A good illustration on why social media are toxic for our thinking. They push us to focus on anecdotes and as such miss the big picture. No wonder everything got so polarized so quickly there.

I'm on that social media for work reason, still oh boy... how much I hate it. This article pretty much summarizes why.

Not very scientific but gives a rough idea of which services are heavy or not in the fediverse. Matrix seems to be still dismal in that regard... I wonder if we'll see a revival of XMPP, that'd be very funny.

Once again this highlight the toxic architecture of those social networks. They create frustration and anger and it's by design. The trending topics on Twitter is one of the worst form of audience clashes.

A good reminder to get off social media and mainly use RSS again. Also proposes a bunch of good tools to work with RSS feeds including quite a few high quality free software ones. :-)