But it definitely can be better.
Your Internet Doesn't Need to Be Big · Aaron Ross Powell
But it definitely can be better.
Social Media and Anti-Social Pluralism - Aaron Ross Powell
Communities are different online and off, and pluralism that thrives in the real world can turn toxic in the digital world.
We Needn't Have a One True Platform - Aaron Ross Powell
On Bluesky, user numbers, and the silliness of endless growth.
How Social Media Tricks our Brains — and Destroys our Politics - Aaron Ross Powell's Blog
Leaflet, Blogging, and How to Fix Social Media - Aaron Ross Powell
Decentralization, network overlap, and why we should all blog, too.
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.
Internet Hall of Fame: Celebrating Internet Visionaries
The Internet Hall of Fame celebrates the individuals whose extraordinary contributions have made the Internet what is today.
Should we design for iffy internet? | Hacker News
All of a sudden one day, I was cut off from all my music, by the creators of the iPod!
Beneath The Enshittification, Something Amazing Is Growing
Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about “the boring internet,” discussing how the internet that many of us grew up with, the wonderful, empowering, exciting…
The Internet Has Become Too American to Trust | The Walrus
Trump and Big Tech have fused into a new kind of threat
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Social web disconnect
www.manton.orgReally feels like the open Internet is falling apart, with bsky as a rare bright spot.
Ashton Pittman
The New York Times is now blocking The Wayback Machine from accessing its articles. That means you'll no longer be able to view archived versions of NYT stories published in 2026 and beyond on archive.org. (All those posts you see tracking changes to NYT headlines and ledes? They relied on WBM).
Here’s @rude1.blacksky.team, Founder and CEO of @blackskyweb.xyz and Excellence Award Winner of the #OpenSocialAwards. Blacksky is a beacon of choice, community, and agency in a bleak social media landscape. They’re building the tools they need and sharing them with everyone.
When it comes to our digital lives, too many people care about bigness and an imagined potential to achieve their own bigness, and too few care about connections and the potential to achieve meaningful connections.
Your Internet Doesn't Need to Be Big
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