Tuesday, September 8, 2026 · New Jersey
Platform Culture
RMN dispatches tagged Platform Culture.
The Internet Lost Its Lobby
The web still has crowds, communities and conversation. What it increasingly lacks are semi-public places where a stranger can wander in, linger without performing, become familiar over time and leave behind something the next stranger can find.
The Algorithm Taught Us to Say “Unalive”
Content moderation was built to classify speech at machine scale. Users answered by inventing speech machines could not immediately classify. Now the workaround vocabulary has escaped the platforms that created it, and English is absorbing the argument.
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Investment of a Lifetime
We keep using the language of capital to describe our attention to teams, celebrities, creators, fictional worlds and other people’s lives. Maybe the portfolio most in need of attention is our own.
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The Web Is Slowing Down on Purpose
A loose rebellion against algorithmic velocity is sending some creators and readers back toward blogs, newsletters, personal websites, RSS and feeds they can actually control. It is not replacing the fast web. It is building an exit ramp from it.
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The Internet Is Teaching Us to Leave the Internet
The strange rise of analog hobbies in an always-online world.
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