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I prefer #Bluesky’s version of #federation to #Mastodon’s, but either way the ability to switch social media provider without having to start over again is priceless. #SocialMedia


If you have a #EyeEm account, please read this and delete your photos one by one, then your account by May 1st or your photos are going to be sold to AI models. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/26/photo-sharing-community-eyeem-will-license-users-photos-to-train-ai-if-they-dont-delete-them/

I didn't realize that they were bankrupt and then sold off. They used to be a nice alternative that crashed and burned. I went ahead and deleted my account today.

#photography #app #SocialMedia


Mastodon US corporation: Social media enterprise now has a US 501c3. They lost non-profit status in Germany for unknown reasons
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/
#socialmedia #nonprofit #fediverse #mastodon #+


Pro-meat and climate crisis misinformation rife on social media, says report

"Misinformation on social media doesn't happen in a vacuum,” said Haughton-Boakes. “It seeps into the real world. And it does have real-world implications for policy debates.”

#News #ClimateCrisis #Internet #SocialMedia #Misinformation

https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2023-11-29/pro-meat-misinformation-rife-on-social-media-says-report/


Zur Zeit ist die Entwicklung rund ums #Fediverse sehr spannend. Die Blogging- und Newsletter-Plattform #Ghost will noch im Laufe dieses Jahres ihr Projekt ins Fediverse bringen. Damit hätten wir eine weitere Plattform für Langtexte im Fedi.

#SocialMedia


Life After X: Journos Who Ditched Elon Musk’s Twitter Speak Out https://www.mediaite.com/tech/life-after-x-journos-who-ditched-elon-musks-twitter-speak-out/

#SocialMedia #X #Twitter #Journalists #Journalism #Xitter


Is it just me, or are there more users that aren't logging in regularly than there are registering?

Like we have an abandonment issue or an absolutely MASSIVE false activity reporting issue....😬

Doesn't feel so "alive" here these days.

#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia


Die #SocialMedia Konzernfixierung meines Haussenders geht mir schon lange auf den Sack. Sie denken ihre News nicht zu Ende, sondern nur bis zum nächsten #Datensilo und kümmern sich nicht um die Konsequenzen ihres Handelns. Und wenn nicht einmal der Hausexperte #JörgSchieb im #Fediverse zu finden ist, ist auch irgendwie klar wie weit die Expertise reicht... Wofür genau, hält sich die ARD eigentlich eine #Mastodon Instanz?

@malte #ÖRR @wdraktuell@threads.net @OeRR_bewegen https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/wdr-aktuell-threads-102.html


What if our accounts had a hidden "likely mansplainer" score based on how big of a portion our replies are to people who don't follow us back, and then we added a setting to hide notifications from accounts that have this score above certain level? 🤔

#SocialMedia


Some people get replies and just do not engage at all....

Like, what is the point of posting to social media if you're not even gonna be SOCIAL?!?🤦‍♂️

Especially Fedi, cause it's not like we have some dumb ad service that pays you for views...You ain't making money here unless you're posting off-platform links to buy stuff.

I just don't get it. It's social media. Not "shout to the void and ignore everyone" media.🙄

#Fediverse #Meta #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Sharkey #Misskey #Pleroma #Akkoma #IceShrimp #FireFish #GoToSocial #Friendica #Peertube #PixelFed #Hubzilla #Lemmy #Kbin #Mbin #SocialMedia #Threads #Facebook #Instagram #Twitter #Myspace #Digg #Youtube


powerful metaphor.

I dusted off the Adventures of Tom Sawyer myself, since people on #socialmedia who do not pay money are throwing their #ai training data to companies at a hidden cost.

Awareness is needed. If people understood, they would be on the #fediverse.

https://knowprose.com/2024/04/20/paying-to-whitewash-the-fence-of-ai/


Trump poised to clinch $1.3 billion social media company stock award

> #DonaldTrump is set to secure on Tuesday a stock bonus worth $1.3 billion from the company that operates his social media app #TruthSocial, equivalent to about half the majority stake he already owns in it, thanks to the wild rally in its shares.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-poised-clinch-13-billion-social-media-company-stock-award-2024-04-23/ #SocialMedia #election2024 #GOP


This is a great article by professor Nir Eisikovits, but I think he could have dove deeper. Agreed that media literacy is a problem, but I think it's more pervasive than people consuming "news" through social media, rather the question becomes: Why did people turn to social media to consume news? That question is at the core of the problem of media literacy and critical thinking in the U.S.

1/5

#SocialMedia #News #TikTok

Source | https://theconversation.com/tiktok-fears-point-to-larger-problem-poor-media-literacy-in-the-social-media-age-226667


Never liked the social network but after reading EFF about the fediverse. An RSS and scraper of just people I know and across multiple protocols? Sign me up! #new #mastodon #socialmedia #introduction


@mike Now that Flipboard is #fediverse interactive, can a Flipboard account be used with a Mastodon client? I want to set my wife up with a Mastodon account and I’m wondering if we can just use her Flipboard account? #InquiringMinds #SocialMedia


"Influencer marketing has become big business on #TikTok and #Instagram, where popular creators can make good money by helping brands promote their stuff. Now, #LinkedIn wants in the game...Its product, called Thought Leader ads, launched in a limited capacity last year."

