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#personal knowledge management

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reflections

Building a world instead of an audience

I guess this is what I'm trying to do with Substrate - a digital garden ecosystem:

instead of “building an audience,” build a world. build a digital garden-ecosystem, that exists — first and primarily — for itself. a world that doesn’t need likes, traffic, subscribers, or clicks — in order to validate its existence.

ideas

Substrate is a digital garden

After experimenting (again) with Obsidian I came across Forestry.md which describes itself as "Open Source Digital Garden Hosting". I thought it was cool, but then realised that it would be yet another system where I have to fit into its workflow, rather than vice-versa