Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/
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@pluralistic I just ordered the signed hardcover combo for this kickstarter. Who knows, I might finally get into audiobooks, but I'm sure I'll want to read the book.
It *is* time we took the bloody internet back. Twitter is dead, Facebook's expiration date passed years ago, and reddit no longer feels like a welcoming place either.
Who could have expected that we'd be missing usenet and irc 25 years later?
@wouterla @pluralistic Honestly, I'm not sure why people left IRC in the first place. It didn't get flooded with spam like Usenet, it didn't get bought out by Russian interests like LiveJournal, it wasn't the center of a scandal, it didn't enshittify because it's not structured such that it can... Really, the worst that happened to it was that its most popular Windows client became grossly insecure, and that just calls for using a different client, doesn't it?
@pteryx @wouterla @pluralistic it didn't support pictures... That's it...
@quixoticgeek @pteryx @wouterla @pluralistic that was the positive.
Pictures and GIFs are why I won’t go near Discord