From a10fe0e178c40bf81326ba83141689f3153e0481 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guillaume ERETEO Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 12:54:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] typos --- src/posts/how-i-internet.org | 42 ++++++++++++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/posts/how-i-internet.org b/src/posts/how-i-internet.org index 5157906..1c5aad1 100644 --- a/src/posts/how-i-internet.org +++ b/src/posts/how-i-internet.org @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ TL;DR: Self-hosting is not only about controlling your data, it also influences how you consume Internet for the best. - I /POSSE[fn:posse]/; Publish Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere: - + I own my data I self host my blog, notes, my repositories, my bookmarks, etc... + + I own my data, I self host my blog, notes, my repositories, my bookmarks, etc... + I use espial[fn:espial] for self-hosted bookmarks and notes + I use note-red[fn:node-red] to publish my blogs, bookmarks and notes to twitter, sync bookmarks with pinboard[fn:pinboard] @@ -34,22 +34,22 @@ The book Digital Minimalism[fn:dm] is really insightful on the subject. In particular the apparition of grabbing features that target our "social brain". -One solution to protect ourselve from the problem generated by those -plateform would be to get rid of those them. -But those platform are useful. +One solution to protect ourselves from the problem generated by these +platforms would be to get rid of them. +But those platforms are useful. -My current[fn:1] personal solution is to still keep the useful feature of those platform while +My current[fn:1] personal solution is to keep the useful features of these platforms while minimizing my exposition to most /anti-features/. -Everything start by how I produce content. -It then affect how I consume Internet. +Everything starts by how I produce content. +It then affects how I consume Internet. [fn:posse] https://indieweb.org/POSSE [fn:dm] http://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/ [fn:espial] https://github.com/jonschoning/espial [fn:node-red] https://nodered.org [fn:pinboard] https://pinboard.in -[fn:1] While I wrote this article I already improved a lot my workflow, but -it plan to continue to make my Internet usage evolve for a long time. +[fn:1] Writing this article helped me to improve a lot my workflow, and +I will continue to make my Internet usage evolve for a long time. * Producing :PROPERTIES: @@ -160,9 +160,9 @@ post, a new note, I tweet it. :END: Since I generate my content using my own, self-made environment, it also -influenced a for the best the way I consume and interact on Internet. +influenced me for the best the way I consume and interact on Internet. -Before I read a lot of /news/ directly from my smartphone. +Before I used to read a lot of /news/ directly from my smartphone. Most of the time using many apps dedicated to some social networks. The natural presentation is an infinite scroll of content, with buttons to @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ digression: #+begin_quote By writing this article I realized that, I mostly consume Internet content via *news*. -More than that, that now, Internet is almost synonymous to news on the web. +More than that, now, Internet is almost synonymous to news on the Web. Which is only a very small part of the Internet. Consuming news via a social networks makes you a lot more passive. @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ I can remember being a lot more active on the Internet just a few years ago. This is something to keep in mind I think. -I'll certainly write an article about that in the future. +I will certainly write an article about that in the future. #+end_quote Here is how I consume Internet content now. @@ -262,15 +262,15 @@ provide those feature to most people. - ability to blog/micro-blog and syndicate - ability to publish securely private info to a small group of friends and family -- generate RSS for different group of peoples +- generate RSS feeds for different groups of people ** Federation :PROPERTIES: :CUSTOM_ID: federation :END: -I think I can say a few word about federated networks like Mastodon, but -somehow, mastodon replicate the anti-features promoted by twitter or +I think I can say a few words about federated networks like Mastodon, but +somehow, Mastodon replicates the anti-features promoted by Twitter or Facebook. Also there are some details I don't really like about the federation @@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ Also, for example, I wrote a commenting system that I could easily self-host. I intended to use it for my blog. But after a second though, I'm not sure comments are that positive. -I prefer to edit my article with comment people send me via other +I prefer to edit my article with comments that people would send me via other communication channel, typically, my mail. ** Anti-features @@ -289,10 +289,10 @@ communication channel, typically, my mail. :END: A last note about anti-features. -I call /anti-feature/ a feature that provide very few or no benefit for the -user but provide a lot more benefits to the platform. +I call /anti-feature/ a feature that provides very few or no benefit for the +user but provides a lot more benefits to the platform. Generally it is a feature just here to make you stay on the platform and -many quite talented specialist work on optimizing those. +many quite talented specialists work on optimizing those. Most anti-features share the same pattern; they use /spaced random reward/: @@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ another reward by staying a bit longer in the system. and make our production oriented to short content, memes, etc... - *infinite scrolling* ; make you brain want to look a bit more, because it creates a fear to miss something. -- *comments* ; Unlike likes or retweets, comment are a lot more useful, +- *comments* ; Unlike likes or retweets, comments are a lot more useful, they can start a discussion. They still have two problems: 1. Public comment are subject to spam, troll, attacks, etc... 2. Generally comments are associated to real-time notifications, and thus