Since Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter/X and subsequent changes to that platform, computational social science researchers may be considering shifting their research programs to Mastodon and the fediverse. This article sounds several notes of caution about such a shift. We explain key differences between the fediverse and X, ultimately arguing that research must be with the fediverse, not on it.

In our first episode, we talk about the relationship between publishers and audiences, and the search for alternatives in the wake of controversy.

Podcasting news. Updates to the WordPress plugin. Bluesky has over 3m accounts and the invite system will go away soon.

Proprietary social media networks need to be transformed into local and global digital commons.

We’ve seen this movie before — and we won’t stick around to watch it play out

Today I m releasing an initial version of my latest tool, CurlyQ . It s a work in progress, though should be immediately useful to those who need it. I need your input on where it goes next, what s

Podcast: Looking forward to 2024 in mobile gaming (with Matthew Kanterman). Mobile marketing and advertising, freemium monetization strategy, and marketing science. Mobile Dev Memo.

Gather ‘round listener, it’s Selena Gomez! We talk Craigslist, a hot Barney, and blissful ignorance. Practice your mirror-face; it’s an all-new SmartLess.

As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places.

Thoughts on building Paper as a solo maker.

Tags in OS X 10.9 Mavericks is one of the new operating system’s most touted, but least-discussed new features. Josh Centers shows you how to use tags, and what they’re useful for.

Eating organic and switching to low-energy light bulbs feels like the green thing to do, but are people missing the bigger opportunities right in front of them?

It was a year of exceptionally strong performances by narrators in the world of audiobooks. Some of those, like the work of the always brilliant Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep, were not surprising, but others were unexpected discoveries that left us mesmerized and moved. From fiction to history to poetry, and, of course, a few […]

With Europe's DMA in place, “the gatekeeper is no longer going to be able to dictate what you use or try to force you to use software you do not like," says Vivaldi chief Jon von Tetzchner.

A number of factors have helped spur a great increase in the diversity of camera types now available. The Nikon Coolpix A - an APS-C compact with a fixed 28mm equivalent F2.8 lens - is something that would have seemed incredibly unlikely just a few years ago and yet is now just one option providing those specifications.

Developing an ethical and emancipating alternative to YouTube, Twitch or Vimeo without Surveillance Capitalism's means is a huge undertaking. Especially for a small French not-for-profit that already manages several projects to promote digital commons. 🦆 VS 😈: Let's take back some ground from the tech giants! Thanks to your donations to our not-for-profit, Framasoft is...

PeerTube has released their plans for 2024, with a new app, new designs and a bigger team.

Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately,

PeerTube's plans for 2024, Flipboard flips the federation switch, and a lot of links to read.

It’s bad for Apple but good for humanity.

As of a few years ago, iOS started showing a modal warning whenever an app tried to read your clipboard. This was done to prevent apps from transparently monitoring your clipboard and gobbling up whatever was there. Some apps did this for nefarious reasons, while others had practical user-centric reasons

Every time I open the Memories tab in Apple’s Photos app, I feel disappointed. The memories it surfaces always seem to rehash the same events in my life, and they never really achieve to put my photos back in context. This is a big reason why, for so many years, I’ve been keeping a personal

“No one chasing money in media ever chased Twitter. But anyone chasing power found themselves irresistibly drawn to the platform.”

TikTok vs. chatbots

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