Me blathering like I do about social media, which I think Truman Capote predicted in “Other Voices, Other Rooms” (Can’t be sure, haven’t read it yet). I continue to use and love mastodon, despite it’s foibles, but I have a better idea of why I love it so much: It is because I am a…
As an almost 42 year old who remembers logging into university servers before AOL to chat with friends/relatives to get around Long Distance telephone charges… I have been on the Internet a Long Damn Time. Also, my entire career seems to be “You have been saddled with this anxiety that will make you spend your…
I have been on Mastodon since mid-November 2022 and I have thoughts. BREAK OUT THE LISTS! For what it’s worth, I just really like Mastodon for now and one of the main reasons is the ability to follow a Hashtag. I follow #Knitting and see a lot of different knitting posts. And when I post…
First, read this: The ‘Enshittification’ of TikTok | WIRED. It’s Cory Doctorow demonstrating precisely why TikTok (and Meta and Twitter and Google and Amazon GrubHub/Postmates and Uber/Lyft and AirBNB/ENVO and Tesla) and pretty much 93% of every other hyped awesome Internet thing feel so lousy and expensive despite starting out so strong in the 2010’s….