Minutes of a Monday #52

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Brain Food > Power on the edge of town

“Back when Jack Dorsey ran Twitter, the platform was consistently spawning right-wing alternatives (Gab, Parler, Truth Social). Now that Elon is in charge and angering a wider variety of people, a wider variety of alternatives is cropping up: Mastodon, Substack Notes, Bluesky, Farcaster, and more. But no matter who is running Twitter, their decisions are going to anger some subset of users, and those users will seek alternatives.

Until recently I thought those alternatives were all doomed. But now I see that I was judging them by the wrong yardstick. They aren’t meant to become “the next Twitter.” There will be no “next Twitter.” But there will be a shift toward an internet that looks more like it did before Twitter and Facebook became dominant. The big networks will still exist, but their share of attention will shrink, and there will be an increase in smaller communities that have the power to enforce their own rules.

Some of these communities will have their own tech stack. Others might use existing platforms that are structurally more suited to their purposes. But generally, I believe power is shifting towards the edges.”

Nathan Baschez on Why the artist formerly known as Twitter is fragmenting

Soul Food

“15 years ago, the internet was an escape from the real world. Now, the real world is an escape from the internet.”

Noah Smith

LOL

Roy Keane embracing his inner comedian:

Appendix

“Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant."

Dorothy Allison

AOB

Have a great week ya’ll - Niall