but what I’ll make of this: IS.
TBC.

sync into timelessness

louder for anyone in the back:
Web2 - Wealth accumulation at the top, extractivism, appropriation, free content and unpaid digital labour for the profit of a select few, exploration of subjective capital, no fair redistribution. IF lucky, some limited monetization in Web2 socials yet always conditional.

Web3 - decentralization, redistribution, transparency and fairness, all labor and content compensated and redistributed with tokens that become fiat.

If the economic model and system of Web2 is happening on chain, I’m sorry, it is still Web2 vibes no matter how much “formal decentralization” is involved.

Oh and if your DAO is also in a top down structure AND people who have more tokens have more voting power, it’s giving reproduction of top down capitalism structure just the same. Exclusionary af and the opposite of what the technology is actually good for.

"[F****d] Digital Labour - Avoiding Algorithmic Death One" by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos examines how platform capitalism intensifies algorithmic behaviour, leading to emotional extractivism and cycles of unpaid labour driven by the fear of losing social connections and job opportunities. From a non-binary feminist perspective, Bastos critiques the social and emotional toll of 'techno-capital-feudalism,' where engagement algorithms foster oppression by inducing exhaustion and fear, resulting in reactive 'algorithmic behaviors' that perpetuate biased social conditioning. These behaviours contribute to violence and societal decay, manifesting in the rise of the far right, overconsumption, resource over-extraction, and climate collapse, all for the profit of a select few. The piece underscores the exacerbation of mental health crises and labour inequalities, advocating for conscious digital engagement, protective legislation, decentralized social media platforms, and fair compensation for unpaid and emotionally coerced "social media labour," particularly in the involuntary training of large language models.
As part of the Sound Obsessed exhibition at SONAR+D 2024, this installation utilizes data sonification to create immersive soundscapes from SDG statistics. The piece, crafted with AI tools and Noah Pred’s data sonification tools on Ableton 11, features samples from Cibelle’s text on algorithmic behaviour, transformed into an orchestral overture on Udio. Stems were extracted using Moises AI and Fadr, with the final arrangement mastered on LANDR, an AI mastering platform.

Here to manifest decentralized IG replacement energy 11 years after it was acquired by (then) Facebook and departed from shitpost central sliding into hyper-edited selfies, carefully curated performative lifestyle galore and digital labor extraction factory pumping infinite algorithmic anxiety for the profit of the few.

This #selfie was posted to @cibellecibelle (now @aevtarperform) IG on 07.05.2013 at 1:37am London time, nearly a year and one month after IG was sold. Now, 10 years later I mark time on chain and vibe for an equitable shift ✨