A paper showing that social media algorithms foster political polarization and societal division. Who knew?? Sarcasm aside, the real value of the paper is showing that by modifying those algorithms we could quickly have positive effects. Most of the participants didn't even notice they changed how they perceive others.

Unsurprisingly the news ain't good on the front of social media and short form videos. Better stay clear of those.

Another nice one about the power of RSS and why it's an important technology.

Definitely a good move to have more sustainable income for Mastodon.

I think I would use something like this.

Interesting, there are definitely some trends benefiting saner alternatives... But are we really seeing the end of the big social media platforms as we know them? Let's wait and see.

Nice and clear indicators of how decentralized the fediverse and the "atmosphere" really are.

This is already an old article now. Still the core of it still rings true. The optimistic note at the end of it didn't come to pass though.

The approach is good, the results are encouraging as well. Not much effort and a very visible change. We need more such initiatives.

Nice to see one more implementation available for the fediverse. This one comes with interesting features actually.

If you wonder why more websites become confusing... It's not exactly an accident.

That happened fast, censorship demands already reached Bluesky and got applied. Third-party apps are not affected for now, likely due to their limited audience.

Clearly the security practice around Pixelfed bears questioning. I'm also a bit surprise at the lack of protection of private messages in the ActivityPub protocol (even though it's a hard admittedly a hard problem).

Simple steps to escape the algorithmic social media circus.

This is indeed clear, the centralized web platforms are fragile by default. They are very prone to capture, this is what just happened.

Definitely a good move, especially when we see the behavior of the tech moguls...

I think the trend is clear: don't criticise the powerful or else...

Good reaction and opinion piece about the latest policy changes at Meta. This is really going to be toxic, but they just don't care at the top.

Interesting little study of engagement on various platforms. Clearly the Fediverse could do better in terms of avoiding "friendly fire", I suspect it's the top reason limiting its growth.

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