Happy to announce our #DeTikTok Lemmy community is ready for y'all:

!DeTikTok@lemmy.world
lemmy.world/c/DeTikTok

Let's spread the gospel ;)

#Evil #Corporation #TikTok #SocialMedia #Community #Lemmy

An idea to shame users of corporate social media sites:

Instead of calling them Users, call them Customers.

You know, draw attention to how they are not just passively existing on those sites, but by being on them they are giving money to bad people.

#AskFedi #Fediverse #SocialMedia

Gee, ya don’t say …

#Bluesky Says #Kremlin Is Hacking Its Platform to Spread #Propaganda

The company said it was fighting Russian efforts to hijack real #users’ accounts to post fake #content, an apparently novel tactic.

#MediaLiteracy #disinformation #misinformation #Russia #RussianPropaganda #tech #SocialMedia
nytimes.com/2026/05/21/busines…

Genial l'entrevista a @pluralistic al @3CatInfo:

«durant anys Occident havia advertit que no es podia permetre que Huawei controlés les infraestructures 5G perquè, si Xi Jinping tenia un mal dia, podria apagar-les. Però resulta que hem construït exactament el mateix model de dependència amb un altre emperador imprevisible.

I això no farà més que empitjorar. #Trump és un mestre de l'escalada: si capitules, escala el conflicte; si resisteixes, també.»

#IA #SocialMedia
3cat.cat/3catinfo/cory-doctoro…

Cory Doctorow, creador del terme emmerdificació: "Les plataformes són una pila de merda"

Cory Doctorow és l'activista digital que va posar nom al sentiment de frustració de milions d'usuaris davant les xarxes socials al llibre "Enshittification"

^3CatInfo

BOOM! SAY IT LOUDER:
Gary Chambers Jr. just dragged #Louisiana Republicans — while Speaker Mike Johnson wears holes in his kneepads for Dear Leader.

#whitesupremacy #greatreplacementtheory #TuckerCarlson #racism #votersuppression

#DonaldTrump #IsraelFirst #EpsteinClass
#election
#usa #politics #news #war @politics #activism #socialmedia #protest #resistance #gerrymandering #us #trump #redistricting #mastodon #uspol #lgbtqia #congress #democrats
@blackvoices #blackmastodon #labor #justice

🇨🇦The Use and Misuse of #Antisemitism #Statistics in #Canada

April 1, 2021

ijvcanada.org/the-use-and-misu…

#news #socialmedia #dismantlezionism #antizionism #stopgenocide #freepalestine #cdnpoli #racism #ethnicnationalism #jewishsupremacy #Gaza @politics #science #elbowsup #resistance #protest #activism #genocide #sovereignty #education

🇨🇦B'nai Brith's annual Audit of Antisemitic Incidents is an unreliable and dangerous document. 1/4

x.com/IndJewishVoices/status/2…

#Canada #Carney #MarkCarney #Ottawa #Montreal #Toronto #Vancouver

#ZIONISM WEAPONISING #RACISM 🤮

#GreaterIsrael #DismantleZionism #IsraelWarCrimes

#usa #politics #news #Iran #Palestine #MiddleEast #war #genocide #eu @politics #activism @socialmedia #socialmedia #media #protest #resistance #stopgenocide #us #uspol #Gaza #freepalestine #GlobalSumudFlotilla #education

It's #VictoryDay!

Some decrepit #Kremlin goons spent 45 minutes saluting each other in #RedSquare

🥳

For Victory Day, celebrating the #RedArmy's defeat of #NaziGermany in a war started when the #Soviets and the #Nazis agreed to invade #Poland together, let's watch this new video from #Kramatorsk

Ukrainians cower, fearful of " #HumanSafari": #Ukraine's civilians are hunted for laughs by #Russia's drones, the videos then posted on #socialMedia

5 killed:

ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/41201…

#UkraineWar

Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive!

#computers #SocialMedia #passwords

Meta removed E2EE from Instagram DMs today, May 8, ending private encrypted chats and enabling broader message scanning for abuse detection 📩🔓
The change follows global pressure tied to CSAM enforcement, raising transparency and user-control concerns around private communication 🕵️‍♂️⚠️

🔗 indiatoday.in/technology/news/…

#TechNews #Instagram #Facebook #Meta #E2EE #Privacy #Encryption #Messaging #CyberSecurity #WhatsApp #ChatControl #Surveillance #FOSS #Security #SocialMedia #DataPrivacy

Instagram removes end-to-end encryption in messages, your DM chats are no longer private

Meta has ended end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages from 8 May The move could allow detection of CSAM grooming and other abuse-related content

^{Kazi Nasir (India Today)}

Excited to announce that the @EUCommission has updated it's follow buttons on the website footer!
What's that first platform there? Could that be #Mastodon?
And where did the link to #X go?
All the posts and comments here on Mastodon calling for this, trust me we read them!

