social media
Sunday, May 11, 2025
Substack becomes another close digital garden. I think. Before you could write there a newsletter. Today you can publish podcast, videoconversations and posts like on X, Bluesky or Mastodon. Everything in one place.
Comfortable? Definitely yes. But… dangerous as well.
Why? Because it all doesn’t belong to you.
Your entire business becomes dependent on Substack. Your independence is created by the idea that you can export a list of your subscribers' email addresses and switch to other provider.
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Sunday, February 9, 2025
You can leave Twitter/X and move to Bluesky or Mastodon.
You can leave Facebook and don’t miss it or possibly move to LinkedIn.
You can leave Messenger/WhatsApp and move to Signal.
You can leave Instagram and move to Pixelfed.
But you can’t leave YouTube. Although there are alternatives in the IndieWeb and open source world. But in reality, in this case, there is no good alternative.
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Sunday, January 26, 2025
In article on nature.com I read:
“Bluesky is much better for science. There is much less toxicity, misinformation, and distractions,” wrote one respondent. “My feed is almost entirely scientists and I actually get updates on research that is relevant and timely,” wrote another.
and
In Nature’s survey, 55% of respondents to the question ‘What do you use Bluesky for?’ said it was a mix of three research-related activities: to connect with other scientists, keep up to date with other research or researchers, and promote their own research.
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Wednesday, November 13, 2024
I remember when about 15 years ago we had in Poland two interesting and quite popular social media platforms: Blip and Flaker.
Blip was ‘polish Twitter’ in that time. Used only by Poles. Really interesting grassroots project which became important place for people with various interests.
Flaker was something different. You published posts, took part in discussions, following other people. Combination of Facebook and Twitter (or Blip). It had great community and some of options which wasn’t enabled for a long time in American social platforms like Twitter or Facebook.
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Friday, November 1, 2024
For me X is dying as a social platform. Misinformation, haters comments, quarrelings, dozens of unintelligible changes during last months. This is no longer space for me. I tried to find alternative but it was difficult. It is still difficult because I don’t know is I find it.
Now I discover Bluesky - app created by people which worked on Twitter. They’re showing everyday new approach about how should look modern and independent (without big tech) social media.
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