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Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, "cut 21,000 jobs, including in trust and safety and customer service, over multiple rounds of layoffs", leading state and local officials "puzzled by what to expect from Facebook" around voting misinformation.
#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #meta #facebook
Meta's misinformation problem has local election officials struggling to get out the truth
Derek Bowens has never had such an important job.Jonathan Vanian, CNBC (NBC News)
CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, thinks that "individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content".
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254042/mark-zuckerberg-creators-value-ai-meta
#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg #AI
Mark Zuckerberg: creators and publishers ‘overestimate the value’ of their work for training AI
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company could strike partnerships for “valuable” content to train AI tools, but that it could walk away from paying others.Adi Robertson (The Verge)
CEO of Meta, which recently joined the newly founded #SocialWebFoundation, suggests that there is "no causal connection" between social media and teen mental health.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/25/24254044/mark-zuckerberg-meta-social-media-teen-mental-health
#news #TechNews #SocialMedia #MentalHealth #meta #facebook #threads #zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg says there’s ‘no causal connection’ between social media and teen mental health
In an interview with The Verge, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says that existing research shows there isn’t a causal connection linking social media platforms and teen mental health.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Artist Chelo depicts what we see - and what we don't see - on social media. I like the full-circle nature of this comic.
Source: https://www.instagram.com/monero_chelo/related_profiles/?hl=en #art #socialmedia
Chelo (@monero_chelo) • Instagram profile
8,488 Followers, 434 Following, 493 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Chelo (@monero_chelo)www.instagram.com
NASA Invites Social Creators to Experience Launch of Europa Clipper Mission - NASA
Digital content creators are invited to register to attend the launch of the Europa Clipper spacecraft, which will collect data to help scientists determineGary Daines (NASA)
It’s weird when two things pop up around the same time, looking the same. Even more weird when one is a crypto start-up with a billion dollar valuation. And the other an under-funded non-profit in the Fediverse.
That’s the story of an unlikely couple: #Farcaster and #Newsmast.
Both built around channels, or communities. The success of Farcaster shows the potential in the #Fediverse.
https://www.blog-pat.ch/an-unlikely-couple/
An unlikely couple
Farcaster, meet Newsmast. It’s weird when two things pop up around the same time, looking the same. Like Hollywood releasing two versions of the same story, in the same year.Michael Foster (Patchwork Blog)
I like this latest comic from @jensorensen (I like her work so much I support her on Patreon)
https://www.patreon.com/jensorensen/posts
We need to talk about #Covid & #LongCovid . As this comic points out, many people got the wrong message from the pandemic & this wasn't an accident. There was an organized effort to spread disinformation. It was profitable for individuals & social media companies.
Health #disinformation on #socialmedia needs to be fixed, because it's killing people.
Exactly the same content, posted on the same time, to similar crowd, gets 10x more engagement here than on Twitter, even tho I have 10x less followers here.
Why are people still using Twitter for promotion? And some are paying money thinking they're getting a good deal.
#twitter #mastodon #socialmedia #seo #visibility #posting #content #followers #viral
Latest comic: Using the First Amendment to end the First Amendment
#fascism #authoritarianism #media #journalism #tech #socialmedia #firstamendment
We’ve just published an update about this Mastodon trial which has been running for the last 6 months – you can read it here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2024-02-extending-our-mastodon-social-media-trial
We are going to continue our trial here for at least another six months while we share our findings internally and seek more engagement from other BBC teams. We are also planning to start researching ways to publish more BBC content using ActivityPub.
#mastodon #ActivityPub #socialmedia
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
#SocialMedia provider or #socialmedia instance.
#Mastodon and #threads, and #bsky and others are brands. And brands carry baggage.
Just like we host #email. We also host #social
Very few care what is under the hood of our email servers. And it should be the same for social.
New Blogpost: Why not BlueSky?
https://tgrush.bearblog.dev/why-not-bluesky
#activitypub #bluesky #mastodon #SocialMedia
Why not Bluesky?
As promised, I will be talking about BlueSky. For some background, BlueSky is a "decentralized"¹ Social Media platform that essentially aims to imitate Twitt...~/Simon's Blog ❯
Our CEO, @mike just launched a new podcast series titled "Dot Social" to explore the evolution of the internet and how new open standards, like #ActivityPub, can forever change the web and the world of social media.
Guests include:
@mmasnick
@WMitchellBaker
@coachtony
@evan
@cubicgarden
@tchambers
@Jbat
More info & episode 1 at https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/dot-social-mike-mccue-hosts-podcast-about-the-future-of-social-media/
Dot Social: Mike McCue Hosts Podcast About the Future of Social Media - Flipboard
Mike McCue, co-founder and CEO of Flipboard, launches a new podcast titled "Dot Social'' to shed light on the Fediverse and the future of social media.Christel van der Boom (Flipboard)
Is anyone leading efforts on promoting fediverse to government agencies?
