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We asked you if you'd go back to X if it had new ownership.
Of the 812 people who responded, 67% said no.
The future of social media IS the Open Social Web 🔒
#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Poll #X #Twitter #Musk #LeaveX
We asked you if you'd go back to X if it had new ownership.
Of the 812 people who responded, 67% said no.
The future of social media IS the Open Social Web 🔒
#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Poll #X #Twitter #Musk #LeaveX
New notebook means a new sticker canvas 👀
very complicated.
I feel like the implication of this statement is that social media should not be thought of as representing our public discourse. but I do want the #SocialWeb to be that and think it can do a better job than any other corporate media/platform ever has. but we'll need everybody here and in good faith to make that happen. and I'm more focused on how it can democratize attention to other digital media than what is specifically being said here.
not twitter, not X. so IDK.
I think a lot about how we get more people like me (Gen Z, female, queer, into sports) on the Social Web.
One of the things I have realised is that the perception of the Social Web to someone like me isn't all that positive. It doesn't have a good 'vibe'.
In this blog post, I've explored the initial vibe of the Social Web to someone like me. I'd love if you checked it out.
https://forbetter.ghost.io/whats-the-vibe-of-the-social-web/
When articles, videos and podcasts are native #ActivityPub, maybe people will just boost them directly instead of everybody writing their own posts linking to them. I really wish quote boosts had this functionality in mind. Same with podcatchers, video players and reader apps in the future. Show me what's most boosted in my social graph of the content type you're designed for.
Making all media management better and attention more democratically allocated is the "killer app" of the #SocialWeb.
I think a lot about how we get more people like me (Gen Z, female, queer, into sports) on the Social Web.
One of the things I have realised is that the perception of the Social Web to someone like me isn't all that positive. It doesn't have a good 'vibe'.
In this blog post, I've explored the initial vibe of the Social Web to someone like me. I'd love if you checked it out.
https://forbetter.ghost.io/whats-the-vibe-of-the-social-web/
"At the end of the day, no matter how good and ethical something is, it has to feel right to the user. Unfortunately, for the majority of the Social Web, the vibe isn't good enough for new users to trust and try the tech. But, if we know that, we can work to change it."
@saskia takes a look at the vibe of the social web to outsiders.
https://forbetter.ghost.io/whats-the-vibe-of-the-social-web/
#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Blog #Mastodon #Bluesky #OpenSocialWeb
"At the end of the day, no matter how good and ethical something is, it has to feel right to the user. Unfortunately, for the majority of the Social Web, the vibe isn't good enough for new users to trust and try the tech. But, if we know that, we can work to change it."
@saskia takes a look at the vibe of the social web to outsiders.
https://forbetter.ghost.io/whats-the-vibe-of-the-social-web/
#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Blog #Mastodon #Bluesky #OpenSocialWeb
I think a lot about how we get more people like me (Gen Z, female, queer, into sports) on the Social Web.
One of the things I have realised is that the perception of the Social Web to someone like me isn't all that positive. It doesn't have a good 'vibe'.
In this blog post, I've explored the initial vibe of the Social Web to someone like me. I'd love if you checked it out.
https://forbetter.ghost.io/whats-the-vibe-of-the-social-web/
The other thing that the #Guppe incident showed us is that the #Fediverse seriously needs the #Nomadic protocol.
Let's say the Fediverse understands the protocol: just move to a new domain, inform all instances "this is the new domain, automatically re-subscribe please", done. Life goes on for regular people.
I am not saying it is that easy or that's how exactly it will work. But it could've been avoided. Right now, entire communities are gone, many who were relying on it are now disconnected. (Then again, I can argue that it's time to clean the membership since many accounts are also stagnant.)
So, when? #ActivityPub2 ?
We have to bulld a new healthier open social web. The current closed, commercialized siloes are indeed a cancer.
GOV. COX:
"Social media has played a direct role in every single assassination and assassination attempt that we have seen over the last 5, 6 years. There is no question... Cancer probably isn't a strong enough word. What we have done especially to our kids, it took us decade to realize how evil these algorithms are."
https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-september-14-2025-n1312719
"conflict entrepreneurs"
I'm not sure if this refers to the people running the services or show hosts, but I like it.
I just worry that people won't separate decentralized social media from closed services with algos and ads. imo much of the cable news business model is just a lesser version of the combo of the divisive commentators and the big tech algos that drive people to them for profit.
the #SocialWeb is a way to break free from all of that. #DemocracyOfReach
Hurray! 🥳
The last days of #SocialMedia have come. Sped up by an unexpected but uplifting side-effect of the #AI madness perhaps?
🌱 Here comes #PersonalSocialNetworking. According to James O’Sullivan..
> The successor to mass social media is, as already noted, emerging not as a single platform, but as a scattering of alleyways, salons, encrypted lounges and federated town squares — those little gardens.
The archipelago fedi! 😃
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/share-what-you-want-socialhub-to-be/5539/36?u=aschrijver
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