digital public space

• related things
  • a better social media
  • media has a dearth of trust and honesty and empathy society problems ^lVRM2XJri
  • The Opposite of Addiction - Your Undivided Attention
  • waypoints
  • software as architecture for technology and the web ^F2_ZBvgmh
  • website as poem
  • what does a walk through the internet look like?
  • The Browser Company
  • The Revolt of the Public
  • Digital democracy is within reach
  • New_Public
• Social infrastructure ideas right decisions ideas digital public space ^FfO8ND-J4
  • Palaces for the People digital social infrastructure
  • How can we add social infrastructure to the internet? Brings people together
  • inspired from hypothes.is and make space
  • What if you visit the internet like visiting a park or a library?
    • Website designers can design the vibe of the place (what kind of plugins or extensions does this entail?)
    • Have to have the implications of real life to not encourage abuse like force connection to social account
      • Does this encourage any bad practices?
  • Where does this live? (Browser level, extension level, etc.)
  • What unintended side effects will this have compared to physics spaces
    • Were physical spaces that great? How many people do you actually meet and are you better off Bc of it?
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• how to move towards civic society and unity, union and community is key to bringing people back together and moving forward as a nation but are we forever divided now? questions ^lBKPE8E0n
  • questions how do we build civic unity in SF in order to get the functional urbanism needed to revive the city in a sustainable and unified way? ^XkH-_sVcX
  • What would it take for this to become global? Is there a way to do it from the platforms / people themselves or does it necessarily need to come from government? questions ^oJngF4Ukv
  • how to move towards civic society and unity, union and community is key to bringing people back together and moving forward as a nation but are we forever divided now? questions ^lBKPE8E0n
  • for alt reads, how do we establish a trusted point of reference for hard questions? questions ^IlUnnkbq0
  • questions how do we reform our institutions so that people trust in them again? How many have to be completely remade or significantly reworked? ^1_fS-nJgK
  • thoughts politics society fundamentally people want a better life for themselves. the role of the government is to provide the tools for people to achieve that better life in a sustainable and functional manner problems questions ideas ^dLVlduFXQ
• how do we get the internet to help people understand each other? problems ^upJYKgTHZ
  • What makes you feel closer to someone? questions ^SN-COlqnc
  • how do we give it the same richness and variety that you do in the real world?
  • questions can you enable different “rooms” as part of you? Currently that is done by hyperlinking to different centralized platforms but what if you could embrace a decentralized style and have everything as part of you? Problem is inbound is always intentional but maybe thats fine? ^YNToL2xNl
  • questions what should that room reflect? how is it different from inviting someone into your house since this isn’t by explicit invitation anymore, ^HcQy6SHWa
  • we are breaking up into more niche, personalized groups which is good and more intimate but that means we are experiencing less of what is different -> we are losing our common humanity? How can we get the best of both worlds questions ^5Har-gpW_
  • questions what are the diff types of websites that exist? ^IqDPuz4WB
  • questions what is the role of the internet? ^qXq6emK6b
  • resources:
    • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
    • The Opposite of Addiction - Your Undivided Attention
    • The Revolt of the Public
    • Shigeru Miyamoto Wants to Create a Kinder World
    • digital home
    • The Browser Company