Tag: Twitter

Appalled by X and Meta? Try these social media alternatives – Hyperallergic

With less than half of a million active users at the moment, Pixelfed saw an unprecedented amount of new sign-ups in the week after Meta’s announcement of loosened content moderation policies. Initially reported by 404 Media, Meta users accused the social media giant of instantaneously deleting comments and posts including links to Pixelfed on its platforms as the decentralized platform gained traction. (Meta confirmed in an email to Hyperallergic that this was a mistake and most posts with Pixelfed links have been reinstated.) … The nostalgia for “Old Instagram,” the point in time when users were using the app for the fun of it by keeping friends and family updated through amateur photography prior to brand sponsorships and the over-saturation of influencers, can be channeled through Pixelfed.

art, design, Mastodon, Meta, photography, social media, Threads, Twitter

13/02/2025
Social media is dead, you just haven’t noticed yet – Matt Muir

It feels as though we have reached the end of a very specific period in human history, our brief, species-wide experiment in ‘seeing what happens if we all basically try and connect to each other like some sort of weird bipedal species of ant’. Was it a good idea? The jury is very much still out.

Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, social media, Twitter

25/01/2025