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Mastodon CEO transfers ownership to new nonprofit, ensuring platform stays free of individual control.
theverge.com/2025/1/13/2434260… #SocialMedia
Mastodon’s CEO and creator is handing control to a new nonprofit organization
The decentralized social network is moving ownership to a new non-profit based in Europe.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
"Unprecedented" growth: Facebook blocks links to Instagram alternative Pixelfed
Pixelfed is growing rapidly after Meta changed content moderation. It's now noted that Facebook is blocking links to Pixelfed.
Your reminder that while #Bluesky is all fun and games now, but that it won't last. This is also a reminder that #socialmedia becomes enshittified because of #capitalism, but non-profit social media exists, it's the #Fediverse and you really should start having a presence there too.
@jakob
Ich habe Zuckerberger, nun hat sich eine Metastase gebildet. 🤔
#digitalekrankheit #zuckerberg #meta #facebook #insta #socialmedia
In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates ?
#windows #windows11 #linux #opensource #freesoftware #datenschutz #datensicherheit #cybersecurity #microsoft #billgates #gates #socialmedia #NoBIGTech #fediverse #mastodon #dedsec #poetry
Some scholarly journal articles include links to share the articles on #socialmedia.
For example, here's an article with links to share it on #X and #Facebook. (Scroll to the bottom.)
insightsimaging.springeropen.c…
I don't think I've ever seen a journal use sharing links for #Mastodon or #Bluesky. Have you?
If some journals are doing this, is anyone keeping track of them? Is anyone systematically encouraging them?
Here's letter encouraging journals to add sharing links for Bluesky — but failing to mention Mastodon.
www-nature-com.ezp-prod1.hul.h…
#Academia #AcademicMastodon #AcademicBluesky
@academicchatter
Impact of AI on radiology: a EuroAIM/EuSoMII 2024 survey among members of the European Society of Radiology - Insights into Imaging
Abstract In order to assess the perceptions and expectations of the radiology staff about artificial intelligence (AI), we conducted an online survey among ESR members (January–March 2024).SpringerOpen
Fresh new user here. A nice and smooth experience, apart from a small client bug
#Pixelfed #SocialMedia #Photography #fediVerse #Android #Federated #GFX
After some German unions yesterday, more than 60 (!!) German universities left #X/#Twitter today. Some are already active on #Mastodon. They justified this with their commitment to fact-based communication and against antidemocratic forces. Values that promote diversity, freedom and science aren't present over there, they say. 👏🏻
#TwitterMigration #eXit #Xodus #ElonMusk #NoAfD #SocialMedia
nachrichten.idw-online.de/2025…
#algorithmen #socialmedia #demokratie #algorithmwatch
Algorithmen gefährden den demokratischen Konsens
Die Demokratien des Westens sind in der Krise. Die Gesellschaft polarisiert sich zunehmend. Soziale Medien verstärken mit ihren Algorithmen die Spaltung.Michael Erle (heise online)
Our app may be 15 years old, but our values are timeless. They’re rooted in first principles that don’t change every four years.
We’re still here for you.
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#Moderation #Misinformation #Facts #Media #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Flipboard
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Download Flipboard, the award winning app that gives you curated news, personalized content and deep dives all in one place.About Flipboard
Alexios Mantzarlis, who is the director of the Security, Trust, and Safety Initiative at Cornell Tech and part of the team that shepherded Meta's now-canceled fact-checking program, has fact-checked Mark Zuckerberg's fact-checking announcement. Here's his story for Nieman Labs. "There is so much bad faith reasoning in 96 words that it’s hard to know where to start. But let’s go in order," he writes.
#FactChecking #SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #MarkZuckerberg
Let’s fact-check Mark Zuckerberg’s fact-checking announcement
Zuckerberg didn’t mention that a big chunk of the content fact-checkers have been flagging is not political speech, but the low-quality spammy clickbait that Meta platforms have commodified.Nieman Lab
I'm witnessing a large portion of my social network sign up for Bsky.
And I mean, I'm on there too (passively) but I can't help but want to constantly shout over there "this is another corporate owned social network. have you all learned nothing?"
Maybe I should just set up a bot to automatically post that every day.
According to Google Trends, related searches like “how to delete all photos facebook,” “alternative to facebook,” “how to quit facebook,” “how to delete threads account,” and “how to delete instagram account without logging in” have become breakout searches, with popularity suddenly increasing by over 5,000% compared to previous periods.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/09/goog…
#meta #facebook #instagram #threads #google #socialmedia
Google searches for deleting Facebook, Instagram explode after Meta ends fact-checking | TechCrunch
Google searches for how to cancel and delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads accounts have seen explosive rises in the U.S. since Meta CEO MarkRebecca Bellan (TechCrunch)
""He's a pretty pathetic person," says a Finnish man who has been vilified by Elon Musk
Joni Askola, a Finnish citizen, criticised Elon Musk on his owned messaging service X and received a verbal insult in response. Musk's behaviour is pathetic in Askola's opinion."
