🎦 Our #Fediverse talks from #SFSCon are live.

I gave a talk about our existing building blocks of public-interest digital infrastructures like #Matrix #Wikimedia projects and #socialnetworks and how they are relevant to establish real and long term #digital #sovereignty. ✨

"From #OpenSource to Open Spaces: The Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure"
🔗 https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-open-source-to-open-spaces/

Thanks again for the cooperation #Fediforum & South Tyrol #FreeSoftware #Conference @ohnewein 👏

🎦 Our #Fediverse talks from #SFSCon are live.

I gave a talk about our existing building blocks of public-interest digital infrastructures like #Matrix #Wikimedia projects and #socialnetworks and how they are relevant to establish real and long term #digital #sovereignty. ✨

"From #OpenSource to Open Spaces: The Fediverse and the Future of Public Digital Infrastructure"
🔗 https://www.sfscon.it/talks/from-open-source-to-open-spaces/

Thanks again for the cooperation #Fediforum & South Tyrol #FreeSoftware #Conference @ohnewein 👏

My first endeavor into social networks was with a #FidoNet node in the early 1990s.

Don’t think I’ve been so excited/curious about a tool for building social networks as I’m about @bonfire ever since.

That’s all good. Great, even.

What’s sad is that a huge part of that stems from where the centralized social networks took us.

Nevertheless, hope to take Bonfire for a spin ASAP.

#SocialNetworks #Fediverse #Decentralization

My first endeavor into social networks was with a #FidoNet node in the early 1990s.

Don’t think I’ve been so excited/curious about a tool for building social networks as I’m about @bonfire ever since.

That’s all good. Great, even.

What’s sad is that a huge part of that stems from where the centralized social networks took us.

Nevertheless, hope to take Bonfire for a spin ASAP.

#SocialNetworks #Fediverse #Decentralization

The irony is not lost on me that I’m posting this to social media. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(Hat tip: @markchappelle)

#SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #Books #Reading #AI #Rebellion

The irony is not lost on me that I’m posting this to social media. 🤷🏻‍♂️

(Hat tip: @markchappelle)

#SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #Books #Reading #AI #Rebellion

Is the road from #enshittification to sustainable #socialnetworks paved with 1.5$/month we all pay to our mastodon hosts?

@pluralistic , what do you think?

@digitalcourage @j12t

Do the @bonfire team have any plans for a Bonfire flavour for use in schools? I'm Imagining something co-designed with people from student-run organisations, teachers unions, and education tech NGOs like #OERU.

@mackiwg @lightweight

#SocialNetworks#Bonfire#Education#CoDesign#EdTech

We're proud to support A New Social, a non-profit helmed by @quillmatiq and @snarfed.org. Learn more here about its mission to liberate people's networks from their platforms, and level the playing field across the open social web.

https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/

#OpenSocialWeb#SocialNetworks#SocialWeb#Bluesky#BridgyFed#PeopleNotPlatforms

"We analyse the migration of 300,000 academic users from Twitter/X to Bluesky between 2023 and early 2025, combining rich bibliometric data, longitudinal social-media activity, and a novel cross-platform identity-matching pipeline. We show that 18% of scholars in our sample transitioned, with transition rates varying sharply by discipline, political expression, and Twitter engagement but not by traditional academic metrics. Using time-varying Cox models and a matched-pairs design, we isolate genuine peer influence from homophily. We uncover a striking asymmetry whereby information sources drive migration far more powerfully than audience, with this influence decaying exponentially within a week. We further develop an ego-level contagion classifier, revealing that simple contagion drives two-thirds of all exits, shock-driven bursts account for 16%, and complex contagion plays a marginal role. Finally, we show that scholars who rebuild a higher fraction of their former Twitter networks on Bluesky remain significantly more active and engaged. Our findings provide new insights onto theories of network externalities, directional influence, and platform migration, highlighting information sources’ central role in overcoming switching costs."

https://arxiv.org/html/2505.24801v1

#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#Twitter#Bluesky#Academia#Universities#HigherEd

"We analyse the migration of 300,000 academic users from Twitter/X to Bluesky between 2023 and early 2025, combining rich bibliometric data, longitudinal social-media activity, and a novel cross-platform identity-matching pipeline. We show that 18% of scholars in our sample transitioned, with transition rates varying sharply by discipline, political expression, and Twitter engagement but not by traditional academic metrics. Using time-varying Cox models and a matched-pairs design, we isolate genuine peer influence from homophily. We uncover a striking asymmetry whereby information sources drive migration far more powerfully than audience, with this influence decaying exponentially within a week. We further develop an ego-level contagion classifier, revealing that simple contagion drives two-thirds of all exits, shock-driven bursts account for 16%, and complex contagion plays a marginal role. Finally, we show that scholars who rebuild a higher fraction of their former Twitter networks on Bluesky remain significantly more active and engaged. Our findings provide new insights onto theories of network externalities, directional influence, and platform migration, highlighting information sources’ central role in overcoming switching costs."

https://arxiv.org/html/2505.24801v1

#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#Twitter#Bluesky#Academia#Universities#HigherEd

X had its second outage in just over a week today. @Sarahp reports for @Techcrunch that the outage took place just after the platform rolled out its new DM feature. "It’s not clear if any of these changes impacted X’s stability, and the company no longer responds to press inquiries since Musk took ownership," she writes.

https://flip.it/G1cQmd

#Tech#Technology#SocialNetworks#SocialMedia#ElonMusk

I continue to think about decentralized networks. And I'm wondering, among other things, if we need squares or courtyards, and why good metaphors play a role in wise decisions.

#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia #socialnetworks #selfhosted

https://anders.thoresson.se/post/2025/05/town-squares-backyards-better-metaphors-and-decentralised-networks/

I continue to think about decentralized networks. And I'm wondering, among other things, if we need squares or courtyards, and why good metaphors play a role in wise decisions.

#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub #socialmedia #socialnetworks #selfhosted

https://anders.thoresson.se/post/2025/05/town-squares-backyards-better-metaphors-and-decentralised-networks/