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Nah, it’s about Tarnoff’s brand of internet Marxism and how commercialization has driven a subsumption of “labor” (basically internet users) at all levels, shap
by junofan 4y ago
Nah, it’s about Tarnoff’s brand of internet Marxism and how commercialization has driven a subsumption of “labor” (basically internet users) at all levels, shaping the internet we use today. At the application layer, he’s talking about how user-generated content arose as an internet-native thing to be profited from—in the early days, storefronts weren’t as profitable as eBay. Website authors compete for placement in Google’s search results, feeding Google’s ad empire. At the infra layer, he’s talking about how backbones are designed around delivering commercial content ubiquitously rather than connecting communities.
Tarnoff thinks there’s an alternative where you connect to your local library’s social network through your local ISP coop to see what your neighbors are up to.
- coldtea 4y ago>Tarnoff thinks there’s an alternative where you connect to your local library’s social network through your local ISP coop to see what your neighbors are up to. Sign me up
- beckman466 4y agowelcome! http://scuttlebutt.nz http://scuttlebutt.nz (or http://manyver.se http://manyver.se mobile app version)
- Gentil 4y agoManverse as I remember has been slowing down in development for a while. Or has that changed?
- uncomputation 4y agoYou’re being sarcastic but actually libraries being the public alternative to ISPs is a great fit; they are the providers of free knowledge and information after all. I don’t see why using a local library would mean you could no longer communicate with the larger internet any more than using your ISP’s local gateway would. Local networks communicating with other networks is literally what the internet means.