Even if it’s just links, taking the time to find them yourself and post them is a useful step, since relevant doesn’t always mean insightful or interesting.
Also, you’re not completely tied to links. Make/ask for recommendations, life pro tips, etc.
This is such a well written piece, it’s closer to a serious article than a blogpost
I was right there as well. I saw creators I trust putting out stuff talking about the state of social media today (Technology Connections on YouTube in particular) and that was around when I started diving back into bluesky, then after a little more reading around, mastodon and lemmy. Never looked back after that.
Fingers crossed it doesn’t end the same way
In No Country For Old Men, they mention this killing in a throwaway line (it involves contract killing and stars Woody Harrelson)
Oh, that’s really cool! Thanks
Considering what brought me here, I’ll take finicky over maliciously designed any day. :)
Ah, I see. Thanks!
PC here, but 5:45 😎
I remember reading a book that talked about public spaces and how we often think of malls as public spaces, but they have so many restrictions and ulterior motives that it doesn’t really hold.
They’re essentially the irl equivalent of centralised social media platforms. I hope once the fediverse really takes off, we can have ‘official’ platforms/instances that are run by governments that federate only to other ‘official’ ones. That seems like a better way to reach people, instead of Xitter.
Inb4 they start making tiktoks about ignoring the calming music