The internet has changed...
The internet used to be:
a place for creative expression
vastly customizable
a space for people, by people
The internet has become:
a marketplace (and we are the product)
a one-sided social experience
a capitalist hellscape
We, the people of the internet, have the power to transform the internet.
The goal is not to go backwards, but to forge a new path forward.
I wrote an article detailing the topic in-depth.
How you can participate
- Learn & teach others how to surf the web.
- Stop or reduce activity on modern social media (especially Twitter, Facebook and Instagram).
- Convince your friends to do the same!
- Speak out on social media about the harms of using those platforms & promote alternatives.
- Speak out about why the structure of social media & SEO is ruining the internet.
- Create your own space on the web.
- Convince your friends to do the same!
- Socialize with & collaborate with other webmasters & artists.
- Write your own manifesto.
Most of all, never stop creating & making connections on the internet. We will never give up!