Backseat Social Media Driver

[lb_lee]

 Mori: we have no dog in the social media wars so have mostly just watched Reddit and Twitter burn down with a detached, "watch that hurricane spin on the horizon, man am I glad we ain't closer," but we do appreciate the people who have moved to cohost.org because that's the only damn one of them that doesn't require an account to view AND allows RSS. (Meaning we can follow along with your sweet hamster pics.)

Bsky and tumblr both require accounts to view (though tumblr's real unpredictable on that count, sometimes it cuts you off after a few posts, sometimes it doesn't) and Threads... look, Instagram is the worst, I dread people linking me their stuff on Instagram because it's a coin flip whether I can see it or not, I would rather eat lard straight than go to Threads.

Some handy articles by Kiriska:

• How to Build a Personal Website
• The Only Way to Beat the Algorithm is to Retrain Your Audience
• Freedom from Algorithms: How to Use a Feed Reader

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[we]

There is a reason why we've operated an independent plurality website for over a decade—we don't trust social media platforms to be honest, and we don't trust them to keep our websites the way we designed them. No account required, no personal information collected, no existence at the whims of social media companies that care more about profit than their users.

We're still on Reddit for now, but who knows how long that will be. We left Twitter last year after Elon Musk bought it.


~J.

[lb_lee]

Mori: Yeeeeeah, I'm feeling less and less bad about us not being on social media or Amazon. At least healthymultiplicity.com can just sorta... STAY where it's at, and continue being useful, despite its age and slow updating.