#SocialMedia #EU #EuropeanCommission #FollowUs

Hey, that guy who was so fucking keen to go to Epstein's island of child rape is in trouble for more nonce stuff again.
Maybe he'll post as his Ma to say he's 'not a Pedo', like the 'winner' he is...

apnews.com/article/france-x-gr…

#ElonMusk #Musk #Grok #Deepfakes #CSAM #SocialMedia #Twitter #EpsteinClass

"‘No one has done this in the wild’: study observes #AI replicate itself"

I find this article to be sensationalistic, but I agree there is a reckoning coming

People conjure dramatic scenarios like the movies, but I feel if AI does fuck us up, it will be according to the most boring and mundane of ways

My particular terror is turning all of #socialMedia into a wasteland of exquisite mechanized #psyop for #politics

Until such time, unplugging the damn things can work

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Unfortunately, I think this letter will fall upon deaf ears. As we've learned from their response to the OSA repeal petition, their response to any criticism of these laws is to 1: Glaze said laws 2: Imply critics of the laws are sex pests/pedophiles/etc. and 3: Enact even more fascist legislation.

The UK Government (and I'm sure plenty of other governments) is willing to die on the hill of these thinly veiled mass surveillance/censorship laws. They won't stop unless the courts/a future parliament/a general strike forces them to. Because enacting a fascist police state is just too good to pass up.

I would be glad to be wrong and they actually listen but I don't think that will be the case.

#Privacy #Censorship #FreeSpeech #DigitalRights #AgeVerification #Surveillance #Internet #SocialMedia #UK #UnitedKingdom

🤩 Now available online: @_elena ’s wonderful keynote speech at the #2MR festival:

„I have a dream“ – A view of the Open Social Web in 5 years
👉 watch.2mr.social/w/k3ngQ8Xr3AN…

> To me, the #Fediverse is the best, most empowering #SocialMedia experience that I have ever had.

About #2MR: 2mr.social/

#SaveSocial #DiDay # #FOSS #Floss #Mastodon #democracy #digitalindependence #digitalsovereignty #media #danmarkskifter #DigitalRights

Leaving X.

German parties leaving, collectively, is more than a symbolic exit. It is a chance to reassess how and where political communication happens.

A platform’s relevance is not inherent. It is constructed through user behavior. And when influential users walk, the relevance begins to erode.

#WirVerlassenX #socialmedia #democracy #journalism

Very good news this morning:

In a rare coordinated action, three #German parties (Greens, Left, Social Democrats) have declared they're leaving #X (formerly #Twitter).

This goes for their official party accounts as well as for the accounts of their respective parliamentary caucuses. They're also recommending their party members and MPs leave X.

All three parties have published a coordinated statement.

E.g., SPD on Instagram
Via a privacy-preserving frontend: Imginn:

»In recent years, X has descended into chaos and is increasingly dominated by right-wing trolls. Political debates thrive on dialogue and on reaching and informing people. We no longer wish to foster a platform like X that promotes right-wing populist content, hate, and disinformation. That is why we have decided, across party lines, to stop posting on our account. We remain active on various other platforms and will continue to engage in dialogue there.«

#DEpol #SocialMedia #SocialNetworks #WirVerlassenX

SPD on Instagram: "X ist in den letzten Jahren im Chaos versunken, wird zunehmend von rechten Trollen dominiert. Politische Debatten leben vom Austausch und davon, dass sie Menschen erreichen und informieren. Wir wollen nicht länger einen Ort wie X stärke

2,062 likes, 319 comments - spdde on May 4, 2026: "X ist in den letzten Jahren im Chaos versunken, wird zunehmend von rechten Trollen dominiert. Politische Debatten leben vom Austausch und davon, dass sie Menschen erreichen und informieren.

^Instagram

' #Greece to ban #anonymity on #socialMedia

"The major problem behind anonymity is toxicity," argues digital governance minister'

They are correct: anonymity is a vector for #trolls, #harassment, #bigotry, and other antisocial behavior

So the solution is #moderation

The solution is not driving vulnerable people off social media

Greek government: you ignoramuses

Also I wonder how the fuck they will implement this

euractiv.com/news/greece-to-ba…

#Ελλάδα #Hellas #Europe

I was promised an exciting #dystopia where a brave human #resistance fights against killer #robots

But what I got was #aBoringDystopia where #socialMedia #influencers yell at polite robots asking us to help them replace us

credit: i *think* it's the Scientology auditor, Streets LA (not sure). the scene is in Los Angeles

youtube.com/@Scientology_Audit…

#AI #Clankers

I'm married, I haven't been #dating in over two decades

Just trying to imagine being a young person in this #socialMedia #scam-addled world feels like it has to be the most dreary hellscape for finding #romance

So when I read this headline, I have multiple levels of "oh hell no" going on in my head

' #Tinder takes action against #AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”'

dexerto.com/entertainment/tind…

Tinder takes action against AI profiles by making users scan eyes for “proof of humanity”

Tinder is rolling out a new way for users to prove they’re real as AI-generated profiles continue to flood dating apps.

^{Michael Gwilliam (Dexerto)}