Dominik Schwind

I hardly ever open Bluesky but Jay Graber fascinates me

I'm currently (as in: since 1996) redesigning and rethinking my personal website and this question has been in my mind for a long time as well.

Großartig.

Ah, Tumblr. Those were the days.

An old article, but I have been thinking about that lately.

Yes, he is clearly right about all of this.

Hm. I see where he's coming from and I think I agree. But I need to think about it a bit more.

John and Merlin talk about something that has been bothering me, too - it's hard to find your tribe online these days because randos aren't fun potential friends anymore.

Yes, sure. Some of the world is quite nice, though.

Ah, yes. Lovely headline.

I really like Mike Monteiro and I kinda regret that I didn't tell him in person when I had the chance to do so.

I completely agree with Kev here. Especially when it comes to this escalation:

And it gets even worse -- and I've seen this happen many times on the fedi -- when folk imply that as users of the product we're also a bad people, just for using the product.

I've been wondering the same thing and just like Ruben, I end up being in favor of archives.

Minchin is such an interesting person. I went ahead and ordered the book immediately.

A nice companion piece to the "modernity is stupid" article I bookmarked before.

the Internet’s business model is betrayal. Every mature social media platform has betrayed us. Every big search engine has betrayed us.

Really good article on how things are at the moment.

Hm.

Finally

Hmmm. Not sure what to think about this, the sample rate seems awfully low.

Oh.

Thumbs up

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people

Oh wow. This is good.

These days its all meme accounts

This is probably the best headline of the month

That doesn't make the bicycle guy look particularly good.

Hah:

"Globalisation takes place only in capital and data,” the literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has written. “Everything else is damage control."

Well, let's hope it does.

This is why we can't have nice things.

It's a bit sad but yes. Sure, there's Mastodon but even there it doesn't just feel the same.