Notifications on our digital devices seduce us and steal our attention away from our individual journeys. Federated wiki has no notifications. We invite the reader to remain in charge of their own attention and to actively follow their own curiosity.
Federated wiki is more like a library than a pub. It's quiet with people pursuing their own research, occasionally comparing notes. See Library Pub Cafe Mall Office.
Maintain a roster of authors you enjoy. Load the roster into a neighborhood and review recent changes when you're curious about what's new. See Recent Changes and About Roster Plugin.
Maintain different rosters for different contexts. See Ambiguity and Context.
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_Metropolis lamented the factory and the time clock. Modern social media replaced that clock with mechanically trained algorithms that have learned how best to seduce us with notifications of what we're missing._
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