Slowcore HQ
A Farcaster-native slow culture movement. Home of Studio Slowcore, purveyors of fine wordsmith arts and connoisseurs of slow culture. Our motto: "Move slow and preserve things."
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In response to Chris's question, here are some thoughts on creating slowcore-friendly spaces for long-form online discussions.
Call me a boomer, but for my purposes I still haven't found anything that measures up to the design of old-school phpBB forums.
For ongoing, slow-paced, text-centric, long-form convos, and community-building centered around shared interests, I think they're excellent.
I don't have the tech chops to handle setup + maintenance alone, but I've been a co-founder of a well-loved and active phpBB forum before, with me handling the community migration/moderation duties and my colleague handling the back end.
Unfortunately that forum came to an unceremonious end for reasons beyond my control. But if some cypherpunks I trust were to say:
"We'll build you any kind of space you'd like for Studio Slowcore to migrate your group chat to a new home. We'll handle hosting and tech support, and we'll work closely with you for business continuity planning and minimizing the risks of single points of failure."
Assuming we had sufficient revenues to sustain it, then I'd say "Great. Let's go with a phpBB forum."
See the first link for an example I found on the phpBB showcase page.
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/
That being said, @adam- recently shared a GitHub page with some screenshots from Campfire (see the second link), and the design looks promising enough that @trigs.eth and I seriously considered it for our studio.
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For anyone who may be wondering what's up with the Slowcore HQ weekly rituals in this channel:
We (the mods) are going to set aside the weekly ritual questions for awhile, and experiment with other directions of "slow interest" each Friday.
You may see more quotes, art, memes, rhapsodies about afternoon siestas, slowcore lexicon ideas, or whatever strikes our fancy.
We'll make it clear how these things relate to the broader slow-culture movements: slow architecture, slow art, slow food, sustained attention, etc.
What would you like to see in /slowcore-hq that you haven't seen in the channel so far? 1 reply
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Slowcore Quote of the Day
"To celebrate slowness is not to invite retreat to some Arcadian setting of languorous times past. Slowness is no unqualified good, nor is speed necessarily bad: I want a responsive Internet connection as much as you do. Nor do I propose that beholders simply hunker down and "focus." That, ironically, proves to be a recipe for fidgeting. Had you assigned me to look at Manet's Young Lady, even for an hour, I wouldn't have lasted. Rather than coercion, slow art must be about finding pleasure. Nor will any slowness do. On the contrary, slowness must be earned, must repay the time it asks of us. Can the work solicit our attention without resorting to bells and whistles that undermine the effect?"
~ Arden Reed
From "Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell" (2017), p. 14 1 reply
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