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Burningbird Social Media Technology Weblogging

Mastodon and Burningbird

The social media upheaval continues but things are starting to quiet down a bit. Oh you can’t tell this from the media, which is full of stories leading with “Elon Musk says…”, but that’s primarily because the media hasn’t figured out how to wean itself off Twitter, yet. I quit Twitter the day that Musk […]

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Social Media Standards

Testing Tribel, counter.social, and Mastodon

Elon Musk’s Twitter antics are getting harder to ignore, so I’ve joined with others to look at social media competitors in hopes of finding that perfect Twitter alternative. Hint: there aren’t any. The Trouble with Tribel The first app I checked out is Tribel, a social media app created by Omar Rivero, also known as […]

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Media Political Whatever

Republicans are crazy and the media loves it

Today, more than a dozen publications were featuring a Herschel Walker event in Richmond Hill. He didn’t take his shoes off and start sucking his toes, so, for the most part, the media coverage is positive. In the meantime, you can’t find one single story on Senator Warnock. Not on him, specifically. You can find […]

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Social Media

Evil twin Twitter and the media

Musk took over Twitter, immediately fired most of the executive staff, and has seemingly lowered the restrictions on some of the more notorious Twitter offenders (of which sadly pathetic but proud killer Kyle Rittenhouse is one). Musk’s own tweets would seem to support our worst fears of his impact on the site. This screenshot of […]

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Social Media

Twitter is about to be Musked

The Musk buyout of Twitter is all but done, and even before the blo…ink dried on the contracts, the scent of Musk permeates the social service. According to the Verge: Musk has a deadline to close the purchase of Twitter by October 28th. In a sign the deal is proceeding, Twitter froze its employees’ equity […]