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The internet is broken. But was it ever whole?

Error 417 Expectation Failed invites artists, curators, and collectives to reject the longing for a mythic "old internet" and confront #netNostalgia head-on.

We don't need to resurrect a past that never existed. We need to ask: what protocols, networks, archives, and shared conditions can build the internet we actually want?

Open call. Global.
🔗 https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable

Open Call — Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable

Our open call for projects Error 406 [Netstalgia] Not Acceptable focuses on the notion of netstalgia: a selective and idealized remembering of earlier phases of the internet. We are looking for projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” and confront the politics of netstalgia head-on.

Error 417 Expectation Failed

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"Wish the sun to stand still.." 🌞1d ago

@dyne Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

Its now very difficult for independent services to remain online without getting DDoS'd by "legitimate" and very high-powered AI data centers.
Search engines have gotten much worse (I won't explain.. open your eyes).
Social media has shifted to a fascist project, and fedi hasn't seen growth in years.
Web browsers are being shut out of essential services from banking to operating a laundromat device; you must run the Apple-Google-approved malware app on your personal device. (i.e. open protocols are no longer honored; proprietary code is required).
Proliferation of proprietary IoTs, most of them bearing mics and other surveillance kit.
AI being forced on everyone in every situation as a pretext to supercharge the exfiltration of private data to corporate data centers.

Failure to recognize worsening conditions is one thing; insisting people fall in line with that failure is worse.

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𝘞𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘥𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥; 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘢𝘭 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭 𝘴𝘦𝘳𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴, 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘦𝘱𝘵, 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘸𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘰 𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘯.

Keep up the good fight, friend!