Further reading

Reflections on Web platforms

• Splitting the web, by Ploum

  An essay about how the quality of websites are degrading into uselessness.

• Tiktok's enshittification, by Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic)

  An essay about what drives capitalistic platforms to strangle their own platforms.

• The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation, by Cory Doctorow (Pluralistic)

  A book that explains how a combination of regulatory change, greed, and intercontinental power games has gotten us into the situation we are in today, as well as how to solve it.

  • Also available as a 1-hour DEFCON talk

Reflections on Social Media

• How to fix the internet, by Katie Notopoulos

  An essay that reflects over what the internet truly is, how it turned out into what it, and paints federation as a possible fix.

• Mastodon is the good one, by Jason Koebler of 404 Media

  An opinion piece on his observations on picking a social media platform for his new journalisic career.