Critique of corporate social media is now a major concern of fields such as media studies and software studies. However, unlike many of my peers, I argue for something more than mere critique. In my view, in spite of years of criticism leveled at Facebook (now Meta), Twitter (now X), or YouTube, their commodification and manipulation of sociality continues apace....
Antanicus
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Tim Chambers
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“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Greg
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I ache, therefore I am.
I ache, therefore I am.
There is another reason to refer to Mastodon as noncentralized: Mastodon isn’t the only federated social media available. In his 2018 eruption, Rochko pointed to “the alternatives.” He wasn’t telling people to go back to Twitter. Over the past several years, a host of other ActivityPub-enabled projects have emerged....
Greg Lloyd
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It said: "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
"For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?"
It said: "The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases.
"For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question How can we eat? the second by the question Why do we eat? and the third by the question Where shall we have lunch?"
“Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.”
- John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
The biggest indicator of the success of ActivityPub is that it survived the stress-test of millions of new people signing up in the wake of Musk’s purchase of Twitter. As I discussed in the previous chapter, those new fediverse members caused a massive spike in the network’s traffic....
There is another reason to refer to Mastodon as noncentralized: Mastodon isn’t the only federated social media available. In his 2018 eruption, Rochko pointed to “the alternatives.” He wasn’t telling people to go back to Twitter. Over the past several years, a host of other ActivityPub-enabled projects have emerged....
Gert V 🇵🇸
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The art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
-- Banksy
The art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
-- Banksy
In 2015, there was a tremendous amount of anger over Facebook’s emotional contagion study. Facebook researchers partnered with academics at Cornell and the University of California—San Francisco to study how emotion-laden phrases might affect the emotions of Facebook users....
Aral Balkan is one half of the Small Technology Foundation....
That the covenantal fediverse enjoys the active contributions of queer and trans people is not surprising. Recent internet histories have revealed the central role queer and trans folks have played in digital technologies....
Anke
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Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/111sRDPG3 (Yellowstone National Park)
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Via flickr https://flic.kr/p/111sRDPG3 (Yellowstone National Park)
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Simply comparing corporate social media terms of service agreements to typical Mastodon codes of conduct reveals the user/member distinction. Corporate terms of service are full of legalese....