I don’t hate “social media”. But there’s got to be a way to connect people you know in real life (past and present) in a semi privacy respecting way while allowing a chronological stream of posts MySpace was… what it was (I don’t think the page style translates well, the basic idea of facebook‘s design is a good one) I think the problem we have is zuck doesn’t care (if he ever did, there’s people arguing he stole it from people in the first place) and lies a lot

I’m so jealous of people who have good screen names I don’t think I’ve had a single one I like in decades of internet use

I don’t know if we absolutely need decentralized everything but the fact remains as of 2025 the biggest platform on the internet has a wildly non chronological feed with a ceo known to come up with gems like “if you want info on people just ask, they trust me, dumb fucks” It’s a bit of a problem

How does nostr actually deal with spam Is it up to the relays to ban people

Bluesky should not function purely as an anti Elon echo chamber hive mind If you wanna use it for other reasons fine but the self congratulatory patting on the back wears a bit thin

What musk did for stopping covid censorship was absolutely necessary regardless of what you think of him (and I think some of what he does is distasteful like the cave incident in Thailand) and we have to really reevaluate what “misinformation” is (YouTube was absolutely useless and they should be held to account for the voices they silenced including medical professionals.. “do not contradict who/cdc is not good community guidelines)

Facebook is auto following people to trump/vance apparently and while that’s not great it’s hard to say the platform prefers one side or another, but my problem with the whole product is that regardless it’s so far from being an actual chronological feed of your friends, it’s spam on steroids They effectively do this kind of thing regularly

I don’t know whether it’s trauma related and I’m sure a therapist would have a field day, sometimes I feel like a stranger in my own body and have to force myself to react to anything