incredible, thank you for this very inspiring talk! I hope to be able to participate well in this conversation. Capitalism has ruined the way we enjoy media, but we don't have to keep letting it win. Also this whole thing about steam not allowing itch links in projects feels absurd to me, I remember when webrings were the coolest thing, but big platforms seem to be adverse to the concept of outgoing links, when it used to be kind of at the core of "surfing the web".
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I've been slowly reading "Weaving the Web" by Tim Berners-Lee, the book about creating the world wide web. i can't recommend it enough! it fascinates me how so much of modern web (social media especially) is intrinsically misaligned with the core design (or core values) of the web.
links are intrinsic to what it's about (connecting information and creating a "web"), but modern platforms don't like that because it's bad for user retention... like it's so against everything this was supposed to be...
here's a quote that i liked, from the book (in case you want to read it, it's free on Archive):
“Hypertext would be most powerful if it could conceivably point to absolutely anything. Every node, document - whatever it was called-would be fundamentally equivalent in some way.
Each would have an address by which it could be referenced.
They would all exist together in the same space — the information space.”
https://archive.org/details/weavingweborigin00bern_0/page/n9/mode/1up