Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
“Nostr is a distributed social media protocol that has a chance of working.”
…that involves generating a public/private key pair and sharing the public key around, signing your messages, connecting to different relays…
People coming from Twitter are confused about *picking an instance* of Mastodon. I think the barriers to entry might be a little higher on this.
Just realized I hit my two-year Mastodon anniversary last week!
(I’ve really been on here two years?)
Interesting read: Why Google+ Failed
“Google Plus didn’t fail because Facebook is invulnerable. It failed because of deep flaws embedded in it from the very start.”
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@mjog Yeah. By the time Inbox was introduced, I’d already set up enough custom rules that I wasn’t interested in even trying it, but the analysis makes a lot of sense.
Food for thought: applying the human brain's limits on meaningful relationships (Dunbar's number, aka the Monkeysphere) to social media.
The upside of reposting or linking your content on social networks: more people see it. The downside: you fragment the conversation. Instead of everyone interacting together in one place, you have one conversation on your site, another on Twitter, a third on Facebook, a fourth on Tumblr…