Saaste@saaste@mementomori.social
I was listening to The Overanalyzers podcast. One of the hosts said something that stuck with me. First he said something really depressing and then something really inspiring. It felt like both described my feelings over the past few weeks.
So here is what he said (I cleaned it up a little):
"The web ate the world and then the web died. It’s in its death throes right now. You’re talking about a bunch of communities that moved online. It’s not a group of people that you’re meeting up with once a month and like hanging out with. It’s online. It’s a blog with a bunch of people commenting. Politics and the Internet have morphed together. Culture and the Internet has morphed together. The web ate all of it. Everything is on the web. And the web is this disgusting cesspool that is just like in its death rattle. It’s awful, but it’s just the web. I don’t really know where we’re going to land on all of this stuff, but that’s all that’s happening. Everybody hates each other and hates everything, and everything has become thoroughly enshittified because the web died."
"I really want to dedicate a lot of my own energy and attention to trying to be part of the resistance to that. I want to contribute to the solar punk future, to working against enshittification and all of this garbage. You can crank out AI crap all day. Maybe if you get really good at playing the algorithms and spamming it enough, you can squeeze out money from people. But that’s gross, that’s just part of the rot. Doing something that is intentional, that is closer to what a record store is doing versus what Spotify is doing. That is just something I really, really care about and I want to be part of that. And that is something meaningful to me. Trying to do the things that feel meaningful, that put humans at the center of it and are empowering and deep and valuable and cut against the brain rot. That’s what I want to do."
#TheOveranalyzers