Tag: Social Media
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Postiz doesn’t work with WordPress.com
Just spent a while setting up Postiz in Docker on my laptop only to find their WordPress connector is not compatible with the WordPress.com REST API (premium). Also I’d have to turn off 2FA on Bluesky to make it work. Oh well. I tried.
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How to avoid The “AI holiday photo” scam
Scammers. You’ve got to love the hard-working, conniving, devious, evil bastards. I’m going to tell you about the AI holiday photos scam and how to avoid it. Normally I would have shared this information directly to my social media feeds, but Meta won’t play nice here in Canada and let me link to legitimate news sites, so you get a post instead. The scam itself is rather simple, especially given that scammers have already purchased, stolen or simply downloaded the personal information of almost everyone at this point. All they do is scan for recent holiday photos on places like…
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What do the children think of social media bans? Who Cares?
As the U.K, Canada and other countries either look at implementing or start social media bans for children under the age of 16, I see a lot of articles asking “What do the children think?”. Whether you’re for these bans or against them, I find myself asking “why”? I know all too well that we don’t always respect children’s thoughts and opinions enough. Our media, modern cartoons, and even well-meaning adults, talk down to them and don’t give them the credit they deserve for having their own opinions. In the process of being adults, we often rob children of formative…
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Meta charging for social could be the best thing for the open web
Not content with printing money by selling your data and targeting you with ads – Meta now expects you to pay for the privilege. Yes, Snapchat and X/Twitter have had paid tiers for a while, but this is different. Not content with having businesses and pages pay for reach, Meta is shifting from a “forever free” model for regular users, where they monetize your data and attention, to charging you for you’re ability to express yourself. They’re moving from being the “town square” to Time Square advertising where you have to pay for space. You have to pay to be…
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Anybody have the DAU or MAU numbers for X/TWitter, Mastodon and Bluesky?
Anybody have the DAU or MAU numbers for X/TWitter, Mastodon and Bluesky? I saw Matt Navarra mention a report that had Bluesky’s US DAU’s down 96% since Jan 2025. Is that just a US trend or is it also down drastically globally?
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Project: WordPress Native Social Posts
I’ve been toying with the notion of having WordPress act as the default authority for all of my social media posts, and thought it might be nice to roll my own version. The goal is simple. Post to a category called Social Posts, and have those updates appear on Threads, Bluesky and Mastodon as native social updates. Not as posts that link back to my blog. I tested sending the RSS feed for that category only to IFTTT and Zapier, and having those platforms post either directly or via Buffer, depending on their integrations. This wasn’t something I wanted to…
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WordPress Social? I don’t get it!
I’m all for exciting new social networks, but after spending a handful of minutes playing around with WordPress.com/Social, I simply don’t get it. If you’ve been thinking about starting your own small, private social network with friends or family, or you want a space to post thoughts freely, or to import your historical posts from Twitter, Mastodon, or Bluesky without handing your words over to someone else’s platform, this one’s for you. Ostensibly a theme with short-form updates, threaded replies and the kind of barebones functionality you expect from an early Twitter clone, it’s far, far less underneath. Posting is…
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