Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform's nonprofit status
Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter Tweets: @suji_yan , @barbariancap , @wilbanks , @tariqkrim , @astaniscia86 , @davewiner , @ma...
The pivot to Web3, driven by ideology rather than utility, is akin to a “collective Theranos” that's warping the economy to benefit professional investors
It can feel as if the entire world is bolting on crypto tokens and NFTs. Many in the industry worry the gold rush is akin to a … Tweets: @maxwellstrachan , @martinsfp , @asmallteapot , @ourielohayon ...
Internal documents show Facebook defends algorithmic ranking because its data suggests that its algorithm knows what users want better than they do themselves
Jeff Jarvis generously gave me support for the idea of using rivers in news orgs. Tweets: Jeff Jarvis / @jeffjarvis : For years, @davewiner has been begging newspapers to provide a “river of news”—tha...
Apple, Spotify, and other companies that distribute podcasts have done little to rein in COVID-19 misinformation, escaping the scrutiny social media giants face
False statements about vaccines have spread on the “Wild West” of media, even as some hosts die of virus complications. Tweets: @carnage4life , @evan_greer , @derekwillis , @shanoorseervai , @peterham...
A look back at the evolution of RSS and why it lost out to centralized information silos on the web controlled by corporations, despite being an open format
Sinclair Target / Motherboard : Tweets: @wingedpig , @davewiner , @drandrewthaler , @derektmead , and @dangillmor Tweets: Mark Fletcher / @wingedpig : I think this is a good overview of the history o...
For well-intentioned discussion, maybe people should move from Twitter to Tumblr, still the world's 52nd-most popular site but with the feel of a ghost town
A reconsideration of the last great blogging platform. — Maybe you're familiar with the many reasons why people hate Twitter. Tweets: @sophcw and @davewiner Tweets: Sophie Weiner / @sophcw : this is...
Tech firms and governments can't be trusted to preserve digital history, which adds importance to the role of archives like the Egyptian 858 and Syrian Archive
We create almost everything on the internet, but we control almost none of it. — Recently, a 7-year-old photo of mine appeared at the top of my Facebook feed. Tweets: @tomgara , @davewiner , @digiph...