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#!/usr/bin/env bash
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emacs --load .project.el.gpg --eval '(progn (delete-directory org-publish-timestamp-directory t) (org-publish "blog" t) (evil-quit))'
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emacs --load project.el --eval '(progn (delete-directory org-publish-timestamp-directory t) (org-publish "blog" t) (evil-quit))'
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#+AUTHOR: Yann Esposito
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#+EMAIL: yann@esposito.host
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#+DESCRIPTION: Articles
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- [2019-09-23] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/how-i-internet.org][How I Internet]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#minimalism@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#self-hosting@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#zen@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@How I protect myself against attention grabbers and many social media anti-patterns.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-18] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/project-el/index.org][Autoload Script by project]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@A script I use to load safely an eLISP file when entering a new project directory.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/troll-2/index.org][Troll 2]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#movie@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@I watched what may be the worse movie of all time and I still enjoyed greatly the show.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/yaesposi/y/her.esy.fun/src/posts/new-blog.org][New Blog]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#css@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@Meta article about how I generate this blog.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-09-23] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/how-i-internet.org][How I Internet]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#minimalism@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#self-hosting@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#zen@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@How I protect myself against attention grabbers and many social media anti-patterns.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-18] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/project-el/index.org][Autoload Script by project]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@A script I use to load safely an eLISP file when entering a new project directory.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/troll-2/index.org][Troll 2]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#movie@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@I watched what may be the worse movie of all time and I still enjoyed greatly the show.@@html:</div>@@
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- [2019-08-17] *[[file:/Users/esposito/dev/her.esy.fun/src/posts/new-blog.org][New Blog]]* @@html:<div class="keywords">@@@@html:<span class="keyword">@@#blog@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#css@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#org-mode@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#programming@@html:</span>@@ @@html:<span class="keyword">@@#web@@html:</span>@@@@html:</div>@@@@html:<div class="description">@@Meta article about how I generate this blog.@@html:</div>@@
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@ -24,20 +24,21 @@ how you consume Internet for the best.
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The way I and most people use Internet as changed drastically in a few years.
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It started with social networks and smartphones.
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More recently, applications started to introduce "features" targetting our
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More recently, applications started to introduce "features" targeting our
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"lower brain" or "social brain".
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It is not unusual to stay a lot longer on our smartphone than what we
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expected.
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Since the introduction of those methods, more and more people experience
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difficulties to balance their life, to focus a long time on some subject,
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and even might feel a lot more social anxieties.
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One solution whould be to get rid of those applications, platform.
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But they provide a real benefit.
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Another solution is to better control our relation with them by minimizing
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our exposition to the worst features, while taking advantage of the really
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useful ones.
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One solution is of course to totally get rid of those platforms.
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But it would mean throw away all the benefit they provide.
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I describe how I try to do that myself.
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It start with how I produce info, then what are the consequences on how I
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consume the Internet now.
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So my personal solution is to still keep the best of those platform while
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minimizing my exposure to most /anti-features/.
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All start by how I produce content.
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And it naturally affect also how I consume information on Internet.
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[fn:posse] https://indieweb.org/POSSE
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[fn:dm] http://www.calnewport.com/books/digital-minimalism/
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:CUSTOM_ID: producing
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:END:
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This is how I produce most information.
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Mostly have a self hosted service on which I keep my data, then syndicate
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what I want on different platforms.
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I self host many services.
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I control my data, and then I broadcast those info to different platforms.
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** Articles: Self hosted blog
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: self-hosting
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:END:
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I wrote an [[file:new-blog.org][article]] sharing the details about my currentl blog platform.
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I also describe how I intend to provide a respectful blog.
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Technically, this is not the simplest path, still it is really efficient.
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In the end there are a lot of solutions for generating static websites.
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First thing, is I /blog/.
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Writing a blog article is an intermediate format.
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A lot simpler than a real article for some journal, but also should contain
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more details than just a "micro-blog status" where you can mostly express
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an impression, a photo, an opinion...
