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.
Very nice piece. Hopefully it'll push people to remember that the big social media enclosures are not really the Web. We can have more democracy on the Web again if we collectively want to.
This is indeed sad to see another platform turn against its users. This was once a place to nurture young artists... it's now another ad driven platform full of AI made scams.
Definitely this. Get the content you like known, send appreciation messages to the authors. This should keep the moribund web alive.
More people turning to RSS as a substitute for social media. There's hope.
A good exploration of the Fediverse to Bluesky bridging debate from the angle of consent and the GDPR. It's complicated and that shouldn't come as unexpected.
Looks like the BBC likes the fediverse experiment so far. Engagement is even better than on Twitter at times. Let's hope they keep expanding.
Very inspiring article. I really wish we'll indeed see more and more weird and creative websites. People apparently feels uneasy in their current social media jails, the time is ripe to leap in the unknown again.
Another platform failing at proper moderation...
Despite understandable limitations, this studies has a few interesting findings on how communities can more easily switch platforms (in this case from Twitter to Mastodon). At least one is a bit counter-intuitive.
An important question for proper statistics about the content itself. Surprisingly harder to get an answer to it than one would think.
Here we are... We're really close to crossing into this territory where any fiction can disguise itself for reality. The problem is that we'll literally be drowning in such content. The social impacts can't be underestimated.