“The internet’s town square should never have been one specific website with its own specific rules and incentives. It should have been, and should be, the web itself.
[…]

The web is wide open again, for the first time in what feels like forever.”

—@brentsimmons

https://inessential.com/2022/11/13/after_twitter

HT @tchambers

“It is normally easy and actually quite pleasant to walk and think at the same time, but at the extremes these activities appear to compete for the limited resources of System 2. You can confirm this claim by a simple experiment. While walking comfortably with a friend, ask him to compute 23 × 78 in his head, and to do so immediately. He will almost certainly stop in his tracks.” -- Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (2011)

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1403110-it-is-normally-easy-and-actually-quite-pleasant-to-walk

#walking #thinking

The UK is the only G7 member to have NOT regained its pre-pandemic economic levels.

The "unique difference"?

Brexit.

And by the way - we are NOT post pandemic.

Infection numbers now are higher than for the last 2 years.

I did a little comparison: reach and reaction on Twitter and Mastodon.

I picked a subject typical of my feed and reworded it to be more native to Mastodon. Same link, issue, people, tone.

With 309 K followers on Twitter it got 81 shares and 179 likes

With 8.5 K followers on Mastodon: 123 shares and 195 likes.

Here are the two posts:

https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1591147769229557761 [305K followers, 81 shares, 179 likes]

https://mastodon.social/@jayrosen_nyu/109326807884220104 [8.5K followers, 123 RT, 195 likes]

Interesting comment on Hackernews regarding a possible scenario/long term risk should Mastodon threaten the corporate sphere of social media.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33545541