Tag: SocialNetworking

“Nostr is a distributed social media protocol that has a chance of working.”…

“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.

https://www.nostr.directory/

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Interesting read: Why Google+ Failed

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.”

#SocialNetworking #GooglePlus

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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.

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Which site was first to publish your likes/favorites in your followers’ timelines?

Which site was first to publish your likes/favorites in your followers’ timelines, #Facebook or #Twitter? Or did they both take this crazy idea from another site?

And what the heck was their stated rationale?

Searching hasn’t helped, so I turn to the #lazyweb

#socialnetworking

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After complaining about the ways people try to cram long form writing onto birdsite (giant …

After complaining about the ways people try to cram long form writing onto birdsite (giant threads & images of text remind me of the old tech support days when users pasted screen shots of errors into Word docs b/c it was the tool they knew) I realized I don’t see that so much on Mastodon.

I wonder if it’s the culture, just who I’m following, or if the 500-char limit gives people enough room that they don’t feel they’ve already writing a long chain, why not keep going?

https://hyperborea.org/journal/2018/07/long-form-twitter-why-oh-why/

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Social networking experiment creates the amalgamated platonic ideal Facebook & Twitter users.

An interesting social networking experiment: Someone set up profiles on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, then publicized the passwords so anyone could use them, creating an amalgam of the ultimate Facebook or Twitter account. (Instagram’s didn’t take off.)