A strategy guide for using a semi-pointless social network in all the wrong ways.
Nobody knows how the whole system works
One of the surprising (at least to me) consequences of the fall of Twitter is the rise of LinkedIn as a social media site. I saw some interesting posts I wanted to call attention to: First, Simon W…
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.
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Bluesky is the one! 10 top tips for joining the growing social media platform — Ned Potter
Bluesky is great, and it’s really starting to build now: in fact in under two months it has doubled to 12.5 million users [edit - since I wrote this 5 weeks ago it’s doubled again, to 24 million!]. It’s especially good for individuals seeking to rebuild their professional and personal networks away
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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.
"This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms, it's infrastructure for trust, visibility and connection" By a @gainforest.earth user discovering @atproto.com's magic for the first time! 🦋🌱 Their full post: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7…
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the wa...
www.linkedin.com"This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms, it's infrastructure for trust, visibility and connection" By a @gainforest.earth user discovering @atproto.com's magic for the first time! 🦋🌱 Their full post: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7…
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the wa...
www.linkedin.comThis is a good example of the permissionless innovation happening in the #Atmosphere: create an initial LinkedIn-style site you can access via your existing Bluesky/Blacksky/Eurosky/etc. account, then add more and more features leveraging your existing personal data in the Atmosphere and beyond.
Sifa ID 🪿
If you go to your personal Sifa Page at page.sifa.id/%3C@handle%3E/now, it now shows your personal heatmap and activitystream. (Check nownownow.com/about for the history of the /now page :))
