Built from the belief that the music industry no longer serves artists or listeners, Mirlo is pushing for a radical, federated, and decentralized reimagining of how music is shared online.
The internet wasn’t ruined by accident—it was ruined on purpose. In this episode, Cory Doctorow joins us to break down enshittification, his term for the slow, deliberate process that transformed…
Take Amazon: to fix Amazon, we need policy solutions. We need to ban predatory pricing – selling goods below cost to keep competitors out of the market (and then jacking…
Making my own website and blog, as well as participating in the indie web helped me to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with the web, by carving my own space…
In 1776, a Quaker living in Philadelphia recovered from a severe illness with a peculiar conviction: they had died and been reborn as the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal…
The reason social media platforms have taken over people's content is because there is a perception that setting up a website is inherently difficult. While there is certainly some work…
The internet I came to love was quieter. Smaller – which is not to say small. It was still vast, but it was a vast collection of small sites instead…
We speak to adult industry researchers and Stripe alumni about Steam and Itch.io's NSFW content cull
Age Verification Systems Lead to Less Privacy Mandatory age verification tools are surveillance systems that threaten everyone’s rights to speech and privacy. To keep children out of a website or…
Wikipedia's parent organization lost a challenge to the UK Online Safety Act but can bring another case if the government tries to force it to verify the identity of Wikipedia…