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For those of us interested in more ethical, user-focused social platforms, it's worth understanding how these ventures can go wrong. To that end, start at the Good Web Graveyard: a link compilation on departed websites that had marketed themselves in terms of ethics. Avoiding exploitative business models isn't itself a guarantee of failure, but plenty of other things are, and by reading up on what's gone defunct, we can learn to recognize the warning signs.

Originally posted to Pillowfort on January 4, 2022.

A post about Waterfall.social, its one-sided relationship with Pillowfort, and some of the eyebrow-raising choices involved in its development, funding, and promotion.

I did not find most of these links myself, but by and large I encountered them in private posts, so this is my attempt to construct more of a public overview. If you have sources to add, please link them in the comments. ( Read more... )