Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024)

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Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits: No one wants to have a fire, but you need to plan for one anyway.
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Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024)

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Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story.
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How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads

(An opinionated guide) (for the perplexed).

The mastodon mascot tangled in a snarl of thread. — https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html Eugen Rotchko, AGPL, modified Apr 15 2023

Everyone Can Change Mastodon

Mastodon is great. I love it. I love that it’s based on an open protocol, ActivityPub, which is designed to prevent lock-in and thus enshittification.

Now, that doesn’t mean that I agree with every decision that went into Mastodon’s design, and that’s okay. Unlike, say, Twitter, if I don’t like Mastodon’s design, I can change it, by creating a new client or a server extension, or by convincing someone else to do so. Mastodon is an open, generative platform, built on software that is free-as-in-freedom —everyone can modify it.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Twiddler" (27 Feb 2023)

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Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone?
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Pluralistic: What the fediverse (does/n't) solve (23 Dec 2022)

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What the fediverse (does/n't) solve: We can protect our communities from commodification, but it takes work.
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