Zines As An Alternative to Social Media Fatigue

I come to zines as someone who has published zines for over 30 years. So I live in that space.

I also brought my zine obsession to the online digital space very early on. As a computer science major, I was active on bulletin board systems before the world wide web was really a thing.

We uploaded digital zines to BBS’s or via list servers or to space on AOL or CompuServ or Prodigy and Delphi…

Facebook Instagram, Pinterest and others dictate a different way of accessing zines which present obstacles along with improvements to that access.

This video talks about why zines should replace your Instagram feed.

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dabodab‘s passion is local, diy, creative, historical and grassroots. I am Briyan Frederick (aka Bryan Baker), a graphic arts professional, songwriter, experimental recording artist, publisher, local and personal historian, silver creative, podcaster, vlogger and zinester. I’m better known as the publisher of GAJOOB and a founder of Tapegerm Collective… read more.

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