Tag: Twitter
Some Tech Companies Have Privately Pushed Back On ICE Subpoenas. They Should All Do More.
In a handful of known cases, large social media companies have privately pushed back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) subpoenas when the agency tried to unmask anonymous users who tracked immigration activities or criticized the government. As ICE engages in a pattern of illegal and chilling investigations, any resistance is welcome. But social media...
MacStories has forgotten its Why
After a pivot to AI content and a return to Twitter, MacStories is an unrecognizable mess of a site
#oneaday Day 802: However bad you think Twitter is now, it's worse
Earlier today, Aftermath posted a review of Half is More, a new manga that explores the life of mixed-race characters in Japan. It sounds like an interesting read, and I may well pick it up -- the last manga I read that was designed around the idea of sensitively exploring the life of someone who...
#oneaday Day 799: The exhausting town square
Social media was often positioned to us as being like a "global town square", where people from all walks of life and backgrounds could come together and argue about who was the best girl in Evangelion. Over time, I think we can say that experiment... hasn't exactly worked quite as intended. I mean, sure. I...
SpaceX’s Earnings Show Elon Wiped Out Two-Thirds Of Twitter’s Ad Business
When SpaceX filed for its IPO, we went through the S-1 to point out just how far off the mark Elon Musk's predictions about his Twitter takeover turned out to be. Indeed, the failure of Twitter as a business was so catastrophic, Musk had to hide it by merging all his Xs together: he had...
The Feed is the Product: Why We Stay in Walled "Gardens", and Why We Might Finally Leave for the Open Social Web
We have known this for years. We have known that the major platforms are bad for our attention, our sleep, our politics, our children, and our sense of reality. And yet here we are, still scrolling. This essay is an attempt to answer two questions: why is leaving so hard, and what does it look like when it finally becomes possible? Let's take the platforms one at a time, because each one has found its own distinctive way to be terrible. Meta is the empire that learned nothing. In 2018, we learne...
Twitter Is the Bit. Bluesky Is the Control Group.
I made a burner account so you don't have to. The hypocrisy was the least surprising part.
Opal
Convert microblog posts from Twitter, Mastodon, Threads, and Nostr to AT Protocol Bluesky posts.
XクライアントのXDeckが良さげかも
複数タイムラインを並べて表示できるmacOS向けXクライアントXDeckの紹介です。
The State of Adult Art Post-2018
The adult art community feels different for the wrong reasons.
日本語最古ツイートの投稿者として
いつのだったか「日本語最古ツイート」は私のツイートだと言及されて、自分なりに調べてみたら確かにそれより古いツイートは見つからず、まあそれなら日本語最古ツイートしたのは私です、と語らさせていただいている。
以前作ったツールを2年以上も放置してしまい大変申し訳ございませんでした（土下座）
懺悔とともにアドベントカレンダー駆動開発をして FlyFree クロスポストツールをアップデートしました
My Slow Retreat from Twitter
A brief reflection on the platform and how I plan to continue with it...
The Network Serves Us
Thoughts on the sudden surge of success Bluesky has seen this week—without a network-dampening algorithm in sight.
Sky High - Human-Generated Content
Human-Generated Content
Stressing The Protocol
I’m trying to import as many of my old tweets as I can to Bluesky. Which is fun, because I have a lot of them.
So Long, and Thanks for the Job
Twitter hat sich verändert und das leider nicht zum Guten! Hier ein paar Schlagzeilen: Elon Musk Is Turning Twitter Into a Haven for Nazis Elon Musk says he’s letting Donald Trump back on Twitter Twitter's sacking of content moderators raises concerns Elon Musk won’t stop tweeting his way into trouble Ich habe, um ehrlich zu...
It’s Time to Ditch Twitter/X
Prior to the platform’s buyout, I had a Twitter/X account since 2008 (nearly from the start!). Almost two years since Elon Musk bought it, it’s been long enough to make a judgement on the platform’s new direction. This post details why I feel it’s time to move on to bluer skies, and shares some practical tips on how to do so.
