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The Hacker News tarpit

Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:01:51 +0000

You can't build Place People Go as a feature. It's a thing that happened over time, through a specific and unrepeatable sequence of events, most of which were not planned and some of which were just luck.

Tags: #hackernews #social #socialmedia

Attie

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:12:54 +0000

Describe what you want to see and watch your feed compose itself around you.

Tags: #ai #atproto #bsky #llms #socialmedia

You are falling behind because you haven’t fed the insincerity machine in the last 5 minutes | Christian Heilmann

Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:12:06 +0000

As an actor or author you don’t send your body or stunt double to attend interviews or sell autographs at comic con. Don’t create a virtual double that posts for you on social media when you can’t be arsed or feel overwhelmed. Take that overwhelming feeling and write about it, showing the world that your mental health is as fragile as the one of the people who follow you and read your work. Be human and only there when you can be there.

Tags: #ai #metablogging #socialmedia #writing

social media isn’t chalk milk: a guess | maya.land

Sat, 22 Nov 2025 18:08:00 +0000

None of this means that social tech use as it is shouldn’t be interrogated, that it’s fine to allow such influence of our social selves from VC-funded companies maximizing engagement, that there aren’t ever circumstances where we have opportunities to get something better by pushing ourselves harder. But while pulling chalk milk off the market was clearly the right call, further stigmatizing the lowest-barrier-to-entry ways that people can feel less lonely… isn’t.

Tags: #chalkmilk #psychology #social #socialmedia #tech

Bluesky’s CEO meltdown: How leadership continues to fail its most marginalized users | by Nico Mara-McKay | Oct, 2025 | Medium

Wed, 08 Oct 2025 03:50:01 +0000

Bluesky’s early promise has eroded. The platform’s inconsistent and retaliatory moderation practices have drifted steadily rightward, protecting prominent racists and transphobes while suppressing those who speak out against them. Even mild criticism of the company’s failures to safeguard marginalized users is now met with shadowbans, takedowns, or silence. That’s not leadership. That’s an abdication of responsibility — and we deserve better.

Tags: #bluesky #moderation #socialmedia

The Last Days Of Social Media

Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:51:28 +0000

Social media as we know it is dying, but we’re not condemned to its ruins. We are capable of building better — smaller, slower, more intentional, more accountable — spaces for digital interaction, spaces where the metrics that matter aren’t engagement and growth but understanding and connection, where algorithms serve the community rather than strip-mining it.

Tags: #bluesky #facebook #fediverse #social #socialmedia #twitter

Social Objects: What is a Social Object? - GapingVoid

Wed, 23 Apr 2025 23:09:11 +0000

What is a social object? Learn about social objects from the Corporate Culture Consultants at Gapingvoid, a top Change Management Company!

Tags: #internet #social #socialmedia

down in the posting mines / poking at ghosts

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 18:57:15 +0000

Crucially, though, what defines a member of the posting middle class is their love of the game. They don’t post because they’re trying to sell a product, or solely to advance their career. They don’t post to advertise themselves or their company. They post because they must. There’s something fundamentally wrong with them and the worms in their brain makes them spend entire days posting away on the computer.

Tags: #bluesky #bsky #social #socialmedia #twitter

How to self-host all of Bluesky except the AppView (for now) — alice.bsky.sh

Sat, 09 Nov 2024 01:24:56 +0000

Did you know? You can self-host and/or mirror almost all of Bluesky's infrastructure today!

Tags: #bluesky #bsky #selfhosting #social #socialmedia

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:47:56 +0000

I don't know why Bluesky hasn't added the federation systems that would enable freedom of exit to its service. Perhaps there are excellent technical reasons to prioritize rolling out the other systems they've created so far. Frankly, it doesn't matter. So long as Bluesky can be a trap, I won't let myself be tempted. My rule – I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs – is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before.

Tags: #bluesky #bsky #enshitification #social #socialmedia

An Experiment in Social Media

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:40:38 +0000

On the internet, there is a clear social understanding of hashtags. If we create web rings for hashtags, we can use that to connect arbitrary web pages that add those hashtags to their content. This will allow us to create hashtag aggregation pages (like those on Twitter or Mastodon) that cross platform boundaries. The web ring will act as a community library that people can contribute to, filing their posts and articles and resources where they feel they fit.

Tags: #metablogging #socialmedia #tags #webdev

House of Nettles • A Sociable Web

Mon, 21 Oct 2024 22:37:22 +0000

I want things to be sociable, to be friendly, to be fun. I don't mean to try to avoid conflict entirely, which is neither possible nor truly desirable. But to envision a sociable web is to envision a place where interactions that make your world richer are easy to realize, and those that make your life worse easy to curtail. I want to be able to chat in public without the world overhearing, to meet new people and be able to block creeps, and to have conversations without being drowned in a sea of bad faith.

Tags: #sociableweb #social #socialmedia #web

Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:31:28 +0000

RSS basically works like social media should work. Using RSS is a chance to visit a utopian future in which the platforms have no power, and all power is vested in publishers, who get to decide what to publish, and in readers, who have total control over what they read and how, without leaking any personal information through the simple act of reading.

Tags: #doctorow #rss #social #socialmedia

Democracy dies on Instagram - by Taylor Lorenz - User Mag

Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:26:41 +0000

The company says it will restrict any image, video, or text post that “identifies a problem that impacts people and is caused by the action or inaction of others,” which is an incredibly wide swath of content. If you speak about these things on Meta, your reach will be limited and your account will be surfaced to fewer people.

Tags: #meta #politics #social #socialmedia

Raw dog the open web!

Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:12:28 +0000

Highlight:In our current digital landscape, where a corporate algorithm tells us what to read, watch, drink, eat, wear, smell like, and sound like, human curation of the web is an act of revolution. A simple list of hyperlinks published under a personal domain name is subversive. Curation is punk. Lets break away from the protective layer that is our For You Pages.

Tags: #bookmarking #curation #imported:raindrop #sharing #socialmedia #web #webdev