social media
These days, the main social media I use is Micro.blog (assuming you count that) and Mastodon. In the past I’ve made heavy use of Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram but for a number of reasons (depending on the site – toxicity, obscene numbers of ads, non-chronological algorithms) I moved away from them.
Did you know? I also have a wiki page called ‘social media’! If you want to check that out, you can do so here.
Wiki
- : 🪴 Mastodon: Mastodon (external link) is open-source software with which you can run a social media server, capable of …
- : 🪴 Fediverse: The Fediverse refers to an ecosystem of decentralised social media servers that are largely interoperable with each …
Posts
- : 🖥 Micro post: This morning I came across a new-to-me web client for Mastodon called Phanpy: https://phanpy.social/ (external …
- : 🖥 On Mastodon and Algorithms: As you’re quite likely aware, there’s currently a massive explosion going on in the number of active …
- : 🗒 Micro post: Remember the first two days of NaNoWriMo, when I was like, “I’m gonna stay away from social media until I …
- : 🖥 Micro post: Yay, my status.lol account (external link) works! Still need to work out what to do with these statuses beyond …
- : 🖥 On Cohost and Interoperable Social Media: Spent a chunk of this morning reading about a new social media site that I guess has launched in some kind of public …
- : 🖥 Content Warnings: I saw a little discussion about content warnings (external link) on Micro.blog today, and it reminded me that I …
- : 🖥 So Elon Musk Bought Twitter: Just before I went to bed last night, the news broke that notoriously obnoxious billionaire Elon Musk had clinched a …
- : 🖥 Micro post: For the past few days, I’ve been taking a break from Twitter. In recent weeks it had been irritating me more than …
- : 📰 Micro post: Trump self-hosting his own microblog (external link) may not be the endorsement of the concept I would prefer, …
- : 🖥 Micro post: For a while I’ve been itching to try the Glitch-Soc (external link) variant of Mastodon, which has some …
- : 💻 Category-Specific RSS Feeds: Tonight I did something I’ve been meaning to do for a while – created a page outlining the RSS feeds for this site …
- : 🖥 Micro post: Today I found out that if you use the “Responsive Design” mode in your web browser’s developer tools, …
- : 🖥 The Online Firehose: FYI: This post is a rewritten and expanded version of this post that I published on Dreamwidth (external link) …
- : 🇦🇺 On the AusGov vs Google/FB Stoush: So, the House of Representatives has passed a bill (external link) requiring Google and Facebook to pay money to …
Links
- : 🖥 Link: “The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok”
- : 🖥 Link: “4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having” by Scott Feeney
- : 📰 Link: “Welcome to hell, Elon”
- : 🖥 Link: “Citizens’ social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation”
- : 🖥 Link: “TechScape: Tumblr and why ‘the porn-friendly era of the internet is over’”
- : 🖥 Link: “Bonfire’s latest trick shows Google+ circles came a decade early” by Doug Belshaw
- : 🖥 Link: “Sunset of the social network”
- : 🖥 Link: “When the cosplaying dolphins met the cosplaying French philosophers” by Matt Webb
- : 🇺🇸 Link: “I Should Be Able To Mute America”
- : 🖥 Link: “What Elon Musk Can Learn From Mastodon—and What He Can’t”
- : 🖥 Link: “How proprietary social-medias are shaping the future of Pepper&Carrot” by David Revoy
- : 🖥 Link: “The dark side of TikTok's algorithm”
- : 🖥 Link: “Twitter considers letting you limit tweets to ‘trusted friends’”
- : 🇵🇸 Link: “Twitter Said It Restricted Palestinian Writer's Account by Accident”
- : 🖥 Link: “The Instagram Ads Facebook Won't Show You”
- : 🖥 Link: “How Facebook will benefit from its massive breach” by Cory Doctorow
- : 🖥 Link: “How Facebook got addicted to spreading misinformation”
Interactions
- : ❤️ Like of: “Dear Elon Musk” by Manton Reece
- : ❤️ Like of: “IndieWeb + Tumblr = 💜” by fluffy
- : ❤️ Like of: “Ethical anti-design, or designing products that people can't get addicted to.”
Jessica Smith is a socialist and a feminist who loves animals, books, gaming, and cooking; she’s also interested in linguistics, history, technology and society.