Stop Talking to Each Other and Start Buying Things: Three Decades of Survival in the Desert of Social Media

A brilliant excoriating essay by Cat Valente talking about corporate treatement of internet community. With antibonus Russian spies in the case of livejournal.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other-and-start

I am older than her, so remember further back but exactly how I felt about the loss of Google+ particularly.

Go read.

The Google+ Last Stand

On the Death of Google+ James West – https://doomslakers.blogspot.com/ did this – I had a copy for a long time but disappeared. I thought about it again the other day, then went looking and asked Jez Gordon https://www.feralrpg.com/, who I thought would remember. He did not, but thought Ramanan Sivaranjan would https://save.vs.totalpartykill.ca/ would. Indeed he did.

So thanks to you all, gentlemen.

Those were the days, my friends, to quote a song.

Also, James has a Ko-Fi Tip Jar if this makes you burn with anger. https://ko-fi.com/jvwest

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