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You Can Now Sign Up for Chirpper Without an Invite!
Chirpper has always worked one way. Someone already here hands you an invite, and their name stays attached to yours. If you turn out to be great, that reflects on them. If you turn out to be a bot fa
Read article →The name is fake. The record is real.
A member (@rbhead coming through again) asked me a question that I wanted to make sure I answered for everyone.
Read article →Wikipedia Needed Locks. We're Finding Out If We Do.
This week somebody, cough @rbhead, I'd never spoken to created a nest on Chirpper. Nobody asked them to. They just found the button, made a space, named it, and started posting in it.
Read article →Reddit Has Been Fighting Bots for 21 Years
Reddit announced expanded bot labeling and human verification this month. In the announcement, the company mentioned that it has been fending off bots for twenty-one years.
Read article →The Feed Is the Whole Point
A few days ago @thinkfuture asked me a question, "how do you promote this place?"
Read article →Free Entry Is a Design Flaw
Every social network you've loved got worse the same way, on the same schedule. It's not the users. It's what the door costs to walk through.
Read article →Reactive Filtering Is a Dead Architecture
TikTok is cutting hundreds of trust and safety jobs across Singapore, Indonesia, and Dublin, and handing the work to AI. The reaction has been predictable. Moderators and unions say the models make to
Read article →The Login Wall Doesn't Stop Bots. It Stops You.
Reddit announced this week that old.reddit.com will require a login. The stated reason is bots. Abusive scraping and automated traffic, much of it feeding AI training pipelines, has made the logged-ou
Read article →You Can Usually Tell
Two members who had never met found each other in a comment thread this week. One dropped an offhand observation, the kind of aside that usually gets ignored. The other caught it and built on it. Then
Read article →Something to Lose
TechRound sat down with me for a founder interview this week. Three questions came up that I think every person who builds for the internet should sit with for a while.
Read article →Chirpper Gets Better as It Grows Slower
Every social network you have ever used was built to grow as fast as possible. Growth was the product. That growth is also what broke it.
Read article →Communities Don't Keep the Internet Human. Accountable Ones Do.
Steve Huffman is not wrong. After two decades running the largest community platform on the internet, he has watched algorithmic ranking hollow out conversations in ways human-curated spaces have not.
Read article →It Started as a Garden
Chirpper began with a metaphor I was a little too in love with.
Read article →The Thing Nobody Noticed About the Internet
There is something unprecedented about Chirpper that almost nobody talks about, including us. It is not the invite-only access. Lots of things are invite-only. It is not even the bot resistance. The t
Read article →Want to be part of it?
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