‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to #bluesky 🦋

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to #X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

nature.com/articles/d41586-024…

‘A place of joy’: why scientists are joining the rush to Bluesky

Researchers say the social-media platform — an alternative to X — offers more control over the content they see and the people they engage with.

^{Mallapaty, Smriti}

... to those moving from Mastodon to BlueShit - you crazy naive quacks! Wasn't getting burned on X enough?

#Fediverse #x #bluesky #mastodon

"Decentralised social media is more than just a technical shift; it's a step toward restoring autonomy and trust in our digital lives, empowering individuals and communities to connect without compromising their values or privacy."

A study by the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford finds that decentralised social media leads to citizen empowerment.

oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/dec…

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Decentralised #Decentralized #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #X #Empowerment

Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study

Researchers from the Oxford Martin School find decentralised social media such as Mastodon offer potential for increased citizen empowerment

^{Oxford Martin School}

Senator @Paulatics Paula Simons rose today in Question Period in Canada’s Senate to ask the government why (the hell! - my words lol) Government is still using that platform of hate, misogyny and Russian misinformation called X!?

Boost to support the Senator!! And ask your MP, MLA, or other government representative wherever you are to do the same!!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Twitter #X #Government #twitterMigration
youtu.be/y1D7PlvSFTE?si=73DThK…

"Open social media offers a chance to escape the cycle of good product turns bad product and wiping the slate clean to start again. Instead, open social media offers the chance to build in a space where you can easily hop-skip-jump to the next best platform without losing your community."

Check out what @saskia had to say about Bluesky continuing to grow.

forbetter.ghost.io/even-more-b…

#Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #Bluesky #X #OpenSocial #SocialWeb #Tech

Even more Bluesky Growth

Bluesky is breaking ceiling after ceiling for open social media. It's getting a bit boring now isn't it? We've all heard about the success of Bluesky. I mean, even ITV News did a segment on it.

^{Saskia (FORbetter)}

Folks, please do delete your X accounts, by all means, but I’d be very surprised if that meant that your data is deleted or that Elon Musk won’t be using it to train his AI, etc.

I put in a data deletion request after deactivating my account in 2022 and set the Irish DPC on them when they didn’t. After several back and forths, with the Irish DPC being less than worthless, I gave up. Afaict, there is zero enforcement of GDPR Article 17.

CC @noybeu

#x #twitter #gdpr #ElonMusk

#Austria: Left-wing journalists leave #Musk's platform #X hand in hand

Source: postdiscus.com/2024/11/austria…

#news #Twitter #hate #protest #moderation #fail #problem #freespeech #journalism #boycott #politics #economy

Austria: Left-wing journalists leave Musk's platform X hand in hand

Departure mood on X: Austria's left-wing journalists are leaving the platform for Bluesky. The reason? Elon Musk, "super troll" and destroye...

^{PostDiscus | A critical eye to the usual narrative}

This is a powerful statement from UK journalists and we agree.

X is no longer neutral and no longer a home for journalists.

We are ready to support any and all journalists who make the move to open social networks, now and in the New Social future.

Please, feel free to send journalists or publications our way if they have any questions. Or, if you're a journalist yourself, feel free to reach out.

docs.google.com/document/d/1dF…

#SocialMedia #X #Journalism #News #OpenSocial #Mastodon #Fediverse

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists As UK journalists, we have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience.

^{Google Docs}

Manche sagen: Sollte man nicht auf X bleiben, um dort menschenfeindliche Ansichten zu widersprechen? Klares Nein! Das wäre, als würde man sich in das Bierzelt einer rechtsextremen Partei setzen, in der Hoffnung, deren Überzeugungen durch Diskussion zu ändern – ein aussichtsloses Unterfangen, das eher deren Bühne stärkt als echte Veränderung bewirkt.

#x #twitter #bullshit

STOP #ENSHITIFICATION

Support #Mastodon!

I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.

But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will

@pluralistic
#bluesky #x #twitter #facebook #socialmedia #enshitification
doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…

Bluesky and enshittification - Cory Doctorow - Medium

Next weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention. I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting…

^{Cory Doctorow (Medium)}

it's true…

#truthsocial #x #xodius #xitter #twitter #meme

Does this seem like a good fit? - The #X algorithm at its finest!

It seriously appears to be going down the drains.

The other suggestions regularly change, but some #US generals & #BillGates keep showing up.

Is X trying to promote them or are those ads?

Furthermore the home page always shows #ElonMusk posts, even if you don't follow him.

#Twitter #Xitter #SocialMedia #Humor #Joke #screenshotsunday #algorithms #Internet #Microsoft #FckMicrosoft #Parody #manipulation #platform #observation

For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.

You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…

Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.

p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack

#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump

The devil is in the details! 😈

Today X changed their #privacy policy & terms of service.

