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On video games, and the workers involved. I can see a near future when a book is written about online community management too. https://www.dissentmagazine.org/article/all-work-and-no-play

I think it’s timely to reflect on nostalgia and the compression of time due to new memory technology. We can consider this a third groundbreaking trend from TikTok. Previous ones: Informal Games (duets, dabloons), CoreCore, and now Memory https://twitter.com/memotv/status/1628758590033993728

Diving into McLuhan today, we can look at the Tetrad of Media Effects: Enhance, Obsolesce, Retrieve, Reverse https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_of_media_effects

For those in Berlin, there will be a casual gathering at Unkompress at 7:30pm. Open door policy, but you can also RSVP if you’re a member of a variety of communities: https://gatekeep.it/0cdb94f410

“Most needed are those “third places” which lend a public balance to the increased privatization of home life. Third places are nothing more than informal public gathering places. The phrase “third places” derives from considering our homes to be the “first” places in our lives, and our work places the “second.” https://plannersweb.com/1997/01/our-vanishing-third-places/

What is the incentive conflict between digital content creators, platforms, publishers? Safe (Ads) vs. Salacious (Traffic) — The drive for monetization and TAM, and it’s impact on content creation. https://theculturejournalist.substack.com/p/media-tech-layoffs-gawker-google-pivot#details

I think the future of community sits within the ability to control their methods of memory and communication. This will require reliable software that can be trusted to last decades, if not generations. One potential solution is home-grown software like we read about previously. This is the same approach FWB took and which is discussed below: https://asterisques.com/An-App-is-Born

Another classic, an exploration into “The Liminal Web” https://www.joelightfoot.org/post/the-liminal-web-mapping-an-emergent-subculture-of-sensemakers-meta-theorists-systems-poets

100 thoughts on hosting. The same apply to online events: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1584054509097000960.html

What happens when software is home cooked instead of manufactured? This article builds on my thesis that digital objects can have weight and care — when the craft has meaning to us individually. https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/home-cooked-app/

Another classic article: Dead Internet Theory https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/

We can look at the lifecycle of manufacturing safety for inspiration regarding online safety: https://rootsofprogress.org/history-of-factory-safety

Via @K41R0N on Leadership: https://tally.mirror.xyz/ltXkmG3orcWwJNH8TAQzYvvwejTI1V4prAU-W5tW3MU

“It seems that if you compost an internet’s worth of written knowledge, the text starts to speak back. When pushed to its extreme, literature gives birth to a renewed orality. A hyper-orality.” https://subconscious.substack.com/p/llms-and-hyper-orality

When every piece of media is digitised, it becomes the prey of categorisation and automated curation. Amazing walkthrough by @basgras on how to create automated music playlists: https://www.musicxtechxfuture.com/2021/02/02/smarter-playlists-automate-your-music-discovery-playlist-strategy-and-library-organisation/

A good discussion shared by Paul Graham on Twitter regarding online environments https://www.overcomingbias.com/2023/02/why-is-everyone-so-boring.html

On Vertical Communities,,, and how they differ from previous community structures. What happens when any interest group has global access to its members? https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/vertical-communities

Dissociative relationship patterns: when your community becomes an NPC — and therefore “used” vs. “engaged” https://www.fakepradabag.com/p/npc

What happens when most of the content and people online are fake? https://www.fortressofdoors.com/ai-markets-for-lemons-and-the-great-logging-off/