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- Not Missing Out … We also used to talk about social *software* and not social *networks* and now it's hard to think of the former without them automatically being the latter …
- Colliders; Speedrunning; Benevolent Dictators Have Significant Failure States; Verification Deserts; The Inflationary epoch … Mastodon is the least-bad network and service, so it will "win" Mastodon.social is the least-bad service, so it will continue to "win" Mastodon.social will …
- Another Place … what's a social network like, if there even is one, in the world of the Heptapods? That's it, today. It's been a Monday. I'll …
- Fine, Social Networks; Are you in? … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 Fine, Social Networks OK, so part of what my bit of the internet is talking and excited about …
- The Great Social Network Heist … 1.0 Some Things That Caught My Attention 1.1 The Great Social Network Heist Let’s go steal an open social network [1] . Smash cut to flashback …
- Snow Crashing; danah boyd; Facebook and Oculus Rift … With mobile, there isn't (and doesn't have to be) a one-size-fits-all communication/social networking utility or app. Facebook may well be the thing …
- Rude; A Financial Services Social Network?; We Should Improve Attribution and Sourcing Somewhat … 1.2 A Financial Services Social Network? Elon "wants" the social network formerly known as Twitter to become some sort of financial services be-all/end-all app …
- Sudo Do Me An Ethical Art; Twitter Imploding Was Good, Actually … Twitter collapsed context into one giant feed of largely undifferentiated text; it also wasn't the only social network to do so. Like social networks before it, it …
- Answering "Governments should be on Mastodon?", or, A Sort of Amateur Cory Doctorow, and an ending that surprised even me … While venture capital was pouring money into building social networks on the promise of obscene advertising profits, people poured onto social networks and a decade or so later …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … The failure mode of a social network, where failure is "turns out to be too much of a toxic, abusive environment full more of noise than signal" is …
- What Does it Mean to be Friends? … 1.1 What does it mean to be friends? Here’s the deal with social networks. People treat social networks -- the apps themselves -- as different physical places. Certain …
- The Social Safety Net and... Financial Services? … well, in America, if part of the social safety net is private, peer-to-peer work outside of what government should be doing (and is failing at in …
- Judge social networks not by their DAUs but by the content of their CEO’s character … Marmite (cue a debate about whether this lifestyle is socially acceptable) costs GBP 0.05 a week (a 125g package at an estimated usage of 4g a week …
- The Careless Conversation; The Shape of Things … This isn't to say that all speech on Twitter and other short-form social networks is small talk and inconsequential. It is obviously not. But I want …
- Building Better Worlds; Mobile; More video … From his point of view, the problem isn't connectivity - not bandwidth or networking. It's things that are lower down the stack - like power. Because when you …
- It’s Not 2006 Anymore; The Useful, Vernacular Institution; What Is Free Our Feeds, Anyway? … You could mandate, for example, that All Social Network Applications Must Present A Unified Inbox Or Feed View and that All Social Network Platform Operators Must Make Their …
- Consensual Hallucination; Hospitals; Warm, Statistically Plausible Generic Platitudes … The thing is, not even that many people use Twitter compared to that other self-proclaimed global public social network Facebook (formerly known as thefacebook for rating women …
- Mastodon, or What Happens When Your Software Has Opinions And Now You Have Choices … It's ridiculously well-writen, covers why you'd want to run your own small social networking site (small! I love it.) The design of the site is …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … Mastodon and Social Networks Edition (In which I demonstrate that I am more than capable of arguing myself out of something I have proposed) Previously: s13e17: A Proposal …
- Probably Not Gutless … The joke here is that Swarm, a privately social network for sharing your location with friends, would be a viable replacement for Twitter (a privately run social network …
- A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More … I guess, so here's the inevitable thinking about The Next Phase Of Social Networking [sic]. First thing that's caught my attention is the desire for, say …
- Kill Your Gods … I mean, I don’t like it, but I understand the behavior from the social team here. Spot a behavior on a network, find a way to tie …
- Belong; Snow Crashing (9); Humans As A Service … somewhat ironic, for a virtual reality company bought by the world's biggest social network. 3.0 Humans As A Service Part of what I wrote in yesterday …
- The first stage is denial … A post went around saying GenXers are unique because they’re the first generation to have portable social networks, having seen them grow and die and grow and …
- Do you have WiFi? / Liars are bad … The Next Generation (sorry, again), the 1701D-TEN-FORWARD-FREE-WIFI network which would be the wifi network for the equivalent of Starbucks or the Cheers bar or …