15-04-2022 Just dropping in to drop some <3 in gopherspace and for CS. As some of you know I hopped over to geminispace as my main indienet space/capsule/garden some time ago. I've been a bit less active there in recent months/weeks as well, somewhat despairing about both the state of the world, the Net, the Web, etc. Not so much the 'indienet' or 'indieweb' which carry the right spirit, but seeing this spirit fail to stretch beyond a very niche or small corner of a broader world of 'media relations' is something that I find a bit upsetting. Particularly as when considered, those media relations stretch between us all; our headspace, wellbeing, bodyspace, our politics, our planet. This communication stuff is important not just for us to share news or updates about tech/software/projects (the type of content I frequently see on Geminispace (though perhaps I haven't learned to look/search as deep as I should there)). This communication stuff connects all the aforementioned things... and as all these things, and more, determine the direction and structure of our world, our society, our planet, our time, our lives... that makes it an important nut to crack. On musings on this, I don't have solutions or solutions-thinking lately, so much as just dwellings (often towards the melancholy as I fail to see how this infrastructure we have is 'working'). Here's hoping some of that spirit - of independence, creativity, non-commercial, non-capitalist, liberatory, revolutionary, loving, caring, compassionate, gentle - can stretch into popular comms infrastructure, tendencies or movements. <3 ~ moji