Screen Estate Act

The idea

Building digital and hardware infrustructure to make the hosting and moderation of federated platforms (and other decentralised tools/communication networks) simple.

Impact areas

In a time where social medias are being banned for our children, federated platforms can arise as an alternative. They can be hosted by educational or hobby institutes to allow our children to engage with each other socially over the web in a controlled way, separated from the rest of the pressures, norms, and bad actors of centralised platforms; An internet just for them. This also means that schools and communities can be held directly accountable when the platforms are used inappropriately, as the agency and atonomy is given back to parents, educators, and community leaders.

  • Everyone can get their own fancy email handle omg!! ✨✨✨

Radio040

Boonscrolling

The idea: Every video is a boon; we request shortform content every time we open Instagram, TikTok or YouTube. It's time that we take them.

Instead of doomscrolling, download all the videos on your feed. Verify the information in them, take note of their upload date, et cetera. Enjoy what can be enjoyed.

Then, meet up and discuss the content. Share what you found when exploring the claims and depictions in the video/images. Who is uploading what, and what can we learn from examining what comprises our feeds at any given time?

Goal: To inspire and instill agency in persons. It's time we get into the habit of engaging with our surroundings, training our critical thinking skills, and flipping what would otherwise just fill us with aimless fear and dread on its head.

Impact areas:

  • Library
  • RKP meetups
  • University

Plan:

  1. Upload all videos to https://boonscrolling.org/feed (it can be a copyparty fileserver or something)
  2. Play them on the big screen (TV, projector, whatever)
  3. Discuss

Bonus: to keep track and categorise the videos we find on our feed, we can make a bulletin board and create a map of all the videos, 'pinning' NFC stickers that lead to https://boonscrolling.org/feed/your-video.mp4.