Me @ France Right Now

I think one of the biggest obstacles to getting a social media platform off the ground in 2023 is that big sites like Twitter and YouTube have created an expectation that registering an account should automatically come with effectively unlimited storage and bandwidth for whatever media you care to post, which creates a hard entry barrier for any platform without major financial backing. Like, we can wax rhapsodic about early 2000s forum culture all we like, but one of the main unwritten rules that allowed smaller forums to survive was never turning image hosting on for free accounts – either you made people figure out their own solutions for hosting images, or you charged a fee. If you were lucky, a forum with free registration might have let you host a banner for your signature on their servers, but that was it! Unless someone manages to convince large numbers of folks that a text-only social media platform is worth participating in, I'm not sure there's any good way forward for smaller outfits at this point.

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Bonjour @equipe, on a beaucoup de questions avec @gay-impressionist - et vraisemblablement tous les p'tits francophones du coin - notamment pourquoi "par Toutatis", mais aussi comment est-ce que ce texte a vu le jour parce que vraiment on s'est tapé la meilleure barre de l'année et je voulais vous remercier (les verres ont sûrement aidé).

My cartoon for this week’s New Scientist magazine.

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how staff decisions are made at tumblr

Manager: ok sorry for bringing you all in for a morning meeting but it's kind of urgent

Dave, an australian: its midnight here, fuck you.

Manager: yeah sorry dave. it's just. people have been talking and. we're still short on money.

Moss, already on xeir fourth cup of coffee for the day and tired of everyone's shit: how the fuck are we short on money again.

Edna, who definitely doesn't have a suspicious secret tumblr blog about organ harvesting: have we tried selling everyone's organs?

Manager: thats the fourth time this month you've suggested that, Edna, the answer is still 'no'.

Edna: >:-(

Keith, who is definitely high and has been using his phone instead of paying attention to the meeting: omg... twitter users have to pay eight dollars a month to get verified now lmaoooooo. Hey wait guys you know what would be funny?

programmers, already writing out code: yep, on it.

Manager: and the employee of the month award goes to Keith

Can I post a baguette or is it against the community guidelines?

Americans are aslept¹! Quick, post pictures of real bread²!

¹ or whatever they do on thanksgiving. It's thanksgiving over there according to all my coworkers who are on holidays today.

² Because everybody knows that there is no real yummy bread in the US.

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