NotesWhat is a social object? Learn about social objects from the Corporate Culture Consultants at Gapingvoid, a top Change Management Company!FeedUnfurl
NotesCrucially, though, what defines a member of the posting middle class is their love of the game. They donât post because theyâre trying to sell a product, or solely to advance their career. They donât post to advertise themselves or their company. They post because they must. Thereâs something fundamentally wrong with them and the worms in their brain makes them spend entire days posting away on the computer.FeedUnfurl
NotesI 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 â I don't join a service that I can't leave without switching costs â is my Ulysses Pact, and it's keeping me safe from danger I've sailed into too many times before.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesOn 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.FeedUnfurl
NotesI 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. FeedUnfurl
NotesRSS 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.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesThe company says it will restrict any image, video, or text post that âidentifies a problem that impacts people and is caused by the action or inaction of others,â 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.FeedUnfurl
NotesHighlight: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.FeedUnfurl
NotesAnyway, Iâd like to posit seven basic rules for any internet CEO looking to avoid the enshittification death cycle. Think of these as the rules that Steve Huffman maybe should have learned years ago, rather than whatever the fuck heâs doing now.FeedEmbedUnfurl
NotesSo, no. The fact that youâve replaced that picture of yourself mugging for the camera with a red square and an equal sign will not cause Justice Kennedy to bang his gavel or stomp his foot and say that heâs come to a final decision on the matter, and that itâs all because of your new profile picture. Changing your Facebook image will not have a direct impact on our legislation.
But a widespread descriptive norm implying that it is socially acceptable to advocate for same-sex marriage and that most people in contemporary American society seem to be pro-marriage-equality?
Now that just might.Unfurl
NotesYahoo has the opportunity to make Flickr the photo-sharing site on the Web. And if it continues to innovate and update the service, Flickr could even become the next Flickr.EmbedUnfurl
NotesNow, we've shown that Facebook promotes captive content on its network ahead of content on the web, prohibits users from bringing open content into their network, warns users not to visit web content, and places obstacles in front of visits to web sites even if they've embraced Facebook's technologies and registered in Facebook's centralized database of sites on the web.Unfurl
Notes<blockquote>A new Pew study finds news outlets using Twitter almost exclusively for one-way distribution â of their own content.</blockquote>
And this is why I only follow live human beings on Twitter, for the most part. That, and funny bots.FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"But what is NPR doing differently thatâs causing their listener numbers to swell? They basically have a three-pronged strategy that is helping them not only grow now, but also prepare for the future media landscape where traditional methods of consumption (TV, radio, print) could be greatly marginalized in favor of digital distribution."Unfurl
Notes"The Social Fresh Cruise is your opportunity to enjoy a Cruise vacation while also connecting with others who are leaders in the Social Media industry. It is a networking vacation; a Netcation if you will. Sharing the unique experience of a cruise is one of the best ways to strengthen relationships with your peers. Although you will be getting away, you will actually be making your network much stronger than if you would have stayed at home and worked. There is no focus on going to tons of speakers and sessions. Instead the focus is on relaxing and personally getting to know one another. Organic, quality discussions will happen. This is the goal."FeedEmbedUnfurl
Notes"RT is an outmoded and misguided way to dish out your hi-5's. It seemed cool at one time, but now we know it's noisy and doesn't add value. Let's create a better Twitter. Whether you are a reformed re-tweeter *points to self*, have always hated it or are somewhere in-between, join us to keep RT's from clogging up the intertubes. There is no shame here. Only hugs."Unfurl
Notes"I just nearly burst my appendix laughing at Chris Applegateâs 20 signs you donât want that social media project. I am thus inspired to write my own list of tips that, perhaps, one doesnât really want that internal social media project after all."Unfurl
Notes"In this thread, the context starts with a pesky cat looped cartoon and ends with a discussion of non-attachment. What @mitten dubs the âkitteh paradoxâ after Brian defines the core issue â happiness is transitory if you are attached to a certain definition of happiness (cereal or sitting on the table)."Unfurl
Notes"MMO servers are currently limited by technological sizes. But what does a server where you know everybody (even a little) look like? What if we limited group sizes for social, not technological reasons? ... We wouldnât have these servers that resemble sprawling cities; weâd build villages, and hamlets, and travelling camps. And as they grew too big, or small groups within the community grew, theyâd break off and move to places where thereâs more space for them. In one sense, thatâs a more natural metaphor for our users, and itâs a scale that makes sense for them. ... I like this idea that everything, fundamentally, happens at a group level."Unfurl
Notes"As I have written before, publishers are increasingly leveraging their authorsâ own personal platform to market their books. With more than 400,000 books published each year, it is harder to make an impact without a platform strategy."Unfurl
Notes"There are some great things happening in social media in Metro Detroit. If there was one clear lesson from last nightâs gathering of Twitterati from the Metro area, itâs that SF, Boston, Austin & Toronto are NOT the only social media hotspots."Unfurl
Social Objects: What is a Social Object? - GapingVoid
down in the posting mines / poking at ghosts
Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) â Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
An Experiment in Social Media
House of Nettles âą A Sociable Web
Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) â Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Democracy dies on Instagram - by Taylor Lorenz - User Mag
Raw dog the open web!
Evolving Mastodonâs Trust & Safety Features âą Renaud Chaput
Seven Rules For Internet CEOs To Avoid Enshittification | Techdirt
How to Make Activity Delivery Look Fast with ActivityPub â evanp
Reaching people on the internet - The Oatmeal
Trolls like those involved in Gamergate are even more hostile when they're using their real names on social media networks like Twitter (TWTR) and Facebook (FB) â Quartz
Flickr Has the Opportunity to Become the Next Flickr - NYTimes.com
Twitter, the conversation-enabler? Actually, most news orgs use the service as a glorified RSS feed » Nieman Journalism Lab
A Writing Revolution § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM
Social Fresh Cruise, a Netcation | Social Fresh Cruise
Detroit Tweetup Recap : Colinâs Blog
Layoffs and Social Media (by Jeremy Zawodny)