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The harder part is about self-hosting it.
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I wrote an [[file:new-blog.org][article]] that explain the technical details behind my blog.
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It also describes how I try to make it a /respectful/ blog.
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The harder part if you want to do it yourself will be about self-hosting it.
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You need to buy a domain name, and configure you DNS correctly.
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This is not something tremendously hard, but don't expect to do that as
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easily as registering to a private service.
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But hey, I really believe this is worth the price.
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** Code: Git Broadcast
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: git-broadcast
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:END:
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Self hosting is not reserverd for my writing but also for the code I write
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on my free time projects.
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I also self-host the code for my open-source projects.
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But, Github is the developer social network.
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It is easier to find contributor on Github than on your self-hosted repository.
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All my public repositories push to both on my self-hosted Gitlab instance
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and GitHub.
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That way I host my own content, while still using to my advantages the
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social feature of Github.
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So, I sync my code between my self-hosted instance and GitHub.
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So if tomorrow something is wrong with Github, I could easily switch to my
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self hosted repositories only.
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Here is how you can configure your git repositories to push to multiple
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urls:
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URLs:
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#+begin_src
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git remote set-url origin --push --add <remote-url>
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: espial
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:END:
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[[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server.
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It is a very easy to install single binary.
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I also like a tool to synchronize articles on the Internet I like and
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appreciate.
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For that, I use [[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] which is an open-source, web-based bookmarking server.
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It is a very easy to install, this is a single binary.
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Your bookmark are kept in a single sqlite file.
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This is perfect if you want to keep a lot of bookmarks some private some
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publics.
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public.
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** Notes: Espial
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: notes--espial
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:END:
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Another feature provided by [[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] is the ability to save notes.
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Notes, are simply text you save, you can make them public or private. I
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tend to use it as my "micro-blogging". For the time when I just want to
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write a short remark and not a full blog post article.
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You can generate public or private notes.
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I intend to use those notes for my "micro-blogging" needs.
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Useful, for just making some short remark without investing in a full blog
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post.
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** RSS for articles, bookmarks, notes
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: rss
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:END:
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It is important for me to provide an RSS feed.
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People should know when I update my blog.
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It is important for me to provide RSS feeds.
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People should know when I update my content.
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I am not fully satifisfied with the state of my curren RSS feed.
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It does not contain my full articles content, nor an eay mean to filter by
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keyword or category yet.
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So my blog, bookmarks and note generate RSS feeds[fn:espialpr].
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Still this is good enough for my current usage.
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[[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] is written in Haskell, and I made a few pull requests to add RSS
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[fn:espialpr] [[https://github.com/jonschoning/espial][espial]] is written in Haskell, and I made a few pull requests to add RSS
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feeds of my public bookmarks as well as an RSS feed for my public notes.
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** Syndicate Elsewhere: node-red
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: node-red
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:END:
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[[https://nodered.org][node-red]] is a tool that make it easy to write /flows/.
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I use it to syndicate my self-hosted content to social media platforms.
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Each time I save a new public bookmark, a new blog post, a new note, I
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tweet it.
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* Introduction
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: intro
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:END:
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With those RSS, it is then quite natural to syndicate elsewhere.
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For that I use [[https://nodered.org][node-red]].
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Our usage of the Internet changed a lot in recent years.
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The book Digital Minimalism[fn:dm] explains quite clearly how Internet
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and many social platforms are really useful but at the same can harm us.
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The harm mostly come from social anti-pattern that are mostly hacking our
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brain.
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More precisely our lower part of the brain, the one close to the instinct
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which is quite difficult to tame.
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This is why this is the preferred target of those "brain hacks".
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Anti-features are:
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- *notifications* ; they are here to grab your attention when you are away
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doing something else.
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- *likes / upvotes / retweets / pokes...* ; they are here to provide a "brain social
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sugar". They are not really useful but make us feel good by reinforing
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our feeling of social approval hacking our "social brain".
