The theme for this Yule:

[numb3r_5ev3n]

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

Elon Musk was never a liberal, and his plans for Twitter were never benevolent. by Thomas Zimmer

I hope everyone has had a decent Christmas/Yule/Holiday so far.

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Comments

[numb3r_5ev3n]

I especially think Cat Valente's article expresses a lot of stuff that I've been flailing around trying to express for years. I wish we'd really known what was going on back when SUP was trying to buy LJ back in 2007. I wish we'd banded together with Russian Dissident LJ instead of all hecking off to Tumblr or wherever.

[sabotabby]

Very much agreed.

[numb3r_5ev3n]

Can you imagine how things would be different now if we'd basically stood up and told Putin "NO!" via LJ way back in 2007?

[sabotabby]

We might have saved lives. I'm not that optimistic in the power of the internet. But.