrusive ads, the idea itself of a timeline was terrible. Timelines are designed to keep users on their platform for as long as possible (so the user sees as many ads as possible), usually scrolling vertically. This means that for the majority of users, they only see each post one time. Anyone who has ever mindlessly scrolled through Tumblr, Instagram or >redditcostanzayeahrightsmirk, it can be easy to simply like a post as a bookmark and make a mental note to go back to it later.

I almost never go back to it later.

Rather than user's posts being solely viewed on their own individual pages, they are neatly ordered into a single-file line for maximum advertising efficiency. In this way the user is also alienated from their content, their identity/person made secondary.

This is because the modern timeline was not designed for creators. It was designed for consumers. It's no secret that it's getting more difficult to promote yourself as an artist online. Anyone who has read a guide to marketing yourself on social media knows that it's a full-time job which requires constant activity and new content creation to keep followers engaged.

The timeline was designed for maximum profit

The "Follower" Model​

Modern platforms use the terminology follow and follower to describe the interaction between two individuals. Following is a one-sided action - you can choose to follow an account but that account may not follow you back. In that situation, it's kind of like looking into someone's bedroom and reading all of their journals invisibly, like a ghost. Those who do follow you back are affectionately termed mutuals.

The goal is, and always has been, to gain more followers. Gaining followers means your posts will reach a wider audience. At the most basic level, this may indicate that people like you. If you are a creator, it may indicate that people will see your creations. If you own a business, or start a Kickstarter or a GoFundMe, it indicates that people may give you their money. At its most sophisticated, brands and businesses will reach out to you to promote their products.

Having a large following also has its consequences. The larger a group of people is, the harder it is to please everyone. But this is consequence is relatively harmless compared to the others. With more exposure and popularity, that person has a higher chance of being stalked and harassed, just like real-life celebrities. They also risk being doxxed, or cancelled (which tends to attract angry mobs).

The follower model promotes social imbalance, a one-to-many kind of connection rather than many-to-many - which could be seen in Myspace's Friend Request model.

The act of following another account is impersonal and one-sided. Building meaningful relationships with other people is second to amassing an audience.

Possibly more coming soon...

How you can participate​

  • Learn & teach others how to surf the web.
  • Stop or reduce activity on modern social media (especially Twitter, Facebookand Instagram).
    • Convince your friends to do the same!
  • Speak out on social media about the harms of using those platforms & promote alternatives.

  • Speak out about why the structure of social media & SEO is ruining the internet.
  • Create your own spaceon the web.
    • Convince your friends to do the same!
  • Socialize with & collaborate with other webmasters & artists.
  • Write your own manifesto.
Most of all, never stop creating & making connections on the internet. We will never give up!


Sounds like you're advocating for web 3.0
 
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But isn't that true for everything in life? The average person generally does little to imagine otherwise and improve the world around them.
That's true, but I think most people are like that because they just internalized the way things are. If they are shown things can be different, they will change. Not all of them obviously, but a huge chunk will. If you ever held a belief about state of anything in life that is "that's just the way it is", you'll know what I'm talking about. It's more or less inescapable since you deny yourself to imagine things being different. You just need to be the person who allows himself to think things can be different. Someone has to do it, because if no one would we still would probably be hunting mammoths with spears to this day.
 
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That's true, but I think most people are like that because they just internalized the way things are. If they are shown things can be different, they will change. Not all of them obviously, but a huge chunk will. If you ever held a belief about state of anything in life that is "that's just the way it is", you'll know what I'm talking about. It's more or less inescapable since you deny yourself to imagine things being different. You just need to be the person who allows himself to think things can be different. Someone has to do it, because if no one would we still would probably be hunting mammoths with spears to this day.
I mean I don't necessarily disagree, this is basically what I'm saying about the power to imagine otherwise. It's just that I think that people can change rather than will change based on exposure. And, sadly, history has shown that the conversion rate of most people changing is based on structural/social factors rather than individual will. It's not as simple as showing people the light and they will follow, it must be that they can imagine otherwise and there is something to push them to actualize on that otherwise.
 
