Offline is for everyone

I keep finding far right people in digital minimalism spaces. 😰

I get that digital minimalism is a solution appealing to many folks and that all walks of life want out from this gilded cage, but I want to give some headsups here.

As we unplug we need to retain a way to organize

While the revolution against the oligarchy probably won’t happen on Meta or X, it has to happen somewhere.

Sometimes the push against things like kids having phones are from repressive forces. I do believe the phones of today are overall bad for everyone, and even more so for the kids, but a silver lining is how it can lets you organize and help each other when parents or teachers are unfair or abusive. Same of course against the bosses in the workplace. They think online makes you gay but they hated gay before online existed.

Not everyone in the digital minimalism world is gonna be your friend

Your enemy’s enemy might be your even bigger enemy sometimes. Stay woke & wary, and don’t sit down with just anyone.

I don’t want the right wing to own this question

I don’t want to concede this topic to the fascists. They can steal the okay hand sign or Pepe the frog or whatever but I don’t want “wanting to take a break from the most toxic and deliberately addictive network externalities humanity has ever invented” to become a fascist meme.