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Thinking, writing, and talking about how social media orgs self- and co-regulate. PI.FYI, you’re my online happy place ♥️
Feb 7, 2024
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📰anyone on pi.fyi will likely feel seen and heard when reading this. it basically accentuates all the redundancies and senseless aspects of social media and how it’s disrupted every industry and how we are all dominated by the algorithm and have to be our own hype person. i always feel like an idiot after i finish a record or a book that i'm really excited to share with the world, but then have to think about “content“ to promote the art itself. obviously pi.fyi feels likes a refreshing beacon of hope because artists can share their work here in a far more simple and wholesome manner. the article also addresses non-creative jobs like accountants and other professions that are all being forced to become an “influencer” of some sort or build a brand. it’s spooky, yet we’re all feeling the fatigue so hopefully we can see a less algorithmic future soon…
Feb 8, 2024
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This zine by Juliana Sekai on YouTube.
I consider this app one of my digital safe spaces 🙂↕️ I’ve been trying to reclaim my space online and don’t rely on likes or algorithms to enjoy my time online.
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piece that explores our collective relationship with algorithmically driven platforms and theorizing why non-algorithmically driven platforms haven't caught on yet (PI.FYI mentioned ‼️). some of the references and moments in the writing style makes this article feel hollow and generic, but the overall conceit is engaging. also this article (and the general public alike) keep saying tumblr is dead but tumblr is very alive for me personally.
"Just kidding. There is no pure place: we crave the end because it seems cleaner on the other side. We all live,and have always lived, in the muck—even and especially after death. Download the niche app, participate in the empty-ish forum. Labor to make the experience you want. Labor to animate a human internet."
"Just kidding. There is no pure place: we crave the end because it seems cleaner on the other side. We all live,and have always lived, in the muck—even and especially after death. Download the niche app, participate in the empty-ish forum. Labor to make the experience you want. Labor to animate a human internet."
Mar 6, 2024
Top Recs from @sharon
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🪄As a phrase, overdone. As an observation, tends to discourage action. Be gone.
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Fricelli! Capricci! Ditalini! Delight in the dozens (hundreds?) of ways humans have rolled out and reshaped dough. Is there a poster of pastas you can color in every time you try a new shape? Should be.
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The Alan MacMasters Hoax: a group of students edited the Wikipedia page about electric toasters to include the false claim that Alan MacMasters invented it in 1893.
Wait, it gets better.
Later, one of the friends created a separate profile for Alan with a doctored image of himself, made to look like it was from the 19th century.
Now the good stuff.
Newspapers, government offices, and museums perpetuated the story that Alan MacMasters invented the toaster. Eventually MacMasters was nominated to appear on the £50 note.
Wait, it gets better.
Later, one of the friends created a separate profile for Alan with a doctored image of himself, made to look like it was from the 19th century.
Now the good stuff.
Newspapers, government offices, and museums perpetuated the story that Alan MacMasters invented the toaster. Eventually MacMasters was nominated to appear on the £50 note.