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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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The Studio Slowcore team is pleased to announce the official revival of the /slowcore-hq channel after a long hibernation. In keeping with the announcement in our other channel, /gift-economics, the studio (stewarded by myself, @trigs.eth, and @y0b) will be experimenting to build a hybrid gift economy + business endeavor to sustain both channels. More details in our studio's launch announcement linked below. A few initiatives we're considering for /slowcore-hq: - Recognize contributors with Slothy Awards - Continue weekly rituals of "not-doing" and Slowcore Quotes of the Day - Expand our Slowcore Manifesto (aka "What Is Slowcore?") - Host themed discussions based on writings by our fellow slowcasters, e.g. "In Praise of Going Slow" by @tombeck.eth - Build a slowcore lexicon and knowledge base for collective concept stewardship (e.g., a slowcore lexicon, slowcore-friendly patterns in place-making, etc.) - Maintain digital gardens catering to the snailblazers and the slowpilled - Facilitate slowcore-friendly URL-to-IRL meetups Other ideas are welcome! Note: All pending memberships from many moons ago have now been approved. Our apologies for the ridiculously long wait while the owner dealt with a death in the family and the future of channels was uncertain enough that we put the channel into hibernation for many months. We were delighted to see that many casters just kept right on casting here to keep the channel alive during the time the mods were unable to tend to it. Your efforts are appreciated. 💜 🐢 If you appreciate our work and wish to contribute financially, gifts of crypto are accepted at the studio's multisig: slowcore.eth. We will route them toward retro-rewards for the gift labor done to bootstrap our channels. Gifts can also help free up more time for us to steward the channels responsibly in the future. Please do not gift any funds that are needed for your own support. https://farcaster.xyz/danicaswanson/0xa76d9edf (https://zora.co/collect/zora:0x24453ebe8d78de52f6d253cf26fec18ab34b041f/2?referrer=tombeck.eth)
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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. https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/blob/master/campfire-mods.md
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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
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