Yeah idk it’s completely bonkers to me that the people who make this site don’t allow quote posts because of some ideology of harassment, but don’t have the ability to disable replies. This is the latest effort I could find. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/14762
@shantini arguably the difference between a #socialnetwork and #socialmedia are elements like re-tweet. It removes thought from posts. Personally i left Twitter years ago because or RT. Boost is more reasonable IMO.
Hallo Fediverse! 👋 Hier trötet das Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien aus #Tübingen. Wir forschen zum #Lernen mit digitalen #Medien, von #SocialMedia über Wikipedia bis hin zu YouTube und Co., vom Lernen in der #Schule bis zum Lernen im #Museum.
Auf unserem Kanal möchten wir über unsere Projekte und Publikationen informieren und Stellenanzeigen und Studienaufrufe teilen. #Wisskomm wird bei uns großgeschrieben!
Wir freuen uns über Vernetzung, denn wir sind #neuhier. 🧡
I have some quibbles with this article (and some eye rolls), but looking past that there are a couple of pull aspects that I think hit on some VERY IMPORTANT concepts, especially for the #fediverse going forward.
I also think that this is a pretty typical feeling or experience for a lot of people as they move off of #reddit and #twitter, and that's important too.
Unfortunately it’s taken the recent self-immolation of a few digital plantations for folks to finally recognize how they’ve let themselves be exploited all this time without receiving any real value in return.
It is now painfully clear that no local government, state or federal agency, or other civic institution should be using Twitter for any purpose other than directing people to alternative platforms.
Using the platform for anything other than a last ditch backup for any kind of emergency communication is clearly a disaster waiting to happen.
@ct_bergstrom
I'm hoping that priority one this #Monday morning for every #socialMedia manager is to create a Mastodon account and discover they can communicate that way.
I 💯 legit understand why some people stick with #Twitter to some degree..
Communities were built and thrived there.. business were created and livelihoods improved... Breaking news was hours ahead of mainstreamedia.. normal people were powered against large corporate abuse.. for all it's warts even before #Elon, the bird was a powerhouse
That said, if you are still blindly spending ALL of your #socialmedia time trying to salvage what is now a dumpster fire you are a fool not diversifying
#Russia#Surveillance#War#Ukraine#FSB#SocialMedia#Messaging: "To aid an internal crackdown, Russian authorities had amassed an arsenal of technologies to track the online lives of citizens. After it invaded Ukraine, its demand grew for more surveillance tools. That helped stoke a cottage industry of tech contractors, which built products that have become a powerful — and novel — means of digital surveillance.
The technologies have given the police and Russia’s Federal Security Service, better known as the F.S.B., access to a buffet of snooping capabilities focused on the day-to-day use of phones and websites. The tools offer ways to track certain kinds of activity on encrypted apps like WhatsApp and Signal, monitor the locations of phones, identify anonymous social media users and break into people’s accounts, according to documents from Russian surveillance providers obtained by The New York Times, as well as security experts, digital activists and a person involved with the country’s digital surveillance operations."
As a writer, writing and publishing online using #Indieweb principles could save your life's work. And maybe even your career. This ish ow I'm #blogging differently and avoiding the perils of #enshitiffication.
#SocialMedia#Disinformation#Misinformation: "It is within the context of these wide ranging cross-disciplinary debates that the Third Multidisciplinary International Symposium on Disinformation in Open Online Media (MISDOOM 2021) was held. MISDOOM is one of a small but growing number of conferences that explicitly seeks to connect the social and technical sciences together in one overarching conference format. Such conferences face logistical challenges arising from very different norms about what a conference is (a place to present work in progress or the moment of publication of an academic contribution) and how contributions should be structured. However, they also offer enormous value in exposing different disciplines to each other’s contributions.
The current special issue represents one of the core social science outcomes from the conference, alongside another work focused more on computer science (Bright et al., 2021). Specifically, the aim of this special issue was to highlight the potential of bringing together social theory and computational methods, showcasing the potential of a collaboration between social science and computer science. The selection of the articles in this special issue hence reflects the value of both computational methods and social theory, as well as the combination of the two. We summarize the articles here in the order they appear in the issue, broadly organized from theoretical to technical."