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Dark Forests, Dense Networks

The push to create private spaces, on discord or group chats, to truly express oneself or let mini-ecosystems flourish, they all are needed to make us stop sitting with our face deep inside the information superhighway. Twitter’s rapid exchange of information for instance allowed for the organisation of protests and amplified diverse voices, highlighting its unique capacity for mobilising social action. While the internet and constant ubiquitous connectivity we were meant to find our own niches and cliques, 1000 true fans from Kevin Kelly, we instead got entirely subsumed into whatever the current thing is, whatever caught the fancy of the machine.

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