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Facebook fooled us into thinking we were being creative
My friend Keith has been away from Facebook for six weeks, for work reasons, and hasn’t missed it. And he asked, ‘Was it all really a waste of time?’ I know you think you know what I’m going to say,...
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That’s the hat-trick: Twitter has locked Lucire’s account
Pixabay In the space of less than a month, another US social network has shut Lucire’s account down. This time it’s Twitter. When going through the settings to see if Lucire could be verified,...
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How to end social media censorship
Kristina Flour/Unsplash This Twitter thread by Yishan Wong is one of the most interesting I’ve come across. Not because it’s about Elon Musk (who he begins with), but because it’s about the history...
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Farewell to Drivetribe—and a reminder to keep your own copies
Not much of my old Drivetribe channel left now Sadly, I was late to the demise of Drivetribe—though as some on Reddit point out, the brand still exists on other channels. But as for hosting the...
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Facebook admits we’re experiencing a bug preventing us from managing Lucire’s...
Last night’s hour-waster was chatting to Facebook Business Support. No, that’s unfair. I was actually assigned an incredibly good rep who took me seriously, and concluded that Facebook did indeed have...
View ArticleLife’s could-have-beens
A Mastodon post about my mayoral campaign policies. No, I didn’t foresee a global pandemic as such (though I certainly was on Twitter perplexed at why the WHO had not declared COVID-19 a global...
View ArticleCory Doctorow might be predicting the end of the web as we know it
Two great pieces by Cory Doctorow came my way today on Mastodon. The first is an incredibly well argued piece about why people leave social networks. Facebook and Twitter won’t be immune, just as...
View ArticleThe way I define data, they’re still not portable on Mastodon
Proof once again that your Mastodon data are not portable. New Mastodon.social users apparently sent out a lot of spam. I never saw any—the only one I received was from Mastodon.uk overnight—and this...
View ArticleIt’s harder for humans to add stuff to Facebook than it is for bots
This is why you should let an automated service post to Facebook and not do it yourself. I am reminded of this each time I try. I go into Autocade’s Facebook page and now have the extra step of having...
View ArticleAs Mastodon starts to mainstream, welcome to the end of social
My Mastodon feed is full of US politics and American football. I could use lists or mute keywords, but neither seems to be an ideal solution. I thought it had been agreed by most users when the influx...
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