Thoughts on tech and society
You might not see yourself as an artist, and #GenAI may not be "taking your job", but it threatens lowering all our standards for what the world we live in looks like. When we all come to face the results of that, we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.
Recreating a positive #socialmedia experience needs complex, #interdisciplinary work. It's not enough to just be technically better on the #Fediverse: we have to change social norms, too, if we're to have any hope of abating the enshittification. CW for mentions of misogyny and queerphobia.
Meta's #Threads wants to federate. Federated instances, rightly, shouldn't trust #Meta to be a good actor - but ethical challenges can sometimes conflict with the practicalities of connecting people through the #Fediverse. So, where and how do we draw that line?
The whole #Web is based on #HTML. So, why don't we value it being written well and semantically meaningful? MySpace proved anyone can write it - yet now we don't seem to care about writing it well. That's sad.
So, I finally caved and built a #blog. However! This is me, and I couldn't do it the easy way. Have a weird journey into #CloudflareWorkers, the #reMarkable and #svelte to kick us off...