Carl Newport wrote in his book Digital Minimalism (2019):
"Our current relationship with the technologies of our hyper-connected world is unsustainable and is leading us closer to the quiet desperation that Thoreau observed so many years ago. But as Thoreau reminds us, “the sun rose clear” and we still have the ability to change this state of affairs.
To do so, however, we cannot passively allow the wild tangle of tools, entertainments, and distractions provided by the internet age to dictate how we spend our time or how we feel. We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that accepts new technologies, but not if the price is the dehumanization Andrew Sullivan warned us about; a philosophy that prioritizes long-term meaning over short-term satisfaction.
A philosophy, in other words, like digital minimalism."
I read this book when it came out and once or twice since. Highly recommend it.
The minimalist bit of the title does mislead some people into thinking it preaches "get rid of everything digital". But in practice, it is much more nuanced and helpful than that.
The quote you extracted sums it up perfectly, it's much more about not passively embracing everything about everything digital. But more about only taking what's worthwhile from those platforms.
As far as I'm concerned they're basically domain squatters. I'm a fan of things that are text-driven, but they want you to answer questions about your ethics or something to join. That has nothing to do with raw text or the original ethos of the Internet. They are just some social club trying to be edgy.
They even point you to actual text driven communities like SDF and tilde.club, which are both great. That's the best thing on their site.
"Our current relationship with the technologies of our hyper-connected world is unsustainable and is leading us closer to the quiet desperation that Thoreau observed so many years ago. But as Thoreau reminds us, “the sun rose clear” and we still have the ability to change this state of affairs.
To do so, however, we cannot passively allow the wild tangle of tools, entertainments, and distractions provided by the internet age to dictate how we spend our time or how we feel. We must instead take steps to extract the good from these technologies while sidestepping what’s bad. We require a philosophy that puts our aspirations and values once again in charge of our daily experience, all the while dethroning primal whims and the business models of Silicon Valley from their current dominance of this role; a philosophy that accepts new technologies, but not if the price is the dehumanization Andrew Sullivan warned us about; a philosophy that prioritizes long-term meaning over short-term satisfaction.
A philosophy, in other words, like digital minimalism."
https://books.google.nl/books?id=S4NbDwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1