2019-08-08
On Cloudflare's ban decision: “User-facing platforms are the ones that should make these calls, not infrastructure providers. But if they won't, someone needs to. So Cloudflare did.” https://stratechery.com/...
Stratechery
How user-facing platforms, infrastructure companies, and democratically elected governments can get better at deciding what content should be moderated and when
On Sunday night, when Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince announced in a blog post that the company was terminating service for 8chan, the response was nearly universal: Finally.
2018-01-02
A sobering look at our need for niche communities. “The year we wanted the internet to be smaller” http://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
Niche online communities and media grew in 2017, through Patreon, TinyLetter, “finstagrams”, and more as people looked for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
niche communities, human connection, people exchanging ideas, maybe even paying each other for the work they'd made — never really lost its appeal, but this year it came back with ...
2018-01-01
A sobering look at our need for niche communities. “The year we wanted the internet to be smaller” http://www.theverge.com/...
The Verge
Niche online communities and media grew in 2017, through Patreon, TinyLetter, “finstagrams”, and more as people looked for alternatives to Facebook and Twitter
Why tiny, weird online communities made a comeback in 2017 — Americans got tired of big social media in 2017. Tweets: @rianvdm , @taylorlorenz , and @laurengoode See also Mediaga...