Repeat after me:

"Corporate tech will always betray me.

Corporate tech is never the adult in the room.

I fight for the users!"

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rdb6gclfgsffzgcgly4vjmh2/post/3mmz2dycdjk2v

#BlueSky #FellForItAgain #fediverse #socialmedia

Social Media is Broken

In 2018, during a sabbatical from work, I quit Facebook after 10 years on the platform. I made a concentrated effort to unplug for the first few weeks of my time off and just never returned to Facebook, which had become pretty toxic, at least my timeline.

My usage of Twitter started to fade even before Elon Musk bought the platform, but at some point within the first year of his ownership it really started to feel like an echo chamber of trolls and I deleted my account there as well.

For a while I tried to replace those platforms with Threads and Bluesky and Mastodon, but even these started to become unappealing.

I’ve recently realized that AI slop makes those platforms pretty unpleasant. I never know if I’m talking to a bot. I started to suspect that everything was rage bait and didn’t want to waste my time chatting with a large language model that was being promoted to maximize engagement.

📝 Blueskyが「埋め込みコマース化」へシフト——Standard.siteが変える、ソーシャルメディアとウェブの境界線

Blueskyのリンクカードに購読ボタンやライブ配信通知を付与できる「Standard.site」対応が拡大。ソーシャルプラットフォームの新たな収益化モデルが始動します。

🔗 https://techscope365.com/739/

#Bluesky #Standardsite #ソシャルメディア #AI #テクノロジー

#Mastodon #Bluesky #WordPress #SocialMedia

'Now you can bring in the people you follow on Bluesky, on Mastodon, and across the Fediverse. Then read, react, and post, all without leaving the Reader.'

https://wordpress.com/blog/2026/05/28/reader-social-bluesky-mastodon-fediverse/

WordPress: Now in the Reader: Bluesky, Mastodon, and the Fediverse. “If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ll probably know the WordPress.com Reader – a calm place to catch up on the blogs you follow, without an algorithm deciding what you see. This month, we added a new Social Feeds section to the Reader. Now you can bring in the people you follow on Bluesky, on Mastodon, and across […]