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It's been a few weeks since I last posted on social media and there have been developments. Twitter is now officially gone, replaced with X. For some reason, the symbolism of this move seems to have convinced a lot of people that the old Twitter is gone in a way the last several months of … Continue reading The need for self curation in social media
This week, as announced a couple of months ago, the Twitter feed on my blog's sidebar finally broke. It was removed to put it out of its misery. This came after a fresh week of chaos at Twitter itself. Last week Elon Musk announced that you had to be logged in to view tweets. Which … Continue reading The sorry state of social media
Came across a blog post from John Scalzi this morning, advising that WordPress had informed him that his blog's sidebar Twitter feed would stop working soon. I haven't heard anything from WordPress about my own sidebar feed, but if it's going to stop working for VIP customers like Scalzi, I can't imagine it will be … Continue reading Twitter sidebar going away?
Thought I'd give an update on my experience with Mastodon. There have been few more lessons learned since the first post. On Saturday, after thinking about it for several days, I decided I needed to try a new server. Many of the servers in the Mastodon space are experiencing growing pains due to the influx … Continue reading Mastodon: an update
If you've been following the news, you know that Elon Musk bought Twitter, taking over control a couple of weeks ago and immediately making changes. Initially most of the discussion was about making people pay for verification checkmarks, which I couldn't care less about. But in recent days the discussion has reportedly widened to include … Continue reading The Mastodon experience at one week
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