Garbage Day uses Jimothy to trace how virality works on the internet of 2026. Related: this story on how the algorithm has prevented us from producing a single “song of the summer.”
\n", "date_published": "2026-07-24T13:26:32-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/07/24/garbage-day-uses-jimothy-to.html", "tags": ["Comms","Tech","Music","Platforms"] }, { "id": "http://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/07/21/a-colleague-hosted-a-nice.html", "content_html": "A colleague hosted a nice discussion of the work of David Dylan Thomas, who advocates for using human-centered design concepts to bring humanity back to tech. New and novel approaches abound, especially on whether and how to let engagement metrics drive decisions on design teams.
\n", "date_published": "2026-07-21T11:51:53-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/07/21/a-colleague-hosted-a-nice.html", "tags": ["Tech","Higher Ed","Platforms"] }, { "id": "http://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/04/07/poell-argues-ai-is-entangled.html", "content_html": "Poell argues AI is entangled with platform capitalism through shared infrastructure, reinforcing concentration of the market. The hype obscures local realities of adoption, putting public alternatives in the position of proving their existence alongside advocating for their place in the market.
\n", "date_published": "2026-04-07T17:59:16-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/04/07/poell-argues-ai-is-entangled.html", "tags": ["Tech","AI","Platforms"] }, { "id": "http://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/27/from-anil-dash-on-why.html", "content_html": "From 2024, Anil Dash on why everyone needs to rethink Substack.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-27T17:09:23-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/27/from-anil-dash-on-why.html", "tags": ["Platforms"] }, { "id": "http://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/14/on-the-many-failures-of.html", "content_html": "On the many failures of social media companies to act with pro-social ethics.
\n", "date_published": "2026-03-14T16:33:30-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/03/14/on-the-many-failures-of.html", "tags": ["Platforms"] }, { "id": "http://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/01/23/the-real-problem-is-that.html", "title": "The real problem is that it's not our quagmire", "content_html": "Tiktok is not much better or worse than other major social platforms, I say. The primary arguments against TikTok, including data collection, algorithmic manipulation, potential foreign government access, addiction and influence on public opinion, apply with equal or greater force to American platforms. Meta has faced billions in fines for allowing privacy violations, enabled documented election interference, and its algorithms have been linked to mental health harms and the amplification of extremist content globally, including perpetuating a genocide in Myanmar. Google and other domestic platforms vacuum up vastly more user data with fewer restrictions.
\nThe distinguishing factor isn’t the behavior but the ownership: TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is subject to Chinese law and intelligence relationships, while Meta and Google are subject to U.S. law and intelligence relationships. That’s a legitimate policy distinction, but rarely articulated honestly. Instead, the debate has been framed around purportedly unacceptable harms that American tech companies perpetrate routinely, creating a kind of security theater that lets domestic platforms escape equivalent scrutiny while positioning a foreign competitor for a forced sale or ban.
\n", "date_published": "2026-01-23T11:37:00-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/01/23/the-real-problem-is-that.html", "tags": ["Tech","Platforms"] }, { "id": "http://flotisserie.micro.blog/2023/10/24/as-a-professional.html", "content_html": "As a professional poster (derogatory), this is exactly the kind of posting stream I’m interested in supporting for institutional communications. When you speak on behalf of a company or institution, you need the power to own your own platforms and content, the agility of posting to multiple channels from one platform/location, and it needs to be user friendly. We need support and ease of use, and since I’m also in public education, it would be great if we could do some of that for free or close to it.
\nI’m here after listening to this podcast yesterday, after a months-long conversation about abandoning social media in my department (https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/23/23928550/posse-posting-activitypub-standard-twitter-tumblr-mastodon). With the move to algorithmic CPC taking priority over newsworthiness across most platforms, we saw a major drop in engagement. That was after the ridiculous “pivot to video” disaster, though departments like mine nonetheless consider video production in a real way every few months. We decided to call it after Twitter, the final app that answered our need for just-in-time communication, decided to become a walled garden with bad SEO. We’re going to let those channels go dark and focus on talking to our stakeholders in more effective ways.
\nI’ve been playing with Bluesky and Mastodon on my own, and in many ways, this micro.blog communication channel fits what we need. It doesn’t hurt that I like an indie model with a friendly vibe (micro.blog functionality reminds me a little of early self-hosted blogging and this site feels a little like early Tumblr). The problem: our audiences are not here. We still need to be able to post to myriad platforms, including the big baddies that we’d rather ignore.
\n", "date_published": "2023-10-24T14:49:49-05:00", "url": "https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2023/10/24/as-a-professional.html", "tags": ["Comms","Platforms"] } ] }