It is just so nice to be able to comment, fav and post without feeling like my every interaction is being stalked and analyzed for potential profit by some billionaire’s algorithm.

#Fediverse #CozyWeb

“You start a barbershop with a dream of cutting hair and earning a living and delivering a valuable service. And it’s a business that doesn’t work really well when you consolidate it into a national chain. It works a lot better when you just have your friendly neighbourhood barber shop - Supercuts not withstanding.”

#CozyWeb #FediVerse #Mastodon #BigEnough

Having a pretty weird time here.

Big tech's social media came to be such an exploitive, awful space that I just stopped participating.

Learning to be a bit vulnerable on the web, again. Express ideas, share opinions.

Day-by-day a bit less worried about random drive-by trolls and the tilt of the algorithm.

Feeling less on-guard. More myself.

Weird, but nice.

#cozyweb #fediverse #mastodon

https://maggieappleton.com/cozy-web love this. #cozyweb

The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI

Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content

#GenArt #GenerativeArt #AIart #AI #DarkForest #CozyWeb #DarkWeb #HumanContent #News

https://maggieappleton.com/ai-dark-forest

Is the #fediverse and #mastodon - with all its current difficulties and (literal) copy and paste "rough" edges a manifestation of the #CozyWeb? But not so underground.

https://studio.ribbonfarm.com/p/the-extended-internet-universe

@Downes @dajb I’m running a #Hometown instance that has one more option: local timeline only posting.

Posts don’t federate, so you need an account on that server to see those posts.

It’s for an existing community and I think can be a pretty great feature. More #cozyweb style.

My alt there will post a bit about it: @boris