I have been fascinated by social media for a long time; what is more important in the world than the conversations that humans have with each other, and the things that shape those conversations? Twitter was a lucky accident of time and shape that will never be re-created, as it power-dives into irrelevance all the bright young operators with dollar signs in their eyes wanting to build the Next Twitter are guaranteed to fail.
I am genuinely excited by the idea of the “Fediverse”, a protocol not a product, a network not a company. In Canada, we’re operating a Mastodon instance that is a member-owned co-operative, membership fee $50/year… billionaire-proof and surveillance-free. For anyone who’s interested in going a little deeper, I’ve been writing about it quite a bit this year, see https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/What/The%20World/Social%20Media/ I’m https://cosocial.ca/@timbray On Sep 2, 2023 at 5:31:35 PM, Dave Long via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > What does your social media historical usage look like? > > > Never having gotten into social media (why do they call one a social > medium? because it's neither rare nor well done) my usage has stayed > consistently flatlined throughout the XXI. > > I get my "feeds" via RSS (so strictly chronological, and I click through > to <3%) and prefer to surf via pull (in particular, search engines, like > https://search.marginalia.nu/ , and I'm loving that youtube now only > displays a search box) rather than push. > > In retrospect, I've always been a bit of a media curmudgeon: in the XX I > had subscribed to "The Economist " and "Nature" because they were the only > newsstand magazines that published articles with scatter plots, but > cancelled both after they each had succumbed to the "Cosmopolitan" style of > plastering contents on their covers. > > -Dave > > -- > Silklist mailing list > Silklist@lists.digeratus.in > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist >
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