facebook Facebook is an accelerator of our toxic times, not its cause Facebook has merely harnessed and amplified the networks already at work online. Blaming the symptom for the problem is no route to a solution. Jul 6, 2020 7 min read
toxic communities Narcissism and toxic communities Dispatches from the dark places of community management, where comics pros groom young women, and My Little Pony communities get infested with Nazis… Jun 24, 2020 5 min read
chans The most toxic community on the internet is homeless 8chan, home of mass shooters, QAnon and the cradle of GamerGate is finding it hard to get back online. And its founder it working to keep it that way. Oct 21, 2019 2 min read
community management Reddit and the problems of scale in large communities Is there an optimum size for online communities? This analysis of Reddit suggests that there is. Jun 17, 2019 3 min read
toxic communities How people silence each other on social networks The interplay between harassment and silencing is one of networks ways that users effectively networks each other on social networks. Oct 22, 2018 1 min read