The Substack Dilemma: How Creators Are Inadvertently Fueling America's Failure
elle's recent reading
The Age of the Double Sell-Out
Now the culture is most exemplified by people whose entire end goal appears to be empty profiteering.
Rediscovering the Small Web
Privacy is Also Protecting the Data of Others
The open web as gift economy (Part 4)
The Cheap Web
Large parasocial platforms transformed the internet into a hostile
and impersonal place. They feed our FOMO to keep us clicking. They
exaggerate our differences for "engagement". They create engines for
stardom to keep us creeping. They bait us into nutritionless and
sensationalist content. Humanity cannot subsist on hype alone.
A case for unconditional giving | Henry From Online
[uZine 3] The Indie Web Manifesto
We invite the users to realize the essential role they play on the Internet: when they start their own website, when they send comments, criticisms or warm letters to the webmasters, when they exchange tips and hints in the newsgroups or by e-mail, they provide an independent and free source of information that others would like to sell and control.
Log Off: Why Posting And Politics (Almost) Never Mix - Aftermath
Back to the (Internet) Future - Cal Newport
In the thirty years that passed, we have allowed exactly this type of soul-deadening tyranny to take hold of cyberspace — an unavoidable consequence of consolidating this once distributed and quirky medium into a small number of massive platforms.
Queer Servers and Feral Webs — Austin Wade Smith
༘₊ ⊹ ☘︎ Interview » tvwishes ☁︎ ⊹₊
I read a comment on one of your posts that said, “this helps me realize that if I just put my phone away for a while, a lot of stuff feels exactly the same way it did 20 years ago.” There’s a longing for a time when going online felt like an option or a destination, now it's this ambient thing that everyone is a part of.
What we really need is outside of the algorithm
You can never truly go back
"'Women' is a banned word": Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women
The indie web should be a universe of discovery
Resources for keeping the web free, open, and poetic | Stefan Bohacek
humans.txt
Making Space for a Handmade Web | Figma Blog
net.art in 2025
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
How to use a personal website to enhance your ability to think and create?
cocoonery: the story of my first internet home — kening zhu
Be A Property Owner And Not A Renter On The Internet
Never Forgive Them
Billionaires Should Not Exist
Ten Years In A Crumbling Industry
a web cocoon is a place for becoming — kening zhu
The PC is Dead: It’s Time to Make Computing Personal Again
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers
HTML Is Actually a Programming Language. Fight Me