81: Who Gives a Toot?

Hello my friend! Are you enjoying this podcast? You can now support the show and share your appreciation with ☕️ Buy Me a Coffee! You won’t want to miss this episode wherein I pull back the curtain into major new developments for the future of this show, follow up on my 2019 social media predictions and compare with how current events are playing out, share specific thoughts on how to think about Mastodon instances and the health of the network, and challenge the veracity of the claim that Americans are growing more and more lonely. It’s an action-packed episode, so let’s get started! Links & Show Notes Leave a review on Apple Podcasts Subscribe to Creator Class (a Newsletter) Follow Jared on Mastodon / YouTube P.S. Follow my music making at @[email protected] Follow Up: My 2019 predictions are at last coming true! Five Predictions for Social Media in 2019 (recorded February 2019) Fediverse in 2019 “Tumblr has already promised to implement ActivityPub…and Flickr is also considering it!” New essay up on the site: The Elon-gate’d Man “Having now been on Mastodon for 1 month, a few observations…” Hachyderm.io “Ok so, I’m running an Icelandic Mastodon instance…” Mastodon.scot “Normalize Black people coming to this app being safe to speak their minds…” What’s New in the News: Americans are choosing to be alone. Here’s why we should reverse that How to Raise the Next Scott Galloway How 35+ Countries Are Leaving the Global Internet