Scott Nelson @scttnlsn@mastodon.social

omg #NPR now has a text only version, not even any css. thanks #gdpr https://text.npr.org

If you use Chrome, Google can use a network protocol for tracking and ad delivery that can't be seen or blocked by extensions. TL;DR: You really shouldn't use a web browser made by an ad company.

"AdBlock Plus, uBlock Origin, and other extensions cannot block QUIC requests. Recommended best practice is to disable QUIC from the chrome://flags/ URL."

https://blog.brave.com/quic-in-the-wild-for-google-ad-advantage/

concept: a mastodon instance hosted in a hacked IoT smart dishwasher

people say Mastodon feels like the darkweb but in my day we just called this shit "the web"

"(...) text-based websites should not exceed in size the major works of Russian literature": an interesting (and entertaining) post about websites getting bigger and bigger.

http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm

It was written by Maciej Cegłowski, the creator of Pinboard. I wish he was here on Mastodon - has anyone seen him?

About the (so-called) "#sharingeconomy":

"Much activity is hidden away from view, but preliminary evidence suggests that sharing economy firms may already be leveraging their access to information about users and their control over the user experience to mislead, coerce, or otherwise disadvantage sharing economy participants."

The Taking Economy: Uber, Information, and Power
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2929643

@dav definitely!

we've been talking about / starting to set up an instance to be run as a coop:
https://mastodon.social/@mayel/1782758

I've been on Mastodon for three days and no one has tooted about "Growth Hacking..." is... is this heaven?

reading a bunch of comments about Mastodon on tech news sites about how it "will never succeed" or will go extinct. Problem is, that defines Mastodon's success in the metrics of Silicon Valley VC. The point of Mastodon does not appear to be a growth -> exit -> brand vehicle strategy that Twitter has been struggling with.

I'm having a good time here. Isn't that success enough?

Ultimately Mastodon's killer feature is that it's a public good that someone built because they thought it needed to exist and not a startup someone built because they wanted to get rich quick selling other people's data.

It's actually really awesome that Mastodon attracted a shitload of users who largely aren't aware that the underlying GNUSocial platform is old.

You know why?

Because it means we can do this over and over.

Every time someone releases a new implementation with different-looking chrome on top, it can go through its own marketing and media cycle and garner new users. *And the network effect will be cumulative.*