Dan Hon: s13e17: A Proposal for News Organization Mastodon Servers and More. Here’s the inevitable thinking about The Next Phase Of Social Networking [sic]. (more)

Hometown: a Mastodon fork created by Darius Kazemi https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown (more)

PixelFed - Federated Image Sharing https://pixelfed.org/ (more)

Mike Solana: Surviving and Thriving in Tech's New Winter. Last week, Meta — the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp — laid off more than 11,000 employees. As early as this week, Amazon is expected to lay off as many as 10,000 (more)

The Impassioned Moderate: Ryan Reynolds didn’t pay close enough attention to The Matrix. News came out a few weeks ago that Bending Spoons, a consumer app studio, raised a massive $340 million round of financing. The press gushed about it: “Hollywood star, tech execs invest in Italian start-up Bending Spoons”, “Ryan Reynolds invests in 'terrifying' Italian start-up Bending”. (more)

Mike Solana: No homo. In June of 2003, the year I graduated high school, homosexuality was still effectively illegal in 14 state (more)

Nolan Lawson: Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system. This incident demonstrates that a large-scale harassment attack by motivated actors is not only possible in the fediverse, but is arguably easier than in a centralized system like Twitter or Facebook, where automated tools can help moderators to catch dogpiling as it happens. (more)

Mike Solana: Twitter Vs. The Cathedral. Two weeks ago, in a storm of allegations concerning everything from fraud to outright theft, the world’s second-largest crypto exchange (FTX) evaporated overnight. (more)

Brent Simmons: After Twitter. For writers, artists, podcasters, journalists, and people who make things in public, Twitter was the one social networking site we all had to use. (more)

Kevin Marks: How do we replace Flickr? #Indieweb #Yesvember Flickr was intentionally built as a community (more)

Chris Aldrich: New Mastodon Instances and a Local Timeline Experiment. I’ve been tempted to join a smaller Mastodon instance to be able to appreciate the value of having a useful local timeline (more)

Dan Hone: s13e20: What It Is Like To Be A Certain Kind Of Person. (On Gabrielle Zevin‘s Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow.) When I was around 16 years old (which is strange, in my head I remember being younger), Microserfs, by Douglas Coupland, was published in the UK. Microserfs is one of my comfort books, alongside The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy which, I’m afraid to admit, makes me a stereotype (more)

Dorian Taylor: Muskus/Domesticus 🐀 Prior to Twitter, I got my up-to-the-second situational information mainly from IRC, supplemented by a rotating cast of one-off, bespoke private message boards, and finally, RSS. (more)

Mastodon Was Designed to Be a Nazi-Free Twitter. Now It's Home to Gab. Mastodon was launched as a decentralized, social justice friendly Twitter alternative that was free of Nazis and harassment. But two years later, the biggest Mastodon instance is now Gab, a far-right social media network known widely as a gathering space for white supremacists (more)

Mike Solana: Debt Babies. Abolish the institution of federal student loans. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 11/17/22: Slow Recovery. While the news has been fast and furious on many fronts, Covid is not one of them. (more)

Evernote's Next Move: Joining the Bending Spoons Suite of Apps. Today we are pleased to announce that Evernote has agreed to join Bending Spoons, a leading developer of stand-out mobile apps. (more)

Twitter rival Mastodon isn’t safe from online mobs either. When Twitter drove entire communities off its platform, Mastodon gave them a new online home. But a recent flare-up around actor Wil Wheaton has sparked concerns about how effective the platform truly is at acting against dog-piling and online mobs. (more)

Plex 16 November 2022. (more)

Gordon Brander: Thinking together. While analyzing a global history databank spanning 10,000 years, Jaeweon Shin, et al found a disconcerting pattern. Civilizations scale until they are overwhelmed by the information environment they create. This is The Information Scaling Threshold. (more)