This article (and also this one from Luke Waltzer) reflects the "energy online about bringing the old web back, or bringing the humanity back to the web, or just trying to make some art, dammit." I don't want to be the one who says "I told you so", but I've never seen the wisdom of converting my entire online presence to social media, never joined the cool kids in teir witty quips and comebacks, and thus have been blogging and making art all along as my contribution to "the non-corporate, non-monetized, non-advertised, non-user-tracked, human-scale online experience." To be clear, though, this has meant that my readership has dropped steadily over that time, so it's a good thing that I don't depend on likes, follows or subscriptions to make a living. One of the major challenges for decentialized media will be how to replace the affordances (ie., fame and fortune) that centralized media promise to (at least a small privileged subset of) its users. Image: also D'Arcy Norman.
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