Looking back at Gamergate, a flash point in internet history, and what it has to tell us about our current moment.
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.
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.
For decades, technical users looking down on the less knowledgeable have set the stage for a lot of bad online discourse. Can those users break the chain?
Hitting its 25th anniversary this month, Craigslist remains a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive.