On the day that public records revealed that #ElonMusk had become #Twitter’s biggest #shareholder, an unknown sender texted the billionaire & recommended an article imploring him to acquire the #SocialNetwork outright.
#Musk’s purchase of Twitter, the 3k-word anonymous article said, would amount to a “declaration of war against the Globalist American Empire.” The sender of the texts was offering Musk… a playbook for the takeover & transformation of Twitter.
Il binomio X-disinformazione è sempre attuale, purtroppo. Nella giornata di ieri Vera Jourova, commissario per i valori e la trasparenza dell'Unione Europea, ha pubblicamente dichiarato che il social di Musk è “la piattaforma con il maggior numero di post con informazione scorretta o disinformazione”.
@juliobiason yesterday I returned to the #birdsite. It didn't look that bad. Perhaps any big enough #socialNetwork resemble real life: every city has bad neighbourhoods, where we don't feel safe or at home. We learn to avoid bad people or dangerous zones. I have been asked to maintain our (#catholic) #parish page on #facebook and I found wonderful people there.
Finally, my article about Fediverse has been translated into English! Once again, kudos to @evan , @kokan , @thomas , @Decad3nce, and @atomicpoet for providing me wonderful insight into the world of Fediverse.
I am truly happy some of my colleagues and friends decided to check out Mastodon after this article, and again truly sorry I couldn't fit all the superb answers I got from everyone.
Thanks to the collapse of the other #socialnetworks, some of us, myself included, discovered this side of the internet. I'm loving the #mastodon and every branch of the #fediverse. But I am wondering if there are other little-known corners of the #internet that are worth knowing without the need for this one to collapse.
(yes, the mastodons in the picture have a fifth leg, that's how we know it was generated in #midjourney)
People complain that :mastodon: #Mastodon is slow-paced. The other day I read about Patchwork based on the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol where you can only sync messages with other users when you're on the same local network. That's some hardcore slow-paced #SocialNetwork. 🙂
#LinkedIn is a #SocialNetwork designed for sociopaths.The amount of articles denying the existence of mental illnesses on this platform is unbelievable.
I don't remember everyone sitting around navel gazing about which one would "win". We didn't need everyone to be in one place. We were all early adopters. We could handle using more than one website. All you normies need to chill out, let people try new things, quit trying to pick the winner. It's not a race.
Also in a just universe, threads[.]net would be a web-site all about the perils of #sharedMemory#concurrency. It is truly a shame that in our universe Z*ck was able to buy a perfectly good domain for some #socialNetwork nonsense
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.
Idea: An app that uses your device location to update your current city on a public webpage with a map and an Activity Pub feed. Completely hands off way to keep friends and family update on your current travels, with the potential to grow into a federated network of nomads.
Would you want something like this? #digitalnomad#nomad#opensource#activitypub#socialnetwork#travel
Samuel De Rome publie une nouvelle chronique sur #GabGca!
#Reddit vs #Apollo : quand une communauté se tourne contre sa plateforme (et que ladite plateforme s'en prend ensuite à ses utilisateurs aguerris). 🤦♂️
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I believe in the organized non-violent boycott as a way to control capitalists and change corrupt systems.
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Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr have something in common and it’s not good
When looking at the recent history of many popular and highly successful online sites, there tends to be a certain trend they’re all following: rampant corporate greed butting heads with its original core mission and its user base, all of which eventually leads to major issues for the site.
Several sites in question — Discord, Twitter, Reddit, and Tumblr — all share that same fate, despite having very different purposes and suffering through a dissimilar series of events that led to their downfall or tipping point. And, they’re proof that most businesses will eventually hit a point in which management will decide to push profit margins and use bizarre and brutal methods to squeeze money out of it. The horrors of capitalism.
We all got emails but imagine if our email providers each had their own #SocialNetwork? All those emails are then our addresses so others can mention us in this network.
Then a #technology called #ActivityPub connects all these "emails" together so that we all can speak to each other if we want to.