#socialreboot — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #socialreboot, aggregated by home.social.
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New year, updated blog roll!
There are several new-to-me blogs in the mix that I discovered in 2025, along with some of my favorite YouTube channels.
All of them will improve your feed in 2026.
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"If we want an internet where publishers retain autonomy and readers retain agency, we need to treat #RSS not as legacy plumbing but as strategic infrastructure." @ben
I've been using Inoreader for about a year and am pretty happy with it, while @surf is an intriguing option for blending social feeds and I'd love to be able to add regular RSS feeds, too. (EDIT: You can!)
Not having an RSS feed active is like making Instagram your website. Stop it!
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"If we want to see more personal blogs from people beyond the tech world, we have to acknowledge that it’s not only that platforms make it difficult to engage with the wider open web, it is also simply difficult to create your own space on the web. And we haven’t done enough to address that."
@enocc - It's hard to join the Indie Web 💯
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I migrated my Bluesky account to #BlackSky, and it was an impressively easy process, one-upping Mastodon for being able to move over all of my posts and media, too.
This is still my main satellite, but at least I've pulled one foot out of Bluesky's predictable (although MUCH faster than expected) downward spiral.
I feel bad for anyone who believed the early beta days would be the long-term experience, but SOCIAL MEDIA is fundamentally broken.
https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:5woi6h3y7ygxpgygk6jpytau
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Had to make some social videos for the day job and used a teleprompter app for the first time because I had a script, so I guess I'm officially a content creator now?
I said many years ago that WordPress had done more to "democratize publishing" than ebooks, or anything that's come since, and my opinion hasn't really changed.
YouTube, Twitch, and TikTok have had a huge impact, but making videos is much harder than writing.
I'd love to see blogging make a comeback.
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Ironically, without the "newsletter" posts, I probably wouldn't have ever written most of those other posts.
Years ago, they would have just been ephemeral tweets stripped of all context, or more recently, passing thoughts never documented at all.
The "newsletter" (basically a link blog) gave me a schedule and helped shift my online reading away from doomscrolling, which helped reestablish the mental space for writing about other things that I'd lost to Twitter over the years.
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It's funny that my "newsletter" reinvigorated my blog a few years ago, but looking at my YTD stats, none of those posts are in my top 10.
That's most likely because I include the entire "newsletter" in the email, while regular posts only have the first few paragraphs.
The "newsletter" posts don't get much search traffic, either, while the more focused ones do, particularly Rogue Trader, Buscaglia, and (oddly) Authors Equity. (Search isn't dead yet!)
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Nowadays, my blog is my hub once again, with Mastodon and LinkedIn as my main satellites.
I reluctantly check in on Bluesky now and then because comics and libraries have settled there, but I don't love it.
I still push all of my blog posts to Tumblr, too, but almost no one I used to follow there is still active, and I mostly use it to see cool 40k art.
The internet doesn't have to be a dumpster fire, but it requires more intentional use nowadays to make it work for you.
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Updated my blogroll to include a few social feeds (microblogs) that are as good as my favorite traditional blogs.
Some people use social in ways that work better for them than a blog, and they'll improve your feed on those platforms.
(Sadly, only Mastodon appears to offer an RSS feed.)
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Weird side note re: #blogging in 2025 and #powRSS posts.
After years of milkshake ducks, blindly sharing blog posts from strangers feels more precarious than it used to, and unlike scanning a social feed, it's not always easy to identify a problematic individual based on their blog.
I always do a quick "About" review when I come across someone new to me before sharing their work, but it's not a foolproof process.
It never was, but it definitely feels different now.
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I've been on LinkedIn for almost 20 years (?!?) and my approach to connections has changed multiple times depending on my current job.
Yesterday, I spent an hour going through all 800+ and removed ~150 people. Some were people I couldn't remember at all, but most were tenuous connections via conferences.
A select few have gone too far into AI to be associated with anymore.
NOTE: LinkedIn's best feature is not having to "follow" connections, helping keep your feed clean.
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Remember the Blogaround Challenge?
Cynics might consider this engagement bait nowadays, but this was pre-social media (as we currently know it), when blogs were peaking.
https://loudpoet.com/2025/03/26/remember-the-blogaround-challenge/
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I unsubscribed from all Substack newsletters a while back, including their RSS feeds.
