Every startup story has a beginning, and an end TL;DR the Bridge Seat Cooperative experiment is over, at least in its current form. I (Strypey) am done with SubStack, due to its escalating lock-in, promotion of actual Neo-nazis, and overall enshittification. If you want to keep receiving posts about
Why I finally decided to leave, and where I'm going next
The challenges of developing a privacy-enhancing everything app.
Combining chronic emergency conditions and a nasty illness, not a great plan.
This is what imposter syndrome looks like. Maybe. Is it? Maybe it isn't ...
The challenges of having reliably-private conversations in decentralised networks
The tightrope between tinfoil-hat paranoia and rose-tinted naivety
A quick update on future prospects for the Disintermedia blog
25 Years of Indymedia.org and the Independent Media Centres
Open letter initially published in French by Petites Singularités
Why I use "MOLE" to describe what most people are calling "AI"
When social skills work differently in online and offline social situations
e-day
Paying for the ecologically wise disposal of products at end-of-life, is the responsibility of the people who make and sell them.
public media
If it has one, the future of television lies in live broadcasting.
community networks
The Challenges of Building Digital Network Infrastructure as Commons
id
A modest proposal to liberate us all from second-class citizenship online
satire
Please note: this piece is satire, intended to be laughed at or ignored, not taken seriously. It was definitely written by an actual human and *not* an AI. Seriously.
Newsletter
One happy return for Disintermedia, peace and goodwill to all
social media
Or what Strypey has been doing with his days this year
humour
A tongue-in-cheek original short story
startups
We don't need DataFarmers to send email for us
mozilla
The Case Against Political Blocks in Software and Networks
html email
Why nobody ought to send HTML by email, ever
indymedia
A Comparison