HeyChelseaTroy

Chicago going absolutely bananas over the Pope selection is 100% peak on-brand Chicago

FYI, If you don't want that LLM summary thing to show up at the top of your search results and push down like 70% of your actual search results before the jump, you can add "-ai" to your search query and your results page will skip that part.

Sharpen your technical leadership skills: proceeds to charity through EOY Hi folks! I want to start doing an end-of-year giving tradition on my workshop website, so I’ve come up with a plan. If you use the code giving-2024 in the shop between today and December 31,…

I've come up with a plan to put all proceeds from my online packages this month toward a couple of giving initiatives.

Plus a 10 percent discount for you :)

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Also, while I'm here: Can Bluesky please automate a thread counter? Should be pretty trivial technically to display "1/10" on the first skeet in a ten-skeet thread, and so on, without consumers needing to spend five of their 240 characters keeping their own count.

Pwease? 🥹

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What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet? By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon! It’s long, so there are three parts to the reading, but I made the first part free to listen. I joined Twitter in college,…

...however, I don't actually think the solution lies in casting this as an individual problem. The way a platform structures social interactions plays a much bigger role. That's what the last third of this piece covers:

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Outsmarting Zinger Fever on the Internet PC: Ibrahim Asad. I thought a calm sunset beach photo suited this post. Are you familiar with Calendly? It’s a tool that looks for free periods on your Google calendar and makes them availabl…

"What do?," you ask.

So, like, if you're looking for resources to conduct a PERSONAL referendum, that's what this post is, largely:

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HOWEVER

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"Great, thanks Chelsea for raining on the parade"

I'm serious, folks. Can we take this opportunity to conduct a referendum on the way we show up social media? I think we need it.

Because "Old Twitter was paradise" is downright revisionist history.

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What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet? By the way, you can listen to me read this post aloud on my Patreon! It’s long, so there are three parts to the reading, but I made the first part free to listen. I joined Twitter in college,…

Fourth, and maybe most importantly, I hope we've learned from "Old Twitter" that a platform we love can fall victim to tech's enshittificatory undercurrents the moment the VC money runs out.

That's a thing I've called out about Bluesky, specifically, here:

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Money doesn’t buy class…privilege An icy wind whipped through the Chicago loop. I hid behind buildings and skittered across streets, hoping to make it home before ice overtook the edges of my lips, or the three fingers that peeked …

Third, I hope we've learned from "Old Twitter" that sometimes our genius take, which we get to broadcast to thousands of people with zero workshopping, sometimes turns out to—surprise—lack nuance in ways that hurt us collectively.

Remember this mortgage thing?

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Outsmarting Zinger Fever on the Internet PC: Ibrahim Asad. I thought a calm sunset beach photo suited this post. Are you familiar with Calendly? It’s a tool that looks for free periods on your Google calendar and makes them availabl…

Second, I hope we've learned from "Old Twitter" that this specific style of interaction on social media is designed to ESCALATE disagreements; not actually mediate productive community conversations.

Remember that batshit four-day Calendly fistfight?

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left alone, together There’s a depressing sort of symmetry in the fact that our modern paradigms of privacy were developed in response to the proliferation of photography and their exploitation by tabloids. The seminal 18...

First, I hope we've learned from "Old Twitter" that when you write content on someone else's platform, you may eventually regret that you don't control that content

That's not a Twitter-specific thing; Jenny Zhang offers the chilling example of LiveJournal:

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...I've ALSO seen a number of folks describe Bluesky as "just like old Twitter!"

I don't think that can happen, folks. I don't think we can get "old Twitter" back, and I hope our social media future focuses more on evolving how we interact online that it does on recreating old Twitter.

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Let's try threading on here.

I see a LOT of folks joining bluesky right now.

I'm thrilled for a federated alternative that makes server switching easier than Mastodon; thrilled for a less Stallmanesque perspective in the Fediverse; thrilled that folks are thrilled.

But...

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Pulp fiction. All muppets except for Vincent Vega.

At the scene showing Vincent's death, Vincent ALSO becomes a muppet, the way Spongebob Squarepants depicts "dead, dessicated spongebob" as a dry cleaning sponge on a kitchen counter.

Whew! FINALLY finished reading "What do we do with the Twitter-shaped hole in the internet" aloud for my Patreon patrons. It spans about an hour over the course of the three installments: the perfect companion for your fall closet-cleaning!
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Aww, thaaanks!

This one I'd been working on a while. In the end the wisdom of TONS of other people made it better, including @mekka.mekka-tech.com, @polotek.bsky.social, and @aliafonzy.bsky.social

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FINALLY a place for my unreasonably long liveposts about queer representation in shows that ABSOLUTELY were not designed around queer representation

I was honestly so freaking honored when I found out that multiple people had reached out to her to pull me through 🤩