Chrissy Teigen said Twitter “no longer serves me as positively as it serves me negatively.” I agree.
How Social Media Brings Out the Worst in Us
A new book argues that social media does more harm than good and we might be happier and healthier using it less.
Good-bye to All That Twitter
Two New York staffers find enlightenment, or at least more time for Facebook, on a turn-of-the-year social-media holiday.
How The Enshittification Of Social Media Is Decreasing The Switching Costs And Enabling Something New
In the last few weeks I’ve written about how Elon Musk’s “changes” to how Twitter is running have done an amazing job convincing people to join Mastodon. And I’ve also…
"Did We Create This Monster?" How Twitter Turned Toxic - Fast Company
For years, the company’s zeal for free speech blinded it to safety concerns. Now it’s scrambling to make up for lost time.
The Weird, Fragmented World of Social Media After Twitter
The common forum that Elon Musk destroyed will never be replaced—and that’s okay.
Criticism of X (social network)
X, formerly known as Twitter, has faced various criticisms over the years, particularly concerning content moderation, censorship, and platform management.
On Social Media and Its Discontents - Cal Newport
Split Reactions As someone who has publicly criticized the major social media platforms for years, I’ve become familiar with the common arguments surrounding this topic. ... Read more
We Don’t Need Social Media
Instead of wishing for better kinds of social platforms, we should question if they’re worth having at all
Twitterlike is a Bad Shape
Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape.
The Blacksky path towards resilient social media
A journalist gets blocked by Bluesky, but her Bluesky posts can still be seen via Blacksky. This apparent contradiction goes to the heart…
The Blacksky path towards resilient social media
A journalist gets blocked by Bluesky, but her Bluesky posts can still be seen via Blacksky. This apparent contradiction goes to the heart…
Can “Indie” Social Media Save Us?
Artisanal versions of Twitter and Facebook hope to keep the good while jettisoning the bad.
It gets even crazier. After MS NOW reporter @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social published an article debunking the celebrity deepfakes, she herself was woven into the narrative, with fabricated videos emerging that falsely claimed she had retracted her reporting and blamed Democrats for a "false flag."
Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/kelsey-hightower-b…
Open-source champion Kelsey Hightower on the promise of Bluesky
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