Reclaiming Online Social Spaces (A Manifesto)

good to have around for when i feel crazy. though i have only read this today, i’ve been following what is basically this manifesto for a while now. i’m a solo dev so the crushing weight of being in control of my own “marketing” and “success” in the current internet climate is harrowing. my art is how i communicate with others, and my work is free to play because i care most about making real connections from it, but i just haven’t been able to drum that up in an environment that treats everything as disposable. even when i know deep down, the internet as we know it has been broken, being able to hear it from someone every once in a while is great. it lets me know i’m not alone in longing for the real connection i used to experience online, and that there are people besides me out there who give enough of a shit about this stuff to write a manifesto about it. it was a pleasure being able to sit with these feelings i’ve had as not just a set of inside thoughts, but words laid out for me on pages.

This was such a good read, I'm finding it as i begin to create my own website in order to better curate my own online experience in a more personal and human way, thank you for doing this is really amazing !

This was a really interesting read, thank you for sharing this! I really think our current paradigm of online interaction between people is fundamentally anti-human. So much of our relationships with others happens over centralized platforms designed to extract attention and reorient intrests at any cost to adhere to amoral, automated social credit markets where everything we do or is done to us is largely inconsequential. It has now become a feature of these platforms that we measure our self worth in likes and have algorithms dictate our interests, much of the meaning we could invent ourselves in these spaces stripped out to drive existing coercive systems. Taking some power back by resisting the toxic habits they reinforce and thoughtfully engaging in our relationships with people and media is important for a healthy life and I’m really only starting to learn that for myself now. Take care of yourself and the people around you!

Ive found your art to always be really inspiring. Love what you're saying here and the self awareness and earnestness you tell it with. Thanks for posting this!

i've been turning these topics over in my mind so much the last few years; i imagine a lot of folks have.  thanks for taking the time get it in writing and getting it out. thanks for caring 💛

This was an insightful read <3 Thank you :D 

Such a nice manifesto

Great stuff, thanks for making this!

te como la boca

Enjoyed and related to this a lot, thank you!

True stuff

increíble como siempre <3

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thank you for this

I like this quite a lot.

this is very good and very useful, thank you.