Tag: Social Media
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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? 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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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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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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