I still miss a few of them, but there are SO MANY other good newsletters/blogs to enjoy that don't ask you to rub elbows with Nazis, and we should spotlight our favorites instead.
My #blogroll has 10 of my current must-reads I recommend to everyone.
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"I’d rather preserve my independence, but keeping a roof over my head is more important." @baldur
If blogging IS tied to your professional work, it's arguably even more important to get your house in order now. I always appreciate Baldur's candor, and his personal asides bolster his professional credibility.
He's the anti-Godin, and he proves the internet can be a better place.
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/first-outlines-of-a-plan/
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"I’d rather preserve my independence, but keeping a roof over my head is more important." @baldur
If blogging IS tied to your professional work, it's arguably even more important to get your house in order now. I always appreciate Baldur's candor, and his personal asides bolster his professional credibility.
He's the anti-Godin, and he proves the internet can be a better place.
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/first-outlines-of-a-plan/
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"I’d rather preserve my independence, but keeping a roof over my head is more important." @baldur
If blogging IS tied to your professional work, it's arguably even more important to get your house in order now. I always appreciate Baldur's candor, and his personal asides bolster his professional credibility.
He's the anti-Godin, and he proves the internet can be a better place.
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/first-outlines-of-a-plan/
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"I’d rather preserve my independence, but keeping a roof over my head is more important." @baldur
If blogging IS tied to your professional work, it's arguably even more important to get your house in order now. I always appreciate Baldur's candor, and his personal asides bolster his professional credibility.
He's the anti-Godin, and he proves the internet can be a better place.
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/first-outlines-of-a-plan/
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"I’d rather preserve my independence, but keeping a roof over my head is more important." @baldur
If blogging IS tied to your professional work, it's arguably even more important to get your house in order now. I always appreciate Baldur's candor, and his personal asides bolster his professional credibility.
He's the anti-Godin, and he proves the internet can be a better place.
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/first-outlines-of-a-plan/
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"It is why I am returning to this blog, renewing my use of RSS, and actively removing myself from a wide swath of the web...
Personal blogging is a key part to building the presence I want." @broximar
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"It is why I am returning to this blog, renewing my use of RSS, and actively removing myself from a wide swath of the web...
Personal blogging is a key part to building the presence I want." @broximar
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"It is why I am returning to this blog, renewing my use of RSS, and actively removing myself from a wide swath of the web...
Personal blogging is a key part to building the presence I want." @broximar
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"It is why I am returning to this blog, renewing my use of RSS, and actively removing myself from a wide swath of the web...
Personal blogging is a key part to building the presence I want." @broximar
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"It is why I am returning to this blog, renewing my use of RSS, and actively removing myself from a wide swath of the web...
Personal blogging is a key part to building the presence I want." @broximar
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"I want somewhere to exist on the net where people can find my personal record. I don’t expect this blog ever to achieve mass readership; it’s a snapshot of the contents of my own brain, and that is a niche interest." @riotnrrd
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"I want somewhere to exist on the net where people can find my personal record. I don’t expect this blog ever to achieve mass readership; it’s a snapshot of the contents of my own brain, and that is a niche interest." @riotnrrd
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"I want somewhere to exist on the net where people can find my personal record. I don’t expect this blog ever to achieve mass readership; it’s a snapshot of the contents of my own brain, and that is a niche interest." @riotnrrd
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"I want somewhere to exist on the net where people can find my personal record. I don’t expect this blog ever to achieve mass readership; it’s a snapshot of the contents of my own brain, and that is a niche interest." @riotnrrd
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"I want somewhere to exist on the net where people can find my personal record. I don’t expect this blog ever to achieve mass readership; it’s a snapshot of the contents of my own brain, and that is a niche interest." @riotnrrd
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Flashback: We can have a different web
"If we wanted, each of us could escape those walls and set up our own spaces within the limitless, fertile soil beyond." @molly0xfff
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
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Flashback: We can have a different web
"If we wanted, each of us could escape those walls and set up our own spaces within the limitless, fertile soil beyond." @molly0xfff
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
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Flashback: We can have a different web
"If we wanted, each of us could escape those walls and set up our own spaces within the limitless, fertile soil beyond." @molly0xfff
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
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Flashback: We can have a different web
"If we wanted, each of us could escape those walls and set up our own spaces within the limitless, fertile soil beyond." @molly0xfff
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
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Flashback: We can have a different web
"If we wanted, each of us could escape those walls and set up our own spaces within the limitless, fertile soil beyond." @molly0xfff
#Cluetrain #blogging #SocialReboot
https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/
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Why keep blogging in 2025?
