What @Mike McCue and team at @Flipboard are doing with
Surf
Surf – Join the Surf Beta Waitlist
 is really interesting. I'm checking out their beta and it's intriguing. It's social media, for sure, but IMHO different and better: it goes far beyond the monotony of the linear feed into far more focused experiences. It's like merging Twitter, RSS Readers, and Google News into something that looks and feel prettier than any of them. And might very well be more useful. There's a long waiting list but may be worth it.
“Ninety-two percent of retailers plan to invest more in social commerce this holiday season” Is there any social commerce in the #fediverse? https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/14/business/tiktok-shop-ban/index.html
Mozilla is sending e-mail asking for donations. Mozilla also has become an advertising company. You gotta decide #Mozilla, which one it is. You cannot be both.
For those of you who have accounts on both #Mastodon and #Threads, now that following works in both directions, are you going to:
A democracy cannot remain a democracy if one guy can inject a quarter billion dollars into an election. Personally I think it won’t do well either if it were “merely” a quarter million. https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/05/politics/elon-musk-trump-campaign-finance-filings/index.html
Rich findings walking the dog today. image
@Cory Doctorow has a strong anti-Bluesky argument:
Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
Columbia Journalism Review
Jeff Bezos Should Donate the Washington Post to a Charity
His conflicts of interests are insurmountable. He can take a heroic path to strengthen journalism.
404 Media's @Jason Koebler and ProPublica's @Ben Werdmuller are discussing how the #fediverse helps #publishers in the latest episode of @Mike McCue's #DotSocial podcast. Highly recommended. This struck me particularly: Ben is making the case that the Fediverse is the means by which publishers can re-take the initiative with technology instead of simply having to live with whatever the platforms decide. That is powerful stuff!
About Flipboard
How Decentralization Benefits Publishers, with 404 Media’s Jason Koebler and ProPublica’s Ben Werdmuller
Savvy journalists at forward-thinking newsrooms are working to build direct connections with their audiences. The fediverse helps with that.
Have a dot-io domain? Looks like you are in trouble.
The Disappearance of an Internet Domain
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