Social Media
I Adopted Thinking Face Emoji
I ran across this Adopt a Character campaign from the Unicode Consortium and felt like a donation made sense. But what emoji to pick? After thinking through a few I decided Thinking Face. 🤔 This is fun, but I think it would be so much cooler if this program worked by selling …
Keep reading · 1 minute: I Adopted Thinking Face EmojiNot Writing for the Timeline
I’m done writing for the timeline. There is a concept in Indieweb communities called POSSE. The acronym stands for publish on your own site, syndicate everywhere. This approach is an attempt to give you the best of all worlds. You can own your own content. Solve the not your …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Not Writing for the TimelineAnti-Social
Social media is a mess. I’ve lost track of what is social about it. It is a Skinner Box of addiction. The reductionism of a timeline is tiresome. The dopamine inducing likes are there to create some saccharin view of engagement. I recently noticed that I was falling back into …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Anti-SocialOn Audience Capture
When I first started writing the Weekly Thing the email service showed me two reports that I knew I didn’t want to see. The first was who opened the email, when, where, on what device, and how often. That was a clear violation of privacy. What business do I have knowing what you …
Keep reading · 9 minutes: On Audience CaptureI’m glad I grabbed a screen shot of the “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy” because now that same URL returns a 404 and appears to be deleted from the search index.
I feel like Twitter is disrespecting micro.blog by not including it in the banned list of platforms you can link to. Show some respect! Post is on there and it’s been around for 5 minutes.
Follow me @jthingelstad on micro.blog!
This new “Promotion of alternative social platforms policy” on Twitter deserves memorializing for the pure idiocy of it.
Not your domain, not your words
In the crypto community there is a common and very important saying: Not your keys, not your crypto. Meaning if you don’t manage the private keys to your wallet, someone else is. And whoever that someone else is, they actually own your crypto. A lot of people are learning this …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Not your domain, not your wordsI was intrigued by the interview on Pivot with Waze founder Noam Bardin on his new offering Post. He’s taking the community features that made Waze successful and applying them to social media with a focus on news. 🤔 I’m on the waitlist.