Tag Archives: Alternative Social Media

I offer a specious left-field take on why Elon Musk renamed Twitter “X” after spending 43 billion dollars to purchase the platform.

I concur with an argument in favor of external linking while taking a different perspective to argue in favor of humane internal linking.

On our new Twtxt feed and how to set one up in WordPress. This will be useful for the 2-3 Twtxt users who may find our site.

Thanks to the Nostr Verify plugin for WordPress, you can find NLJ editor N.A. Ferrell on Nostr at nafnlj@thenewleafjournal.com. I explain how it works, step-by-step.

Substack’s view that its Notes platform is not a Twitter clone misses the forest through the trees.

Making the case for a feed reader + read-it-later solution as an online reading alternative to social media and services like Google and Apple News.

An argument in favor of the coexistence of RSS and ATOM feeds with microformats and other modes of connecting independent blogs and websites.

While Minds handles hashtags correctly, hashtags are still terrible.

But are you promising to leave Europe?

〜Demonstrating the timelessness of Coolidge’s remarks on the home〜

〜Follow N.A. Ferrell’s Pixelfed photos without leaving The New Leaf Journal〜

A 2021 collection of resources for finding software alternatives to the big tech options. Note that this article is somewhat outdated but many of the recommendations are still viable.