Elizabeth Tai

Tag: socialmedia

  • Mastodon, trolls and filters

    Despite our idealism about social media, it is not a town square but a forum. Usually, a badly moderated one.

  • Utterly Random episode 1: Is Mastodon for you?

    Utterly Random episode 1: Is Mastodon for you?

    A quick introduction to Mastodon’s culture and politics , how to be a part of the community and have a good experience on the decentralised social media network.

  • Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification

    Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. Cory Doctorow in https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/

  • The enshittification of social media

    Cory Doctorow, in his article, Social Quitting, highlights how social media have life cycles. One day, they were sparsely populated fringe services, the next day, every­one you knew was using them and you had to sign up to stay in touch. Then, just as quickly, they imploded, turning into ghost towns, then punchlines, then forgotten…