This comic 👆 by @jensorensen sums it up perfectly when it comes to decisions for or against certain social media networks. Let's do better!

Our #SocialMediaMatrix helps communications managers weigh up the options:
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#SocialMedia #responsibility #Fediverse #Instagram #Meta #X #Twitter #Threads #Facebook #TikTok #WissKomm #Bundestag #DigitalSovereignty #Demokratie #TagderDemokratie #DemocracyDay #SciComm #Science #Communication

Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.

The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.

ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4…

#tech #canada #cdnpoli #twitter #x #elonmusk #misinformation #cdnelxn #cdnelection

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.

A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-…

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

By popular demand, a single post to boost global switch day across multiple platforms on February 1st 2025.


For those who can no longer get behind Musk or Meta's new policies and feel like switching (e.g. from #Whatsapp to #Signal, from #Instagram to #Pixelfed or from #X to #Mastodon) I made you some graphics to use freely in communicating with your contacts.

Let’s lead by example 🙂

This is a smart move by @Mastodon. #Twitter / #X journalism is struggling, and #Threads doesn’t want journalism. Mastodon is leaning into it though, “To reinforce and encourage Mastodon as the go-to place for journalism, we’re launching a new feature today.” I think this is a lever for differentiation; making Mastodon more valuable to journalists and users.
mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1127…

Mastodon

2024-07-02 18:08:34

Today we're launching a new #Mastodon feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.

blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/07/…

Highlighting journalism on Mastodon

Today we're launching a new feature that will highlight writers and journalists that are active on the fediverse when their their articles are being shared.

^{Mastodon Blog}

Several of us overly online biologists spent years quietly doing an experiment on Twitter, trying to find out if tweeting about new studies from a set of mid-range journals caused an increase in later citations, compared to set of untweeted control articles.

Turns out we had no noticeable effect; the tweeted papers were cited at the same rate as the control set.

Our paper, headed by Trevor Branch, was published today in PLOS One:

#SciComm #Twitter #X #Science

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…

Time to Dump the #ElongatedMuskrat ,
Before the #ElongatedMuskrat
Dumps YOU!!

#DropTheBird #Xitter #X

@NPR dropped Twitter and maintained almost all of their traffic. #Journalists, get off #Twitter.

niemanreports.org/articles/npr…

#X #Elon

I can't even...they're going to remove blocking from #Twitter or #X or whatever the fuck it's called today.

This is absolutely brain-dead. Muting only stops you seeing them. Blocking prevents them replying with shit that others will see, that you then can't see. Removing blocking is just so stupid.

So many reasons why a hard block is necessary from bots to harassment. They don't stop just because you can't see them ffs.

Japan Earthquake Alert App (1.9 million followers) Says Sayonara to X

"[..]We have decided that if we were to spend over ¥700,000 per month that it would be better if this money could go to developing our NERV app and strengthening our ActivityPub servers instead of X’s API. Therefore, we are beginning to cut down on our posts on X."

unseen-japan.com/nerv-app-x-tw…
#X #Twitter #mastodon #activitypub #nerv #gehirn