Post AhSDfAiZH5JCEHS0Ku by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
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 (DIR) Post #AhS8oC3x8zNJEgw5NA by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
       2024-05-01T16:15:20Z
       
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       I had a chance to give "Small Pieces Loosely Joined - A Unified Theory of the Web" by @dweinberger a read this morning, a mere 22 years after it was first published.It holds up very well, in my opinion, despite the myriad ways in which the web has changed in the interim. Throughout the day I'll be calling out ideas and themes David presents in the book in a thread below this toot, tagged #SPLJ2024 in case you'd prefer to mute my ramblings on the topic.
       
 (DIR) Post #AhS8oQkIYLZ8m4r6Js by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
       2024-05-01T16:24:39Z
       
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       The first thing I want to bring the the fediverse is a quote from the book, from the end of the chapter titled "Togetherness":The Web is a new social, public space. But because the Web has no geography, no surface, no container of space that pre-exists its habitation, we can't make the old mistake about what constitutes our sociality. The Web is a shared place that we choose to build, extend and inhabit. We form groups there because our interests aren't unique. How could they be if we're truly social? But the ground rules are different from the real world precisely because there's no ground to the Web. In the real world, masses get more faceless the further away they are. On the Web, each person is present only insofar as she has presented herself in a unique expression of her interests: many small faces, each distinct in their multitude. And since being on the Web is a voluntary activity, we are forced to face the excruciating fact that we seem to spend so much real world energy denying: Not only do we live in a shared world, but we like it that way.You could build a new destiny for your species on an idea as radical as that.I'll let you sit with that for a moment before I ramble on.#SPLJ2024
       
 (DIR) Post #AhSDfAiZH5JCEHS0Ku by djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology
       2024-05-01T16:49:17Z
       
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       It can be easy to ignore how dramatically different this part of the web is from anything that's come before it, because we're pretty good at pattern matching even if there's no pattern around and we love to liken what is unfamiliar with what is familiar.Some of us olds remember bits and pieces of a pre-Web world. Some of y'all younger folk were born into a Webbed world, a world where of course you could end up being close friends - lovers! family! - with pseudo-anonymous others in unknown physicalities anywhere on the planet. We can share any bit of information with anyone else in the world almost instantaneously. We can do so not only with the written word but with real-time bi-directional audio and video, without even being tethered to a computer with a fixed location in physical space. We roam physical space and move completely independently in our voidplaces.But this is a very new state of affairs in human history, and it drastically changes everything about how we interact with each other, as individuals, as groups, and en masse. #SPLJ2024