







Plus: Group chats, unsent love letters and optimization
#783: The end of spoken conversation
Plus: Pandora Radio, birthday mania and the “perimenopause industrial complex”

#788: Please text my husbamd
Plus canned beans, QR codes and r/BoyDinnerDiaries

#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs

V1H7U2 🔞 (@v1h7u2.bsky.social)
I just use this profile for lewd stuff I can't put on my main.
Meet n Code - Tuesday | Meetup
Join us on our Discord Serverhttps://discord.gg/TPjH8uWAGWThis is a group for people who want to meet up with other programmers and code. Be as social or as unsocial as you like.There is no agenda. There is no topic. This Meetup is language agnostic and all skill levels are welcome. Show up with a l

#777: Happily surrendering our leisure to lines
Plus: the physicality of data, the second coming of froyo, and the rise of "dopamine sites"

#784: The absurdity of the apocalypse
Plus: repayment avoidance, the death of “hello,” and a Cinderella story for the algorithmic era

The Future of Group Messaging
An analysis of modern messaging, and the evolutionary next steps.

#762: One weird trick to make new friends
Plus: Dubai influencers, cultural time and the "most uplifting corner" of the internet

Humans are social creatures. We crave bonding and social connections. In our digital world, our common social space is a campfire, which is the group chat.
Join the Lighty's cool place Discord Server!
Support server for the BetterDiscord plugin MessageLoggerV2 and others, as well as general chatting of anything. | 8763 members

#780: Play the banana song!
Plus: The next generation of "tradwives," babytech creep, and scrolling more socially

#766: An AI company you can wear without socks
Plus: Wedding Brain, news hustlers, the importance of talking to strangers and the best restaurant bread in America

Elena Rossini 🌈 (@_elena@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image 🚨 Important update about my latest #WSocial article 👀 A user on #ATproto cracked the code and came up with a reasonable explanation for the made up number of comments on W Social's homepage. The number next to the speech bubble (comment icon) are an "engagement metric": the sum of boosts and likes. It all makes sense now! https://blog.elenarossini.com/w-social-fictional-metrics-and-the-beauty-of-open-data/ (scroll down to the end of the article for the update)
ok i finally made this available to use! try it out and lmk what you think.. it's weirdly intimate? but im pretty sure ppl think im a bot when i reply right after they post hah.spencer.place/messages
HAH — social media art experiments
hah.spencer.placespencer chang
the firehose if everyone was just DMing you