Article in Finnish: yle.fi/a/74-20135239
#ElonMusk #X #JoniAskola #SocialMedia
”Hän on aika säälittävä henkilö,” sanoo Elon Muskin haistattelun kohteeksi joutunut suomalaismies
Suomalainen Joni Askola moitti Elon Muskia tämän omistamassa viestipalvelu X:ssä ja sai vastaukseksi haistattelua. Muskin käytös on Askolan mielestä säälittävää.Paula Tiainen (Yle Uutiset)
The Join Fediverse Wiki is a Wikipedia-style encyclopedia with 475 articles dedicated to all things Fediverse!
Fedi-what? Fediverse!
It's that cool alternative social media system, that's independent of global corporations and giving you full control over your data and media.
Sounds cool? Then let's make a journey through the federated universe.
'#NobelPeacePrize winner #MariaRessa has said #Meta’s decision to end #factChecking on its platforms and remove restrictions on certain topics means “extremely dangerous times” lie ahead for #journalism, #democracy and #socialMedia users'
Listen to Maria
She's been speaking truth to power in the #Philippines for decades, one of the most dangerous countries in the world for #journalists
I greatly admire her and if anyone knows what they're talking about here, it's her
theguardian.com/world/2025/jan…
Meta is ushering in a ‘world without facts’, says Nobel peace prize winner
Maria Ressa warns of ‘dangerous times’ for journalism and democracy after move to end factchecking in USDan Milmo (The Guardian)
👋 A PSA and a reminder:
If you don't like my "artsy" posts you are more than free to filter them, mute or block me....
I won't be the least bit offended if you choose to do so.
But please don't @ me with your complaints when I am trying to wind down from a day of stressful news, politics, and coping with my RL problems
Let's try to be a little bit tolerant and use a little empathy..everyone has issues in today's world..
Thanks for reading my post
I hope everyone has a lovely night💜
Who could have imagined this stuff going down with Meta was going to happen? It's so shocking
Wait, no it's not
Lots of new folks taken interest in to Mastodon, because of Meta. Let's welcome new people 
I get asked very often "how do you keep up with all the posts because you follow thousands of people?"
Well, I don't. And you shouldn't either. It's a general misconception that you should always be up to speed with the world.
Nobody can keep up with anything online. And we are not supposed to. If my mom calls me or I receive a traditional letter by mail, that's something I can keep up with. Not feeds or stories online. That is not the place of FOMO, every nanosecond we miss something.
I try to live in the present, I check my social media whenever I feel like it. I add the core folks to a list, but I don't try to keep up with them either. It's life.
This doesn't mean you shouldn't follow people or the followed folks don't matter. On the contrary. I follow anything or anyone that I show even tiniest bit of interest, that's the best way to make my feed most alive.
2024 wasn't the best year for social media... but it's 2025 now 🎉
That means it's time to move to greener pastures. Social media that's open, democratic, and controlled by the users.
This year, we're looking forward to raising awareness for New Social and introducing more people and organisations than ever to open social.
We hope to help them move to truly open platforms, like this one.
Get in touch to learn more!
#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Decentralized #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads
Didn't know Kris Nóva, Bob Young (Red Hat co-founder) and Automattic (a company by WordPress founder) invested in Bluesky among many others.
seanthegeek.net/posts/why-elon…
Why Elon Musk can’t buy Bluesky
Developers, data nerds, and VCs have made something special that even Elon Musk can’t buyseanthegeek.net
Today on Threads: Endless questions like:
"Where to escape from this?"
WHERE, I WONDER, TELL ME I WANT TO KNOW
Facebook Is Censoring 404 Media Stories About Facebook's Censorship
Instagram, Facebook, and Threads are removing 404 Media stories for “nudity” as the company is paid to put ads with explicit pornography in front of its users.Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)
An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter
Join the call for action against disinformation and biased agendas. Sign the petition if you agree:
openpetition.eu/petition/onlin…
Edit 1 (11.01.25): new banner created. Leave X - Protec Democracy
Edit 2 (13.01.25):
- website created leavex.eu
- contributions for translations welcome here! zumpad.zum.de/p/open_letter
- contributions to the website github.com/everton137/leavex.e…
- use the hashtag #LeaveX
#X #EU #Twitter #Musk #disinformation #petition #SocialMedia #decentralization #democracy
GitHub - everton137/leavex.eu: Website leavex.eu
Website leavex.eu. Contribute to everton137/leavex.eu development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mark Zuckerberg is a fascist, nationalist, bigoted, misogynistic, white supremacist.
In support of those beliefs he is rapidly making Meta a fascist mouthpiece. Fake AI accounts, limited-to-no moderation, and propaganda.
Delete your Facebook/Instagram accounts. Now is the time. I’ve put off deleting Insta for too long. Because of the artists I follow there. But I can’t stay. I will not support that ecosystem.
techpolicy.press/transcript-ma…
#Meta #SocialMedia #Zuckerberg #Fascism
Transcript: Mark Zuckerberg Announces Major Changes to Meta's Content Moderation Policies and Operations
The Meta founder and CEO says "it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram."Justin Hendrix (Tech Policy Press)
Because of X and Meta fucking things up once again, people are talking about abandoning social media, because there are no corporate free alternatives. Right.
