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RIP social media. What comes next is messy.
As social media splinters, how can we keep the new online spaces from devolving into toxic pits of despair?
The Interplay of Knowledge Overestimation, Social Media Use, and Populist Ideas: Cross-Sectional and Experimental Evidence From Germany and Taiwan - Niels G. Mede, Adrian Rauchfleisch, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer, 2024
Social media expose users to an abundance of information about various issues. But they also make it difficult for users to assess the quality of this informati...
The 'normal' response to the Social Web
How (mostly) 'normal' people respond to the ideas of the Social Web Marketing the Social Web is a headache. Only heightened by the clashing of heads as everyone offers an opinion. Picture those dinosaurs that have their skull on the outside. That's us. No wonder it's a headache.
W Social, Fictional Metrics and the Beauty of Open Data
W Social's tagline is "Trust Your Feed" but the company's landing page displays inflated engagement metrics - a misrepresentation that contradicts its own promise.
Social Media and News Fact Sheet %page%
Many Americans use social media for news: About a fifth or more regularly get news on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and TikTok.
Analytics on the Open Social Web • RocheBit
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about analytics on the open social web. I would love to hear how others approach this topic, and share my own perspective.
Blue Skies Ahead: Social Media's Quiet User Revolution
In a digital landscape increasingly defined by user concerns over privacy and control, a quiet revolution is taking shape.
It’s time for movements to rethink social media
Movements can still find people on social media. But the real organizing has to happen somewhere else — and that's the part we keep skipping.
While we're talking about social media stats, can we just take a moment to reflect on how weird it is that we've convinced ourselves there can be only One Website and if your website is not on its way to being the only One Website, you're failing?
Aug 12, 2026 at 8:06 PM
What if we thought about digital spaces like an ecologist? We’d consider the incredible communities that come together over the interwebs – yes, even through social media – in a totally different way. substack.com/home/post/p-192761679
Today some of the most innovative creators & podcasters are launching social websites that will bring millions of their fans to the social web: verge.surf.social decoder.surf.social versionhistory.surf.social vergecast.surf.social wired.surf.social 404media.surf.social poweruser.surf.social
I'm convinced that there is a huge Atmosphere-sized hole in the personal website market, and here's why that matters👇
Why websites?
anna.pckt.blogIf you're building apps for the social web, this survey report by Incogni is really worth a read. People are quietly withdrawing from active participation in social media. blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/ Extracts in the thread 🧶 👇
The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing social media use [2026] | Incogni
blog.incogni.comOne of the issues that has come up again and again in my reporting on misinformation and social media is the massive influence social media companies have on research in the field. Last night a preprint dropped that tries to get at this with some numbers. My piece in @science.org (and 🧪🧵 coming):
Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims
www.science.orgI saw a post in a feed and noticed how one snapshot of my screen showed so much of the social web at once
It's working
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