generalist.com
Social’s Next Wave
11+ min · · How paid subscriptions, political polarization, and AI are changing the social media landscape. · Shared by 95, including Katja Evertz
MIT Technology Review
How the Supreme Court ruling on Section 230 could end Reddit as we know it
2 min · · As tech companies scramble in anticipation of a major ruling, some experts say community moderation online could be on the chopping block. · Shared by 97, including Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Matt Navarra, Katja Evertz, James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Jimmy Wales, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Mathew Ingram
Berliner Zeitung
Authentizität auf Social Media: Warum die App BeReal sterben muss
6 min · · Soziale Medien haben ihren Zauber verloren. Sie saugen Daten, fressen Zeit. BeReal tritt als gesunde Alternative auf. Aber auf Dauer wird das leider nicht funktionieren. · Shared by 8, including Katja Evertz
The Verge
Extremely Hardcore
20+ min · · Three months, thousands of layoffs, one ego · Shared by 314, including Kevin Marks 🏠kevinmarks.com xoxo.zone/@KevinMarks, @anildash@me.dm and anildash.com, Taylor Lorenz, Casey Newton, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Chris Messina, Horace Dediu, Robin Wigglesworth, Barry Ritholtz, Steve Silberman, Matt Navarra, Lessig 🇺🇦, Mathew Ingram, Esther Schindler, Adrienne Fichter, Bryan William Jones, Jörgen Camrath, John Koetsier, Amir Shevat, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
The internet wants to be fragmented
9 min · · Throwing the whole world into a single room together doesn't work. · Shared by 175, including Thomas Pleil, sircharlsxavier, vitalik.eth, Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Andrew Spence
The Atlantic
Instagram Is Over
5 min · · The app’s original purpose has been lost in the era of “performance” media. · Shared by 172, including Mike Butcher, Ines Bieler, Thomas Pleil, Chris Isak 👩💻 #HM23, Jeff Atwood, Matt Navarra, Felix M, Katja Evertz, Steve Faktor, Zoe Scaman, Martin Varsavsky 🇺🇦, Marsha Collier, Dr. Simon A. Rego
VICE
Social Media Is Dead
7 min · · What we call social media networks are anything but. Now that they're beginning to unravel, we should ask what it would take to create social media for people, not advertisers. · Shared by 150, including Carolina A. Miranda @cmonstah@mastodon.art, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Katja Evertz, Thomas Pleil, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 @wfryer@mastodon.cloud, Matt Navarra, Helen De Cruz, Tara McMullin, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, @timnitGebru@dair-community.social on Mastodon, Oliver Reichenstein, luis antónio santos
milkkarten.substack.com
How The Washington Post Grew Its IG Following From 600K to 6M
6 min · · Featuring an interview with Travis Lyles, Deputy Director, Social, Off-Platform Curation at The Washington Post. · Shared by 477, including Tibor Martini 🇺🇦 @tibor@mastodon.social, Katja Evertz, Matt Navarra
Sprout Social
Breaking down “It’s Corn”: I can’t imagine a more beautiful thing
2 min · · Kids say the darndest things and sometimes those things go viral. We're diving headfirst the Corn Kid trend. · Shared by 59, including Katja Evertz
Social Media Today
The Ultimate Social Media Marketing Checklist [Infographic]
1 min · · Ensure you're covering all bases with this handy social media marketing checklist. · Shared by 190, including Neil Hart 💙, C̷͈̳̫͗͊̾had P̸̜͇̱̗̻̝̙͆͑͑͝͝ollitt, Katja Evertz
Content Marketing Institute
25+ Experts Weigh In on the Best Ways To Use Social Media in Content Marketing
8 min · · Try these expert tips to update and refine the social media part of your content marketing strategy ¬– Content Marketing Institute · Shared by 132, including Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Erika Heald | Content Marketing Consultant, Michelle Garrett (she/her), Katja Evertz, Robert Rose, Martin Jones, AJ Ghergich
Every 📧
The End of Social Media
8 min · · Why friend graphs can‘t compete in an algorithmic world. · Shared by 238, including John Bardos, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Zoe Scaman, Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, Dominik Ruisinger, Ines Bieler, Stephanie A Kowalski, luis antónio santos, Nir Eyal
Stratechery
Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
13+ min · · Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat. · Shared by 126, including Josep M. Ganyet, Claudia Sommer, Kyle Chayka, Matt Navarra, Ross Dawson, Thomas Pleil
PCMag
Only One Social Media Platform Is Used by 95% of Teens (And It's Not TikTok)
2 min · · While TikTok occupies the time of 67% of teens surveyed for a recent Pew Research Center study, it's another video site that truly attracts the views. (Sorry, Facebook.) · Shared by 294, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jill-I didn't pay for the checkmark-Duffy, Howard Getson, Marsha Collier
MIT Technology Review
Social media is polluting society. Moderation alone won’t fix the problem
3 min · · Companies already have the systems in place that are needed to evaluate their deeper impacts on the social fabric. · Shared by 376, including Thomas Pleil, Katja Evertz, Jennifer Ouellette, Tactical Tech, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
The New Yorker
How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines
6 min · · Two new books examine how social media traps users in a brutal race to the bottom. · Shared by 332, including Charles Duhigg, Jane, Kyle Chayka, Claudia Sommer, Lelio Simi, Maneet S, Mathew Ingram, Merkstatt@troet.cafe, Stephanie A Kowalski, Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, Tactical Tech, Mark Kaigwa, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Gerd Leonhard, Ines Bieler