2 Highlights:
-They "collect and use your #biometric information"
-3rd party collaborators might "train their artificial intelligence models" on user #data

As a surprise for #X "Premium's Anniversary" we decided to make another guide 😜

If you still have #Xitter, make sure your "Data sharing with business partners" setting is disabled!
x.com/settings/data_sharing_wi…

Also posting this on #Twitter 😂

#SocialMedia

Even though I haven't used my Twitter/X account in over two years, I am still squatting my username.

But I decided to take the next step and delete my tweets before they're fed into their "AI".

cnn.com/2024/10/21/tech/x-twit…

I found @luca's script super useful for this, highly recommend!

github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer

#twitter #x #ai

GitHub - lucahammer/tweetXer: Delete all your Tweets for free

Delete all your Tweets for free. Contribute to lucahammer/tweetXer development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Disappointed #X users are going to #Bluesky instead of #Mastodon

People like what is closest to what they are already using. #Mastodon is laid gratuitously different in terms of buttons to push and links to click. People who left #Twitter earlier didn't like that and left.

The crowds are different.

The prime content providers are staying on #X. Some are going to #BlueSky. Some are reposting here with #bots

Then there is the ridiculous size limit on toots on many servers

@EUCommission
#EUpol #USpol #SocialMedia #Regulation

Social Media propaganda, in particular on #X, #Facebook, and #Instagram can probably have cost #KamalaHartis2024 the #US presidency!*

👉The #EU urgently needs to pull the plug on #ElonMusk's private right-wing #PropagandaChannel #X, formerly #Twitter, before rightwing #FakeNews narratives destroy #European democracies in the same way it happened in the #USA.

This must be done before Jan 20

#FineMusk
#BanX

*
mastodon.social/@mattsheffield…

Matthew Sheffield

2024-11-14 20:37:19

Republican dominance of new media is the number-one reason Kamala Harris lost in 2024. Her message was drowned out by propaganda and she failed to understand how gaslit Americans were.

Here are a few graphics to keep handy next time you want to explain this to someone.

"A nonprofit continuing to post to X is not only unwelcome by the crowd growing there, but they are complicit in what is to come.

That's why 62% of nonprofits active on X have already begun building a presence on new and emerging platforms."

Read about why @saskia doesn't think nonprofits should be sticking to X in her latest blog post.

forbetter.ghost.io/x-makes-you…

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #X #Xodus #Twitter #Nonprofit #Charity

X makes you complicit, it's time for nonprofits to act

Why remain on a platform that directly opposes your organisations morals? I'll start by admitting that I am angry. The thread that weaves between the lines of this blog is red and spiteful.

^{Saskia (FORbetter)}

#Legal #Meta #Instagram #Facebook

That's the way to go,
@EUCommission

Via @dw

*EU fines Meta €797 million over antitrust breaches*

"The EU Commission fined...Meta for practices favoring Facebook Marketplace that it said violated #EU #CompetitionLaw..."

"The 👉firm said that it would comply with the decision in the meantime and would work quickly and constructively to launch a solution that addresses the points raised."👈

👉Now do #X aka #Twitter, b4 it's too late!👈

c.im/@dw/113481666286909604

DW News

2024-11-14 14:00:08

#News EU fines Meta €797 million over antitrust breaches w.st/zjw0cZ

We're helping important organisations move away from Big Tech platforms and towards open New Social platforms - like Mastodon!

But, we can't do it alone. We'd love to hear which organisations you think should make the move and why, so we can show them that there is a community waiting here for them.

Better yet, if you have a connection to an important organisation, we'd love to be introduced!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #Help #SocialMedia #Tech #X #Twitter #Charity #Government #News #Academia

The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

Big news and a great step from The Guardian.

theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

#press #journalism #X
#SocialMedia

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

^{The Guardian}

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

ich trage hiermit auch mal eine eule nach athen ...

#internet #socmed #x #twitter #fediverse

Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week / A ‘majority' of the new users are from the US, indicating that people are searching for a new platform as an alternative to X
theverge.com/2024/11/11/242939…

#SocialMedia #Bluesky #X

Bluesky adds 700,000 new users in a week

Bluesky gained more than 700,000 new users in a week and now has more than 14.5 million users total. The “majority” of the new users are from the US.

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

It's time to take Old Yeller behind the shed.

#Twitter #X #SocialMedia #ElonMusk
reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/…

"Harris wasn't too left or not left enough or even too female. The richest man in the world bought America. Please watch the whole thing" is what Randi Mayem says in her post on Threads.

And yes, definitely do watch the whole thing.

#Musk #Twitter #X #Trump

Good summary of Musk's X and the political agenda.

#ElonMusk #X #OccupyMusk #USPol #Misinformation #TechBros #Trump #DonaldTrump #ElectionDay2024 #Elections