Digital gardens are an antidote to the rush of todays society

Since blogs died, the internet has become a hellhole for all types of commercialised content creation. Everything is optimised for capitalism. Social media networks aren’t social, they are data mining operations which seek to pit people against each other.¹

Digital garden are an antidote to the rush of information that is thrown at us, created for the purpose of pleasing the algorithm. It’s a get-together for like-minded people. People who care more about sharing what they enjoy and (want to) understand with others than selling their soul.

• Keywords: digital-garden
• Source: A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden
• See:
  • managing-information-is-one-of-the-key-issues-of-todays-society
    • This is a way to overcome information overwhelm. As Bob Doto says, there needs to be an off-ramp for your on-ramp.
  • friction-leads-to-improvement
    • Writing for others is friction. Publishing your notes can help you make more sense of your ideas and different concepts by forcing you to be concise and concrete.
  • visions-are-shared-mental-images
    • They are a vision of a better future.
  • schooling-is-a-tool-of-capitalism
    • It’s a tool against capitalism! Subversion!

Footnotes §

1. Bob Doto regularly speaks about this and I wholeheartedly agree. See Social Media is a Psychosis on YouTube. ↩