Het bevalt mij goed om geen onderdeel meer te zijn van één van de grote sociale netwerken. Terug naar de basis, naar je eigen website en je eigen bubbel. Mastodon en RSS helpen daar goed bij door het gebrek aan algoritmes en de noodzaak om zelf te investeren in je online netwerk. Ik volg op Mastodon enkele hashtags die tezamen mijn ‘community’ vormen rondom: #hardlopen, #fotografie en #widm. Andreas, schrijver op 82MHz.net, vat het mooi samen.

” But you don’t have to become a hermit and go offline permanently. Instead, you can use the internet in a way that is more compatible with the way our brains work. Find smaller communities around things you like and interests you have. Are you interested in board games? Retro computers? Knitting? Woodworking? Reading? You can start looking for blogs, online forums, small Mastodon instances etc. that center around the thing you’re interested in. Then follow these blogs, register specifically to those forums or smaller networks, and interact with the people there. It might take a while, but you can find like-minded people on the internet who share your interests and values, and you can build a community around that, engage with the people there and ignore the rest.

🔗 You don’t need to be connected to the whole world door Andreas