I'm pretty new to #socialmedia so am still figuring out definitions. Do I have this right?...
#Twitter is the Roman Colosseum. #Instagram is your college yearbook. #Facebook is your grandparent's copy of the YellowPages. #TikTok is that app on your kid's tablet that probably induces seizures. #BlueSky is a Silicon Valley cocaine party. #Mastodon is a hacktivist archipelago.
Das Zeitalter der sozialen Medien, wie es vor ~12-15 Jahren eingeläutet wurde, ist vorbei.
Das zeigen die großen Umbauten bei #Twitter und #Reddit. Der stetige Abstieg in die Bedeutungslosigkeit von #Facebook. Aber auch, wie #Instagram zur Influencer-Plattform geworden ist - zum "sich mit Freunden vernetzen und denen Fotos aus dem Alltag zeigen" nutzt das doch kaum noch jemand.
Die Jugend ist mit #Tiktok, #SnapChat und #BeReal im größten "Broadcast yourself"-Fieber seit den Hochzeiten des Youtuber*in-Archetypus ~2015. Und dafür braucht es schlicht keine Interaktionen mit Real-Life-Freunden.
Wir denken darüber normalerweise nicht nach, aber warum eigentlich nicht? Weil die Menschen, die das machen, völlig unsichtbar sind. Deswegen war so einzigartig, dass sie gestern dort waren.
#Morde, #Suizide, #Gewalt an Kindern und Erwachsenen. Den ganzen Tag. Für sehr wenig Geld.
Sie dürfen nicht darüber sprechen. Und sie dürfen keine Fehler machen, sonst riskieren sie ihren Job. Sie haben kein Recht auf Unterstützung bei der krassen psychischen Belastung, wie es in anderen Berufen mit ..
I think it’s time to redo my #pfsense blocklists, quite a few of them are breaking, and I want to secure my network properly more. I don’t think a lot of it will be shown on stream, but I will try and make #Tiktok and #Peertube videos about it and hopefully a longer form #youtube as well so be sure to follow those accounts as well as my #twitch but I will go over the research and planning live on twitch to explain how and why I architect things the way I do. #infosec#cybersecurity
Millions of people are contributing billions of views to chopped up movies and films, parcelled up and delivered to TikTok users’ homepages in random order. It's turning the platform into an ad hoc streaming service — and leading to the meme-ification of narrative.
The #Internet is falling apart at the seams, and you've probably noticed it subconsciously. From boomers on #Facebook to zoomers on #TikTok to everybody looking for a deal on #Amazon, every site has taken advantage of us, either making us into suckers, or to being the bait for other suckers. None of us are safe.
This blog post from Corey Doctorow – @pluralistic – is a must-read.
Young female TikTok stars are finding the price of fame on one platform is the rise of pornographic deepfakes of them on another. Despite Twitter's policies banning such content, its presence has skyrocketed in recent months.
It’s only in the last few years I’ve been able to set a book down if I’m not into it/hate it /at the wrong time & place for it. Previously I felt almost guilty not to finish a book - like I was letting myself & the book down!
#BookClub choices I really try to finish, but hanging on to the grim end can often leave me with a reading block.
Reading this whole post from the Apollo developer, this Reddit fiasco is such a mess. Not only do I question writing apps based on proprietary APIs, I’m angry that I’ve provided so much content to Reddit after so many years.
You think I’m active on the Fediverse? I write a new Reddit post on r/Sizz 12x per day. This is a lot of work, all done for free, and it all goes into Reddit’s pocket.
It’s not even so much that I want to be paid. It’s that it’s I don’t think they have the right to charge so much money to developers for my contributions.
Let me be real. All I’ve ever wanted was to make stuff on the Internet on my terms.
I do pay for the privilege of running my own servers because, like it or not, every post I make on social media is actual work. And I should own my work.
Same deal with development of software. I donate lots of money to ensure that work on the Fediverse carries on.
Why? Because development is work. And more importantly, social media should be based on open protocols – not proprietary APIs.
The development happening right now is the building blocks for the future.
No developer should have their livelihood taken away from them because Big Tech wants to bankrupt them by charging outrageous API fees.
#Louisiana passed a bill prohibiting online services from allowing people under 18 to sign up for accounts without parental consent, and allows parents to cancel contracts underlying their children’s accounts on sites like #TikTok and Roblox
This is a very relevant article to why centralized platforms are turning into, well shit. It's the owner's way of attracting people to use their platform with the promise of making the platform valuable to its users.
When they realize their profits, they exploit their users by ruining the experience and requiring users to pay, hence the “enshittification”. After you realize this, it becomes impossible to leave because you risk losing connections, losing access to your puchases, etc. We are seeing this with Imgur, Twitter, and Reddit.
The obvious way to avoid enshittification is using the Fediverse. The Fediverse is Social Media as a utility, thus nobody can exploit the ActivityPub protocol monetarily. Sure, Mastodon/Calckey/Akkoma/Misskey instances can turn to crap if its not properly moderated or shut down, but you can always move to another one and still have your connections and access to the Fediverse.
It's a long read, but it can explain why Twitter, Imgur, Reddit, and other big centralized platforms are turning into crap.
I watch some of StellaMAGZ videos lately and she is spot on and funny. If you guys have youtube accounts or use #tiktok can you encourage her to create an account in the #Fediverse we need more laughs over here
I don't think #twitter really cares if they lose advertisers or if they have to pull out of EU. They don't care about being a global platform, and money is just a possible side benefit.
What they do want is to control the political discourse in their home country.
The same is likely happening with #Reddit ; expect similar changes to other platforms. Same about stopping non-US platforms ( #tiktok ).
The long-term goal is to deplatform anyone not on the political far right. And it's working.
Learned this from a friend, and I 100% recommend it as an occasional indulgence:
Dominos Pizza, build your own pizza. Change the sauce to parmesan garlic, remove cheese (or keep it if you please), then add feta, banana peppers, pineapple, and baby spinach. Consider adding roasted red peppers. Depending on dietary preferences, you can also add bacon for flavour/saltiness (though I don't).
@jbe
“They’re picked up by their mom and they’re in the back seat of the car and they’re, you know, reading off the instructions to their mom at the drive through or they come into the lobby and they order these bananas drinks. And they look at me like I’m this geriatric weirdo. I’m like, ‘Can you say it again?'” https://www.marketplace.org/2023/04/05/tiktok-menu-hacks-fast-food/
TikTok's becoming a TV platform. One pirated clip at a time | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
Millions of people are contributing billions of views to chopped up movies and films, parcelled up and delivered to TikTok users’ homepages in random order. It's turning the platform into an ad hoc streaming service — and leading to the meme-ification of narrative.
tiktok 🤢🤮