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More than that, we generally fall for most psychologic trick with those
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and make our production oriented to short content, mêmes, etc...
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- *comments* ; Unlike likes or retweets, comment are a lot more useful,
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they can start a discussion. They still have two problems:
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1. Public comment are subject to spam, troll, attacks, etc...
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2. Generally comments are associated to real-time notifications, and thus
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break a slower, calmer, more respectful communication channel. We are
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not all meant to react instantaneously.
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My solution to take back the control, is to generate the content using my
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own tools and broadcast those content to all other social media.
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If people react to this on some social media, I'll get a mail that will be
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put in a "social" folder.
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I forbid myself to constantly check this social folder.
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I do not have any social media application on my phone.
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Everything goes through my email, filtered in some folder.
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I only check those notifications in my email once or two times a day.
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Sometime I only check the social mail folder once in a week.
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As a result, I receive almost no notification.
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I am almost never interrupted for those social interactions.
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The main drawback of course is that I can give the impression that I am
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rude by not answering immediately.
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Unfortunately I am just protecting myself.
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If I feel this is a too big problem, I'll create an auto-responder bot that
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will nicely explain that I am sorry for the inconvenience but I can make a
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long time to answer.
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So being on the Internet, and in particular on the Web is mostly about
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consuming information and producing information.
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This is a web-based tool that make it easy to write /flows/.
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Think about it like a super IFTTT.
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To give you an example, each time I save a new public bookmark, a new blog
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post, a new note, I tweet it.
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* Consuming
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: consuming
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:END:
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Internet consumption evolved a lot.
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Just think about the few first pages you visited a few years ago and today.
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As I said, now that I can generate my content using my own, self-made
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environment, it also influenced a lot the way I consume and interact with
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other people on the Internet.
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People tend to consume on their smartphones and generally inside a social
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media platform dedicated application.
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You are generally presented with an inifinite scroll media content.
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Most of the time either video or photos.
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Sometime with a link to some website, often behind a paywall.
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I consumed a lot of /news/ directly from my smartphone.
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Most of the time using an app dedicated to some social network.
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And a lot about things easy to digest.
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A cute cat, an image with a joke, a funny video, and once in a while like
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very rare, a real important information about someone you care about or a
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big news.
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Most of the time, the news will be part of a polemic.
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Because polemic is a very efficient attention grabber.
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The natural presentation is an infinite scroll of content, with buttons to
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engage in the social network with likes/upvotes/comments etc...
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Most of the time, with enabled notifications to answer ASAP to anyone that
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might [[https://www.xkcd.com/386/]["be wrong on the Internet"]].
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While I am totally fine with a bit of entertainment and polemic, the level
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at which we are currently exposed right now can be quite harmful.
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First thing to think about, why are we so eager to /news/?
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Why not feel the same about old but great content?
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Before all those news system, we were /active/ during our information
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consumption.
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We started from a search engine and /searched/ something.
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Now, we still use search engines, but it is really about searching and not
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trying to /discover/ something new.
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This is also something to keep in mind.
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Here is how I consume Internet content now.
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** News
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: news
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:END:
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Before explaining how I consume Internet news, I like to make a short
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digression:
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#+begin_quote
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By writing this article I realized that, I mostly consume Internet content
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via *news*.
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More than that, that now, Internet is almost synonymous to news on the web.
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Which is only a very small part of the Internet.
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Consuming news via a social network platform makes you a lot more passive.
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I can remember being a lot more active to consume the Internet content
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years ago.
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This is something to keep in mind I think.
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#+end_quote
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So my entry point to news consumption are:
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- highly selected RSS sources (for example HN posts with > 500 upvotes)
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- [[https://lobste.rs][lobste.rs]]
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- [[https://pinboard.in/popular/][popular pinboard.in bookmarks]]
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- very few sub-reddits with small volume
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- very few sub-reddit with small volume
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- [[https://laarc.io][laarc.io]]
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- [[https://fermatslibrary.com][Fermat's Library newsletter]]
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Typically number of upvote filters for lobste.rs, laarc.io, sub-reddits,
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but also number of bookmarks in popular pinboard, etc...
