Category: social networks

April 26, 2022

Dogwhistles and birdsites and walled gardens, oh my!

I have both personal and professional concerns about Musk buying the birdsite.

August 14, 2018

It isn’t about being truthful. It’s (just) about making them money.

In case you weren’t paying attention, Facebook’s idea of combating misinformation is to make everyone play ball by their rules. Y’know, in ways that make Facebook money.

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April 24, 2018

I am not a number; I am a free man, OR, why you should never rely on social media

If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.

Let me tell you why.

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April 9, 2018

Centralized social media is dead, long live social media!

I’ve started using Mastodon, and now that the initial buzz has died down, I’m finding it to feel like Twitter in the early days, before the trolls and Nazis and crappiness and “sorted timelines” and “promoted tweets”.

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