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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/xml/rss.xsl" media="all"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Caught in the Net (Posts about internet)</title><link>francescomecca.eu</link><description></description><atom:link href="francescomecca.eu/categories/internet.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><language>en</language><copyright>Contents © 2023 <a href="mailto:francescomecca.eu">Francesco Mecca</a> </copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2023 10:13:31 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>Nikola (getnikola.com)</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>Three years later</title><link>francescomecca.eu/blog/2023/08/12/three-years-later/</link><dc:creator>Francesco Mecca</dc:creator><description><p>More than three years have passed since my last blogpost. I used
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to believe that a more hectic life would provide me with a
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surplus of things to write about. While that holds true, the flip side
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is that I now find myself with less and less time for writing.</p>
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<p>Let's be honest, it's not just that. I have been growing a little bit
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unsatisfied with the current evolution of the corporate web.</p>
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<p>I have already touched this topic when I stopped using reddit for good
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(<a href="https://francescomecca.eu/blog/2018/3/27/addio-reddit/">here, in
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italian</a>) but
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I really stopped to reflect when
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<del>AOL-Time-Warner-Pepsico-Viacom-Halliburton-Skynet-Toyota-Trader-Joe's</del>Microsoft
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bought Github. At the time I removed the dust from my personal git
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server and moved most of my stuff there. For more than a year now my
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GitHub heatmap has remained empty, despite it being one of the
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platforms where I used to engage the most frequently.</p>
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<p>It's not that I'm exposed to more sunlight these days: I still utilize
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the internet, albeit in a more pseudonymous manner now.</p>
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<p>As I mastered the art of evading the corporate web everyday I
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gallivanted my way across three relocations: from Paris to London and
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finally to Amsterdam. My faithful companion through it all? None other
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than my (t)rusty server. I bid adieu to all of the social networks in favor
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of selfhosted and federated solutions. Email is now king in my social
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online life but I still indulge lurking on the orange site.</p>
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<p>A bunch of good friends joined me on this adventure, and we formed a
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close-knit community around the services we host ourselves. We
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interact daily through our servers. We also worked on a few art
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projects, if you'll permit the exageration, embodying the essence of the bygone web era.
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The pièce de résistance among these creations can
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be accessed by playfully prodding at my IP address.</p>
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<p>To be continued.</p></description><category>blogging</category><category>internet</category><guid>francescomecca.eu/blog/2023/08/12/three-years-later/</guid><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
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