After I had finished my own work on websites yesterday Tik Tok decided to restore services in the US after comments by president elect Trump. Services were restored pretty quickly. Now colour me cynical, but…
I have woken up in the UK today to see that Tik Tok actually did what it threatened to do and go dark in the US. HOWEVER what has amused me and dismayed me in…
With a lot of people moving over towards Bluesky I decided to write a quick primer to help the newbies get around and along with the platform. Most people seem to be coming from Facebook…
Mastodon has made some changes to cement its independence and make it more in line with the vision of its founder Eugen Rochko. More details in the post below! https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/01/the-people-should-own-the-town-square
I was waiting for this to arrive and boy it didn’t take long…Peter Kyle has warned that US social media sites must obey the new Digital Safety Act in the UK or face the penalties.…
As the time come for Trump to retake his place as President of the US, many institutions are rolling back or axing their DEI (diversity) programs. This is basically as Trump is indicating how he…
Meta is hell bent on making sure it can push more controversial content to everybody in the name of free speech as it announces that political content will from now on be pushed to all…
Obviously Meta read this little blog as I have posted that they seem to be on a different trajectory this year and then along comes this little nugget. Meta is to replace “biased” 3rd party…
Facebook/Meta has historically had serious problems with cloned accounts and “dubious” content, but recently I have seen slightly better moderation and removal of such content. I can only think that in the UK at least…
I have posted before about how Ebay has fallen from grace in many ways, yet people still said it was their favoured auction site and go to for buying used gear. Well I received an…
