Hi. I’m a writer, researcher, and community all-arounder working toward better networks for human sociability and collective survival.
You might be here to read about:
- Our haunted internet
- My current Fediverse/Mastodon research
- The way architect Christopher Alexander's thinking clarifies the structural brokenness of social media
- What Facebook/Meta did and didn’t do in Myanmar and how it relates to the genocide of the Rohingya people
- Who I am and what I do
Some recent posts:
Meta in Myanmar, Part II: The CrisisWhat happened on Facebook and on the ground in Myanmar and how those two worlds of experience were connected—even for people who never touched the internet. 30 September 2023
Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The SetupI’ve never trusted Facebook, mostly because I’ve been around tech for a long time and everything I’ve ever learned about the company looked like a red flag. But once I started to really dig in, what I learned was so much gnarlier and grosser and more devastating than what I’d assumed. 28 September 2023
Meta MetaHousekeeping notes for the Meta in Myanmar series. 28 September 2023
Mastodon Is Easy and Fun Except When It Isn’tA very informal inquiry into why some people on the Bluesky network didn't have a great time when they tried using Mastodon in the period leading up to the summer of 2023. 28 July 2023
Notes From a Mastodon MigrationHere's what I've learned by migrating from one Mastodon server to another, including what I wish I'd known in advance and what I hope the makers of federated systems will change. 26 July 2023