Today is six months since Elon took over Twitter and began this bizarre speedrun of the content moderation learning curve in which he seems to repeatedly… not learn a damn thing. Over and over agai…

Right now, it’s really fun to hang out on Bluesky.

The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionate

The all too common firehose stream has never worked for me. It’s undoubtedly a big reason why I never got properly into Twitter. I gener...

To divine what will happen to Twitter, just look to other social networks that changed under new owners.

When Twitter shut down third-party clients in January, it not only left out in the cold the users of those apps, but the developers too. Many of those apps were significant sources of revenue for t…

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 […]

Thoughts on Twitter, Mastodon, and owning your data

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