Essays by an Italian filmmaker and photographer on the open social web, covering investigative reporting on W Social's privacy and technical failures and step-by-step self-hosting guides for the fediverse. Readers get critical analysis of decentralised platforms and practical tutorials for running their own social media server.
Website: https://blog.elenarossini.com/
Platformer is an independent newsletter covering AI, social platforms, and the people shaping technology. Readers get analytical reporting and commentary on industry news such as regulatory actions against AI companies and leadership changes at major tech firms.
Renée DiResta, a researcher and author of Invisible Rulers, writes about online disinformation, foreign influence operations, and the politics of content moderation. Issues combine first-hand accounts, document-based rebuttals of claims about the 'censorship industrial complex', and hands-on experiments such as building an AI notewriter for Community Notes.
Sandofsky is a personal essay newsletter by a former Twitter engineer examining how social networks decline, the fall of Lambda School, and skepticism about AI hype. Each issue mixes tech history, sharp anecdotes and critical reasoning about startups and Silicon Valley culture.
A New Social, the non-profit behind Bridgy Fed and Bounce, writes about bridging social protocols such as ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Nostr and Farcaster, and about its migration features and infrastructure cost cutting. Readers get technical and governance reasoning on why new protocols are held back, plus candid engineering write-ups of how serving costs were reduced.
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