Digital Crossroads is a mishmash of the coolest updates, deep dives, and quirky insights from across the digital realm. We cover topics like RSS, the Fediverse, and the latest and greatest in the world of social media. Crossroads is for anyone who's ever been curious about the behind-the-scenes of the Internet, the future of online privacy, or just loves a good tech tale.
Anil Dash, “Don’t Call It a Substack”: We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to “read my Amazon”. A great director trying to promote their film by saying “click on my Max”. That’s how much they’v...
How we deal with physical media, the most tech heavy restaurants we’ve patronized, tech that ended up disappointing us, and the social media networks of yesteryear that we’d bring back.…
Creator-based journalism has a market problem: The market is bad.
Twitter-like microblogging social network Bluesky is having its moment in the sun. We’ve all seen the multiple headlines of late heralding the arrival of another several million new members, most of whom have migrated from Twitter. The buzz is similar to that surrounding Mastodon about two years ago...
There’s a lot of noise about Bluesky recently, it seems like they passed 20 million users, with more than 1 million new users daily recently.
Apple News is a great way to stay informed about breaking news stories worldwide. There is a lot of free content, and you can manually enter your favourite websites, so your feed is full of appealing articles. Apple is starting to populate the free tier of Apple News with direct advertisements, and ...
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
Even though I love, and use, RSS daily to read things from the human focused web, also known as the indie web, I’ve been taking some time to dive into alt media. By alt media, I mean the 1990’s definition of alt media, where people actually stood against injustice instead of bowing down to their … C...
I may have finally found a compelling, accessible way to describe the Fediverse - and make it appealing to people not familiar with it.
every new feature they add increases lock-in, making it harder to leave while they court some of the worst people online #
Deck Blue The social media platform, Bluesky, has been getting a lot of press lately as a mass migration from X has taken place over the past two weeks. Bluesky has added nearly five million new users. For any Mac users wanting more than the default web interface, there are a few tools available. De...
Another wave of Twitter users are jettisoning the social media website in favor of alternatives. Some are landing in the Fediverse (Mastodon and other ActivityPub-enabled software). Others are going to BlueSky. Some are just outright abandoning social media entirely, disillusioned by the entire conc...
After leaving social media, I've decided to post stuff, that I would have posted on social media so far, in a new blog category named "TIL". The category will start as a feed only, but I'll create some HTML for it soon-ish. Maybe I'll expand this to include thoughts as well. And maybe, we'll get bac...
This tactic highlights a broader issue where media outlets are relying on Big Oil for financial support, leading to a skewed view of what causes dirty energy in the environment. Outlet slams business using faux local news channels to spread propaganda: 'A blatant, naked attempt by industry to have t...
In the MIT Technology Review, Mat Honan makes two points about changes in the world of social media with both Bluesky and Threads seeing massive growth in November accelerated by the election and people leaving Twitter. The era of everyone having a uniform social media experience is ending. And that...
There will never be a liberal Joe Rogan, but the Democratic establishment prefers to ignore what it's already got The post After The Election, Leftist Influencers Are At A Crossroads appeared first on Aftermath.
The most popular influencers are men, who are increasingly becoming radicalized in the age of Trump.
Below is the transcript of a conversation that took place in at home yesterday. My wife noticed that I was on my laptop early in the morning, which is unusual for me. So she made a decision she’d soon regret: asking me what I was up to. Katherine: What are you doing? Me: Signing up for a website. He...
Hopefully this doesn’t sound too snotty but I chuckle when people seem to lecture me on how a social platform works. If you don’t know anything about me… I signed up for Twitter, built apps, and quit the platform in frustration before most people joined it. I live and breath the social web. 🤪...
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