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i made a dreamwidth account
inspired by the #jp_media discord and a general nostalgia for the web 1.0 days, as well as a hope that we could perhaps recover the forms of conversation we lost to the era of web 2.0 and corporate walled garden social media, i've come here. this follows from the neocity bonfire i've built already, and i plan to integrate the RSS feed from Dreamwidth over there as well
to be honest, I've never used LiveJournal, of which this is a fork (or a spiritual successor). but all the same, in these strange times where the disillusionment and exhaustion with web 2.0 is setting in, after the vague promises of web 3.0 were laid bare as merely a primitive accumulation enacted on the internet, after everyone turned on web 3.0 and rightfully buried it in the ground...
i'm curious about the revival of the old internet; a world where there are no algorithms whipping us to churn out "Content", where there are fewer big "platforms" and we're not all in the same room with everyone else, including our worst enemies.
there was a glimmer of hope in the old internet. it was the closest many people have gotten to experiencing communism - an admittedly limited communism of information, a sanctuary from the real world of scarcity and isolation, where a hundred flowers bloomed, because information was suddenly free to access for all with a computer and an internet connection, and ideas, concepts suppressed by the real world could flourish.
the closest i had to something like this back in the day is, instead, a blog on Blogspot. it's actually still up! opening it now, i find myself wincing at the Sinfest link - that's old me & old Sinfest, long before the webcomic slid into some kind of TERF derangement. nevermind all the other painful things i wrote there as a high school teenager... but if you're reading this, congrats, you get a piece of my 黒歴史.
i'm very likely to just forget to post here. maybe if i start ranting about politics on twitter again, i'll just post what would otherwise be a twitter thread here instead.
to be honest, I've never used LiveJournal, of which this is a fork (or a spiritual successor). but all the same, in these strange times where the disillusionment and exhaustion with web 2.0 is setting in, after the vague promises of web 3.0 were laid bare as merely a primitive accumulation enacted on the internet, after everyone turned on web 3.0 and rightfully buried it in the ground...
i'm curious about the revival of the old internet; a world where there are no algorithms whipping us to churn out "Content", where there are fewer big "platforms" and we're not all in the same room with everyone else, including our worst enemies.
there was a glimmer of hope in the old internet. it was the closest many people have gotten to experiencing communism - an admittedly limited communism of information, a sanctuary from the real world of scarcity and isolation, where a hundred flowers bloomed, because information was suddenly free to access for all with a computer and an internet connection, and ideas, concepts suppressed by the real world could flourish.
the closest i had to something like this back in the day is, instead, a blog on Blogspot. it's actually still up! opening it now, i find myself wincing at the Sinfest link - that's old me & old Sinfest, long before the webcomic slid into some kind of TERF derangement. nevermind all the other painful things i wrote there as a high school teenager... but if you're reading this, congrats, you get a piece of my 黒歴史.
i'm very likely to just forget to post here. maybe if i start ranting about politics on twitter again, i'll just post what would otherwise be a twitter thread here instead.