Month: January 2025
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Bluesky’s Growth Surge: A Social Media Phenomenon in Progress
Bluesky continues to impress as the social network’s user count reaches 30 million. This marks a significant leap from the platform’s already notable growth when I last wrote about Bluesky in November 2024. Then, it hit 20 million users following…
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Why Simplicity Still Wins in Digital Communication
Recently, I found myself wading through a dense 50-page PDF report. The convoluted text, lengthy paragraphs, lack of meaningful visuals, and unclear messaging turned what could have been a straightforward read into a real headache. Even ChatGPT struggled when I…
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Ghost Embraces ActivityPub and the Fediverse
Yesterday, I shared my decision to move from WordPress to Ghost, a platform designed for writing and blogging simplicity and focus. In this follow-up post, I want to talk about an exciting feature of Ghost that sets it apart from…
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From WordPress to Ghost: Embracing Simplicity in Blogging
For nearly two decades, my online home has been WordPress. But now, it feels like the right time to move on, so I’m preparing for a move to Ghost, a platform that is a compelling alternative to WordPress. WordPress has…
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Meta’s Moderation and An Uncomfortable Truth About Social Networks
On 7 January, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to content moderation and fact-checking across Meta’s platforms – Facebook, Instagram and Threads – sparking widespread reaction and debate about the future of online discourse and the role of social networks in…