I’ve been thinking about this idea a lot. I’d rather have a private internet where our community can retreat and be fully creative, than try to cater to the mainstream chaos. I’m currently brainstorming how to do this—can you tell me more about the OS? (And are you accepting new members of your collective? 😍)
I host weekly Zoom calls with a bunch of creative folks and we've found so much strength in community over "ONLINE STRATEGIES." Folks building locally, offline, smaller groups, private space online.. it's absolutely magical, and it's only going to grow.
I host a free co-work call on Tuesdays! We open with about 10 minutes of discussion, work for 50 minutes, another 10 minutes of checking in, then 50 more minutes of working.
If you haven't read Martin Buber's "Paths in Utopia," I highly recommend it. I think he could give you the political/historical theoretical framework to tie the drive towards what is essentially anarcho-syndicalism (what you're describing) towards a natural human desire to focus on the particular, familiar, the zones of solidarity that imperialist universalism tries to do away with.
I'm not so sure this is all that sophisticated. Humans have evolved around the Dunbar number. Thanks to the capitalist incentives of the medium, every personal desire to scratch your derrière among friends digitally meant broadcasting it to the world and making it part of the global public ledger (that truly isn't, no really, isn't blockchain). That's lunacy.
I know I have been guilty of blocking more than a few online strangers for the egregious faux pas of posting what should have been just a local conversation that the algorithm elevated to global news. I don't blame them for the algorithm, but so much of what the algorithm promotes is really none of my f'ing business.
As we can no longer depend on a degree of localized privacy in public spaces, we have to carve out more private spaces.
I’ve been thinking about this idea a lot. I’d rather have a private internet where our community can retreat and be fully creative, than try to cater to the mainstream chaos. I’m currently brainstorming how to do this—can you tell me more about the OS? (And are you accepting new members of your collective? 😍)
"Everything public feels like an ad. Everything private feels real."
I host weekly Zoom calls with a bunch of creative folks and we've found so much strength in community over "ONLINE STRATEGIES." Folks building locally, offline, smaller groups, private space online.. it's absolutely magical, and it's only going to grow.
I would like to join this
I host a free co-work call on Tuesdays! We open with about 10 minutes of discussion, work for 50 minutes, another 10 minutes of checking in, then 50 more minutes of working.
More details here: https://luma.com/7xc0ewt0
Never seen anything like this before. It feels local even though it isn't. Are there other meetings besides web site focused? thanks for sharing :)
Nothing local "officially," but we've had people in our community meet in person, and I've set up at a punk rock flea market a few months ago: https://socialmediaescape.club/2025/proximity-and-presence/
If you haven't read Martin Buber's "Paths in Utopia," I highly recommend it. I think he could give you the political/historical theoretical framework to tie the drive towards what is essentially anarcho-syndicalism (what you're describing) towards a natural human desire to focus on the particular, familiar, the zones of solidarity that imperialist universalism tries to do away with.
I'm not so sure this is all that sophisticated. Humans have evolved around the Dunbar number. Thanks to the capitalist incentives of the medium, every personal desire to scratch your derrière among friends digitally meant broadcasting it to the world and making it part of the global public ledger (that truly isn't, no really, isn't blockchain). That's lunacy.
I know I have been guilty of blocking more than a few online strangers for the egregious faux pas of posting what should have been just a local conversation that the algorithm elevated to global news. I don't blame them for the algorithm, but so much of what the algorithm promotes is really none of my f'ing business.
As we can no longer depend on a degree of localized privacy in public spaces, we have to carve out more private spaces.