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
"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."
More than 50 organisations report sites being restricted or removed, with abortion hotlines blocked and posts showing non-explicit nudity triggering warnings
(Ignoring the #Xenophobia for the moment) Let's just say someone actually goes through the trouble of providing their "Social Media History":
How do you prove it's THEIRS? How do you know they don't have multiple accounts? Who decides what deems you ineligible to enter the country? Who is going to sit and pour thru days/weeks/months of #SocialMedia posts?
#JFC are these people morons. No one ever accused #racists of being very bright. 🤦♂️
I’ve been following @pluralistic for a while, but I’ve never seen him interviewed. This was absolutely captivating. Truly. There were like fifteen bites I wanted to capture.
Cory is super smart. And his brain seems to work at the same speed my ADHD brain does, which helps me absorb what he’s saying.
(Pro tip: watch in DuckDuckGo, @invidious, or @FreeTube to avoid tracking.)
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.
@atomicpoet
Film maker and storyteller #MatthewCooke has two excellent episodes in his #podcast series on the impact of #SocialMedia on society.
This is no easy listening, but chilling and enlightening.
I strongly agree. Apart from the China 🇨🇳 controlled #TikTok, there is the central problem of the anti-democracy, rightwing #Techno Feudalist #US #BigTech platforms, such as #X or the ones owned by #Meta.
At the very least, the rage-promoting #Algorithms are fuelling the polarization of society, burning away social cohesion and conens, even destroying the #Truth and undermining democratic @fredix @InternetDev
I’m proud to share my first blog as @Mastodon’s Community Director. Well the first one posted under my name at least 😉
Digital social networking is one of the most important threads in the fabric of our societies. Right now, we’re letting that thread be controlled by social media platforms that let advertisements for scams stay up because they’re profitable, and that use their algorithms to run human research experiments on us without our consent. That’s not the society I want.
“By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter; the people and their public inst
I’m proud to share my first blog as @Mastodon’s Community Director. Well the first one posted under my name at least 😉
Digital social networking is one of the most important threads in the fabric of our societies. Right now, we’re letting that thread be controlled by social media platforms that let advertisements for scams stay up because they’re profitable, and that use their algorithms to run human research experiments on us without our consent. That’s not the society I want.
“By making the news and truth contingent on advertising budgets we’ve created an environment where any narrative can win, as long as the storyteller is willing to pay. If we allow these conditions to continue, we will leave behind the voices that truly matter; the people and their public institutions. It is critical that those voices not be silenced forever. The promise of the #fediverse is the promise of a better way forward: free from ads and manipulative algorithms built by and for people like you, where #SocialSovereignty is a right and not a privilege.”
In this thread, we asked folks to crowdsource a list of resources so you can find your local representative. Find them, contact them, and tell them this: if you care about a free and just future, and if you care about #DigitalSovereignty, you must leave X and join the fediverse.
Today we are calling on institutions around the world to take control of their #DigitalSovereignty, including their social accounts. Governments should communicate directly with their citizens on open platforms, not through the mouthpiece of a corporation.
The world needs to log off corporate-owned, centrally-controlled social media platforms and log on to a better way of being online. The world needs an open social web through the fediverse and Mastodon.
Bilal Baydoun, Shahrzad Shams, and Victor Pickard trace the roots of the US media crisis to decades of deregulation and commercial capture, outlining how consolidation, news deserts, and platform dominance threaten democratic infrastructure and sow f…
Lawmakers who draft/enact Age Verification and similar policies insist that said policies are about "child safety." But anyone with even rudimentary critical thinking skills knows that is not true
The true purposes of these policies are as follows: -Make organizing protests virtually impossible -Erase marginalized groups from the internet -Make accessing vital resources much harder, if not impossible -Erase anything that dilutes the state's ability to brainwash the populace (Palestine, Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, etc.). -To "return" sexuality and expression in general back to their "proper" place in society and make adult art, sex work, etc. more precarious, more exploitable, and with less recourse to any law or institution -General petty spite towards people who don't treat lawmakers like deities
Overall, de-anonymization won't make kids safe and it won't result in a more polite internet (just look at Facebook and LinkedIn).
