The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small
Kelsey McKinney,
Defector,
May 15, 2023
I might file this under 'internet culture' or 'fediverse' or some such thing, but the point is a lot wider. Here's the nutshell: "the internet wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't supposed to be six boring men with too much money creating spaces that no one likes but everyone is forced to use because those men have driven every other form of online existence into the ground. The internet was supposed to have pockets, to have enchanting forests you could stumble into and dark ravines you knew better than to enter. The internet was supposed to be a place of opportunity, not just for profit but for surprise and connection and delight." There's a lot more to this post than this bit of wrapping up, but I will say much of what Kelsey McKinney writes resonates with me as well, and it is the big internet, not the small internet, that remains the internet of my dreams.
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