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1 – Diagnostics
Tiktok's enshittification – Cory Doctorow (Jan 21, 2023).
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world – Rebecca Solnit (Nov 16, 2024).
The State of the Culture, 2024 – Ted Gioia (Feb 18, 2024).
Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? – Sophie McBain (Oct 18, 2025).
Why people don’t demand data privacy – even as governments and corporations collect more personal information – Rohan Grover, Josh Widera (Nov 05, 2025).
The privacy paradox: we claim we care about our data, so why don’t our actions match? – Ivano Bongiovanni, Karen Renaud, Noura Aleisa (Jul 29, 2020).
FBI Document Says the Feds Can Get Your WhatsApp Data — in Real Time – Andy Kroll (29 nov 2021).
2 – Solutions
Non-commercial social networks – characteristics, heterogeneity and threats – Ink on Paper (Dec 05, 2024)
Yet another “What is the Fediverse?” introduction – Bill Statler (Feb 20, 2025)
Comparison table between Mastodon, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte – Jupiter Rowland (Jun 29, 2025).
We can have a different web – Molly White (May 01, 2024)
Why Signal is more secure than WhatsApp – Per Axbom (Mar. 27, 2025)
Conversations with researchers and experts
- Tech Won't Save Us – Paris Marx
Interviews
(Available on YouTube)
Nicholas Christakis – The Science of Social Networks with Nicholas Christakis (unSILOed Podcast with Greg LaBlanc). (Jun. 06, 2024).
Robin Dunbar – The Essence of Human Bonds from Tribes to Modernity (unSILOed Podcast with Greg LaBlanc). (Mar. 27, 2024).
Robin Dunbar – The Evolutionary Psychology Of Human Friendship (Modern Wisdom Podcast with Chris Williamson). (Mar. 20, 2023).
News
- The Fediverse Report – Laurens Hof
- We Distribute – Sean Tilley
- Week in Fediverse
- The Register
Books
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness – Jonathan Haidt (Penguin Publishing Group, 2024).
The Chaos Machine – The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World – Max Fisher (Little, Brown, 2022).
Friends – Understanding the Power of Our Most Important Relationships – Robin Dunbar (Little, Brown, 2021).
Privacy is Power: Why and How You Should Take Back Control of Your Data – Carissa Véliz (Bantam Press, 2020).
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism – The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff (Public Affairs, 2019).
Connected – Nicholas A. Christakis (Little, Brown, 2009).
[Jun 26, 2024] Updated: Nov 13, 2025
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