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Is X Back? Who Cares. Social Media Monoliths Are Passé.

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:16:15 +0000

But I think this discussion also opens up another, related question: Do we need to live in a world where every network is the biggest thing ever? Can you have a thriving community without your primary platform being a zeitgeist machine? Gruber’s framing on the issue seems to suggest that Twitter circa 2009 is the ideal. But what if that moment has genuinely passed? The Threads algorithm that Gruber points to specifically goes out of its way to discourage the very kinds of interactions that a 2009 Twitter once allowed. The fediverse’s server-oriented setup favors interactions in smaller communities even if, in practice, people still tend to favor the larger ones.

Tags: #fediverse #mastodon #social #twitter #x

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' | dansinker.com

Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:06:47 +0000

What the fuck are you doing?

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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

God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 05:37:25 +0000

How will these smaller groups of happier people be monetized? This is a tough question for the billionaires. Happy people, the kind who eat sandwiches together, are boring. They don’t buy much. Their smartphones are six versions behind and have badly cracked screens. They fix bicycles, then they talk about fixing bicycles, then they show their friend, who just came over for no reason, how they fixed their bicycle, and their friend says, “Wow, good job,” and they make tea. That doesn’t seem like enough to build a town square on.

Tags: #mastodon #social #twitter

You don't actually have to stay on Twitter. - Laura Olin

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 19:19:27 +0000

Twitter’s gone, and now that Trump won again with Musk’s help, it’s gone forever. Let it go.

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Elon Musk Admits X is Throttling Link Out from the Platform

Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:58:45 +0000

Elon Musk confirmed that posts containing links in their main text are deprioritized on X in a revelation that renews criticism that the platform is restricting the visibility of and access to external sources of information.

Tags: #links #social #twitter #web

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

Is Bluesky the New Twitter? - The Atlantic

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 19:06:57 +0000

I still hope that social media itself will fade away. In the meantime, though, hundreds of millions of people have become accustomed to this way of interacting with friends and strangers, noshing on news, performing identities, picking fights, and accruing cultural capital or longing to do so. These unhealthy habits will be hard to shake. And so we can’t help but try to keep them going, for however long we can.

Tags: #bluesky #bsky #social #twitter

The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:54:03 +0000

But I do know that the energy on Bluesky is exciting, that the app and website are very usable, and that, as a journalist, I appreciate a platform that does not and says it will not punish links in any algorithm and which mostly operates in reverse chronological order. I think that the “Starter Packs” that let you follow tons of people at once according to your interests have made the onboarding process really easy. What’s happening on Bluesky right now feels organic and it feels real in a way no other Twitter replacement has felt so far, and it feels better than X.com has been ever since Elon Musk took over. If the masses are going to move off Twitter, we can do much better than Threads. And we could do much worse than Bluesky.

Tags: #bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social #twitter

Maybe Bluesky has “won” | anderegg.ca

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 23:49:14 +0000

All this to say: the Bluesky team seems like they’re earnestly working toward a decentralized platform, but they have a lot of work ahead of them. Years of effort, in my estimation. In the meantime, Bluesky is slightly more decentralized than, say, Facebook — but not by much. Yes, you can host your own data. Yes, you can scrape all of the content on the network. But you can’t do anything with it unless you’re attached to the Bluesky service. I believe this will change with time, but it will be prohibitively expensive and we’re not there yet.

Tags: #atproto #bluesky #bsky #mastodon #social #twitter

BBC Micro Bot - Creative Retro Coding

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:20:05 +0000

BBC Micro bot is a Twitter bot that runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. Tweet-sized programs are written in BBC BASIC, a language created by Sophie Wilson in 1981 for the BBC Micro.

Tags: #bbcmicro #bot #imported:pinboard #retro #twitter

BBC Micro Bot - Creative Retro Coding

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:20:05 +0000

BBC Micro bot is a Twitter bot that runs your tweet on an 8-bit computer emulator. Tweet-sized programs are written in BBC BASIC, a language created by Sophie Wilson in 1981 for the BBC Micro.

Tags: #bbcmicro #bot #retro #twitter

PC Basic Bot – How to play with @PCBASICBot on Twitter

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:19:09 +0000

Send a tweet with a short BASIC program to @PCBASICBot and your program will run on an emulated DOS PC. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!

Tags: #bot #imported:pinboard #pc #retro #twitter

PC Basic Bot – How to play with @PCBASICBot on Twitter

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:19:09 +0000

Send a tweet with a short BASIC program to @PCBASICBot and your program will run on an emulated DOS PC. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!

Tags: #bot #pc #retro #twitter

Atari 8 Bit Bot – How to play with @Atari8BitBot on Twitter

Sat, 01 Apr 2023 05:17:13 +0000

Send a tweet with a short program to @Atari8BitBot and your program will run on an emulated Atari 8-bit computer. The bot will tweet you back with a video your program’s output!

Tags: #atari #bots #imported:pinboard #retro #twitter