Dominik Schwind

I hardly ever open Bluesky but Jay Graber fascinates me

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.

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.

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."

It's frankly a disgrace that this needs to be said.

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.

This is interesting. I didn't expect POSSE explained on The Verge in that much detail

This is quite strange

Our government is not covering itself in glory right now

I'm not on threads (because Europe) but this is still highly amusing to me. I guess that's how religions start?

I feel this loss of community online every day.

Absolutely. I do miss the short time when people just used the things we now call social media for fun but maybe it is okay the way it is right now.

I guess it's performance art?

Honestly: yes. I just feel bad for people who haven't found their group chats, yet.