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Alex Schroeder

“Rewilding the internet is not a nostalgia project for middle-aged nerds who miss IRC and Usenet.”
https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/

Now it’s getting personal! 😅

17 April at 4:41 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch
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Alex Schroeder

There is a Robert Moses reference in that ⬆️ article, which encourages me to order The Power Broker and read it instead of just listening to the monthly discussion on the 99% Invisible podcast.

17 April at 4:47 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch
Random Geek

@alex @amydentata was gonna say "can it also be that?" but reading the article and looking around – no it quite clearly cannot. At least not as much as the grognards would like.

17 April at 6:25 | Open on hackers.town
Alex Schroeder

@randomgeek @amydentata My impression is that Gemini and net news and tilde towns and other small collective efforts and maybe in a way also blogs are each not destroying the corporate Internet but maintaining bubbles that show how it can be done, to keep that flame alive, not in order to return to that world but as a reminder of what we had so that the next iteration after the corporate Internet can be even better. To pick a negative example: I really don’t like the lack of moderation tools for net news and I don’t like INN the software as a sysadmin.

I guess being part of these small bubbles is a bit like inhabiting a zoo as an endangered animal – a teaching moment.

@randomgeek @amydentata My impression is that Gemini and net news and tilde towns and other small collective efforts and maybe in a way also blogs are each not destroying the corporate Internet but maintaining bubbles that show how it can be done, to keep that flame alive, not in order to return to that world but as a reminder of what we had so that the next iteration after the corporate Internet can be even better. To pick a negative example: I really don’t like the lack of moderation tools for...

17 April at 8:03 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch
Random Geek

@alex @amydentata Society for Internet Anachronisms, reenacting an idealized early Web for the entertainment and delight of modern audiences.

17 April at 14:31 | Open on hackers.town
Alex Schroeder

« The recent return to more muscular competition enforcement still isn’t radical enough. So far, even activist regulators have shied away from applying the toughest remedies for concentration in long-consolidated markets, such as non-discrimination requirements, functional interoperability and structural separations, i.e. breaking companies up. And talk of declaring the so-called “natural monopolies” in search and social media to be public utilities — and forcing them to act as common carriers open to all — is still too extreme for most. »
– We Need To Rewild The Internet, by @mariafarrell, @robin

« The recent return to more muscular competition enforcement still isn’t radical enough. So far, even activist regulators have shied away from applying the toughest remedies for concentration in long-consolidated markets, such as non-discrimination requirements, functional interoperability and structural separations, i.e. breaking companies up. And talk of declaring the so-called “natural monopolies” in search and social media to be public utilities — and forcing them to act as common carriers open...

17 April at 7:54 | Open on social.alexschroeder.ch
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