against the dark forest
The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.
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safer places, now
A lot of people are looking for ways to get off networks run by dipshit billionaires right now, and also for refuges online that don't come with their own terrible problems. I want to help them find some.
revealing the fediverse's gifts
If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?
into the wreck
What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be expected to do—how should they function?