>From the earliest days online, which for me was the early 90's, what drew me to the internet was partly the information that was available online, and equally the social aspect of communicating with someone else (maybe) far away. Falling into the former were things like The Jargon File. And falling into the latter were mailing lists and usenet groups. There were also things such as the Net legends FAQ <https://hack.org/mc/texts/net-legends.txt> (which is almost a Net Kooks FAQ) that venn-diagrammed their way across both information and social spheres.
Among the web-based social networks, I used to be pretty active on LiveJournal in the mid-2000's. These days I post an occasional photo on Instagram. But the medium does not lend itself to proper commentary or a good conversation. It is mostly a way of being peripherally aware of happenings in friend's lives. As for where I find interesting things to read (not so much interesting people to follow)... it is a mixture of blogs (Kottke, MeFi, etc.) and Logreads. Thaths On Sun, Sep 3, 2023 at 6:37 AM Tim Bray via Silklist < silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > Silklist mailing list > Silklist@lists.digeratus.in > https://mailman.panix.com/listinfo.cgi/silklist > -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!
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