
https://arxiv.org/html/2505.24801v1
#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#Twitter#Bluesky#Academia#Universities#HigherEd
https://arxiv.org/html/2505.24801v1
#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#Twitter#Bluesky#Academia#Universities#HigherEd
"Instead of thinking about fixing existing platforms - that's done, they're not going to fix themselves - I think it's about developing new platforms. Voting with your feet, getting to places where you want to be."
#KateStarbird, University of Washington, 2024
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#podcasts #TechPolicyPress #SundayShow #SocialMedia #PlatformCapitalism
#MichaelSpicer, No Room, s01e01, 2024
Campbell looks beyond the obvious privacy risks created by enforcing age limits, to the corporate conservative roots of the policy's Australian variant (particularly Rupert Murdoch's role in it). He mentions the way it violates teens' human rights, and limits their access to peer support;
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2505/S00025/on-the-parental-panic-over-young-kids-online.htm
564 federated by @Flipboard
404 on @Mastodon
45 federated by @threads
20 bridged thanks to @snarfed.org
3 federated by @index (#Ghost)
1 on @peertube &
1 on @sharkey
https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html
Who's missing?
#SocialMedia#News#Press#Media#Threads#BridgyFed#Peertube#Sharkey#Bluesky#Flipboard
#IanBogost, 2022
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/twitter-facebook-social-media-decline/672074/
But it could be an opportunity to campaign for regulation of corporate DataFarming that is technically practical, and addresses the real problems.
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https://www.wired.com/2006/07/myspace-faces-age-old-web-problem/
"When asked, users repeatedly cite 'Nazis' as a problem they would like Twitter to address. After leaving Twitter, writer Lindy West retorted, 'Get back to me when your website isn’t a roiling rat-king of Nazis'.”
#SarahJeong, 2017
https://www.vice.com/en/article/mastodon-is-like-twitter-without-nazis-so-why-are-we-not-using-it/
Melon Husk's weak moderation is a return to the mean, not a break with it. Funny how nostalgic dysphoria has made pre-Husk Titter a fash-free zone that it never really was. At least not for most of its existence.
"This is what resistance to the digital coup looks like"
https://news.elenarossini.com/this-is-what-resistance-to-the-digital-coup-looks-like/
mentioning @jaredwhite @anildash@ghost @caseynewton @molly0xfff @404mediaco @Daojoan @theindex @dangillmor @ryanbroderick @micahflee @melaniebartos @kleisli
I'd love to hear what you think about #AdoptAWriter ✨
#tech#Fediverse #activism#BigTech#SocialMedia#FOSS#FLOSS #blog #resistance#SaveSocial
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Here’s the blueprint I’d follow: https://werd.io/2025/if-i-started-fresh
https://fed.brid.gy/docs#bluesky-get-started
@patbrittenden.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @chewienz.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @iamprettyawesome.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @xkaosmagex.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Around the 1:38:00 mark, Pat and Chewie have an intriguing chat about the practical challenges they see in trying to get off corporate social media platforms;
Challenge accepted! I'm planning a blog post about what they can try out right now, and what we could build if regulation forced corporate platforms to interop with services/ apps offered by smaller competitors and not-for-profit groups.
Suggestions and perspectives welcome.
#AnnaRawhitiConnell, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/media/01-04-2025/the-fold-careless-people-adolescence-and-where-meta-is-at
Why wouldn't they? As many of us always suspected and Edward Snowdon's leaks confirmed, that's exactly what they do for the US government.
#privacy #surveillance#MassSurveillance#SocialMedia#FaceBook#China#USA
#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia #socialnetworks #selfhosted
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