Tedium Highlight in Social media: Picking a new social network? Bet on open—and avoid closed. 

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Not The Bees

Hive Social’s bad security practices, which are dangerous enough that a security team fast-tracked disclosure, puncture a hole in the formative platform’s long-term prospects.

Don’t Fall Into The Well

New social media networks put a lot of work into onboarding you with cool features. But what truly matters is what those networks look like over time—and open looks better than closed.

This is Your Escape Hatch

If you’ve had an unhealthy relationship with social media for a while, the past month could offer an opportunity for a reset. Don’t miss it.

Does Mastodon Need a Buffer?

Breaking down a few more of the nagging Mastodon questions you might have—including why tools to schedule your posts aren’t common just yet.

This is a Mastodon Pop-Up

So, we’re doing something different for the next week or two, and we’re sacrificing MidRange for the task. The reason? There’s a heckuva lot of confusion about the suddenly popular Mastodon. Maybe we can help.

Past the Personality Cults

Many people on Twitter seem to be looking past the network they’ve made their digital home for more than a decade. I wonder if it’s because the cult of personality spell has been broken.

See What Sticks

Elon Musk appears to be taking a “let’s see what we can get away with” approach to running the large social network he just bought. Whiplash impending.

Facebook Broke the Contract

Ultimately, we signed up for specific experiences when joining a social network. When we no longer get those experiences, even in a small way, we should not be expected to stick around.

Free Speech Disconnect

A common explanation for how free speech works on the internet doesn’t seem to be connecting with the public. Perhaps we need to use a Tim Robinson sketch to make our case instead.

The Centralizer’s Lament

The guy who helped created Twitter, Jack Dorsey, seems to be regretting his work around that these days. Is this an opportunity for the open internet to get back into the conversation?

Don’t Look Through the Microscope

A note to myself about how to approach criticism. Feel free to link me this piece if it looks like I’m getting a little too invested in a slight.

Oops, I Did That

Talking myself through a moment in which I accidentally locked myself out of an important Twitter account because I tried to get clever.

Old Drama, Replayed

That feeling when one of my blood-boilingest rants appeared on Hacker News more than three years after I originally wrote it—and long after the conflict was settled.

It Could Be Anyone

Considering the strangeness of the most generic notification I’ve ever received—an anonymous internet businessman who read my LinkedIn profile.

Did Tumblr Miss Its Shot?

Tumblr has all the elements to be a successful social network, including (now, at least) a monetization strategy that could make sense for both creators and the network itself. But they may have waited too long—and its community may not be as flexible as its owners are.

Twitter, Be Twitter

Twitter’s Fleets feature didn’t work because the problem it was trying to solve with Fleets might actually be unsolvable. And that’s OK.
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