Erin Kissane

Erin Kissane

7 posts
against the dark forest
by Erin Kissane — 18 min read

against the dark forest

The complex of ideas I’m going to call the Dark Internet Forest emerges from mostly insidery tech thinking, but from multiple directions.

safer places, now

safer places, now

Erin Kissane — 7 min read

A lot of people are looking for ways to get off networks run by dipshit billionaires right now, and also for refuges online that don't come with their own terrible problems. I want to help them find some.

revealing the fediverse's gifts

revealing the fediverse's gifts

Erin Kissane — 11 min read

If they’re motivated, tooled up, and plugged into communities of support fediverse server teams can provide context-sensitive, high-touch local moderation for their members—while also connecting to a broad landscape of other well-governed servers. But can new fediverse members find them?

into the wreck

into the wreck

Erin Kissane — 4 min read

What even are these systems in which we live and work and—stripping away the ideologies of what corporations or technologies cannot possibly be expected to do—how should they function?

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