Karissa Bell

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Senior reporter 🗒️ for Engadget, covering social media and the growing 🌊 of Twitter alternatives. Say👋 at [email protected] or on the 🐣 app.

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yep. At Mashable it was 1) any and all GoT content 2) John Oliver clips 3) any and all J K Rowling tweets www.theverge.com/24181763/gam...

What Game of Thrones did to the mediawww.theverge.com “It becomes a snake eating its own tail. It really does homogenize media.”

New from me: Frustrated Facebook and Instagram users are increasingly turning to *small claims court* in an effort of get customer service from Meta. I wrote about how the courts became an unlikely venue for disputes over hacked and disabled accounts and why these cases are often successful.

How small claims court became Meta's customer service hotlinewww.engadget.com Frustrated Facebook and Instagram users are heading to small claims court in a last-ditch attempt to get help from Meta.

we all thought it would be the whole letting nazis back in thing but it was actually messing with public likes

We're seeing lots of new folks come to Bluesky today! Welcome :)

this is a pretty good take on Jack's comments from last week, why he soured on Bluesky and also why he's wrong about it not doing the thing he wanted it to do and also makes the point (which Jack did not) that Bluesky had to pivot bc of the Elon mess which Jack had a not-insignificant role in

Okay, I wrote a big thing regarding Jack Dorsey and Bluesky. It explains why he's actually more correct than people give him credit for, but still absolutely wrong about Bluesky. www.techdirt.com/2024/05/13/b...

Bluesky Is Building The Decentralized Social Media Jack Dorsey Wants, Even If He Doesn’t Realize Itwww.techdirt.com There was a bit of news in the world of decentralized social media over the past few weeks. It kicked off with the announcement that Jack Dorsey had left the board of Bluesky. This was followed by …

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The original plan was that Twitter would be that first client, and I would've *loved* that, but Elon killed that straight dead. That entire company was frozen by the prolonged acquisition, and the agreement quickly ended when Elon took over. It was never going to happen.

Jack saying that Bluesky is bad now and Nostr is good bc it's "weird and hard to use" feels very on brand for him

Q&A with Jack Dorsey on his exit from Bluesky to focus on Nostr, Bluesky "repeating all the mistakes we made" at Twitter, Musk's takeover, censorship, and more (Mike Solana) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

posting is good, sometimes!

So fun fact: The Onion takeover started when I posted "so uh how do we buy The Onion?" on Bluesky. @leilza.bsky.social then reached out to me with a LinkedIn message and the below email. Then we got @strle.bsky.social looped in and it got very real. www.axios.com/2024/04/26/t...

Two weeks without my best friend. We brought her home four years ago this month. I still can’t believe our time together was so short. 🖤

lmao anyone who thinks this was not alive in 2004. This was like the indie movie that made (old) millennials care about indie movies.. ask me how I know

Just saw a click bait thing about how Garden State was an underrated movie nobody talked about in the early Aughts and I am too old and tired for this. I do not have the knees for it.

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jim henson’s romeo & juliet

truly next-level cringe

Twitter once fostered the Arab Spring.

this seems like not a great idea but also he didn't turn into a lizard person or randomly drop dead or any of the other things antivaxxers like to claim

German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 timeswww.bbc.com Researchers have written up the unusual case in a medical journal.

someone I know got excited that chatGPT had scraped their (fledgling) startup's website like it was some kind of badge of honor or something... genAI has really broken a lot of people's brains

I regret to inform you I have now waded into the "Mark Zuckerberg is good at PR now" discourse.

No, Mark Zuckerberg isn't having a 'PR moment'www.engadget.com Mark Zuckerberg’s recent PR blitz is neither out of character nor a sign of a freshly rehabbed image.

I'm glad Bluesky is calling these hashtags and not making up a random new name like Threads did

📢 App Version 1.70 is rolling out now (1/6) Hashtags! You can now use #hashtags in your posts. When you tap them, you’ll get a menu with lots of handy options:

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Remarkable how many people found it easier to believe a healthy sixteen year old dropped dead in the family living room 24 hours after having their head slammed into a bathroom floor than to consider the possibility that cops lie www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-...

Fight hasn’t been ruled out as cause of Nex Benedict’s death, police saywww.nbcnews.com Lt. Nick Boatman told NBC News that previous statements that Nex Benedict didn’t die as a result of “trauma” didn’t rule out the fight as a contributing factor.

Was randomly thinking about Myspace which made me wonder what ever happened to Tila Tequila and then I remembered that she turned out to be a raging Nazi and flat earther .. the Myspace era really was darker than we all thought huh

This place is finally opening up. I talked to @jay.bsky.team about what that means and what else is coming (federation, 3rd party mod tools) and more

Bluesky is ditching its waitlist and is now open to everyonewww.engadget.com Bluesky, the open-source Twitter alternative, is getting rid of its waitlist and opening its decentralized platform to everyone.

You can live in California your whole life, experience hundreds of earthquakes of varying sizes, and yet each one requires you immediately text 10 people and check social media to make sure everyone else felt it too

Anyone have any good tips on how to break a small pill into four even-ish pieces? This girl is sick and we’re out of town so the vet said to get a human antacid and break the tablet into quarters but the damn pills are so tiny half of it just breaks apart when I cut.

Is there a cuter thing that cat zoomies? (My poor kitty has been recovering from a bout of pancreatitis and I can tell she's starting to feel better bc she's doing her big post-💩 sprints down the hallway again.)

Saw a LinkedIn post where someone was bragging they got a Twitter reply from Elon Musk and I truly can’t think of anything more embarrassing

It is frankly *wild* that there has now been a multi-week news cycle that "Elon Musk wants to charge everyone for using Twitter" when it's not at all clear that he does/that's what he meant

just a girl, staring at my phone, asking — again — why I can’t read an entire email newsletter without clicking to “view entire message”

Artifact (from Instagram's founders) has gotten so much hype but this lack of self reflection on Facebook's role in creating/incentivizing this dynamic is so infuriating themessenger.com/tech/kevin-s...

for the cat sky feed

Anyone have recommendations for a (cute, non ugly or bulky*) backpack that can actually fit a 15-inch MacBook Pro? My beloved leather backpack no longer fits my giant work laptop and I need something else (that looks reasonably stylish and feminine-I have plenty of ugly backpacks it fits in already)

what's everyone's preferred way of giving out invite codes to this place? Have a few piled up now and don't mind giving to randos but don't want them to go to trolls either

Just finished a nail trim and she purred the whole time 😻

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I love how the site has crashed b/c blocks are gone from Twitter when 3 months ago there were riots b/c blocks weren't here at launch.