Twitter is burning, Bluesky is smug. Where is the best place to do your pathetic doomscrolling?
[Guardian cartoon.]
Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of this cup of coffee left.
That was much easier than I was expecting.
Twitter is becoming a feature rather than a product:
- Substack has it, via Notes
- Instagram has it, via Threads
- The Fediverse has it, via Mastodon
- The Web has it, via Micro.Blog
That’s why I don’t think there will be One True Twitter Killer.
My initial take on Threads: suprisingly good, but with a lot of missing features - and a huge data grab.
I think Bluesky is the first social network I’ve not been able to get onto. Not been able to wangle an invite anywhere, and still stuck in the invite queue.
The real danger for them, is that I increasingly don’t care - and it’s literally part of my job to be paying attention to these things.
What to know about Threads, by the founder of Mastodon.
And it’s live. I’m on Threads. No choice, really, given my work…
Is the second-hand bookshop disappearing? Perhaps not. 📚