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Apr 4, 2025 45 min

Big Rooms, Small Rooms

from Designer & Designer Hosted by Ethan Zuckerman, Brian Fling, Joe Alterio

Mentioned Oranssi Pazusu MIke Sugarman Blackgaze Context Collaspe Designing for the Pluriverse Enshittification ProSocial Media Kala, the Suburban Miner Topics Discussed How did we get to this place of totally siloed communal activity? Big Rooms and Small Rooms Where the Weird Still Is Making the web civic-minded again Ethan Link's Ethan's Personal Website The Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure Freq.Social Gobo.social Connect with Joe & Brian Website: designer.fm Email: [email protected] Don't forget to leave us a review on Apple Podcasts! Outro music: Delirium Tremens by Protector ✌️When in doubt, PLUR.✌️ Got something to say to us, good, bad or ugly? You can always email us at [email protected]

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Social platform algorithms that reward outrage. UX patterns that reward commerce. AI content that rewards... other AI? Where are the healthy places to communicate on the internet anymore? We talk to internet activist, archivist, optimist and yes, the inventor of the pop-up ad, Ethan Zuckerman, who points a way forward.

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