simsa04 (simsa04@gnusocial.net)'s status on Saturday, 10-Dec-2022 08:55:45 JST
simsa04To me #UFoI (https://ufoi.org) sounds a bit like the old "Underground Press Syndicate" (later: "Alternative Press Syndicate") of the 1960s to 1980s. In the UPS, many alternative magazines joined to redistribute content from each other (without charge, only an annual membership fee and voucher copies to the media they reprinted from required). The effect was that even tiny magazines could reprint articles by "more famous" authors or sources, which overall lead to an explosion of alternative magazines primarily in the U.S. but also in Europe and the UK.
The advantage of #UFoI may primarily be that very small instances can better "see" (and are easier "seen" by) the #fediverse. That seems to me a far more interesting angle than the trite virtue blocking discussions.
The flipside is that #UFol obviously could become another silo (in addition to the already existing one of the Mastodon run network). But I don't think that the split of the #Fediverse into mutually excluding sub-diverses can be halted anyway. Virtue blocking of instances is already too advanced and widespread, and with that the attitudes regarding what instances are and what they should do.
Not really. But perhaps keep in mind that the "promise" of technology automating everything was at its height *before* "mass media consumption culture", i.e., the consumer attitude vis-à-vis all things involving a screen.
The "screen age" (a more adequate term than "Anthropocene") doesn't keep people just hooked and bombarded with content; not just convinces people in tech that in order for them to be able to spend even more time with the screen they only need to come up with more problems the solution of which demands more screen connected technology; but that due to their screen interaction the world beomes something recreated on the screen. "Nature" or "world", becoming man-made via screen-ification, turns reduced, stale, boring, and ugly. And how can you care for something that is such? You can't. So as the "world" / "nature" turns out that way, people (naturally) turn away from the (purported) ugliness the "world" has become... and retreat into their own paranoia. No place for relaxation there, quite the opposite.
In all, if "screen age" is a plausible suggestion to you to answer your question, I can share a few book titles. If you think that's the wrong approach, then I would need more info from you to see where your hunches are pointing to.