Dominik Schwind

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.

Thumbs up

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people

Oh. There it is.

I think this is the last post I link to on the topic of Social Media bridges. It is a really good one, though.

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.

I haven't laughed so hard in weeks

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

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

Good grief.

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.

We might need a conversation platform for only the cool people. Globally.

We like things not just because we’re exposed to them, but because, before exposure, we have opened our hearts to liking them.

Let's see how long it takes until the enlightenment

According to that filter I look old already anyway. I couldn't see any difference between the two pictures.

Most sane people don’t enjoy seeing a bunch of random bursts of text from strangers one after the other, but those that do really really love it.