The Good Internet: How Fandom Can Reclaim the Web
summary
Traces fan culture’s actual infrastructure: volunteers built Archive of Our Own (open‑source, now claiming 75,000 fandoms, 9.5 million users and 16,000+ works), Open Doors imports endangered archives, and DIY sites get Tiny Awards; platforms like Tumblr and LiveJournal ban content and implode. Demonstrations include using an LLM to make a site in an hour for a nephew, debugging AI errors, and the pinboard community writing a 52‑page spec after Delicious changed — concrete tools, counts, and outcomes, not platitudes.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Early internet and fandom
- 4:45Pre-web internet traits
- 7:30Corporate clashes with fandom
- 12:05Usenet to Web 2.0 shift
- 15:56Archive of Our Own projects
- 18:44Platform decline and corporate control
- 22:41Building for the web art
- 26:11Control online consumption
- 31:09Healthy online neighborhoods
- 32:55Rewilding the web
- 37:50Future of online discovery
- 40:22Call to reclaim the web
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