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Platform comparisons data: a repeatable method
Platform comparisons data: learn how to hold controls constant, label evidence, and keep a repeatable record for a fair comparison of social platforms.
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Field Desk
First-hand accounts of platform network catalog, including the parts that did not go to plan.
Features
What a tick in a platform comparison table hides and what to write instead
This explains what a tick in a platform comparison table hides, offers a closed seven-value vocabulary to replace it, and shows what every cell must state.
Costs
Measuring niche social networks data
Niche social networks data: use counts and consistent windows, account for snowball sampling, set thresholds, and record each observation.
Guides
Platform comparisons by year: A method for tracking change
Platform comparisons by year are easier to interpret when criteria, accounts, and timing stay fixed; learn how to version a method and handle changes.
Maintenance
A four-gate test log for platform alternatives in your country
A test log for platform alternatives in your country: four gates, each marked pass, fail or not checked with a date, before you move anything.
Industry
The checked list of platform alternatives directory
A platform alternatives directory entry names a real incumbent, a real candidate, and the job the candidate cannot do, with dates on every tested row.
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How to keep decentralized networks updates accurate, level by level
Where changes surface in a decentralized networks catalog, which sources can be subscribed to, the recheck cadence for each level, and what to do with findings.
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Photo metadata after upload: a six-step round trip test
Photo platforms data lives in the files: the Exif, IPTC, XMP and ICC fields a photo carries, and a six-step round trip test to see what a service keeps.
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Decentralized networks have no useful rankings: six questions to ask instead
Why ranked lists of decentralized networks and servers fail, plus six questions to eliminate options and choose a server on rules, operator, funding, and exit.
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How to assemble a decentralized networks timeline
Decentralized networks timeline kept as three streams: the protocol, the software, and the instance, with the evidence each one leaves behind.
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Decentralized networks list: signal versus noise
Decentralized networks classified by mechanism: where the data lives, what identity is bound to, and where the power to remove sits. No figures needed.
Industry
Niche social networks facts: how to verify four claims
Niche social networks facts: a method for checking claims about independence, privacy, community control and open-source code against available evidence.
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Community platforms search: how catalogs make terms findable
Community platforms search works when catalogs map reader terms to recorded values, lead with facets, index useful text, and treat empty results as evidence.
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Indigenous community platforms and networks in Canada
Indigenous community platforms and networks in Canada: who owns each one, how it is governed, which data rules apply and how to work with them.
Features
How rural connectivity in Halifax and Atlantic Canada shapes platform choice
Rural connectivity Atlantic Canada shapes which platforms Halifax and Nova Scotia groups can actually use, from coverage gaps to provincial online harms rules.
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How to build a community platforms directory entry from four sources
A method for building a community platforms directory entry from four sources: terms, pricing pages, help center and a test community, plus one worked example.
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How to Export Facebook Group Data Before You Leave: Steps US Admins Miss
Export Facebook group data before you leave: a US admin sequence with cut-off dates, roster capture, and the CCPA deletion step most handovers skip.
Guides
Where to File a Social Media Platform Complaint in Canada
To file a complaint about a social media platform in Canada, match the issue to the right route, review planning timelines, and keep your records.
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A recheck calendar and change log format for professional networks entries
A field by field recheck calendar for professional networks entries, plus a change log format recording old and new values, evidence, and detection date.
Industry
5 things to check in community platforms
Community platforms organised by the five shapes a room can take, the properties that decide the shape, and the moderator hours each one will demand.
Guides
What actually changes about leaving a decentralized network?
Decentralized networks explained by mechanism: what federation genuinely changes about removal and exit, and what it leaves exactly as it was before.
Industry
Major social networks by year: four shifts in who sees what
Major social networks by year, told as four shapes in order: topic first, person first, the feed, and ranking, with what each did to who sees what.
Maintenance
Reading major social networks data without fooling yourself
Major social networks data: every field has a half-life, blank means four different things, and corrections have to keep the old state beside the new.
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Major social networks facts: why user counts differ
Major social networks facts: why platforms report different user numbers, what each definition counts, and how to check a figure in five steps.
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Messaging platforms timeline: four models, no dates
Messaging platforms timeline told through four addressing models: open address, service account, phone number, and application account. No dates, just sequence.
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Telling whether a niche social network is still alive or just dormant
Niche social networks: why small ones are worth building on, how they actually die, and how to check whether one is alive before investing a year in it.
Features
A five-part framework for evaluating platform alternatives
A method for judging platform alternatives: the five things a replacement must cover, when switching makes sense, and a migration order that holds up.
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How to make platform comparisons that hold up
Platform comparisons on six structural axes instead of a feature grid, with tests you can run yourself and the traps that make a comparison useless.
Rules
Building a professional networks list from a written inclusion rule
Professional networks list built from a written inclusion rule: five observable tests, the borderline cases decided in advance, and an omission table.
Maintenance
Professional networks: how to judge profile claims
Professional networks publish self-reported profiles. Learn to assess claims, search beyond a profile, weigh independent evidence, and record your findings.
Industry
7 notes on video platforms by country worth reading
Seven country-level notes on video platforms, from India's data pricing to Canada's Bill 96, each one checkable by someone inside that market.
Costs
Photo platforms for the careful reader in 2027
Photo platforms cost more than the price page shows: resolution, metadata, licence, attribution, and what an export really returns when you test it.
Reviews
Video platforms: what to keep and what to drop as of 2027
YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Vimeo and LinkedIn compared on discovery, shelf life, file handling and whether you can reach viewers off-platform.
Features
How messaging platforms lock you in, and how to move
Messaging platforms are chosen by the group, not by you. What the identifier decides, why sealed content is not private, and how to move a conversation.
Guides
Reading a major social network by structure instead of size
Major social networks read by structure rather than size: identity, graph, who decides a post is seen, and what leaving costs, with fields to record.