#5yrsago — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #5yrsago, aggregated by home.social.
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#15yrsago Advice for self-publishers: why should anyone care about your book? https://locusmag.com/feature/cory-doctorow-why-should-anyone-care/
#5yrsago A letter to a discouraged young writer https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/05/why-bother/
#1yrago Why Wikipedia works https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/05/be-the-first-person/#to-not-do-something-that-no-one-else-has-ever-thought-of-not-doing-before
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#25yrsago Electrolite relaunches https://web.archive.org/web/20010927195348/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/electrolite.html
#25yrsago How to play Mafia https://web.archive.org/web/20011113011546/http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/mafia/
#20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
#5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency
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#25yrsago Electrolite relaunches https://web.archive.org/web/20010927195348/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/electrolite.html
#25yrsago How to play Mafia https://web.archive.org/web/20011113011546/http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/mafia/
#20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
#5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency
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#25yrsago Electrolite relaunches https://web.archive.org/web/20010927195348/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/electrolite.html
#25yrsago How to play Mafia https://web.archive.org/web/20011113011546/http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/mafia/
#20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
#5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency
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#25yrsago Electrolite relaunches https://web.archive.org/web/20010927195348/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/electrolite.html
#25yrsago How to play Mafia https://web.archive.org/web/20011113011546/http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/mafia/
#20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
#5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency
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#25yrsago Electrolite relaunches https://web.archive.org/web/20010927195348/http://www.panix.com/~pnh/electrolite.html
#25yrsago How to play Mafia https://web.archive.org/web/20011113011546/http://www.stud.ntnu.no/studorg/mafia/
#20yrsago How Wikipedia entries get written http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
#5yrsago Proctorio's awful reviews disappear down the memory hole https://pluralistic.net/2021/09/04/hypervigilance/#radical-transparency
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#5yrsago Facebook’s alleged growth is largely coming from countries where Facebook says it has a fake account problem https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2019/07/facebook-mark-zuckerbergs-fake-accounts-ponzi-scheme.html
#5yrsago From #TelegramGate to #RickyLeaks: Puerto Rico is on fire https://web.archive.org/web/20190719213344/https://www.thenation.com/article/puerto-rico-protests-scandal-rossello/
#1yrago When the Town Square Shatters https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/23/when-the-town-square-shatters/
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#5yrsago #TelegramGate: leaks show Puerto Rico’s appointed officials mocking the dead as hurricanes devastate the island https://web.archive.org/web/20190714004011/https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/puerto-rican-chief-financial-officer-resigns-chat-scandal-64318436
#1yrago Why they're smearing Lina Khan https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion
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#5yrsago AOC moots a “progressive caucus” of bloc-voting Democratic congresspeople https://theintercept.com/2018/07/16/ocasio-cortez-floats-a-sub-caucus-of-progressives-willing-to-vote-together-as-a-bloc/
#5yrsago #McMansion meanings: why do America’s jumbo-sized status homes have useless “formal spaces?” https://archive.curbed.com/2018/7/11/17536876/great-room-house-size-design-square-footage
#5yrsago China’s super-rich get the lion’s share of British plutocrat visas https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2155390/chinas-super-rich-lead-way-applications-british-millionaire-visas
#5yrsago Podcast: Zuck’s Empire of Oily Rags https://ia802809.us.archive.org/7/items/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_296/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_296_-_Zucks_Empire_of_Oily_Rags.mp3
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#5yrsago Bloom County to return for 2016 election cycle https://www.cbr.com/berkeley-breathed-returning-to-bloom-county-for-first-time-in-25-years/
#1yrago London police official warns journalists not to publish leaks on pain of imprisonment https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-48973861
#1yrago #TelegramGate: leaks show Puerto Rico's appointed officials mocking the dead as hurricanes devastate the island https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/puerto-rican-chief-financial-officer-resigns-chat-scandal-64318436
#1yrago Vidcon cosplayer dressed as an influencer apology video https://boingboing.net/2019/07/13/boohoo-like-like.html
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