As promised, here's another one from the archives, originally posted in November 2015 on the original version of this blog (on CoActivate), and then republished on The Daily Blog. This one explores the differences between the 'crowdsourcing' of genuine digital commons (Wikipedia, couchsurfing platforms, etc), and
Because I'm a long-former, and what some people consider blog length is my idea of a quick memo. It's been almost a third of a year since I got Ghost installed here, and posted my 95 theses on leaving SS (SubStack). During most of that time
Every startup story has a beginning, and an end TL;DR the Bridge Seat Cooperative experiment is over, at least in its current form. I (Strypey) am done with SubStack, due to its escalating lock-in, promotion of actual Neo-nazis, and overall enshittification. If you want to keep receiving posts about
Why I finally decided to leave, and where I'm going next
The challenges of developing a privacy-enhancing everything app.
Combining chronic emergency conditions and a nasty illness, not a great plan.
This is what imposter syndrome looks like. Maybe. Is it? Maybe it isn't ...
The challenges of having reliably-private conversations in decentralised networks
The tightrope between tinfoil-hat paranoia and rose-tinted naivety
A quick update on future prospects for the Disintermedia blog
25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres
Open letter initially published in French by Petites Singularités