But won’t somebody hey think of the memes?
Butnow that Twitter is in turmoil, where will the memes be born?
“Tumblr was once one of the biggest meme factories in the world.
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Right now, the social internet is siloed in proprietary and often private spaces.
ActivityPub also powersphoto-sharing, file sharing,video streamingservices, and more.
If bigger players like Tumblr join, the effect could be deep and far-reaching.
Open Social
There are several problems with centralized social and micro-publishing services like Facebook and Twitter.
The most obvious is they’re owned and controlled by one or a handful of people.
Facebook may be publicly traded, but Zuckerberg is 100 percent in charge.
Zuckerberg’s Facebook is simply aprivate intelligence-gathering machine, a privacy-smashing database of human lives.
And Musk’s Twitter seems to beturning into an extreme right-wing clubhouse.
The only limited resource on the internet is attention, and yet we give it away without thinking.
Both the algorithm and the caprices of thin-skinned platform owners can derail memes.
Just like a meme, you never know what will take flight.
Which is to say, everyone.
