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.
Good news if this really gets enforced.
I never liked the "it's neutral, it's just a tool". A very naive view in my opinion. New illustration of this with Twitter. Tools are inserted in a socio-technical system, and the sociology side will influence the design enough to make the tool not so neutral. Here clearly all hell broke loose and it became a massive danger to democracy due to the level of misinformation and the type of messages which are advantaged by the changes.
More organizations leaving Twitter (now X... rofl). It's a good thing and a logical step if you take values and code of conduct into account. It clearly became a cesspool from what I see.
This is nice to see how easy it is to make sure a WordPress blog appears on the Fediverse. Hopefully will bring lots of activity.
This is a huge thing for the ferdiverse. Let's see where this leads.
The first signs of journalism finding some independence from social media? That would be very welcome.
Are we surprised? Not at all...
USENET lives! Another revival coming?
Interesting evolution... looks like people will all go back to some chat system? It'll be the 90's all over again? Maybe IRC will make a comeback? :-)
Interesting and provoking thought... Indeed it's hard to build communities while also aiming for rapid and constant growth. There's no chance of having communities properly stabilize which leads to the tribalism and bad behavior we see on social media.
Clearly the UI design matters quite a bit in term of how addictive all those social network systems are. The alternative proposed here is interesting, I wish it'd be more widely implemented.
This clearly doesn't look as interesting as ActivityPub...