Ce n’est pas une grande surprise en soi. Il y a eu un élément déclencheur avec l’achat de Twitter par une ordure et la baisse subséquente de qualité du réseau. Les gens avaient besoin d’une alternative et ont pris (pour faire court) BlueSky, l’alternative « tout pareil mais sans le connard », ou Mastodon, l’alternative…
Ben Werdmuller (werd.io)It’s an insane use of funds. It makes zero sense. So I’m looking at selling my car and either switching to a lower cost model (I like driving an EV) or just going without for a while.
This sounds like a textbook « sell your car, rent one when you want to do something that requires one » situation.
A lot of people feel drawn to simple living or digital minimalism because they feel a constant need to be connected and stay up to date, and feel less and less in control because of the attention economy and how algorithms are developed to maximize your attention. While the fediverse might not work in the same exploitative way…
Yes, it does. It will keep suffering from the same issues as long as it encourages microblogging, and there are public upvotes and likes, and you can post links on Lemmy with a single-sentence summary that people can react to without reading the link. The Fediverse social media is built on the exact same premises…
Loren put out an interesting post on why he prefers not to use an RSS reader: […] I did a post a few weeks back about why I’d actually prefer if you read my posts in RSS than the website itself.
I’m somewhere between the first two blog posts. My flow for news consumption, in short, is see in RSS reader -> send anything longer than a couple of paragraphs to my e-reader for comfortable reading. For the shortest posts, I often click just to give people a view (if they have analytics) and check if…
When you get such extreme mental fatigue from social media and you just want to check out and sleep all day – you know you’ve got a problem.
I’m following Elizabeth’s example here, as I think her template is excellent and very easy to follow. My relationship to news and social media has drastically changed in the past couple of years, and I’m happy to say I’ve been having a much more positive approach to social media especially − I was extremely addicted…
Fini l’emplacement vide et la tente, vive le chalet et le mobil-home ? Plus rentables, les campings haut de gamme ont la faveur des investisseurs et d’un certain public. Mais les adeptes des vacances à l’ancienne s’organisent.
Vous lisez la première partie de notre série d’été « Le camping, une pratique écolo ? ».
Récemment retourné sur la côte des Havres (Manche), Adrien Guibert, 36 ans, a eu « du mal à reconnaître » le camping où il se rendait avec ses parents. « C’était un camping trois étoiles assez (…)
Je m’appuie sur ce très bon article de Reporterre, qui parle de camping de luxe et de mobil-homes meublés, pour admettre que oui, cet été, mon camping se fera en chalet. Enfin, ma première sortie camping, parce que je me tâte de plus en plus à partir une semaine après ça dans un autre camping,…
bacardi55 (bacardi55.io)Yet another non usual technical blog post today… But something I have been thinking about for a few weeks… So I thought that writing it here might get it out of my system (and maybe raise intersting responses). Maybe with the reply july challenge (even though I’m not officially participating),…
Not only do people IRL know I have a blog, but I don’t let them forget it. I’m extremely obnoxious about the upsides of having a personal blog and wanting us all to use RSS feeds and comment sections and/or webmentions. More importantly, I use my blog as a repository of answers to conversations or…
I’ve evidently been living under a rock as a budding controversy has been brewing in the Fediverse. There is a two-year old proposal known as FEP-5624: Per-object reply control policies:
“Sometimes, users may want to…
I understand the idea of wanting to post and not wanting replies from anyone, I really do. But this brings me back to the question that I always seem to come back to: if you want full control, why do you rely on someone else’s platform? Get a blog! Curate comments or close them! Social…
Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)Bookmarked Finding nourishment vs. identifying poison by Austin Kleon (Austin Kleon)
You can identify all the poison you want, but if you don’t find nourishment, you’ll starve to death.
“Anyone who’s spent time on the internet in the past few years will recognise how it feels to be caught up…
Hah, interesting, I recently saw this video on Reparative Reading by This Dang Dad, and now I’m finding your blog post (via the more recent The overwhelming loudness of performance). Love seeing wildly different people pick up the same topic (a few years apart, sure)!
