I’ve joined a French microblog community called SeenThis with an active community of bloggers who share interesting articles. It’s on quite a high level. Unlike my French. But it does include a translation engine for when I get stuck, and I’m strictly trawling, rather than actively participating.
Gnu Social had grown a bit quiet the last time I used it. I changed identities a few times after trying twice to establish my own instance, and people got tired of trying to re-follow me and I can’t blame them (that’s one thing that works better on Hubzilla).
In general, because of its core users, GS brings a different and sometimes hopeful way of looking at many of the issues that concern me. I find views and opinions here that are hard to find on Twitter or Google+. The commercial networks have vast numbers of people, and still they worry about $. On GS there is confidence regardless of the number of users and shaky platform it’s all built on.
Now Mastodon seems to be having a good effect on the rest of the federation, and brings in some new voices, some of them more mainstream. Eventually, I think that federated social networks will prevail over the mega-capital dinosaurs.
Just caught up with the Guardian post of Hossein Derakhshan, “Iran’s blogfather: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are killing the web”, from December last year. All true, but the bloggers, and other “content producers” (horrible term) are also helping to kill … Continue reading →
I deactivated my personal Twitter account two or three weeks ago because I did not like the direction the company seems to be moving in. I suppose I didn’t want to become angry with a company whose service I have … Continue reading →
The Wall Street Journal has an article “Report: 44% of Twitter Accounts Have Never Sent a Tweet” whose comment stream is particularly vile, though some of the remarks are valid. Without solid statistics, articles like that can only speculate about … Continue reading →
Twitter is still my favorite evil social network company. Evil mainly because of the way it upset developers a few years ago, for a couple of other things I vaguely recall, and for the inequity of massed capital in general. … Continue reading →
Note: this posting is still a work in progress I’m tired of the multiple services through which we connect to people, and tired too of closed garden monopolies like facebook. It would be better if there were a single way … Continue reading →
