Welcome traveller! This is my home on the internet, please think of this as a sort of museum with a single, odd, live-in curator. That curator is me! My name is Aura and I am the web mistress of this space!

I think of myself as an technological denizen; A person who loves to frequent, explore and live in harmony with the various ways that technology can actually improve our lives without overtaking it! I really like to place emphasis on that last bit. It's not hard for us to simultaneously frequently use technology for socialization and fun but also how much fun it can be to go outside, touch trees and see other people in-person! I don't think social media is inherently bad, nor do I think recommendation algorithms are inherently bad either but what I do think is bad are systems or "services" that behave like invasive species, weather they're intended to be or not. Software and services should always be in service to us, rather then us be in service to the software. They should help you engage with people and art in ways that help you connect, appreciate and discover new things to love rather then keeping you on a platform for as long as possible!

In service to that, I reject the majority of dominant corporate platforms such as Twitter/X, Spotify, Netflix and so forth. These are not platforms that are intended to help you engage with people and art. These are platforms that are intended to keep you paying subscription fees, and encourage you to get lost in their walled gardens and unable to find the exit. And for those who can find the exit, these platforms do their damnedest to get you to forget how use the door to leave in the first place.

I believe that if "services" need to do this at all, then they are not in service to us as the users. If a platform is to die because the user-base moves on without an aggressive algorithm keeping you on the platform, then that platform has another problem it needs to sort out, and if it cannot sort that problem out then that service does not need to continue.