NPR’s data shows that they lost nothing after being ostracized by the psychotic white billionaire. It counters the idea that leaving Twitter is a loss. Let’s dismiss the idea that we need to be held hostage on any platform.
https://niemanreports.org/articles/npr-twitter-musk/
#NPR #Twitter #SocialMedia #Journalism #Media
Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible | Nieman Reports
The numbers confirm what many of us have long suspected — that Twitter wasn’t worth the effort, at least in terms of traffic.Nieman Reports
Last year we released a statement in which we said we will continue “to monitor changes at Twitter in conjunction with internal discussions about whether our presence on the platform will continue.”
We now announce that as of today, 20 October 2023, all our #socialmedia engagements will be from this Mastodon account, as well as LinkedIn and YouTube, and none from our 5 #Twitter / X accounts.
Find out about these changes and more here: https://carpentries.org/blog/2023/10/announcing-the-carpentries-departure-from-x-and-facebook/
#Carpentries #CarpentriesCommunity
The Carpentries retires its X/Twitter accounts and Facebook profile
Announcing The Carpentries departure from X (formerly known as Twitter) and FacebookThe Carpentries
"I’ve now been using [Mastodon] for about two months and I am here to tell you that it is, in principle, what we should want the internet to be."
https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/
via @404mediaco
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia
Mastodon Is the Good One
Mastodon is interoperable, decentralized, operated by a nonprofit, lively, and, ACTUALLY, isn't hard to use. So why is everyone championing Threads as the main Twitter alternative?Jason Koebler (404 Media)
Ach Mist, das war's dann wohl mit meinen Statistiken zu #Mastodon als Trafficquelle für @heiseonline:
Hab gerade bemerkt, dass die schönen neuen Vorschaukarten den URL-Parameter abschneiden, über den wir überhaupt erfahren, dass Besuche von hier kommen. Je mehr Instanzen diese neue Vorschau nun anzeigen, desto mehr Einstiege werden darüber kommen und für uns nicht mehr erkennbar.
Weiß nicht, ob wir das überhaupt beheben können/wollen.
#Fediverse #MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #News
Latest comic on a certain pundit's infamous $78 airport meal
(For those outside the US, the commentator David Brooks has made a career out of piously trolling liberals for their supposed decadence and lack of morals.)
#uspol #economy #journalism #media #socialmedia
But the term “meme” was coined by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins to describe a behavior, style or idea as a unit of culture that can spread or disappear. From social movements to religion to Grumpy Cat.
Even though most folks may not be aware of it, we’re sharing a popular concept from #science, every single day, across #socialmedia.
Syllabus for my 2015 Stanford Social Media Issues course:
I don’t own chickens. Or any birds for that matter. And even if I did, I probably wouldn’t dress them up as adorable feathered crossing guards.
But sometimes the algorithms for targeted ads on #SocialMedia are so very wrong, they’re simply delightful.
Still, I’m very happy they’re not part of #Mastodon.
There's a lot of great explanation sites about the fediverse and its various communities, and I wanted to take a stab at this myself.
The site (very much work in progress) is aimed at a more casual audience. Let me know what you think!
#fediverse #SocialMedia #OpenWeb #IndieWeb #JoinTheFediverse
(new blogpost) A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think it boils down to a single catch-all choice: who owns the content and interactions of the Internet. ...
#fediverse #platformsociety #datasociety #socialmedia
https://penworks.net/blog/billionaire-platform-society-and-you
Billionaire Platform Society and You
A time will shortly be upon us when we must decide, make a choice about how we might want our interweb to look and be in the near future and beyond. I think...penworks.net
Thousands fled to Mastodon after Musk bought Twitter. Are they still ‘tooting’?
The decentralized social network has seen user numbers drop in recent months, but tech-savvy users remain passionateWilfred Chan (The Guardian)
I'm sure it will start to grow quickly and get a headstart on the other big public broadcaster #ARD, which has labeled its first account a test (@NDR).
Of course it would also be a headstart on the big public broadcasters, that are arguing with #Twitter.
#NPR #PBS #TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #BBC
Let's see, if NPR and PBS find their way here. Oh and where is the #BBC?
#Twitter #TwitterTakeover #ElonMusk #SocialMedia
For Disconnect, I explain that Elon Musk needs this to push more users to subscribe to Twitter Blue so he can pay his $1.5 billion in annual interest payments. But it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/twitters-moment-of-truth-has-arrived
#tech #twitter #elonmusk #socialmedia
Twitter's Moment of Truth Has Arrived
As Elon Musk removes the legacy blue checks, he needs more people to subscribe. It isn't happening.Paris Marx (Disconnect)
https://www.coywolf.news/social/buffer-adds-mastodon/
#SocialMedia #Software #SaaS
Also Thanks For: #Mastodon & Several Different Independent Servers/Instances Run By Many Different People & Donations Too 😀 😀
Also Share #Fediverse Expansions, #PubActivity , & Mastodon, & Dumb Guides For Those Like Me - #Scott1984FP , & So Many Others Too,
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How Many Like Me & Others Need #SocialMedia & #MastodonSocial & Other Mastodon Servers/Instances, For Emotional Connections/Networks/Relationships & Raising Awareness & More Too 😀
#JohnMastodon #mastodon #mastodonart #furry #furryart #twitter #birdsite #socialmedia #comic #comics #comicstrip #mastoart #cartoon