Welcome to my digital garden! Here you'll find my ramblings about my creative projects, gardening, movies, books, TV shows, and music. This website is a constant work in progress, changing like the seasons.
I started this site because I'm tired of popular social media sites using manipulative tactics to keep users on longer, encouraging mindless consumption, censorship, and advertisments. I'm tired of the omnipresent 'algorithim' pushing useless mind-melting content just so shareholders and CEOs can get a bigger payout. I want to see creativity, real human experiences, thoughtful discussions, and people just being well... people! Not snake-oil salesmen, not ragebaiters, and Defintally not AI slop presented as a replacement for human creativity (or humans themselves!). There's something so fun about following rabbit holes of people's passions and interests that you can do on the indie web that you can't on social media.
"The slogan 'refuse, reduce, reuse, repair and recycle' provides us with a hierarchy of strategies for dealing with waste. Refuse means to decide not to engage in the consuming action or task in the first place because it is not necessary. Reduce means to minimize the materials and energy required or the frequency of the consuming action. Reuse means either reuse for the same purpose or put to the next best use. Repair means to use skill and very limited additional resources to restore function. Recycle means to break down into more basic elements or materials before being reprocessed for the same or other uses."
- Permaculture: Principles & Pathways Beyond Sustainability by David Holgren, page 112
Weird Web: My Web Manifesto
I hate you Mark Zuckerberg, I hate you Elon Musk, I hate you Peter Thiel- the web is a place for people to share their creativity and to communicate and find community; we're not data to be sold and fiddled with, we're not inputs on an excel sheet to be manipulated,
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