Why I started posting like it's the 2000s again

In November of 2007, Facebook made a tiny change to its user interface that would massively influence what we know of today as a 'post' on social media. What was that change?

2025-01-29T15:00:00.000Z

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Sections

logging — Status updates and small signals of life, logged to the AT Protocol.
posting — Dame's Bluesky posts, grouped by day and mirrored from the AT Protocol.
blogging — Long-form essays on the open social web, atproto, and building in public.
creating — A portfolio of creative work — projects, experiments, and things made along the way.
curating — Collected references and inspirations — channels of things worth keeping.
listening — A live scrobble of what dame is playing, streamed from the AT Protocol.
mothing — Moths at the light — observations logged from nights spent watching the dark.
welcoming — Sign in with any atproto account and leave a note that you were here. Every signature lives on the signer’s own PDS and reaches this page as a backlink.
sharing — Dame's ethos and the things worth passing on.
themself — Who dame is — a longer look at the person behind the pixels, drawn live from the AT Protocol.
for hire — Dame's résumé and work history — design, strategy, and building on the open social web. Currently available for hire.

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