Decentralizing My Fanfic
Jul. 14th, 2023 12:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
unspeakablehorrorOh, I should mention that I've now mirrored all my fic off AO3. You can find it on my Dreamwidth profile. For my longfic, I have both epub and pdf formats available, which I've linked from my protonmail file storage. I'd like to clean up the formatting some more and add more details (like genre and pairings), but I'm pretty excited about the possibility of structuring the metadata for my stories (summaries, etc) in a way that allows for more detail and nuance than the AO3 metadata structuring can.
While a lot of this was prompted by the unfortunate issues of severe volunteer abuse (among other things) I've been reading about regarding AO3, it's also in line with my philosophy of decentralization of the web. While there are certainly advantages of centralization, it nevertheless creates a single point of failure. This destroys one of the largest advantages of the internet and hampers its full potential. It's one of the 6 main points I mention in my New Old Web manifesto because I view this idea as so important. So even if AO3 were an organization of perfect angels I would consider decentralization of my fanfic an important thing to pursue.
To me the answer to the question of "what's the next big place where everyone will be" is that maybe there shouldn't be only one place that everyone is at. Maybe we should seek to make the web a place where we can still be connected to each other regardless of whether we're in the same 'place' or not.
Maybe that was the point of the web all along.
While a lot of this was prompted by the unfortunate issues of severe volunteer abuse (among other things) I've been reading about regarding AO3, it's also in line with my philosophy of decentralization of the web. While there are certainly advantages of centralization, it nevertheless creates a single point of failure. This destroys one of the largest advantages of the internet and hampers its full potential. It's one of the 6 main points I mention in my New Old Web manifesto because I view this idea as so important. So even if AO3 were an organization of perfect angels I would consider decentralization of my fanfic an important thing to pursue.
To me the answer to the question of "what's the next big place where everyone will be" is that maybe there shouldn't be only one place that everyone is at. Maybe we should seek to make the web a place where we can still be connected to each other regardless of whether we're in the same 'place' or not.
Maybe that was the point of the web all along.