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There’s some shady stuff happening with centralized social media platforms. The only good places left are decentralized. This a reckoning for traditional social media

Update I joined Rob Hirschfeld on the The 2030 Cloud where we discussed some additional behind the scenes investigatory work that went on by a nameless Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee. Summary Here’s a summary in case you just got a scary AWS bill: I received an AWS bill for $2,700, which was much higher than expected. I traced the high bill to a 13GB disk image that he had stored in an S3 bucket and exposed through a CDN. The CDN was trying and failing to cache the disk image, which was causing high bandwidth utilization. ...

A subtweet is such a common thing that it has entered the English lexicon. The term itself has a very specific meaning according to Oxford Living Dictionaries: (on the social media application Twitter) a post that refers to a particular user without directly mentioning them, typically as a form of furtive mockery or criticism. ‘while he didn’t include Smith’s Twitter handle, that didn’t stop Smith from seeing the post, taking umbrage, and firing off a subtweet of his own' ...

I had a random thought pop into my head during a conversation one night so I tweeted it, “Christophernetes” Then Brandon Dimcheff chimed in with a very appropriate shortening, “c14s” Then Andy Randall chime in with what is now my display name on Twitter, “c14s for Short” Thank you all for this.