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  "description": "Given that places like X/Twitter, Meta/Threads/Instagram and the like are fully\ncemented in upholding the vices of capital and technology; how do people envision\nthe open social Web to support the potential next generation of users?\n",
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  "publishedAt": "2024-09-24T16:00:00.000Z",
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  "textContent": "I'm waffling with a side project that's meant to replace this website as my means of publishing on\nthe Web. As I do, I find issues with the word \"publish\" because it implies that I'm going to have\n\"readers\". That reader could _only_ be me, which is fine as I write to externalize things that I\nwant to be able to search up later. My journal holds everything (and I mean — everything)\nelse. However, with the rise of generative AI and the companies behind the large content scraping\nengine gone on full nitro, I'm torn on the notion of pushing everything out to the world by default.\nI've made mentions of this in passing in the IndieWeb chat some time ago as I began to question\nthe usefulness of this. This came to mind once I began to understand that there's a bit of a\ndifferent experience to being public.\n\nFor those who don't use the Web in a social way, for mainly posting in their professional\nnetworks or semi-habitual check-ins among them for whatever affinity group that they lean into,\nthere's very little that has to change. In fact, all that you would need is a blog and/or\nnewsletter. Social, in this case, is a unidirectional \"auto-chattering\". In fact, \"the phenomenon of\nblogging is one example — among many — of the triumph of a one-way model of\nauto-chattering in which the possibility of ever having to wait and listen to someone else has been\neliminated. Blogging, no matter what its intentions, is thus one of the many announcements of the\nend of politics\". It's potentially ironic writing this _on a blog_ about how blogging and its\n\"descendants\" have potentially contributed to the erosion of conversation. But then I recall,\nreading in \"Debt\", the nature of _actual_ conversation that could happen, that'd take hours, at\nleast amongst monied white men in early America\n\n[1]: https://www.versobooks.com/products/2315-24-7",
  "title": "One's Place in the Open Social Web"
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