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Blogroll – Manu

I believe we should all blog more and connect more with strangers. There's not much I can do as an individual. I can offer to be your first reader, …

Platform Stats — blogs.social

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Universal profiles on the open social web

One of the discussions we had during the community day ahead of Eurosky was about this notion of interchangeable user profiles in the Atmosphere / Open Social Web. @laurenshof.online even recorded the entire conversation so maybe there’s a transcript I could clean up for us? Anyhow, here’s the gist of it. Deferred profile Right now on roomy.space if you sign up with your existing Bluesky account, we will defer to that Bluesky profile for your profile in Roomy as well, essentially recognizing t...

For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter

How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.

For You, For Everyone - Graze Newsletter

How Graze built a "composable personalization" engine for the open social web — and why it matters right now.

AT friends #4 & #5: @gabboman.at.app.wafrn.net and @djara.dev of Wafrn - Jake Simonds's Blog

informal chats with people building cool stuff in the open social world

JCLaHoot.com

Jonathan Lahue's personal website and blog.

Semble (@semble.so)

Social knowledge network for your research trails by @cosmik.network 🌐 https://semble.so/

[Draft] Follow anyone — Open Indie

I just wanna keep track of people I care for and find interesting. The type of feed(s) available for subscription (blog, micro-blog, chat...

Social Media Is Now Parasocial Media

When practitioners used the term “social media” to describe the internet tools that emerged in the mid-aughts, they were giving a name to the kinds of platforms and protocols that allowed people to socialize with friends and communities of interest by using digital technologies. Twenty years later, users of social media are far more likely to scroll than post – and the content that they consume is often strategically produced and algorithmically curated. In this essay, I argue that the very essence of social media has changed. To more effectively interrogate what we are witnessing, we need to stop presuming that these tools are “social media” and begin recognizing that they are now “parasocial media.” Doing so raises new questions about digitally mediated sociality, not to mention the politics and governance of these platforms.