i think oop wants to challange the underlying assumption that “digital” automatically means corporate social media and such.
There are large parts of the digital world that I would not describe as toxic that actually work for the people not against them.
Touching Grass is important but large parts of “real-life” are just as toxic.
You can find a break from those in the good parts of digital life as well as by touching grass.
Sure… but unless you’re talking like, I2P decentralized alternative internet… or torrents…
… (almost) everything runs pretty much entirely on servers that are owned by a handful of megacorps.
Almost every physical part of the internet fundamentally is literally controlled by corpos, and they also govern almost all the software that is run on that physical stuff.
Yeah, it didn’t used to be that way, so extensively and thoroughly, yeah, it doesn’t have to be in the future… but like, how, what’s the plan?
See how that compares to ‘detox from toxic corpo social media’ as… an actually actionable plan that produces results?
I dunno, I don’t generally care for self expression for self expression’s sake, in the form of saying things to a small audience that said small audience will just generally agree with, as compared to a potentially actionable plan to actually cause the change that is being prescribed by that statement.
There’s expressing feelings, and there’s “here’s something you could maybe do to remedy the situation causing those feelings, to achieve the effect I desire”.
i think oop wants to challange the underlying assumption that “digital” automatically means corporate social media and such.
There are large parts of the digital world that I would not describe as toxic that actually work for the people not against them.
Touching Grass is important but large parts of “real-life” are just as toxic. You can find a break from those in the good parts of digital life as well as by touching grass.
Sure… but unless you’re talking like, I2P decentralized alternative internet… or torrents…
… (almost) everything runs pretty much entirely on servers that are owned by a handful of megacorps.
Almost every physical part of the internet fundamentally is literally controlled by corpos, and they also govern almost all the software that is run on that physical stuff.
Yeah, it didn’t used to be that way, so extensively and thoroughly, yeah, it doesn’t have to be in the future… but like, how, what’s the plan?
See how that compares to ‘detox from toxic corpo social media’ as… an actually actionable plan that produces results?
I dunno, I don’t generally care for self expression for self expression’s sake, in the form of saying things to a small audience that said small audience will just generally agree with, as compared to a potentially actionable plan to actually cause the change that is being prescribed by that statement.
There’s expressing feelings, and there’s “here’s something you could maybe do to remedy the situation causing those feelings, to achieve the effect I desire”.