Tag: Social Media
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Substack will host a few less Nazis?
Substack now has a Nazi stench about it – and Substack seems to be fueling it. Every time it opens its mouth, it seems to talk about Substack’s Nazi problem. Today, the Platformer claimed, “Substack says it will remove Nazi publications from the platform”. I have read this reporting by Platformer at least a dozen…
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Across the Fediverse: Tags with Spaces (and dashes)
I have been wondering: how would WordPress tags federate when they have spaces? In a couple of recent WordPress posts I absentmindedly end up using such tags (i.e., with spaces): “Year in Review” and “user feedback”. Here are the screenshots of two such tags (two different blog posts): When federating over to Mastodon it seems…
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Federated comments going to spam, and one other Comment subtlety
In my post yesterday I noted that not all replies from Mastodon were federating as blog post comments. I did not think much of it back then. But today I saw those comments (and several others) in the spam section of my blog’s comments – they were also pending approvals. Guessing that this is happening…
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Setting up Activity Pub for a WP.com blog
… and early experiences for Winter Rant on the Fediverse and Mastodon. Yesterday I enabled ActivityPub for my WordPress.com blog (this blog – Winter Rant!). This means that Winter Rant is now an ActivityPub server that is discoverable as rant.vpalepu.com@rant.vpalepu.com – on ActivityPub clients, such as Ivory, Ice cubes, or any Mastodon client application. This…
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No Hogwarts in Tech
(Posted originally here: https://post.news/article/2I0vhDmRMmfBWo3ZjEIDCOGqap2) I saw this tweet this morning by Elon, and I was immediately reminded of the part in Harry Potter, where there was a mass breakout of Deatheaters from Azkaban just as Voldemort was coming back to power publicly. That analogy has interesting parallels for anyone following Twitter’s latest happenings. You can…
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Even CEOs not safe in this market?
Update on this story below Just saw a tweet drop that suggested that Zuck was going to resign from Meta! Not sure how true this is, but wow! I guess he will join the 13,000 Meta/FB employees that he just laid off – only if this story is true. Obviously if this is true, then…
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Twitter needs a paywall
… so that I can stop opening it. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 It also needs that $8 paywall, to die as a business. It is a sure-shot way to drive down engagement on the platform and Elon, the white South African, will realize this soon enough. There are not enough $8/mo social-media users out there to sustain the…
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As predicted, Elon brings back Trump to boost Twitter’s DAU/engagement
I suppose the writing was on the wall. But I never imagined that it would be this blatant and transparent. I figured he would wait till FIFA getting over. What was I thinking? But this is a net positive move for Twitter, if its infrastructure survives the next month. And that’s not necessarily a big…
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Prediction: Elon boosts Twitter’s DAU by bringing back Trump
I mean, what else can he do to kick up the numbers here? The advertisers are fleeing. And even if the site’s most active users continue, you need to kick up the usage to stratospheric levels to throw a serious bone to those advertisers… all to get them back. He is already hoping to do…