Pluralistic: Someday, we'll all take comfort in the internet's "dark corners" (23 Mar 2024)


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Pluralistic: Social Quitting (09 Jan 2023)


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Twitter Arguments

A theory of change

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The kind of activism I do has a serious structural barrier: it’s esoteric. Even today, tech-policy issues are extremely niche. Indeed, tech-policy is a niche within a niche —most people have little technical knowledge and most people have little policy expertise, and the stuff I do requires that you have some of both.

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There was a time when I would read the whole internet, every day.

Oh, not all of it. But when Usenet — the internet’s first widescale social media — was bridged into Fidonet (a network of dial-up BBSes), my local free bulletin board system began to import several hundred Usenet newsgroups, updating several times per day. I would dial up to this BBS and read my way through all of the new posts on these groups.

Early on, this was easy. Then, as traffic picked up, and as more newsgroups entered the feed, it got harder. Then it got impossible.

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Pluralistic: 30 Nov 2020


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Pluralistic: 10 Nov 2020


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Pluralistic: 05 Jun 2020


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Pluralistic: 30 May 2020


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