Who is winning UK Politics Bluesky so far?: The left, at least as measured by the slightly strange metric of how many MPs follow them.

Texas AG Declares War On Advertisers Who Snub Musk’s ExTwitter: Ken Paxton seems to want to make it illegal to not give Elon Musk money.

Blue skies ahead: Leon wrangles with whether to join Bluesky.

Bluesky, decentralisation, and the distribution of power: How decentralised Bluesky is depends on what exactly you mean by decentralisation.

On Bluesky: Regarding its vibes and its technology.

Bluesky and enshittification: The most well-intentioned service remains at risk of enshittification whilst there remains significant costs incurred when switching away from it.

Why I Am (Still) a Liberal (For Now): ‘Thin’ vs ‘thick’ liberalism, and the Cruelty Culture of 2022-era Twitter.

The AI-Generated Product Reviews Choking the Internet Are Now Illegal: The FTC makes certain types of fake reviews illegal, whether human or robots wrote them, in the US.

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.

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?

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.

The future of live news online sucks: Why the TikTokization of the big social media platforms makes them ‘uniquely bad places to follow news’.

Crowdsourcing the Monetization of Social Media: Social media could have been good if only we’d landed on a different incentive structure.

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’.