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We don't get to decide whether we're failing or succeeding in life —besides, we can only connect the dots backward, so I just keep working out to meet either less weak as they come as I'm getting older...
“The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied.” Here’s yet another brilliant feature by @Daojoan. “The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it. If they reject the idea that being trapped in someone else’s ecosystem is just the cost of existing online. If they stop believing that “free” means surrendering ownership of your own connections, your own history, your own data. If they see that the internet wasn’t built to be a factory for engagement metrics and AI-generated content farms. It was built to connect us, not silo us to pad a wealth-extremist’s bank account,” she writes.
https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-fediverse-isnt-the-future-its-the-present-weve-been-denied
#Fediverse #ActivityPub #DigitalSovereignty #JoanWestenberg #OpenSocialWeb #WalledGardens #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday
For years, the internet has been shrinking. Not in size, not in data, but in ownership. A vast, decentralized network of personal blogs, forums, and independent communities has been corralled into a handful of paved prison yards controlled by a few massive corporations. Every post, every “friend,” every creative work—
This year, I founded an indie news blog doing long-form Op-eds.
It's 100% free and 100% reader funded. No venture capital, no ads, no bullshit.
And it is unapologetically opposed to Nazi fuckery.
Read/subscribe and support:
https://www.theindex.media
It’s funny how writing about the things you enjoy —and think already know in full, gets more nuanced and intimate when you talk/write about them to share it online with strangers.
https://slowerr.xyz/spaces-and-nostalgia-two-albums-that-speak-to-me-every-time/
"Creating is harder than criticizing."
👆 This is an asymmetry we usually overlook as a society. Ironically, being so prone to highlight the flaws at sight —not within, hardly translates into action.
Thanks @Daojoan your work is inspiring 🧐
https://slowerr.xyz/we-dont-need-more-cynics-we-need-more-builders-joan-westenberg/
"We don't really have a direct relationship with reality, nor with ourselves or the way that we move" - Ido Portal
https://verr.link/yt-wwmodelsidop
#movement #culture #curiosity #perception #epistemology #interfaces
We've built an entire industry around measuring things that don't matter.
Your marketing dashboard shows green metrics across the board. Every KPI carefully tracked, every conversion funnel optimized, every customer interaction quantified. We've built an entire industry around measuring things that don't matter. Google Analytics won't tell you if your message resonates. Meta's Pixel can't measure trust. Your CRM won't capture
Aging to me is not something to fight against —paradoxically, but more like a distillation of experiences that is bound to remain flawed. And that’s how beauty thrives: by owning our flaws instead of trying to deny them.
https://slowerr.xyz/the-fallout-what-a-beautiful-surprise/
#TheFallout #teaching #education #slowerr #JennaOrtega #storytelling
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