📑 Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people

Bookmarked Fix the internet by writing good stuff and being nice to people · Woman. Legend.Blog (blog.vickiboykis.com)

Which brings me to the saddest thing about these platforms: they are taking all of our input and time, and our thoughts, energy, and content, and using all of that for free to make money. Think about how many times you’ve tweeted. Or written or commented on a Facebook post. Or started a Medium draft. These are all our words, locked in proprietary platforms that controls not only how our message is displayed, but how we write it, and even more worrying, how we think about it.

Vicki Boykis provides some suggestions on how to turn our current internet from a loud, obnoxious, toxic mall, back into a public forum:

  1. Write your own blog on your own platform
  2. Share good content
  3. Acknowledge creators by paying them
  4. Use adblockers
  5. Engage in dialogue with people who are different from you

I find this an interesting set of reflections. I write my own blog and try to engage in dialogue, but I have issues with platforms like Patreon. I prefer to purchase products.

I think that this post is a useful provocation for the #ProSocialWeb. It is also interesting to consider her point about Adblockers in light of Google’s move to restrict them.

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