Teenage Engineering releasing new products, prototypes of which they casually had on a table during an interview... from two years ago. Hardware sure demands significant time and effort.
By “full Twitter experience” they actually mean: “easier to experiment shuffling your timeline, insert ads and collect information to sell to advertisers”.
On this week's internet culture review:
1. “The Linux of social media” - How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging
2. Instagram's meme-and-theme accounts
3. Thread on TikTok videos
TikTok is an app. It's very similar to Vine. Folks use it to create and share short videos that are hilarious and often hard to understand unless you are familiar with the meme. I'll try my best to explain my favs. In the meantime, download the app because it's so good.
@lapcatsoftware
Anology to a commercial kitchen: there's no longer a 'head chef' at the pass inspecting and caring enough, if needed, to send stuff back to be redone, damn the cost.
@AMarkdalen
No, it didn’t. That was a very limited edition.
The products are from 2020, weren’t available in most countries where IKEA is present and then only in selected stores. Also not on their online stores, with the full collection only lasting a couple of months.
@bryanmanio
It seems like a great camera, but having to pay a monthly subscription of $4, after a year, for the software to keep using the hardware to its full potential just feels wrong.
@jstn
Two weeks ago had my 13 year old
@instagram
username stolen - popular first name. No account hack, so some support agent was social engineered or just plain sold it. No feedback from support either.
Reminder that we don't own our presence in these networks.
@rsms
Waiting for reviews to see if that's only to support features like 'spatial audio' and the camera's 'center stage', thus enabling the rest of the monitor to work on macOS 10.15.
Like Airpods Max officially requiring macOS 11.1 or later, but they work on 10.15.
Twitter will get torched for not stopping this kind of behaviour, but it’s worth noticing that it remains the most ‘open’ social platform, allowing third-party analysis such as this.
FB+IG have been closing down access to their platforms/APIs, becoming even bigger black boxes.
Fake accounts infest the world’s social media platforms, deployed by governments, celebrities, criminals and entrepreneurs. Nearly 15% of Twitter’s active users may be bots.
@ctbeiser
@elirousso
Sorry, thought I had pasted the source link with the above screenshot.
It's from part 2 of Jon Rubinstein's Computer Museum Oral History interview. There's a PDF with a transcript in the video description.
@dmierau
Twitter once had that:
But as today the timeline is algorithmical by default, it becomes impossible to repiclate that ‘view’, even knowing who someone follows.
@goncalossilva
Small correction: it wasn’t iOS/Android only and their success owes a lot to that.
Early on they had clients for BB/Windows/Symbian, enabling growth around the world by allowing platform interoperability, while competitors focused on western markets/OS.
Facebook becoming the North Korea of the Internet, even less open to the outside.
In the long-term the fix is way worse than the issue, closing down access and independent analysis of abuse, while reinforcing Facebook’s monopoly and profitability.
@mrmrs_
Looks great!
A tiny bug: the use of ; as a shortcut doesn’t seem to work on many non-US keyboard layouts :/
For example: in a Portuguese layout, ; is equivalent to press ⇧ + , which isn’t triggering in the current implementation.
@genmon
Try .
It's a basic, would say 'web 2.0 style', free donation-supported hosted service. Though it might not be a good fit for your goals, as it doesn't track time on page ('stick around').