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.

It's not something I had to think about a lot, because honestly my personal sensibilities are are even more vanilla than most corporate social media sites. Alas, he is of course absolutely right, people should be able to let their freak flag fly on their own websites and curators (human or semi-automated like webrings) should give them spaces to do so.

Trust me on the websites.

(Oh. And the sunscreen.)

This is amazing

Really good article on how things are at the moment.

Personal websites are the best

Hm.

Oh, interesting idea! The wavey underline reminds me of a spellchecker, though.

The whole problem space of social norms, audience etc. is super interesting, especially in spaces like the IndieWeb and the Fediverse which are by definition fractured and diverse.

Absolutely. You should have a personal website, even if it is just a simple landing page.

Thumbs up

Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these people

I like links

This is quite a list.

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

I'm pretty sure that's it:

And maybe what’s missing now is simply connection.

The connections and communications moved to "Social Media" and will probably stay there.

Oh wow. This is good.

Personal websites are the best

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 absolutely agree - all of this is way too complicated. And I do this stuff for a living.

Yes. You, too.

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 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.