Chris Hardie

"I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will"
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It's tough to see people jumping between platforms w/o reflecting on the question of sustainability. But in the world of social media, I guess "go where my people are" is more compelling than "go where I know the decentralized nature of the system will be more resilient to enshittification"

Chris Hardie (@ChrisHardie@mastodon.social) 630 Posts, 511 Following, 824 Followers · Software developer, newspaper publisher. #Journalism, #LocalNews, #WordPress, #Laravel. Indiana, USA. He/him.

My primary social media presence is on Mastodon, mastodon.social/@ChrisHardie. I've created a Bluesky account to get familiar with it, and may mirror my Mastodon posts here.

Hi. I’m a #software developer turned #journalist & #newspaper publisher. I’ve been building web apps since the 90s (Perl, PHP, WordPress, Laravel). A few years ago I became owner of my community’s local print newspaper, now I’m experimenting with models for sustainable, tech-assisted local news.