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I use [[https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed][elfeed]] inside Spacemacs.
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I really enjoy staying inside emacs as much as I can.
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This is a clean, dense, text-oriented environment.
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*** Emacs elfeed
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: emacs-elfeed
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:END:
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As I said, one of my most useful tool to get news is RSS.
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In particular I consume it inside Spacemacs using [[https://github.com/skeeto/elfeed][elfeed]].
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I also use elfeed-org to organize my feeds ans I also take care to remove
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I also use [[https://github.com/remyhonig/elfeed-org][elfeed-org]] to organize my feeds and I also take care to remove
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feeds with too much volume.
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Generally we shouldn't read more than a few articles a day.
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** Mail
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:PROPERTIES:
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:END:
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I also use my mail to get most of my notifications.
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And I generally put the social notifications inside a folder and not
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directly in my inbox.
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That way I do not get any direct notification.
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Most of my notifications go through my email.
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Social network notifications are moved inside folder and are not directly
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present in my inbox.
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I check my social notifications once in a while.
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So if you are waiting for an answer, sorry for the late reply, it might
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take a while.
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** Github
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: github
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:END:
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I still get notifications on Github because I use it a lot for my work.
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But only email and web notifications, not desktop notifications.
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But only via email and the web interface.
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So even for Github, I can take a few days to react.
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* Conclusion
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a single, easy to create platform.
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The bit sad state, is that I know there are a few system that try to make
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it easy for more people to self-host, or provide self-hosting for a smal
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it easy for more people to self-host, or provide self-hosting for a small
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community or family.
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But this is still reserved to technical people in my opinion.
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I think we could be inspired by espia to create a simple small platform to
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I think we could be inspired by espial[fn:espial] to create a simple small platform to
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provide those feature to most people.
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- ability to blog/microg blog and syndicate
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- ability to publish securly private infos to a small group of friends and family
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- ability to blog/micro-blog and syndicate
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- ability to publish securely private info to a small group of friends and family
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- generate RSS for different group of peoples
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I would personally prefer that to a Federation platform (like Mastodon).
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Unfortunately the federated network mostly replicate the anti-features of twitter, facebook,
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Unfortunately the federated network mostly replicate the anti-features of twitter, Facebook,
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and other social media platforms. While I believe we should change our
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consumption habit.
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RSS is already a great tool for that.
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** Anti-features
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:PROPERTIES:
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:CUSTOM_ID: anti-features
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:END:
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A last note about anti-features used by social media platforms.
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Those are anti-features, as they provide almost no benefit for the user.
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All those anti-feature share the same pattern.
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They use /spaced random reward/:
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#+begin_notes
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*Spaced Random Reward*
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Typically the few first random gifts in a new
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downloaded game.
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The main way used to /hack/ your brain, is by giving it something he likes
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at a random time.
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Then you start to give reward with lower and lower probability.
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Your brain will then be in a /search mode/ where he will /hope/ to get
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another reward by staying a bit longer in the system.
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#+end_notes
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- *notifications* ; they are here to grab your attention when you are away
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doing something else.
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- *likes / upvotes / retweets / pokes...* ; those are also /Internet
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reward/ but are even stronger because they also target your "social brain".
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They reinforce a feeling of social approval.
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More than that, we generally fall for most psychological tricks with those
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and make our production oriented to short content, memes, etc...
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- *infinite scrolling* ; make you brain want to look a bit more, because it
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creates a fear to lose a great new info.
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- *comments* ; Unlike likes or retweets, comment are a lot more useful,
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they can start a discussion. They still have two problems:
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1. Public comment are subject to spam, troll, attacks, etc...
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2. Generally comments are associated to real-time notifications, and thus
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break a slower, calmer, more respectful communication channel. We are
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not all meant to react instantaneously.
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