On Sep 16, 2019, at 2:45 PM, Jon Bell jb@lot23.com wrote:
Imagine a person struggling with something really heavy, like depression or addiction. Imagine that one morning their friends manage to get them to watch a sunrise. It’s amazing. Life changing.
But you can’t see sunrises all the time. And even if you could, the novelty would wear off. As the morning wears on, and the memory of the sunrise fades, this person goes back to their normal life. Where they’re struggling again.
Many (all?) of us are overwhelmed and disheartened by today’s internet. So here’s a question to the group, as a die hard tildee. How can we make something like this last longer than a sunrise?
Have people read Darius’s thing about this?
https://runyourown.social https://runyourown.social/
I sit in a few Slacks during the day that fit these principles roughly. I am on Mastodon, also, but I’m not on Mastodon.
This book is also great:
https://www.people-and.com/get-together-book https://www.people-and.com/get-together-book
I’m also on a half-dozen group texts, run a robotexter, have a few mailing lists. I don’t think that I’m alone on any of this. Tilde IRC could fit the bill for us…
Take care, -- nickd! https://nickd.org https://draft.nu