I'd talked myself out of posting a written version of the We Fix the Networks talk I did at XOXO because talks are performances and don't translate well to the cold medium of text.
Also, frankly, this was an emotionally vulnerable talk for me, and I fucking hate feelings.
But video is not great for lots of people and y'all are presumably aware enough to know that a talk and an essay are different things, so here:
@kissane thank you for sharing the talk on this platform and your research into a better self governed internet. It's hard not to see the struggle of independent networks as a fight for a collective identity that dares to hold capitalism responsible for poisoning the many to many channels.
Do you have the rest of the Atlantic piece that they declined?
@NormalOperator Absolutely, and yes—when the main systems are unaccountable, building outside of them feels like the only way to get to accountability.
I do have the draft of that piece but I don’t think I’ll share more of it beyond the extract. Too close to the bone, tbh.
Erin Kissane
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