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I mean I don't necessarily disagree, this is basically what I'm saying about the power to imagine otherwise. It's just that I think that people can change rather than will change based on exposure. And, sadly, history has shown that the conversion rate of most people changing is based on structural/social factors rather than individual will. It's not as simple as showing people the light and they will follow, it must be that they can imagine otherwise and there is something to push them to actualize on that otherwise.
Well, you are right and I had to chew over this a good bit. You know, so far life in general goes I will just ignore this question, becuase it's a huge philosophical topic that I feel I could spend years pondering about and still make little progress. Let's focus on the web for now. The only thing that comes to my head is to imagine what kind of factors there could potentially be for such a change to get a more solid idea of what could be done to nurture them.

I'll split this in two categories too. First one is about attracting others, second one is about protecting that.

So what would be the reason someone would want to "abandon" the mainstream net for something more "exotic"? I think it could be culture, since what you see on these sites is what algorithm shows you, so a place for content and experiences that none of mainstream sites allow to exist is a step in the right direction. These things could be as simple as discussion. It's quite difficult to discuss anything meaningfully online on the big sites because of how easy it is for things to get hidden on there. It could be certain type of videos. NewGrounds was famous for it's animations that you couldn't find anywhere else, and it's even kinda true to this day. Or it's flash games, they were generally of a much higher quality and uniqueness than the rest. Something of that spirit that isn't a copy of the past, but something truly new is a step in the right direction.

The part about protecting that is how easy would it be for mainstream net to eat it up and spit out it's own version. Think about something like pictures. It's very easy to just rip pictures from some site and spread them on instagram. Thereby pictures alone just aren't protected from mainstream net in a meaningful way. Although an page that somehow creates an interactive experience with images that you need to play with couldn't be easily copied. It would be a pain in the ass for them to add support for so much different things on these big services.

Also there's the question that even if someone makes something like that, how do you find it? Because if you make a website and put it online, it will be a ghosttown. The issue of things being able to be discovered in a easy way needs to be solved somehow too. But not much comes to mind about that right now so I'll ignore it.

But yeah, these are my rough thoughts that I kinda spat out just now. I feel like the post is commedically long too. It's certainly a difficult topic to think about. What do you think that would be a meaningful reason for someone to go against the mainstream net?
 
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Overwatch commentary aside this whole thread was super thought provoking. The part about vision and will reminded me of the theory of the imaginary, the idea that our capacity to imagine what could be is constrained by our experience of what is. Basically like that whole overused quote "it's easier to imagine the end of the world than it is the end of capitalism" social media as a way of being online and experiencing the internet is so entrenched that it is easier for some people to imagine an apocalypse where the whole network has gone offline than a network where Twitter is irrelevant. With that in mind I guess the only way to shift things is for the people who have the capacity to imagine a different internet to create counter examples and then use social media to popularise them in the hope that it will expand the boundaries of possibility and helping to expand people's imaginations.

The point about making a website and it being a ghost town is an interesting one. I guess one thing that we need to start collectively imagining is a version of the internet where we do things for reasons other than exposure and attention. Where it is ok to be working on a pet project that we built for personal pleasure that might not get a lot of visits. In such a world social hubs like this one and word of mouth could help interest in projects build up sustainably and organically.

I dunno... I guess what I am saying is that I think change happens by making an alternative visible one step at a time because the pace that this change happens at is as important as the change itself. And even though it won't change everyone's minds it will hopefully help nurture a new space where these ideas become a viable alternative for those who are interested in getting involved and imagining things differently.
 
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  • Learn & teach others how to surf the web.
  • Stop or reduce activity on modern social media (especially Twitter, Facebookand Instagram).
    • Convince your friends to do the same!
  • Speak out on social media about the harms of using those platforms & promote alternatives.

  • Speak out about why the structure of social media & SEO is ruining the internet.
  • Create your own spaceon the web.
    • Convince your friends to do the same!
  • Socialize with & collaborate with other webmasters & artists.
  • Write your own manifesto.
I would like to add use crypto platforms and peer to peer networks should be used for peak freedom. small community movement will grow
 
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color me suprised. I found the manifesto and the group.
I knew there would be something about it agora road.
It's coming full circle in my mind, even if i'm late.
 
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