2023
An awful lot of people on the internet seem to be under the illusion that being nasty to people online makes them a better person. Being nasty does more harm to you than the person you’re targeting, online or offline.
Feeling slightly guilty about how much time importing my huge Twitter archive into micro.blog is taking…
Verily, the bard hath used the roll of Rick.
Probably of marginal interest to the folks here, but I wrote a little about how journalists should be thinking about Mastodon right now.
Substack Notes: first impressions
Substack Notes is in a really weird place at the moment. It’s basically just a bunch of newsletter writers trying to persuade each other to subscribe to their newsletters.
It’s a bit like being in an auction house where the buyers and the sellers are all the same people.
They need some stronger incentives for the readers to come over there - but that’s down to the writers. They need to come up with value for their readers - and just endlessly pumping their newsletter is not that.
Early days.
