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Doctor Doom Toots as He Pleases! So does the Snark

16 Jun 2024 1 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark

Seeing as Twitter has now become X and I can't log in (due to some conflict with JavaScript usage or a CORS issue causing a conflict with Firefox or one of the addons/plugins I'm using), I've decided to abandon Twitter (which now redirects to x.com)....

My experience: running decentralized services

29 Apr 2024 2 minute read 0 comments Georg Engelmann

I have been running blockchain infrastructure for a while on dedicated servers. I have been running Bitcoin nodes on various devices since 2010.I also hosted my own social media (identi.ca copy) back in 2011 and now I am running my own Mastodon insta...

Is This the End of the Platform Age As We Know It?

10 Mar 2023 5 minute read 4 comments Allen Taylor

Justin Cox, a Web2 writer, has observed that the platform era is coming to an end. On Substack, he wrote an article titled “The Platform Era is Ending” in which he points out that … Social media ad revenue is falling; User engagement is down; T...

Twitter To Remove Accounts That Promote Other Social Media Platforms

19 Dec 2022 4 minute read 0 comments RevolverOcelotYt

Introduction Twitter is making a major move to protect its platform by removing accounts that are created for the purpose of promoting other social media platforms. The decision has been met with mixed reactions from the social media communit...

SHOULD ARTISTS ON TWITTER SWITCH TO MASTODON? UNBIASED REVIEW.

14 Dec 2022 7 minute read 0 comments Nicole Harb NFT

Over the past few months several Twitter users have been migrating over to alternative social platforms, mentioning rival competitors, such as Mastodon and Peep, but as an artist online and in the NFT community, should you? This article aims to answe...

Mastodon: An Open-Source, Uncensored Social Media Platform

1 Dec 2022 4 minute read 1 comment MintDice.com

Whether you realize it or not, no matter what you post online, no matter what site you post it on, your post is subject to scrutiny. This scrutiny, whether performed by human moderators or bots, has the potential to censor your post—even to the poin...

Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover Is Driving People To Decentralized Social Network Mastodon

4 Nov 2022 2 minute read 0 comments RevolverOcelotYt

  Introduction As noted by the popular tech news site The Verge, open source, decentralized social network Mastodon has been benefiting from the chaotic Twitter takeover by Elon Musk, with 230,000 people having joined Mastodon in the last wee...