47/2024 Weekly Notes

I was thinking about how to order the Weekly Notes for this week when I saw an alert for an order of T-shirts I bought today.

Internet is Broken

I spent the last week on four social media platforms like X. These were BlueSky, Threads, Mastodon, and Warpcast.

Each of these platform has a different kind of audience. The mindset and world view of the audience on each of these platforms is also different. This makes it difficult to share the same thing across them without light editing of the content. In that sense, at least temporarily, the Internet is Broken.

BlueSky has an overwhelming number of media and science professionals. These are people who have got tired dispelling the mis/disinformation on X. While many of these people maintained a presence on both platforms for a while, the election has pushed them firmly to BlueSky.

Threads has a calm and welcoming vibe that reminds me of the 2007-08 Twitter. It also has many people who were pushed by Meta to try this platform from Facebook or Instagram. So, there are many people here who have posted once and then gone away and you do not know who to follow.

Mastodon has the open source community or indie hacker vibe. I like this personally.

Warpcast has the crypto vibe. The only person that I follow here was Venkatesh Rao. Since I am following his Substack and Notes there, this was the easiest to uninstall. The price of bitcoin is rising again and Warpcast is becoming really active again.

X now makes me feel like an underperformer. It seems all the people here are running several companies together, getting in shape, or having deep philosophical insights. Many are doing all of the above at the same time!

I have been also checking out posts on Substack Notes. This seems to be closest to me, intellectually. But, I am still figuring it out.

Overall, though, X continues to be a place to be for a space enthusiast like me. There are already many companies who post updates there which makes it easier to follow. I would love it if companies post updates on their website like they do on X. But, we are not there yet.

Free your Mind

Start reading long form. Books. Long blog posts. Essays.

Believe

Asking myself this question - What should I believe?

Reading

I finished Chapter 1 of David Deutsch's The Beginning of Infinity. We discussed it earlier today in the Reading Circle.