Corporate social media is overrun by "influencers" who say great things about the free stuff that the get from other companies. They hawk the warez of others to keep on the good side of companies to keep getting free stuff.

"Thought Leaders" are unnecessary, why do we need someone to lead our thoughts? Who are these egotistical people who think that they can lead our thoughts? If you specialize in an area, stop trying to be a thought leader and be a contributor and a collaborator.

I'm so glad the #Fediverse doesn't have MAU targets or advertising sales targets to meet. I am so happy that we are free of those shills on corporate social media.

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/12/linkedin-expands-thought-leader-ads-eyeing-tiktok-and-instagram.html

#socialmedia #socialnetwork #thoughtleader


Demokratie in Gefahr: Meta schränkt Reichweite für „politische Inhalte“ ein https://reitschuster.de/post/demokratie-in-gefahr-meta-schraenkt-reichweite-fuer-politische-inhalte-ein/ #Meinungsfreiheit #SozialeMedien #SocialMedia #Demokratie #Top-Thema #facebook #Zensur #Meta #Neu



Abso-fuckin-lutely! Idk how they're calling this "decentralized". Then only thing that's decentralized is your profile info and follow relationships...🤦‍♂️

#BlueSky #SocialMedia #Decentralized


Elon Musk declared he wouldn’t comply with orders from Brazil’s Supreme Court to ban far-right accounts involved in an attempted coup.

It shows how Musk uses Twitter to amplify fascism, but also why many countries are increasingly fed up with unaccountable US tech firms.

https://disconnect.blog/elon-musk-is-already-losing-his-battle-with-brazil/

#tech #elonmusk #brazil #brasil #twitter #socialmedia


Mastodon already has a few tickets open to show "Followed by ... and n others you follow" when browsing people's profiles, eg: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/19298

I wonder if it would also be useful to show "Blocked by ... and n others you follow". 🤔

#mastodon #fediverse
#SocialMedia #FeatureSuggestion


On #Mastodon there are now
321 verified accounts from #news organizations in
20 languages and on
106 instances.

130 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@irozhlas (CZE)
@heiseonline_TopNews (GER)
@lesportiu (CAT)
@ClimateNewsNow (ENG)
@SWR2Wissen (GER)

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ixsccIFQ4uD2HFlf92Ag7VS3rNOGwa97wFsSb3JxCwo/edit#gid=876665327

Built by @mho

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon


I started a 4th self-updating table, this time of #Media accounts on #Threads that have activated federation (aka "that can be followed from #Mastodon). Is this useful, do we need that? I fear that this will grow quickly and I will definitely need help finding all acounts. But if there's interest, I can try.

Here it is (the Dashboard is not yet very useful, I know):
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1MKBARDB-JDI0BfiXvOhet0okFL_l2Au2uhzK6fmFK74/edit#gid=1993864896

Suggestions of accounts are welcome.

#Fediverse #MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #news #press


TRUTH SOCIAL SENT ME THEIR SOURCE CODE: https://boehs.org/node/truth-social

Fedi takes another huge win. I wonder what we'll find.

#trump #socialmedia


"Donald Trump's stock has lost more than half its value since going public"

https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-stock-value-truth-social-1889254

"The value of shares in Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), which owns Truth Social, is declining."

#GOP #Trump #TMTG #Truthsocial #socialmedia #stock #market #wallst


Last month, Meta's Threads took its first step into the fediverse. @quillmatiq@mastodon.social, aka @quillmatiq@threads.net took that as his cue to experiment with how his Threads feed would look like on Mastodon. Here's what he discovered about organizing the chaos, different clients (hello @phanpy) and whether he'll cut the Threads cord when federation is complete.

https://flip.it/P_h74r

#Federation #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb


🟢 Leidenschaft für Mastodon, Instagram, X, LinkedIn, YouTube?
🟢 Wer will?
🟢 Wer kennt jemanden?
🟢 Wer hilft uns, mit #SocialMedia-Kommunikation die öffentliche Gesundheit zu schützen?

Jetzt bewerben oder teilen
➡️https://interamt.de/koop/app/stelle?0&id=1118240
#RKI #Jobs #PublicHealth


Brazil has opened an investigation into Elon Musk, after he reactivated accounts on X that courts had ordered the social network to block.

It has caused Brazil's attorney general to call for an “urgent” focus on social media regulation, reports @theverge

https://flip.it/jnJWbE

#SocialMedia #ElonMusk #Tech


"TikTok takes steps to combat extremism, hate speech and misinformation amid Hamas war"

https://www.jpost.com/business-and-innovation/article-795852

"The tech giant includes implicit bias training for moderation teams and provides refreshers on their hate policy focused on antisemitism and Islamophobia."

#TikTok #Hamas #socialmedia


Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local newspaper that reported about the ads, then a blogger who reported on the paper's cancellation, and now has escalated to blocking all of LGF


Content warning: Meta cancelled climate change ads, then cancelled a local... #threads #technology #socialmedia #censorship #streisandeffect


I’m alive, and blogging on my website (vkc.sh), and it’s now allegedly part of the Fediverse.

https://vkc.sh/activitypub-activate/