Tag: Internet
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Some interesting links – September 2023
Most of these relate back to previous posts I’ve made, but I’ve found them to be interesting/complementary to them – or I want to talk about them in a way that’s too long to go in a thread somewhere but too short to be in an actual post. “Mastodon is easy and fun, except when…
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Psuedonymity
I’ve used the name “Bloonface” on the Internet now for about eight years. Choosing it was essentially a very impulsive decision that in all honesty I’m rather sick of the results of but am more or less stuck with. “Bloonface” is a stupid username – quite aside from the fact that it actually appears to…
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A vision of the future
It is 1st January 2024, and Meta has shocked the world by introducing a new policy where they will literally murder all of their users using a big gun if they don’t delete their Facebook, Instagram and Threads accounts by the end of the year. Luckily, the Fediverse has an answer! It’s a new decentralised…
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On Twitter
Elon Musk buying Twitter was the final straw for me with that platform, which as it functions at the moment is a combination of things; a Skinner box in which everyone competes to find the most extreme opinion that will get them applause if expressed in 280 characters, and a glorified freak show where every…