I haven’t been on socials so I haven’t seen all this AI slop but if silo socials really are ending, that’s a good thing.

A lot of the points this writer are a little weird.

We need to build new digital spaces grounded in different principles, but this isn’t an either-or proposition.

Dinosaur Comics.

Why go somewhere that makes you unhappy even once — let alone dozens of times each day, logging on every time you have a free moment??

Rakhim’s blog.

Overall, consistency, user control, and actual UX innovation are in decline. Everything is converging on TikTok—which is basically TV with infinite channels. You don’t control anything except the channel switch.

I’ve got four words for you: get off the silos.

I love this solution-oriented overview of doomscrolling.

One drawback of POSSE is that you’re bolstering the value of the silos. Instagram grows more powerful with your pictures on it and GitHub thrives on your repos.

The network externality is a hell of a drug 💁🏻‍♀️

I was always anti-twitter so seeing it devolve into X is just it clarifying where it was always heading. But what’s weird to me is that people then willingly are going to BSky, to get fooled again (since AT isn’t real yet, nor will it be a particularly good protocol if it does become real).

On the one hand, I wanna say what a failure on behalf of the Mastodon community that people are so desperate that they even willingly go to sites like BSky and Cohost.

On the other hand, it’s maybe more a failure on how fedi was originally organized, with “The Whole Known Network” and such. The “bubble” idea is so much better & cozier. It lets you think locally, act globally 💁🏻‍♀️