2025-09-13
Techmeme and Memorandum are as good as front pages of the internet get. [embedded post]
Techmeme News
On Techmeme's 20th birthday, its founder explains what's behind the site's consistency, debunks some supposed media trends, and outlines future directions
happy bday @Techmeme 🎂. Nearly old enough to drink. 🍻https://news.techmeme.com/ ... Dave McClure / @davemcclure : my favorite (un?)healthy addiction: @techmeme 💕🤓🔥 been an avid fan...
2024-12-21
Important to note Rumble isn't a decentralized video hosting service, regardless of what Tether puts in its press release headlines. [embedded post]
CoinDesk
Rumble announces a $775M investment from Tether and plans to use $525M to fund a tender offer for ~70M shares of its common stock; RUM jumps 35%+ after hours
Stephen Alpher / CoinDesk :
2024-11-24
I thought this was a great piece with a fair approach to Jay and the team's pragmatism in prioritizing cloning Twitter over launching a fully decentralized system. [embedded post]
Financial Times
Similarweb: Bluesky app usage in the US and UK grew ~300% to 3.5M DAUs after Nov. 5; Threads now has 1.5x Bluesky's DAUs in the US, down from 5x before Nov. 5
Social media giant's Threads app makes changes as smaller competitor to X surges — Meta's Threads is losing ground …
I thought this was a great piece with a fair approach to Jay and the team's pragmatism in prioritizing cloning Twitter over launching a fully decentralized system. [embedded post]
Dustycloud Brainstorms
ActivityPub co-author on Bluesky and ATProto being neither decentralized nor federated, and how Bluesky is building a good X replacement with a “credible exit”
Recently due to various events (namely a lot of people getting off of X-Twitter), Bluesky has become a lot more popular …
2024-11-04
I can't stop wondering what this means for the needle [embedded post]
New York Times
The Times Tech Guild, representing 600+ NYT devs, data analysts, and more, goes on strike ahead of the US election; management offered a 2.5% annual wage rise
The Times Tech Guild represents more than 600 software developers and others who run the back-end systems behind The Times's digital operation.
2024-11-03
Doctorow refusing to join your platform: feature not a bug?
Pluralistic
Why Bluesky not adding the federation systems that let users leave the Bluesky server and take their community to other hosts can lead to “enshittification”
- Bluesky and enshittification: No one is the enshittifier of their own story. — Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.