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✨📺 The talk videos for the final XOXO are here, publishing two per day all this week. You can watch them on our site: xoxofest.com/2024/videos/ Or to get notified, subscribe to our YouTube channel and turn on notifications. www.youtube.com/xoxofest

“We can build the web we want to see.” @molly.wiki kicked off XOXO 2024's conference with a hopeful talk about building @web3isgoinggreat.com and how we can “push the web back towards the wonderful, joyful, beautiful place it used to be.” xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

Returning to the XOXO stage ten years after his satirical “How I Won the Lottery” talk, @tinysubversions.bsky.social reflects on the compromises that come with being “indie” and the toxic systems that coerce us into betraying our values. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"I used to dream of labor… but now I dream of different things." @aftermath.site cofounder and journalist/critic @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social on surviving the collapsing media landscape and the rise of worker-owned, subscriber-funded online journalism. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"We have to fix the fucking networks." Writer/researcher @kissane.bsky.social on how her work on the COVID Tracking Project was made possible by social platforms now hostile to real human connection, and why we need better, safer networks for our collective survival. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"This did not define me." Two years after her XOXO 2016 talk, @sarahjeong.bsky.social became the target of a massive right-wing harassment campaign. Six years later, she revisits the ridiculous, traumatic, uniquely terrible experience—with a message of hope for others. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"Envy. Impatience. They’re the monster I struggle with, but they are ultimately a part of me." Folding Ideas' @foldablehuman.bsky.social on measuring himself against the work of others, a sometimes-debilitating pressure that also drives him to make new things. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"You can monetize a hate video, but there is no hazard pay for harassment." Sweet Baby Inc. founder/CEO Kim Belair shares what happened when a conspiracy theory about "woke-ifying" video games spawned a year-long coordinated hate campaign against her 16-person studio. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"I have achieved every professional accolade that I could have ever dreamed of and more, and it completely broke me." @edyong209.bsky.social earned global acclaim and a Pulitzer for his critical reporting on the pandemic for The Atlantic, but it came at a personal cost. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"Appreciate everything endlessly." A pit stop on a Seattle road trip at McDonald's in Centralia, WA sent @cabel.panic.com down a deep and magical rabbit hole into the undiscovered life's work of a nearly-forgotten artist, bringing everyone at XOXO along for the ride. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...

"Community is made out of the ephemeral." Closing out the final XOXO, @charliejane.bsky.social talked about how inclusive communities are key to our survival: building a consensus reality, defeating learned helplessness, and connecting to others with joy and kindness. xoxofest.com/2024/videos/...