A good petition to push forward. Political leaders shouldn't keep interacting in this cesspool.

I wish other platforms would go through so much scrutiny. Still it gives a good idea about the mental health issue they collectively represent.

Kind of unsurprising right? I mean LinkedIn is clearly a deformed version of reality where people write like corporate drones most of the time. It was only a matter of time until robot generated content would be prevalent there, it's just harder to spot since even humans aren't behaving genuinely there.

Bluesky is already hitting growth pains regarding moderation and its guidelines. By being centralized it is also more at risk within the current US political climate.

Yet another long piece in this interesting and in depth conversation about Bluesky. The fact that it stays civil is called out explicitly and this is appreciated.

Excellent post from Cory Doctorow about why he is only on Mastodon. Not being federated should indeed just be a deal breaker by now. Empty promises should be avoided.

Very good piece explaining why the Ferdiverse is currently our only option for a decentralized social media platform. Maybe Bluesky will become another option... maybe... but so far it's only empty promises with a real risk of capture.

Everything is in the title... if you thought you owned anything on those platforms, think twice.

The debate about how BlueSky and decentralisation or federation continues. It's nice to see how civilized the people involved are. This is how we can make progress.

A long and comprehensive analysis of Bluesky. Also brings interesting critiques about both Bluesky and the Fediverse. Clearly Bluesky as of today is not effectively decentralized and shouldn't be considered as such.

Excellent post showing reasons to be skeptical about Bluesky's future. Despite all their likely sincere claims I don't see how they'll escape enclosure and enshittification when their sketchy VCs will want to see money back.

You're on the fediverse and you want to reach out bluesky users? This might be the right tool for you (unclear if it'll scale yet though). At least if and when Bluesky turns bad, people will know where to reach friends next.

This is what we get for refusing to regulate social media and for not auditing their algorithms. Their owners can game and bias the platforms as they see fit for their own gains. They became massive forces of manipulation in the process.

Sad to see people predominantly jumping from Twitter to other tech moguls walled gardens. This feels more and more like a missed opportunity for the fediverse. That said I'm amazed at how efficient Musk has been at killing the network effect of his platform. This proves it's actually doable.

Want to put an end to the social media platforms weight on our lives? For once there's an individual solution which might work. This is a chance because as he rightfully points out individual solutions are generally too complicated to bring systemic change. Here this is actually doable.

Doxxing will get easier and easier. Con men are likely paying attention.

Or examples of the collapse of a shared reality. This has nothing to do with "social" media anymore. Very nice investigation in any case.

The European Commission starts showing it's muscles. Twitter is an obvious one to pursue since it became the X cesspool.

Indeed the analogy from "ultra-processed food" is an interesting one in the information context.

Interesting critique of this new platform... it's the beginning of the hype cycle but will probably the same "enshittification" phenomenon than other platforms.