If you've known me for a while, you know a #Cluetrain quote is coming!
EDIT: I've added posts from others about their own blogging to this thread. 👇🏽
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Why keep blogging in 2025?
If you've known me for a while, you know a #Cluetrain quote is coming!
EDIT: I've added posts from others about their own blogging to this thread. 👇🏽
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Why keep blogging in 2025?
If you've known me for a while, you know a #Cluetrain quote is coming!
EDIT: I've added posts from others about their own blogging to this thread. 👇🏽
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Why keep blogging in 2025?
If you've known me for a while, you know a #Cluetrain quote is coming!
EDIT: I've added posts from others about their own blogging to this thread. 👇🏽
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Why keep blogging in 2025?
If you've known me for a while, you know a #Cluetrain quote is coming!
EDIT: I've added posts from others about their own blogging to this thread. 👇🏽
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"Seems like we're all pretty disenchanted with Big Social Media these days, and I've been enjoying newsletters from a variety of folks - enjoying in the way I used to love blogs back in the heyday of the feed reader." @Anneheathen 💯
https://newsletter.annearchy.com/newsletters-are-the-new-blogs/
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"The fact that so many people still, in January 2025, are painting one of the wealthiest white men on the planet as a powerless victim is telling, and not a coincidence." @herhandsmyhands
Just one important point in a long, thoughtful post full of them. 🔥
https://herhandsmyhands.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/intension-intent-as-intention-and-language-choices/
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"The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet."
Another thoughtful and insightful post from @kissane that doesn't lend itself to easy snippets, but is more accessible than most other writing on the topic.
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"I dunno man, it sucks that they’ve made this kind of access to the people we love contingent on surrendering our privacy and exposing our moms to people who tell them that Dr. Fauci developed the Covid vaccine as a massive Satanic blood-sacrifice to usher in the end times."
💯
https://thenamingway.com/posts/bloganuary-2025-day-6-with-apologies-to-san-antonio
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In which Newton remembers the movie he's definitely seen before (but somehow forgets the plot whenever it comes to AI), and calls Zuckerberg's moderation announcement by its proper name: Surrender.
Kudos to Alexios Mantzarlis for bringing receipts, although it was disappointing to see he's posted up on Subs!ack for his own newsletter. 😑
https://www.platformer.news/meta-fact-checking-free-speech-surrender/
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Watching the latest wave hit Bluesky, realizing I'm going to have to take it more seriously for the day job as it's crystal clear neither comics nor libraries are going to widely embrace Mastodon.
Disappointing, but not really surprising.
On the bright side, it hopefully means I can continue to avoid Threads.
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Every now and then I see something interesting and want to read more, but then I notice the link goes to a Substack blog* and I move on, disappointed.
I also miss several newsletters I no longer get because they're still on Substack, and I won't even use their RSS feeds because I don't want to give that platform any extra oxygen.
The internet kind of sucks right now.
(Yes, your Substack is just a blog with email functionality baked in. FOH!)
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"Nothing good in tech lasts forever."
On #SocialReboot, radical RSS, content strategy, publishing tech, and the truth about snake oil.
https://loudpoet.com/2024/10/31/five-things-october-31-2024/
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In the early days of ebooks, when many declared the death of print and democratization of publishing, I often obnoxiously noted that blogs had already done the latter while bringing new blood to the former.
#WordPress has been my platform of choice for nearly 20 years, personally and professionally, but nothing good in tech lasts forever.
I've been keeping an eye on #Ghost and @johnonolan makes a pretty compelling case for considering a move.
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Watching the latest flurry of new people on Bluesky, it remains a major disappointment that its main draw is apparently its similarity to Twitter.
So many people (new and old) are repeating the same mistakes that ultimately derailed Twitter, including immediately following hundreds of people, lazy QT dunks, and general shitposting.
What could have been an opportunity for a collective reboot is instead a desperate clinging to what's been broken for years.
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The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was making people believe we need to be on every platform or we won't be able to connect with the people and communities we care about.
The reality is WE make these platforms worthwhile with our presence, and WE can find and/or (re)create communities wherever WE choose to.
We just have to be willing to do the work, same as it always was before social networks disrupted everything.