Formats over apps.
File Over App: A Philosophy for Digital Longevity
My take on the 'file over app' philosophy and why it’s essential for keeping my data resilient and built to last.
The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner
And a community proposal to fix it.
The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner
And a community proposal to fix it.
The disconnect between web pages and the social filesystem. - Chris's Corner
And a community proposal to fix it.
Traditional Social Media as a Prison - What’s Happening on My Feed?
Social media apps have become a vehicle for community building, world news, and political campaigns. As app owners have enmeshed themselves more with the state, the carceral logics that haunt marginalized communities offline, became a part of their digital realities online.
Social apps | at-store
Social-layer apps focused on posting, discovery, conversation, and relationship-building across the network.
Beyond Bluesky: These are the apps building social experiences on the AT Protocol | TechCrunch
A list of AT Protocol-based, consumer-facing apps that are either built on top of Bluesky or its underlying protocol, allowing users to take back control over their social networking experiences and personal data.
The Linear Oppression of Note-taking Apps
What we lose when our digital notes remove the freedom to move
Special episode: Apps vs Files with Gordon Brander, Peter van Hardenberg & Jess Martin.
Building Apps With ATProto
feeds.social — Minimalist Bluesky Client
Shifts in U.S. Social Media Use, 2020–2024: Decline, Fragmentation, and Enduring Polarization
The social media ecosystem appears to be in flux. Twitter’s rebranding to X has come to symbolize a broader reorganization of online publics – political reshuffling, user attrition, and uncertainty over the role of legacy platforms. Simultaneously, the shift from text-based, networked feeds toward algorithmically curated, short-form video has accelerated, with TikTok setting the pace for the wider ecosystem [18, 14, 16]. At the same time, everyday communication increasingly migrates from large, open networks to semi-private spaces such as group chats and messaging apps. Commentators describe a digital public sphere in transition: smaller, more fragmented, less dominated by traditional social networking sites, and rise of more broadcast-oriented forms of media – with some even suggesting that we are seeing the beginning of the end of the social media era.
Linus on Twitter / X
Notion serves millions of very dynamic, heavily modified interactive collaborative documents to users every day. At some point the line between documents and apps blur sufficiently.— Linus (@thesephist) August 15, 2025
