I've been writing and thinking for two years now about "rewilding your attention"
That's Tom Critchlow's phrase for decoupling our focus away from the viral stuff that big social-networks algorithms are promoting
Yesterday, I did a talk for Medium Day about it ...
... and this essay summarizes the talk: https://clivethompson.medium.com/a-quick-primer-on-rewilding-your-attention-892af77c7bca
A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/a-quick-primer-on-rewilding-your-attention-892af77c7bca?sk=53ea83f256224aa7044619b1df7c8190
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Aha, so glad you enjoyed it!
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It’s a highly subjective measure 😅
If you feel like you already have a nicely off the beaten track diet of culture and info, you’re probably good
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Terrific! It’s been a low key obsession of mine for a while now 😂
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It’s such a great painting!!
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Love it!
"break your algorithm" is an amazing phrase for that type of human curation
People of Mastodon!
This Sat., Aug. 12, at 3:30 pm ...
... I'm doing a short online talk about "Rewilding Your Attention"
It's part of Medium Day
COME ON BY! Free registration here: https://hopin.com/events/medium-day-2023/registration
Shoot me some questions during the talk, it's got Q&A
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Yeah!
The hardware is nice though. Good battery life and a responsive screen
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I showed one of those to my teenagers a while ago and asked them to guess what it was
They couldn’t even get in the ballpark
It was as if I’d handed them a component from a crashed ufo
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Yeah, the Amazon flavor of Android is awful
Their silk browser is … super meh
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100%
Scale presets have a similar effect in iOS Garage Band too
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Yeah, it's really sad but that's the way it's going
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Ugh, that really sucks
I know a lot of people who rely on X/Twitter for connections to their communities, for work, as a market, etc
I don't want the place to fall apart and turn into a septic tank
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There are still a ton of people posting interesting stuff, who I miss ...
But among the many other reasons I dove more heavily into mastodon and the fediverse, one was that I worried Twitter -- the whole damn thing -- would just flat-up 404 without warning, and all those connections to people would go poof
I don't spend much time here talking about X/Twitter -- I don't use it terribly often any more, but ...
... whenever I open a browser to check it, I'm startled by how long it takes to load the messages and posts
A *lot* of spinny loading-wheels, for many full seconds
I have no special insight into what's happening on the back end, but yowsa it doesn't look great from the outside user's perspective