Brian MerchantAug 8, 2023

Wrote about the ~current state~ of social media, and why Mastodon, while far from perfect, is pretty much the only decent app left standing at this point

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/story/2023-08-07/column-its-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it-we-should-feel-fine

Column: A few sick days made it clear — Twitter is dying, and so is social media as we know it

Social media is dying after the implosion of Twitter. Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon are trying to replace X but are coming up short. Maybe that's OK.

Los Angeles Times
Show threadCarl Heath

@brianmerchant that was a very nice read, thank you! Yesterday I wrote an op ed in one of the larger Swedish newspapers on the topic of X, Mastodon and public discourse. I think your piece really illustrates the difference between social aspects of the different digital spaces, and you seem come to a similar conclusion from a very different angle than me.

https://carlheath.se/open-public-discourse/

#mastodon #socialmedia

It's time for an open public discourse

The text below is my translated version of an op ed I wrote in Swedish, and which was published today in the major Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet. Recently, Twitter, perhaps the most important place for digital public discourse in Sweden, ceased to exist. Instead it was replaced by X, a

Carl Heath
Aug 12, 2023 at 5:05pmWeb