## Ownership of our digital lives - [[{2.1} we're losing the magic of our life's ephemera to the cloud]] - [[{2.1a} the essence of the everyday]] - [[everything is a subscription]] - [[{2.1b1} digital subscriptions are blurring the lines of ownership]] - [[artificial limitations create a user-hostile businesses]] - [[we’re living on the internet of shit]] - [[{2.1b1b} there are three subscription models]] - [[so many products have digital locks because it allows the company to invoke section 1201 of the dmca]] ## Combating homogeneity online - [[the internet has been suburbanized]] - [[digital gardens are collections of densely linked notes that evolve over time]] - [[the structure of digital gardens encourages curious exploration]] - [[rigid navigation makes content feel smaller]] - [[{2.2a1a1} too much navigational structure distorts your voice and makes your content feel smaller]] - [[digital gardens are experiential text design]] - [[hypertext builds context]] - social media has links, but not hypertext – hypertext is inherently contextualized? - [[{2.2a2b} digital gardens more closely resemble how we think than chronological feeds]] - [[linking, annotating, changing, summarizing, copying, and sharing are the verbs of gardening]] - [[{2.2a2a} digital gardens fill the gap between raw notes and finished content]] - [[{2.2a2b} digital gardens should be collaborative]] - [[{2.2a2b1} note-making is the future of information creation and consumption]] - [[{2.2a2c} browsing, editing, and annotating should be seamlessly merged]] - ~ **jump to [[#knowledge management and life infostructures]], [[{4.5a} the memex is the original digital garden|memex]]** - [[the indieweb movement is an alternative to corporate-web]] ## Why the internet feels so weird - [[{2.3} internet spaces have a triple-constraint of being free, open to the public, or quality]] - [[{2.3a} it's devastating to rely on megacorps for our tools]] - [[enshittification]] - [[enshittification of physical products]] ## Extended Internet Universe - [[the extended internet universe]] - [[the public web versus cozyweb]] - [[{2.4a1} we should not bring the machine of social media into walled gardens]] - [[the dark forest theory of the internet]] - [[bowling alley theory of the internet]] - [[the dark forest theory of the universe]] ## Digital media - [[social media transformed the internet from a place of text to a place of visual content]] - [[bad art is not unique to social media]] - [[not all media should be digital media]] ## Communicating online - [[poe’s law]] - [[the rule of goats]]