The Overwhelm signifies the modern condition of infinite digital tabs, feeds, and selves leading to paralysis in engagement. This necessitates The Apparatus of Attention, a mechanism devised by Platform Capital for managing and monetizing this overflow. Previous platforms like FriendFeed offered more control over content，但 contemporary platforms have restricted cross-platform interactions, fragmenting communities for profit. The concept of Activity aims to rejuvenate community engagement, acting as a system of nutrient dispersal, enabling self-seeding of ideas and flourishing of new works. CAN is likened to a garden, emphasizing the need for daily care and community nurturing.
The archive swells, uncurated, unfiltered, ever-expanding, creating a terrain where The Overwhelm takes hold, leading to modern paralysis of infinite tabs, feeds, and selves.
Platforms like FriendFeed allowed users to pull information from different sources, maintaining control over content, but current social platforms fence off cross-platform interaction to benefit platform capital.
The concept of Activity nurtures communities by focusing on engagement, acting as connective tissue that records and disperses energy to help projects self-seed and ideas flourish.
CAN is described as a garden, a labor of love that requires daily tending, aiming to cultivate unique communities through tools that support rather than replicate existing platforms.
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