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https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/building-my-myspace · 9 Dec 2025
I mentioned on Mastodon that my wife lovingly (and jokingly) refers to my site as my Myspace. She's always right and this is no exception.
https://blog.jacobnicked.com/posts/2025/11/20/my-alternatives-to-platforms · 20 Nov 2025
List of my alternatives to platforms I use ‐ social media, messaging, video, music, and more
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780374619329/enshittification · 26 Oct 2025
Here's the natural history of enshittification: First, platforms are good to their users. Then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers. Next, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. F...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9781250391247/careless-people · 14 Sep 2025
Has Meta not heard of the Streisand effect ? Or is it just Zuck that hasn't heard of it? They were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it w...
https://www.coryd.dev/reading/books/9780593653111/the-sirens-call · 16 Jun 2025
Hayes' The Sirens' Call is a compelling read and part of what makes it so compelling is his framing of attention as a finite resource that has been totally commoditized. Which, well, it has been. It's core to the tech-driven economy we find ourselves in. E...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/if-your-content-is-only-on-social-media-im-not-going-to-see-it · 6 Mar 2025
If you only post on social media, I won't see it. If you don't have an RSS feed, I won't follow it, I won't subscribe to it. I don't want want your app because I don't want a homescreen full of apps for publications and platforms.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/alternatives-to-us-tech-platforms · 4 Mar 2025
With the US rapidly devolving into a failed state with the endorsement (both full-throated and tepid) of many tech leaders, I’d urge you to reconsider your use of any tech platforms and tools offered by companies based here. Donating to a fascist’s ina...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/make-yourself-less-valuable-to-tech-companies · 26 Feb 2025
John Oliver dedicated the primary segment of his most recent episode on Meta and it's many moderation and privacy failures and violations. It was a well-reasoned take if not a redundant one for everyone who's spent time following these issues. What I found...
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/are-we-self-segregating-on-social-media · 24 Feb 2025
Are we? Yes and that's ok. If everything is political, then it follows that everything is as toxic as our politics. It's perfectly ok to avoid toxicity.
https://www.coryd.dev/posts/2025/403ing-questionable-referrals · 1 Feb 2025
I'm 403ing AI crawlers and now I'm 403ing what I find to be questionable referrers.