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Why a donation is so much appreciated
Connected Places is the best place to understand the world of the new generation of social networks. I write about what is happening in the world of Bluesky and the ATmosphere, Mastodon, the fediverse, and beyond.
I care about social networks and building alternatives is because I view social networks as collective sense-making tools.
Networks like Twitter not only allow information to spread rapidly, much more importantly, they are used to have us collectively make sense of all this information, process it, and let it shape our worldview.
This is fundamentally why it is so disastrous that tech billionaires control most social networks: they control the tools that we use to shape our collective understanding of the world.
I value information to be free; and paywalls aren’t great. Donations is what makes my work possible. And that’s why every donation, small or big, is so much appreciated!