the loss of my global townsquare

from twitter to mastodon? … well, how does this feel like?

“This is the beginning of the end for twitter!” say many and leave – either completely or with a packed bag, while simultaneously opening accounts on Mastodoncounter.social or even starting alternative ideas.

And yes, this is what it feels like – the declining end.  A narcissistic egomaniac with arrogant attitude buys a social network and thinks, he can change it “on the fly” without a plan or strategy, because – well, because he can just throw money around and doesn’t care.

#rp17 -roaming around re:publica

img_6207.jpgRoaming around in the halls of re:publica / Media Convention Berlin, I wonder how much lines of text are filled with words of banalities, when only occasionally, interesting insights show up in the steady stream of tweets, posts and messages. Not that I criticize in any kind of way the possibility to freely express our thoughts via the brave new digital media world- this often is a liberating individual experience – however, how much did we already become actors in […]

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