Gordon Brander’s article "Building a Second Subconscious" is nice.
His properties for what might make what you could call ‘convivial tools for thought’ are all pretty IndieWebby.
Author: Neil Mather
Which are the good ones?
I worry a bit that the tools for thought space tilts towards an individualistic outlook, e.g. ‘how can I accumulate knowledge to monetise my Substack newsletter’.
Even the collective knowledge management from the VC-backed offerings has a ‘knowledge as capital’ feel.
Let’s not let that happen and make sure all this is liberatory technology, yes? Tools for praxis, tools for commoning, tools for revolution.
My social media usage is something like this.
– Follow people wherever they are (including the big silos).
– Write locally, in my ‘digital garden’, first.
– Publish on my own site. I for sure own the data this way.
– Syndicate things elsewhere, wherever the community best fits for my post. But don’t feed the big tech beasts.
– Interact with people wherever they are.
At present, a combo of org-mode, IndieWeb, Fediverse, Agora make this possible for me.
Bad social media gives you an audience: stuff like reach, personality/celebrity, spectacle, anxiety, alienation, competition.
Good social media gives you community: it’s more like voice, agency, discussion, comradery.
I want a community, not an audience.
I'm making a list of people with a foot in the DAO space and the other in the COOP space. I have some ideas, but can you please drop some names?
— Jacq Radebaugh (@JacqR5) October 28, 2021
The peeps at https://disco.coop
Also this is worth a read I believe for thinking on how PKMs may combine in to a commons of knowledge.
(The section “A Platform Designed for Collaboration: Federated Wiki”)
Anagora and FedWiki are worth a peek for the crossover of PKM into collective knowledge management.
Big tech relies on the victims of economic collapse.
https://restofworld.org/2021/refugees-machine-learning-big-tech/