socialmedia – Page 2 – Elizabeth Tai

Now on Substack – elitism, condescension and dogpiles

Dec 3, 2023

Substack’s design and content choices is fostering a social “class” system of elites, followers and outsiders. Can we escape this game? 📧Subscribe to read the post.

Is the Internet really broken?

Nov 9, 2023

My thoughts about The Verge’s article, The people who ruined the Internet and Danny Sullivan’s response, and the conversation swirling around SEO and the suckiness of the Internet.

What I learned from one year of Substack

Oct 22, 2023

Personal and random observations on what it takes to “make it” on this platform. Caution: Some of it can be brutally honest and rub you the wrong way. This post will be gated after a week. ;)

Some flaws with ActivityPub and wordpress.com integration

Oct 15, 2023

Definitely liking how ActivityPub works with my two blogs. However, there are a few limitations.

The sorry state of social media

Jul 9, 2023

A good post by SelfAwarePatterns about Threads and why social media is mostly crummy these days.

The puritanical pursuit of platform purity

Jul 9, 2023

Threads is out. And the natives are restless. 🍿 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

Being an imperfect gardener of my digital garden

Jul 6, 2023

The way I blog has drastically changed since I discovered the IndieWeb. For one, I’m less precious with my blog posts. I allow mistakes, errors, and no longer think chronologically. Every post is an evolving document.

How I am blogging the IndieWeb way

Jul 3, 2023

Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on you one day. As a writer, embracing Indieweb principles could save your life’s work from disappearing along with these platforms. Here’s how I…

POSSE and PESOS: Better ways to publish content

Jul 2, 2023

When I wrote this today, #TwitterDown was trending on Mastodon. Here’s another lesson why using platforms like Twitter and Substack as your content home is a bad idea. Publish your content the POSSE/PESOS way and you avoid much of the dangers of a social media site melting down.

You don’t have a moral obligation to leave Twitter

Apr 16, 2023

Believe it or not, many parts of the world do not think of Twitter the same way Americans do. Some are still happily on Twitter enjoying themselves. A semi-rant about being a non-American in the heavily North American Mastodon. 📧 To read, subscribe to the blog.

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