Why you should ditch social media for a (micro)blog: Yes, I’m a big fan of both the general concept and the specific product Aaron mentions.
Social media
2024-10-22
Why changes to the block on Elon Musk’s X are driving users away: Musk doesn’t believe block buttons should block.
Online Safety and the “Great Decentralization” – The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media: Is the Fediverse in need of better tooling around moderation?
2024-10-14
TikTok plans mass job cuts on UK moderation and safety teams: To be replaced by a mix of offshore workers that they can treat and pay a lot worse alongside cost-cutting ‘automation’ it sounds like.
TikTok knows its app is harming kids, new internal documents show: All the social media companies either know full well the harms that using their product can bring or are wilfully ignorant of them.
2024-10-10
The future of live news online sucks: Why the TikTokization of the big social media platforms makes them ‘uniquely bad places to follow news’.
2024-10-06
Crowdsourcing the Monetization of Social Media: Social media could have been good if only we’d landed on a different incentive structure.
2024-10-04: 📚 Finished reading The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff.
2024-09-29: Elon Musk's free speech 'principles' lose to his economic interests once again as he capitulates to Brazil's Twitter demands
2024-09-27
Twitter Is a Far-Right Social Network: Claims from last year that under Musk’s ‘leadership’ Twitter became indistinguishable from Parler or Truth Social.
Elon Musk says he wants free speech, but his track record suggests otherwise: Elon Musk is only really a ‘free speech absolutist’ when it comes to his own speech.
Twitter is complying with more government demands under Elon Musk: Probably not a bad thing, but it’s definitely a hypocritical thing vs what Musk likes to pretend his values are.
Hate speech is soaring on Twitter under Elon Musk: Contra Musk’s claims, hate speech on Twitter reportedly increased after he took over.
Elon Musk backs down in his fight with Brazilian judges to restore X: Musk presumably decided that his wealth was more important than his supposed ‘principles’.
2024-09-11: Save videos, photos and audio from your favourite sites with Cobalt
2024-09-03: More events in what is starting to feel something like a global backlash against some of the big …
2024-08-23: US Democrats borrow a dril tweet - a good excuse to list some faves
2024-08-14: Is there anything more ‘US politics in 2024’ than this? While the real Trump-Musk Space …
2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.
2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …
2024-07-03: A new Channel 4 documentary asks us 'Can AI steal your vote?'
2024-02-25: The layers of the Internet
2024-02-07: Interesting that “social media” is such a toxic brand these days that Snapchat’s …
2023-12-24: Busy wasting time on The Great Scrollback of Alexandria. This is a preservation effort, attempting …
2023-12-19: Good news, it looks like federating is still in fashion. Flipboard has starting federating a few of …