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Ladybird on Twitter / X

We appreciate the large interest in Ladybird over the last few days!More browser engines is a good thing, and we're doing everything we can to bring you one!To manage expectations a bit, our current roadmap looks like this:2026: Alpha2027: Beta2028: General releaseAt…— Ladybird (@ladybirdbrowser) March 1, 2025

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bird.makeup mirrors public Twitter accounts into ActivityPub. Enter a handle to open its profile page.

My top Bluesky feature requests for 2024

In 2023 my social media consumption changed dramatically after I DM'd a random mufo on what-was-then-called Twitter for a Bluesky invite. At the time, I was floating between Twitter itself and Mastodon for my primary daily social media experience. On one hand, I loathed Twitter (and

#764: It's been a year

Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs

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.

Searching for Birds

An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations

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The Internet's Reading Group

(PDF) The Loop and Reasons to Break It: Investigating Infinite Scrolling Behaviour in Social Media Applications and Reasons to Stop

PDF | Today's social media (SM) platforms are toolkits consisting of features with different use cases, some strongly related to habitual and regretful... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

First post: A history of online public messaging

From BBS to Facebook, here’s how messaging platforms have changed over the years.

Interconnected, a blog by Matt Webb

My notebook and space for thinking out loud since February 2000.