Actually I am just making the images. I am not quite getting to the No Silo stage, just trying to make a stance. Just a weak, wavering stance.
But as I gaze around this old web, seeing even more adherence to putting ones words, media, messages into web silos, as aptly described in a comment from my last post by Grant Potter people being drawn to “frictionless consumption and fragmented attention”, I just felt the need to find a photo of a silo and put a red slash through it.
My own flickr photos were not giving me ones I wanted, so went wider to a–yes broken big arse silo Google images– with options for CC licensed results a simple one about 5 rows down looked the best.
I knew I had landed in the right spot when I saw the flickr account name OMG the photo is by Doc Searls!
I even went for an open licensed red slash circle from Free SVG, shared into the public domain.
Doc’s photo was a bit too vertical, so I did cheat some and used Photoshop to generate a wider image. Sue me.
So now I have codified the No Silos Icon.
As far as my efforts to “un-silo”, well slow progress. Mostly it means I am staying out the main stream Bluesky/Threads/LinkedIn arenas. I am too tired to be a Tik Tokker. I pretty much shuttered my Instragram-age by outting the app in the back of the phone and forgetting about it.
I cringe when so many are jumping onto the Substack wagon for —– whatever reasons you conjure, but to me, accepting that devils bargain is living in the same shared building as Nazi neighbors. Do what you like, I wont. I am refraining from signing up for many, if I really want to read someone’s stackings, it will be via RSS feeds.
I have long ways to go to sever from Google, for sure. But it could happen.
I thus am not a purist of Anti-Siloism, but want to be more on the road.
Be Less SIlo.
Featured Image: My own Be Less Silo flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) remixed from silo flickr photo by dsearls shared under a Creative Commons (BY 2.0) license superimposed on Wikimedia Commons image Social media collection 2020s.png by Ibrahim.ID shared under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Now tell me how your candy coated GenAI images give credit. Pfttttttt.
