Video online: Back to the future of the internet
Added 2024-06-29 18:13:52 +0000 UTCIt took some time, but here's the video of our event in February in Barcelona this year. The (short) intro is in Spanish, but all talks are in English.
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I really loved the talks and topics. It speaks to many aspects I am also trying to move/wrestle towards, as digital creator / web developer. Glad to see passion burning 🔥 and driving a different direction. Love to hear if there is any space/community you can point me towards where these kinda matters are discussed/experimented with. I have been tinkering about a project called Autarky for a long time. Basically a self-hosted little server (own hardware) that would cater for a set of tools/apps. It would enable anyone to have their own little digital space online, when it comes to running a blog or a little shop, etc... Kinda like being independent in one's own digital identity and tooling. The values underlaying the project would be far different than the big players out there. In a way that the digital tech would more organically find a better space and frequency in our lives. Thus reducing addictiveness, promoting locality, using calm tech principles, respecting userspace / investment and much more. I love working towards a solution that indeed would be easy to use for an end user and that would cater for a different kind of internet experience.
Matthias Crommelinck
2024-06-30 19:31:02 +0000 UTCHi Robin, thanks for the rant :-) I hate paywalls as much as you do, and as you probably know, Low-tech Magazine has no paywall. On No Tech Magazine, I never link to an article that is behind a paywall. And, as Miguel already mentioned, this video is not paywalled either. I shared it for paid as well as free members. And it will be shared on other channels later.
Low-tech Magazine
2024-06-30 12:07:44 +0000 UTCIf you press "Youtube" you'll be directed to the AKASHA Hub Barcelona channel, where this video is hosted. You can share that link.
Miguel Dimase
2024-06-30 00:51:49 +0000 UTCIn order to watch this, I had to log into patreon. Is there any way to share it with people who aren't on patreon, or maybe are but aren't supporting low tech magazine? I appreciate the time, energy, and cost it took to put on the event, edit the video, and post it to patreon, and don't want to undercut your revenue stream, but at the same time, it's weird to tell a friend, "oh, you have to start supporting this content maker you've never heard of on patreon, which you don't belong to, before I can explain enshitification and what people are trying to counter it." These days, everything that's behind a paywall requires a subscription. Everybody I know is up to their eyeballs in subscriptions, and the last thing they want is another subscription. Almost every website I visit, the first thing it does is cover the entire screen demanding that I sign up for their newsletter, when I've never even seen their website. It automatically makes me decide no, I will never ever sign up for your newsletter no matter how much I get out of your website, and if you pester me again, I won't cite your material in my paper either. If it were easy, there are websites where I'd happily pay some small amount for one-time, or extended, or permanent access to specific material, as long as I don't have to subscribe, receive junk email, or have 3rd party cookies follow me everywhere. But first, let me read the abstract, view the list of reviewers and citations, the publication date and the author's bio, so I can assess the legitimacy of the content. Even so, once I've paid, or if the article or research paper is on some site where I already have a paid subscription, it means that if I cite it in my own paper, my readers will go through the same horrible experience trying to get access to it as I maybe originally did. (Not that most people bother to follow citations, a separate problem in the infosphere.) To me, this subscription baggage is as bad as the social media giants' behavior. Before the internet, I'd have gone to the library to do research. My citations would reference a physical book. If my readers wanted to check my references, they could go to the library and get the book, and return it when they are done. If they're more impressed by the book than by my paper, they could buy their own copy. There's no equivalent on the internet. There, that's my rant. Just one more facet of enshitification.
Robin
2024-06-30 00:20:04 +0000 UTC
