Kind: Notes

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.

Protect public spaces

"when public spaces are eliminated, so ultimately is the public; the individual has ceased to be a citizen capable of experiencing and acting in common with fellow citizens" — Rebecca Solnit