Anyone who advocates for these policies shouldn't complain when the
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Lawmakers who draft/enact Age Verification and similar policies insist that said policies are about "child safety." But anyone with even rudimentary critical thinking skills knows that is not true
The true purposes of these policies are as follows: -Make organizing protests virtually impossible -Erase marginalized groups from the internet -Make accessing vital resources much harder, if not impossible -Erase anything that dilutes the state's ability to brainwash the populace (Palestine, Environmentalism, LGBTQ+ rights, Voting Rights, Reproductive Rights, Immigration, etc.). -To "return" sexuality and expression in general back to their "proper" place in society and make adult art, sex work, etc. more precarious, more exploitable, and with less recourse to any law or institution -General petty spite towards people who don't treat lawmakers like deities
Overall, de-anonymization won't make kids safe and it won't result in a more polite internet (just look at Facebook and LinkedIn).
Anyone who advocates for these policies shouldn't complain when their ID/Credit Card/Biometric data is inevitably leaked to the dark web and they have to deal with ID theft and such for years/decades.
They also shouldn't complain when they can't access a vital service and/or get jailed because either 1: The government didn't approve of what they said or 2: The extremely error prone AI that scans their messages thought the innocuous pic of their kids/pets was CSAM/Bestiality.
Want to support a brilliant Social Web project before the end of the year?
🔥 @bonfire are so close to achieving their funding goal as they look to crowdfund the next phase of development in their democratic, thoughtful, and open, web of interoperable services.
If you're able, we're certain they would love your support.
Ireland started a Pause Before You Post Awareness Campaign: sharing photos and videos of children online can lead to unintended oversharing of personal data, which, in the wrong hands, can have serious consequences. Wise initiative!
Ireland’s "Pause Before You Post" campaign aims to raise awareness about the risks that come with sharing excessive #personalinformation on the #internet.
Last winter's initiative, exactly one year ago 🧣❣️ Now, we need the same efforts to repeat this initiative and buy winter pajamas for the displaced and suffering children of the camp to protect them from this harsh winter❄️🧥😔.
I don't really keep up with Twitter/X news much these days, but this was kind of funny.
"Elon Musk’s social media site X has rolled out a new feature in an effort to increase transparency—and unwittingly revealed that many of the site’s top MAGA influencers are actually foreign actors."
"Trump accused a group of Democratic lawmakers of sedition in an outburst on #SocialMedia Thursday morning and said their behavior was “punishable by death.”
The less time on corrosive social media, the better. Of course I don't include the fediverse. And some platforms like Reddit and Tumblr only peripherially behave like social media. The main culprits are Twitter/X, TikTok, and all of Meta. Good reading... gelliottmorris.com/p/you-shoul…
Das war damals nicht absehbar, als sie am 4.5.2021 mit dem Posten auf #Mastodon begann. Nach der @unijena, @UniUlm und @unihohenheim war sie die 4. #Hochschule in Deutschland, die einen Fuss ins #Fediverse setzte. Sicher gab es damals die
Das war damals nicht absehbar, als sie am 4.5.2021 mit dem Posten auf #Mastodon begann. Nach der @unijena, @UniUlm und @unihohenheim war sie die 4. #Hochschule in Deutschland, die einen Fuss ins #Fediverse setzte. Sicher gab es damals die Zweifler und Bescheidwisser. „Bringt doch nichts, diese Spinnerei. Alles Pillepalle.“ Doch die Digitalpioniere setzten sich durch und das Tröten begann.
Das Beispiel zeigt: es braucht mutige Entscheidungen in Unis, Ämtern und Behörden.
Ob es die überall gibt, wo es sie braucht? Wenn Du denkst, das sei nicht der Fall, dann versuche doch vor Ort mitzuwirken, dass sich #gemeinwohlorientierte Tools durchsetzen.
Wie kann Europa in der digitalen Technologie unabhängiger von den US-Konzernen werden? Darüber haben Kanzler Merz, Frankreichs Präsident Macron und Minister aus anderen EU-Staaten beim Digitalgipfel beraten.
Who is interested in seeing the young chefs👩🍳🧑🍳🤭? Despite everything, they still create and smile, and that's what motivates me to continue. I prepared their favourite meal, pizza, with their help, of course 🍕 We had a wonderful time together 🫂🥹💕💕💕
This video was uploaded on behalf of Mai Zourob, who runs Gaza Camp Kids to help kids in Gaza, when she was having trouble uploading it to Mastodon directly herself…
This video was uploaded on behalf of Mai Zourob, who runs Gaza Camp Kids to help kids in Gaza, when she was having trouble uploading it to Mastodon directly herself…
