Been thinking about this all day. What if @sill.social was Stumbleupon, guided by your network instead of randomness? Is this anything?
Rose 🌹
Majority of links are behind paywalls which I get; subscriptions in media are everywhere bc platforms killed distribution. How much traffic data actually translates to reading the article? I open links all the time and then close them bc of the paywall. We are reviving discovery but who’s reading?
Apr 15, 2026 at 10:29 PM
How to beat LinkedIn: The Game
A strategy guide for using a semi-pointless social network in all the wrong ways.
InnerNets - Make internet personal again
Our mission is to bring the right information to the right person, in the right way.
Holdfast 0: Situating
This post introduces the written version of some optimistic and constructive thinking on knowledge in networks that I’ve been wrestling with since the end of last year.
Managing for emergence through abduction - The Cynefin Co
Several interactions over social media have left me somewhat frustrated by the inability of several people who could know better (I exclude the odd
Nobody Cares About Your Protocol | John ✦° | Offprint
Nobody joins a social network for its architecture. An honest look at why Bluesky lags Threads, plus real ideas to close the gap.
Your intellectual fly is open | The Observation Deck
Note: This was originally published as a LinkedIn post on November 11, 2025. I need to make a painful confession: somehow, LinkedIn has become an important social network to me. This isn’t necessarily due to LinkedIn’s sparkling competence, of course. To the contrary, LinkedIn is the Gerald Ford of social networks: the normal one that was left standing as the Richard Nixons and the Spiro Agnews of social media imploded around them. As with Gerald Ford, with LinkedIn we know that we’re getting something a bit clumsy and boring, but (as with post-Watergate America!), we’re also getting something that isn’t totally crooked — and that’s actually a bit of a relief.
Our AI Philosophy | Typefully
Social media runs on an implicit contract: I write something, you follow me, you read it, and you trust it came from a human mind. AI writing is curr…
FediForum Talk: How To Bullshit Your Way Through a Conversation about ActivityPub
By Evan Prodromou, Social Web Foundation and editor of the ActivityPub standard. One of the best bluffers in the field of distributed social networks gives you just enough knowledge about ActivityP...
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
A New Social
Our mission is to liberate people's networks from their platforms, enabling The Last Network Effect and leveling the playing field across the open social web.
Social media is a gnarly coordination problem we need to decompose - a warm space
Understanding LSTM Networks -- colah's blog
Humans don’t start their thinking from scratch every second. As you read this essay, you understand each word based on your understanding of previous words. You don’t throw everything away and start thinking from scratch again. Your thoughts have persistence.
A healthier internet isn’t just wishful thinking — our friends at the @prosocialdesign.bsky.social have a whole library of research-backed design solutions for building prosocial spaces online, organized by our Civic Signals research! 🧵
Prosocial Design Network
www.prosocialdesign.org@mosermostly.bsky.social had what is likely the correct read: that they will use this to train a bot to seem less botlike
Tits McGee
Oh my God, this is not a drill - LinkedIn has added 'seems like AI slop' as an option on posts Genuinely thought it was a joke until I clicked on a few posts
