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With the current uncertainty over Twitter, I'm starting to explore using Mastodon

Well, it happened. We knew it was coming. A prick pulled the plug. And what bothers me most about it is how Space Karen did it. My mom passed away just before Christmas. Her decline was something everyone in the family saw coming and we prepared for her demise. It still hurts like hell, but […]

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If you can’t use Twitterific or Tweetbot, you’re not alone.

Mastodon’s success has somewhat taken its creator Eugen Rochko by surprise, but he's steadfast on maintaining its nonprofit nature.

Powered by video platform Livebox, Tumblr Live is rolling out to US users on iOS and Android.

The feature is currently being rolled out to U.S. users with a global release coming soon.

Twitter announced yet another version of Twitter Blue, which is launching tomorrow. And in all honesty, if this was announced 6 months ago, I'd be all over it. I mentioned this a few days ago, but it's now official. Twitter Blue will cost $8 a month if you sign up

Notes on an economic model for independents

As Twitter crumbles, Tumblr is welcoming back the internet’s weirdos.

pEver since Elon Musk completed his $45 billion takeover of Twitter last month, there has been a steady stream of users, including a number of journalists, signing up for Mastodon, an open-source alternative. No one controls Mastodon—or rather, everyone controls their own version of it. There are thousands of servers running the software, and each […]/p

“The Man Who Knew Nothing About Risk”

Come for Josh's rant on the future of the internet, stay for his conversation with Vincenzo Natali, director of 'Cube,' 'Splice,' and your favorite episodes of 'Hannibal,' who has taken on William Gibson's reality-bending book 'The Peripheral' and turned it into electrifying TV. The two discuss how horror is in our DNA, his creative relationship with AI, and the difficulties of turning 80's sci-fi into modern art. Discussed: Ray Harryhausen, math that kills you, "big" iPads.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

To what extent does the YouTube recommendation algorithm push users into echo chambers, ideologically biased content, or rabbit holes? Using a novel method to e

A requiem for a meme.

Dedicated forums mean conversations can’t be interrupted.

When Twitter decided to shut down the six-second video app Vine five years ago, the online eulogies poured in. But Vine’s relevance had already slipped before Twitter pulled the plug. At the beginning of 2017—the year it was shut down—the app fell out of the top 100 free apps on Apple’s App ...

But it matters that Elon Musk now owns it.

Twitter has a new CEO. And he'd like to see your code, please

Twitter is rolling out the ability to edit tweets to Blue subscribers in Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

"I believe we’re far from reaching our full potential."

Evan Spiegel isn’t going down without a fight.

The turmoil associated with Elon Musk’s bid to purchase the company was a breaking point.

The purpose of the Edit Tweet feature is to "give people a short period of time to fix things like typos, add missed tags, and more" on Twitter

"Twitter cannot accurately detect child sexual exploitation and non-consensual nudity at scale."

Imagine the company did want to monetize adult content. Would Apple let it?

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From 2019: How social media, FaceTune, and plastic surgery created a single, cyborgian look.

The Trump-backed Twitter lookalike looks near to launch, and for better or worse, this will draw more attention than ever to my favorite social network.