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.
As Threads being connected to the Fediverse might turn into a reality, this article becomes all the more important. The question of this connection being even desirable is an important one.
Looks like Meta is moving forward with more ActivityPub compatibility for Threads. This raises real questions about what they genuinely want to implement and what they'll abandon along the way.
Another important software release. Let's wish luck to the new maintainers!
Hopefully this becomes true. I wouldn't mind a post-Social Media era of the Web.
