elijah on Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:36:17 +0200 (CEST) |
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Re: <nettime> Has Facebook superseded Nettime? |
Patrice Riemens wrote: >> See also riseup.net's crabgrass: >> https://we.riseup.net/crabgrass/about > > Yep, but how do you address the 'alt-ghetto' effect? Such sites are and > will remain very much marginal/fringe compared to FB. As the principle author of crabgrass, my response is this: (0) our politics are marginal and fringe, so I have no problem with creating software that is marginal and fringe. (1) the community of activists that I organize with have no desire to have their social network mapped by facebook. so, for me, crabgrass is much more useful than facebook, because that is where my community is. (2) software inscribes possible modes of interaction. i don't think there will ever be one social networking platform to rule them all, because different social situations call for different systems. crabgrass is designed for activists who want to focus on collaboration and organizing, not people who want to connect with friends. (3) massive amounts of capital and labor are being poured into the project of dethroning facebook. the strategy is to develop open protocols that turn the web itself into a social networking platform, so that no one site has control. there is much to hope for in this impulse, but also much to be weary of. from a social movement perspective, it is dangerous for us to embrace systems which lay bare the social graph of how we are organized. -elijah # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org