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15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing.
#Technology #Tech #Media #Journalism #Publishing #Flipboard #Apps #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial
The irony is not lost on me that I’m posting this to social media. 🤷🏻♂️
(Hat tip: @markchappelle)
Well hello #mastodon. I deactivated my #bluesky account b/c of reply guy sea lioning and antagonism toward Black women experts there. Very bummed about it b/c I invested a lot in growing my followers there, made some great connections, and believe it’s exponentially better than the site formally known as #Twitter. I might go back, I don’t know but the #moderation tools weren’t addressing my needs. Guess I’ll try again to learn this place 👋🏽
From his home office in…KY, a political operative is quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to… #Trump….
#TomJones & his #AmericanAccountabilityFoundation are digging into the backgrounds, #socialmedia & commentary of key govt employees, starting w/the #DHS.…+They’re preparing to publish the findings online.
#HeritageFoundation #Project2025 #BlackListing #Sonderfahndungsliste #Gestapo #democracy #BidenHarris2024
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-president-project-2025-33d3fc2999a74f4aa424f1128dca2d16
#LARB Radio Hour | The Shit Show
"[H]ow #BigTech dreams – from iPhones to #socialMedia to #AI – have become nightmares.
"How did these decade-defining innovations end up making modern life feel sadder, lonelier, and scarier?"
#books discussed
⦁ @pluralistic's #Enshittification
⦁ Paul Kingsnorth’s #AgainstTheMachine
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This week's comic, inspired by a study showing that AI summaries on top of search results are dramatically cutting traffic to websites.
#internet #technology #tech #journalism #disinformation #socialmedia #oligarchy
My entire Facebook account (with all my connected pages and groups) was suspended without warning yesterday & my appeal was denied. I shared a post about this on Medium:
AI Facebook Suspension
https://medium.com/@wfryer/ai-facebook-suspension-c720087cf931
#edtechSR #MediaLit #SocialMedia #Facebook #AI
Even though sighted people have not joined this yet, I am witnessing an increased desire for more audio based social media apps such as this from sighted people. Ramblio https://ramblio.com/
Find me at https://ramblio.com/user/weird_writer
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because i’ve seen some people posting clips from the lex fridmann interview with #Telegram CEO #PavelDurov where Durov explains why he thinks the #EU is falling apart i thought I would take a moment to remind everyone who Pavel Durov is
#eupol #socialmedia #uspol #lexFridmann #CSAM #Russia #kompromat #putin
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I just found a 4 minute video by Elena Rossini, @elena It's a really well-done intro video about the #fediverse.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
It describes what the fediverse is, where it came from and why you are just now hearing about it.
My thoughts on social media bans everywhere is that if you're taking digital connections away from teens, you better make sure they have third spaces for physical connection, and give them options for transport that is not "parents drive us around" otherwise all you're creating is isolation.
And you may not need a social media ban if you start by preserving and creating those third spaces. #SocialMedia
We're very excited to be a 'Common Sponsor' of the @bonfire project 🔥
Bonfire offers and incredible opportunity for the Open Social Web. It will be great to see their work with various organisations, including us, come to life.
If you'd like to donate to Bonfire yourself, they've just launched a fundraiser here 👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g
How successful has Twitter's rebrand to X been? Well, most people still refer to the platform as "X, formerly Twitter," so we're going to say, not very. The team at Creative Bloq report on the blue bird's last gasp, as X sunsets the twitter.com URL, and how — no surprise — that's not gone smoothly.
Yeah, I don't think this is going to exactly help us recover from the massive drop in #tourism since his term started.
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#Trump Wants People to Submit DNA Just to Get a #TouristVisa
Want to visit the USA? CBP will make you submit your social media history—and your family history & #DNA too.
#SocialMedia would become a “mandatory data element” , and all applicants would be required to submit a social media history going back five years.
#biometrics #privacy
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-wants-people-submit-dna-212517547.html
New blog post up on my website! https://librarymonster.io/
Just a whirlwind 2 months. Best time of the year!
#Disneyworld #Democracy #SocialMedia
the #Paranormal and the #Occult and #Halloween 🧡🖤🧡🖤
The Future is Federated issue 4:
« Your data, your power: the Fediverse's big advantage over the walled gardens of Big Tech »
with shout-outs to @dot_social
@mike
@johnonolan @PixelFed
#thefutureisfederated #Mastodon #Pixelfed #BigTech #tech #socialmedia #FOSS #ActivityPub #blog
I'm working on a new post for #TheFutureIsFederated that aims to show what interoperability looks like on the #Fediverse.
As I said before, it feels like ✨ magic ✨
I logged in @phanpy for the first time using my @pixelfed credentials and I used its incredible catch-up feature to see posts I had missed. Mind = blown 🤯 😍
Blog post coming by the end of the week, in the meantime you can read previous issues and subscribe here: https://blog.elenarossini.com/tag/fediverse/#post-list
"Meta has removed or restricted dozens of accounts belonging to abortion access providers, queer groups and reproductive health organisations in the past weeks in what campaigners call one of the 'biggest waves of censorship' on its platforms in years."
#PublicHealth #SocialMedia #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #pregnancy #abortion #lgbtq #queer #censorship #shadowban
Here's some easy Friday reading: a look at custom emoji across the fediverse.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/custom-fediverse-emoji/
#FediverseExplorations #data #dataviz #fediverse #SocialMedia #emoji #CustomEmoji
#Democrats flip #SocialMedia *#censorship* complaints on #Musk, #GOP
#ElonMusk’s #X is facing #impartiality questions after he endorsed #Trump & the *platform* restricted pro-#Harris account.
#Republicans have spent the better part of a decade accusing #SocialMedia companies of “censoring” *#conservative* viewpoints & skewing their platforms to benefit Democrats.
#VoteBlue
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/08/13/democrats-flip-social-media-censorship-complaints-musk-gop/
Good comeback. Checks many boxes of how to respond to comments of this kind:
- call out their bullshit
- respond with kindness
- craft your message not with the edgelord in mind, but write it for the rest of the community (the edgelord will hate it anyway, so no need to pander to them)
The latest on Twitter / X
It appears that many people outside of the UK have little idea what has been taking place over the past week here and Elon Musk's role in it.
Here's a thread explaining a bit more and why so many people in the UK are leaving X 🧵 👇
#X #Twitter #UKRiots #massmigration #socialmedia #mastodon #Threads #Bluesky
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.8 👩🚀
The Future of Social is Here: a Show and Tell (part 3: #Friendica)
https://blog.elenarossini.com/the-future-of-social-is-here-a-show-and-tell-part-3-friendica/
with shout-outs to @anubis2814 @dansup @fedidb @heidilifeldman @tchambers @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews @ryanbroderick @caseynewton @ferrante @informapirata @russandro @hankg @tio
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #activism #bigtech #socialmedia #FOSS #blog #activitypub #diaspora #bluesky #tumblr
Good news! Our universe just got bigger — now you can follow and interact with profiles from @Mastodon, @threads and other federated social services on Flipboard.
Download the Flipboard app to follow @georgetakei, @taylorlorenz, @potus and more. See posts from the fediverse alongside content from your favorite publishers.
Read more about how it all works: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/follow-anyone-in-the-fediverse/
And as always, we welcome questions and feedback!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Flipboard #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology #Threads