Forms of Digital Mutual Aid
Developing a lot of thoughts on the patterns of conglomerate social media and the ways that social media as a community tool can be stripped from the most vulnerable, especially in ways that harm the most marginalized in our communities materially, I think it's important to consider what we can do to provide mutual aid and retain people's connections to others while relying less on platforms like Tumblr, Twitter, etc. I especially think it's cruel to expect everyone on the web to have the resources, knowledge, time, energy and ability to be their own web developer, but this is exactly where mutual aid as a tool comes in. Between the large swath of public access resources and information bases, working together to establish safe and reliable web networks for the people you love, where their joy is paramount and the engagement they have is on their terms, that is what people who have been ran off this site through bigotry and "policy" deserve. This is just a smaller post, but I want to keep developing resources and helping people retain digital presences and community beyond the cruelty of sites like this. Read the full article