#SocialWeb #SocialMedia #Fediverse #X #Meta
Good bye humanity.
Social media is now AI media.
"Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed."
I'm switching full time to @pixelfed
#Instagram #AI #Meta #SocialMedia
404media.co/instagram-begins-r…
Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves
Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Our most-read story of 2024: Under owner Elon Musk, the social media site X, formerly known as Twitter, has become a hotbed of white supremacist and neo-Nazi content. We revealed the real identities of four of these hatemongers. texasobserver.org/revealed-ope…
#ElonMusk #politics #USpol #extremism #SocialMedia #BestOf2024 #news #antisemitism
Revealed: the Operators Behind Four Major Neo-Nazi X Accounts
Anonymity has long been a tactic used by extremists to spread their ideology while avoiding social consequences, from Klansmen hoods to online pseudonyms.Tristan Lee (The Texas Observer)
Elon Musk’s dad brings him down a peg or two and urges people to ‘ignore him’
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Twitter #Mastodon #socialmedia #Fediverse
metro.co.uk/2025/01/07/elon-mu…
Elon Musk's dad brings him down a peg and urges people to 'ignore him'
Elon Musk’s dad has said that people should ‘ignore’ his son as the billionaire continues to attack Britain’s Labour party via X.Donald Trump (Metro)
The thing that people see an issue with, is the fact that a lot of people use it to "harass" others in front of their followers as if to say "laugh at this fool". However, if this is truly the "open" web, that's just gonna be a thing.
I hope they eventually make it an official feature as well, but for now, most third party apps have it built-in.
From: @alemarcati
mastodon.social/@alemarcati/11…
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Fedi #Fediverse
Alexandre Marcati (@alemarcati@mastodon.social)
Why are quote-reposts considered such a bad thing by some people? I'd like that feature on #mastodon #quotetoots #quotetweets #quotereposts #quotepostsMastodon
Revealing My "X" #SocialCreditScore:
38 / 100
As a creator working uphill against #biased #algorithms (not liking accounts such as mine, challenging power), I use platforms - w/I agree w/them or not.
xAI considers analysis "conspiracy theories", & "skepticism on gov or corporate actions"
Screenshot of w/I refer to as my social credit score on X / Twitter, according to Grok:
#X #Twitter #socialMedia #censorship #freespeech #libre #liberty #humanrights #freeExpression #shadowbanned #AI #grok
So this is cool. And by “cool” I mean fucked up & dystopian. Dead internet theory actively pursued as #Meta launched A.I.-generated profiles on #Instagram
#ai #artificialintelligence #facebook #socialmedia #tech #technology
I get that websites need to make money to survive, but sometimes it's a bit much when there's so many ads in their feeds.
The best __insert product category__.
Posts get pretty old rather quickly.
An example being @verge who in the last six hours posted five of these types of posts (doorbell cameras, bluetooth trackers, smartphones, wireless earbuds, iPads)…
Makes it hard to follow these accounts that otherwise have decent content.
#advertising #advertisements #socialmedia #publishers
Finally seeing this covered in the news.
"This should be illegal and everyone should be upset about this. If that alert was for my child and tons of people couldn’t see it because they don’t have a stupid X account, I would be beyond infuriated."
wired.com/story/amber-alert-pa…
via stefanbohacek.online/@drahardj…
#news #SocialMedia #X #twitter
Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old
Many people reported they hit a screen preventing them from seeing the alert unless they signed in.Kate Knibbs (WIRED)
Goodbye to Twitter - Alberta Views
Twitter kept assuming that I was a bot, and putting me in Twitter jail. I had to beg for my verification just so I could stay online.Paula Simons (Alberta Views)
"Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X future"
Well, not really "very different". Nobody is talking about the truly different social media - The Fediverse and Mastodon, that is.
engadget.com/social-media/blue…
#SocialWeb #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Threads #Bluesky
Bluesky and Threads showed us very different visions for a post-X future
Threads and Blueksy may share some of the same goals, but they’ve shown very different visions for how text-based social networks should operate.Karissa Bell (Engadget)
Die #Medien sind die Lautsprecher der Macht, ihre #Nachrichten sind oft nur Noise, um die #Wahrheit zu verzerren.
Was du siehst,ist nicht die #Realität,sondern ein Narrativ, das dir vorgegeben wird.
Sie filtern die Welt, um #Kontrolle zu behalten und dich zu lenken.
Hinter den Schlagzeilen liegt die wahre Geschichte, aber die musst du selbst suchen.
Lügen sind leichter zu verbreiten als die Wahrheit, aber die Wahrheit bleibt immer unerschütterlich.
#datenschutz #datensicherheit #socialmedia
Automattic's ambitious plan to run Tumblr on WordPress backend
Automattic unveils project to migrate Tumblr's backend to WordPress, aiming to enhance efficiency and feature sharing between platforms.Luís Rijo (PPC Land)
