Tag Archives: 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.

Examining the promotion of “Pinstagram” as a tool for social climbing in school in season two of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun.

This will come as a shock to all of our readers, but I (N.A. Ferrell) do not approve of requiring Instagram usage for school assignments.

When even the family of the Colombo consigliere cannot log off.

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.

On the strengths and limitations of current Fediverse networks and the future of decentralized social media.

A satirical article by The Babylon Bee about Elon Musk’s Twitter saga inspires a piece on Twitter, content curation, and (of course) RSS/Atom feeds.

Checking out Victor V. Gurbo’s TikTok content with ProxiTok, an alternative privacy frontend to (terrible) TikTok.

I take a look at the Mastodon Twitter Crossposter, a tool for syndicating posts.

While Minds handles hashtags correctly, hashtags are still terrible.

A short introduction to RSS and Atom feeds. You will miss this excerpt if you’re using a feed reader.