Sacha Judd discusses what excites her now: founding Lume Music, which aims to fix broken subscription-era music economics by launching a digital album format bundled with behind-the-scenes content in a beautiful app for dedicated music lovers. She argues the core problem online isn’t digital vs analog but feed vs queue—algorithmic, engagement-driven firehoses versus intentional, chosen experiences—and critiques venture-capital incentives, dark patterns, and how everything breaks at scale. With search and discovery degraded by AI slop, she advocates for human curation (newsletters, blogs, Reddit) and rebuilding “small shops” and healthy neighborhood-like communities, including optimism about AT Protocol apps. She’s writing a book on internet history through online fan communities, highlighting women and queer power users who pioneered governance, tagging, and moderation, and warns against conspiracy thinking and blunt teen social-media bans.

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Loom Music Vision
• (02:12) - Albums as Artifacts
• (04:17) - Feed Versus Queue
• (07:48) - How Platforms Broke
• (11:45) - Human Curation Returns
• (14:08) - Finding Real Recommendations
• (18:06) - Small Networks Not Mega
• (22:35) - Everything Breaks at Scale
• (25:56) - Small Shops Web Future
• (32:58) - Loom Focused Audience
• (35:08) - Fandom Conspiracies
• (39:24) - Deepfakes and Literacy
• (41:55) - Don't Turn It Off
• (44:24) - Gen Z and Web Memory
• (47:25) - Unsung Fan Builders
• (49:56) - Fandom Journey Origins
• (55:39) - Community Creativity Loop
• (01:02:25) - Teens Need Safe Spaces
• (01:04:38) - Wrap Up and Motto
• (01:06:23) - Music Recommendation
• (01:07:42) - Where to Find Sasha
• (01:08:22) - Closing Thanks
• (01:08:35) - Morning Excitement Check

• Lume Music
• Spotify
• Apple Music
• YouTube
• Substack
• Reddit
• Bluesky
• Blacksky
• Mastodon
• LiveJournal
• Tumblr
• Archive of Our Own (AO3)
• Uber Eats
• Google
• Google Maps
• Lovable
• Sachajudd.com
• Shit You Should Care About
• Molly White's Blog
• Rachel Andrew
• Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
• Bowling Alone
• The X-Files
• Formula 1
• Marvel
• Taylor Swift
• Harry Styles
• Beyoncé
• Waiata / Anthems