Mathew Lowry

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Did someone mention transition plan?*
mathewlowry.medium.com/x-strategy-o...

* Warning: the logical arguments set out in this framework are not immune to corridor conversations.

X Strategy or eXit Strategy? A cost-benefit analysis framework

Some considerations to help you clarify your eXit Strategy.

Thinking I may have gone a little OTT on @twinkl.social, and absolutely keeping it that way. #lessisabore

Belgian schools quitting legacy social media for dedicated tools which respect kids' privacy.

And if we gave them a PDS and an app with permissioned data?

www.notele.be/si103-media1...

Péruwelz : les écoles communales quittent les réseaux sociaux dès la rentrée

Ce choix répond avant tout à des préoccupations liées au respect du droit à l'image des élèves, mais aussi à la volonté d'éviter les polémiques qui peuvent naître sur les réseaux sociaux.

Mystery solved.

Cookie + Brownie = @brookie.blog, at least if your Belgian.

Mathew Lowry @mathewlowry.eurosky.social

Getting some of that this morning, thought @brookie.blog should know.

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Dude! She has far better taste!

(but am I talking about her, or the cake?)

"as social media’s algorithms showed more promoted content and less of the things that people you followed created, the value of the personal connection of Google’s accidental social network became ever more clear"

𝕮 @chrisshank.com

enjoyed @buttondown.com's retrospective on Google Reader

Google Reader was building the wrong future

The app that taught us to directly follow our favorite creators.

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Rebelmediahu Fidesz: Sheep with a Bucket

Alt: Rebelmediahu Fidesz: Sheep with a Bucket

I realise I'm probably pretty dense but the stansite subscription UX perplexes me.

I hit the subscribe button. I'm not subscribed, but sent to blog landing page and asked to install an app.

(But isn't the idea that I can subscribe to a stansite without installing multiple apps?).../1

Brittany Ellich @brittanyellich.com

Hello! I've been at Bluesky for a bit over a month now and have a lot of thoughts, which are now going to be tucked away in this cute lil blog on @pckt.blog First up: Atmospheric Groups, an effort that we are working on in the Atmosphere community that I'm very excited about 👀👀

On Atproto and Atmospheric Groups

I'm starting A Fresh Blog(tm), this time on Pckt. I wanted a dedicated space to post about development, atproto, and community thoughts, and a new space felt like the right place for it. Plus I wanted to get in on standard.site summer while it's still ongoing. Before I get into any of that, though, an introduction. As of a little over a month ago, I work at Bluesky! Before that I was a staff engineer at GitHub, and a long time before that I have a background in public health, which colors a lot ...

This hits home: "The young live in a Ponzi-financed world".

Highly recommended.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

This is a brilliant essay, which, in my view, accurately describes the predicament of the post-Boomer generations, and the vast infrastructure of lies designed to disguise it. "Degeneracy is a symptom. The disease is rent." 🧵 henryfudgeofficial.substack.com/p/degeneracy...

Degeneracy is a Symptom

On Conspicuous Despair, the Ponzi stage of being alive, and why your grandparents are wrong about you.

Trump trumped.

ht @siemdc.bsky.social

Denis @denispr90.eurosky.social

Congrats, America! You've just smeared your ugliness all over the beautiful game as you give your players license to break their opponents' legs with impunity.

OTOH nobody will respect your victories from now on, so you lose even if you win.

Nice.

Denis @denispr90.eurosky.social

The best analyses of where society's heading usually come from those seeking media business models.

This is no exception, tracking as it does "the increasing marriage of extreme wealth, Big Tech, AI and the coalescing American oligarchy which is allied with the political forces of autocracy."

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social

Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’ talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/googl...

Google, AI, Oligarchy and the End of the ‘Open Web’

I wanted to share a small observation about the interweaving worlds of...