Social Networking Utopia — Matt

In discussing the network topology of social networks — whether centralized like Facebook or federated like ActivityPub — I think the ult...

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.

Introducing Slow Social

I’d like to introduce you to Slow Social. Slow Social is my idea of what I wish social networks...

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…

The year social networks were no longer social | TechCrunch

The term “social network” has become a meaningless association of words. Pair those two words and it becomes a tech category, the equivalent of a single

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...

Some thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet

A little while ago, I wrote a thread on glitch.social about ephemerality of posting on social media as compared to Usenet. It got a little bit of traction, and one person asked if I could post more about Usenet clients. I haven’t gotten to it until today, and I thought I would post on my blog instead of on glitch. The original thread wasn’t really about Usenet clients; it was mainly about how posts on Usenet expired, which is contrary to people’s current expectations about social media, but actually worked very well.

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.