Post-Post
The demise of Post, one of the social networks that emerged from the 2022 Twitter exodus, shows how users have come to understand that vibes aren’t everything with social media.
Recapturing Real Time
A decade ago, real-time social news coverage was a machine that simply worked. With our recent social media disarray, it feels broken. Can it be fixed?
Agora
SNS を段階的に移行しよう！
それぞれのポスト専用 UI として FlyFree を活用するのだ
“整理整頓” についてのテーマとtwitter/𝕏 について考える
Ruminating On Replies
The “reply guy,” the internet-native take on Florida Man, has started to cause problems in the fediverse, and it comes down to ideology.
Agora
Let The Internet Be Grimy
Meta’s take on mimicking Twitter feels like it was built for brand safety first, and you don’t get fulfilling internet experiences when you build for brand safety first.
A Twitter Eulogy
On deleting my Twitter account, an old friend I met there who died, and what Elon Musk destroyed.
The Next Chapter
Online culture sure feels like it’s in a transition phase, doesn’t it? In an attempt to understand what we learned this week, let’s compare it to some prior internet-era shifts.
Antisemitic tweets soared on Twitter after Musk took over, study finds
““We’re seeing a sustained volume of antisemitic hate speech on the platform following the takeover,” said Jacob Davey, who leads research and policy on the far-right and hate movements at ISD.” #Twitter [Link]
Twitter insiders: We can't protect users from trolling under Musk
“Current and former employees of the company tell BBC Panorama that features intended to protect Twitter users from trolling and harassment are proving difficult to maintain, amid what they describe as a chaotic working environment in which Mr Musk is shadowed by bodyguards at all times. I've spoken to dozens, with several going on the record for the first time.” #Twitter [Link]
Self-hosting Mastodon on AWS using Nomad
With Twitter being a mess at the moment, I decided to try out Mastodon as an alternative. Mastodon is a federated social media platform, built on top of a protocol called ActivityPub. It can be self-hosted, letting you own your data, and I wanted to do so using Nomad as a cluster orchestrator. This post shows how I did it, and will hopefully inspire you to give Mastodon a try if you haven’t already! You can find me on the Fediverse at @lopcode@mastodon.social 🐘.
The Ethics of Staying on Twitter
When Elon Musk announced his intention to purchase Twitter, I knew then and there that staying on Twitter is counter to the values I hold. I cannot in good conscience provide revenue to any company owned by Elon Musk.
Short-form blogging
The rise of short-form content on personal blogs, and an extra thought tacked onto the end.
Farewell, Twitter
I'm no longer on Twitter (for obvious reasons) and I share a lot of sentiment about it with Simon Collison.
Twitter and the Perils of Obedience
Reflections on the current state of Twitter, and its similarity to the shocking results of a 1961 experiment by Yale Researcher Stanley Milgram.
Twitter and the Perils of Obedience
Reflections on the current state of Twitter, and its similarity to the shocking results of a 1961 experiment by Yale Researcher Stanley Milgram.
Rejection, In Four Parts
How rejection shapes the way we think, for good and bad—and if we let it, we take important lessons from it. (Tylenol helps in this process, we hear.)
On Mastodon
I'm on Mastodon, and I quite like it.
The AT Protocol
Vor zwei Jahren wollte Twitter in das „Dezentrale Netzwerke“-Business einsteigen und gründete eigens dafür das Projekt Bluesky. In den folgenden zwei Jahren wurde viel evaluiert und diskutiert, was wohl die beste Lösung für Twitter sei und wir alle fieberten mit ob es nun ActivityPub oder doch Matrix werden würde...
The Social Circle
The completed purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk reflects a symbolic victory for those who saw its power as a tool of influence, rather than for communication.
Replacements for social media
Social media sucks. Yeah that's right Twitter, I'm talking to you.
Censorship
Discussions of censorship are reaching a local maximum on Twitter, despite the fact that censorship doesn't really mean anything.