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 I'm horrible at watching videos. Especially from conferences. Especially lately. (Nothing against them, it's just hard to find the time and energy to watch things. I bookmark them, mail them to myself, put them in random reminders. But rarely watch them.) I watched yours start to end in one sitting, and it's STILL gripping me days later.
Thank you. Thank you for sharing, thank you for the vulnerability, thank you for the WORK, thank you for the gumption, thank you for the hope.
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Iโm so glad it clicked for you! Thank you for telling me!
@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 yesโwhen the main systems are unaccountable, building outside of them feels like the only way to get to accountability.
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