For a better internet, we’ll need to curb our online interactions, writes Ian Bogost. Could slower email be a start? on.theatln.tc/uDiNPOO

Pony Messenger: “Think of it as email, if email arrived by post: You compose a message and put it in an outbox; once a day (you can choose morning, afternoon, or evening “pickups”), Pony picks up your outbound dispatches and delivers your inbounds. “ theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Slow is the new normal theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

This is one of the biggest things that motivated Pony

For a better internet, we’ll need to curb our online interactions, writes Ian Bogost. Could slower email be a start? on.theatln.tc/9zY4EiT

The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email dlvr.it/SH8njn

I can't stand the phrase "Sorry for my delay," and yet I find myself writing it all. the. time. Here's my rant (plus some thoughts about what we could say instead): theatlantic.com/family/archive… The Atlantic

I've found Pony Messenger charming! just like getting mail at summer camp. makes me think through which of my friendships thrive in IMs, or in sporadic letters or calls, or rambly dinner convos... I'm @ carrie on the app if you wanna say hi. lots of good usernames still avail :)

the big tell for me is when “something happens” online, i miss it and only get wind afterwards: so many pseudo-events only matter, in an urgent, this-needs-a-response sense, because we “experience” them indirectly on our feeds theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Exactly this, and in a non-work context as well: what is urgent and what is not? What actually benefits from instantaneity?

I want. "Pony Messenger. You compose a message and put it in an outbox; once a day (you can choose morning, afternoon, or evening “pickups”), Pony picks up your outbound dispatches and delivers your inbounds. That’s it. It’s postal-service cosplay. It’s slow email."

The Subversive Genius of Extremely Slow Email govexec.com/workforce/2022…

The medium is the message!

We seem to have come a full circle. There’s now an app for…mimicking postal mail. Is slowing down the Internet the answer to reclaiming a sense of sanity from the feature/notification sensory overload that we deal with daily? theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

O inventor do app Pony Messenger celebra a tendência "slow web" e quer resgatar o sentimento de enviar cartas. gizmodo.uol.com.br/um-e-mail-com-…

For a better internet, we’ll need to curb our online interactions, writes Ian Bogost. Could slower email be a start? theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Anyone else here trying out Pony Messenger? I love the premise (messages delivered and picked up once a day)—the anti-IM—but network effects… A once-a-day Twitter would be so awesome. (It'd be effectively a different app for a different purpose, but awesome.)

Just discovered Pony Messenger interesting premise (messages delivered once a day at the same time everyday), like an anti-twitter, a kinda throwback to handwritten notes but via mobile app