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Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"In his new book Move Slowly and Build Bridges, Robert W. Gehl tells the story of the activists, software developers, artists, and everyday people who have built the fediverse, a noncentralized alternative social media system. Unlike big tech corporations like Facebook, TikTok, or X, the fediverse is comprised of thousands of small, independent communities who use a Web protocol to communicate with one another.</p><p>These small communities govern themselves and moderate content at the human scale — compare that to Facebook and X, which try to moderate global conversations. And the fediverse isn’t built in order to gather user data and sell attention to marketers — it’s a more privacy-respecting social media alternative.</p><p>The most notable part of the fediverse is Mastodon. Founded in 2016, Mastodon was positioned as an alternative to Twitter. Like Twitter (or X), Mastodon members can post, like, share, and connect with one another across the world. Unlike Twitter/X, Mastodon can be completely under the control of its members, from how it’s run to its underlying software.</p><p>Making a noncentralized, ethically run social media system isn’t easy. The people building the fediverse have faced long hours, burnout, angry debates, and, worst of all, bigotry, death threats, and discrimination. They face constant, nagging doubts: Can we really do this? Can noncentralized social media survive in a world that is used to corporate social media? Can we—all of us—have our own social media?"</p><p><a href="https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">moveslowlybuildbridges.com/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Decentralization</span></a></p>
FediThing 🏳️‍🌈<p>Discussion of decentralised social media is frustrating sometimes. Certain kinds of people won't even consider the idea and their logic goes like this:</p><p>"Our dictator is so awful, if only we had a nice dictator instead."<br>"What about having multi-party elections?"<br>"Don't be ridiculous, only political nerds care about democracy. Ordinary people will be paralysed by choice if they have to choose a party, they can only cope with the concept of dictatorships."</p><p><a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://social.chinwag.org/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a></p>
disassociated.com<p><strong>Australians will soon need to verify their age to use search engines</strong></p> <p>Ange Lavoipierre, writing for The Australian Broadcasting Corporation: </p> <p>At the end of June, Australia quietly introduced rules forcing companies such as Google and Microsoft to check the ages of logged-in users, in an effort to limit children’s access to harmful content such as pornography. But experts have warned the move could compromise Australians’ privacy online and may not do much to protect young people.</p> <p>We’re all for protecting children going online, but this initiative, as it […]</p> <p><a href="https://disassociated.com/australians-verify-their-age-search-engines/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">disassociated.com/australians-</span><span class="invisible">verify-their-age-search-engines/</span></a></p>
Flipboard Tech Desk<p>The received wisdom is that growth on Mastodon and Bluesky comes from big waves of new users who flee other networks when their owners say or do something particularly evil. But according to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@laurenshof" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>laurenshof</span></a></span>, that's no longer a given. "Musk managed to put himself up high on the list of people whose actions directly led for the largest number of deaths in the twenty-first century due to his involvement in the shutdown of USAID, but such evil did not meaningfully lead to people leaving Musk’s social network for other places," Hof writes for his Connected Places newsletter. Here, he takes a look at what's happening.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/nMcSJB" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/nMcSJB</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/OpenSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSocial</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>No more <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/telegram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telegram</span></a> forever. I don't recommend it for anyone, cops and security companies are using it daily to fabricate, incriminate and discriminate everyday users. Whatsapp was just the tip of the iceberg recently.</p><p><a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/classwar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>classwar</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/acab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>acab</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/humanrights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanrights</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a> <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/whatsapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whatsapp</span></a></p>
Stefano Marinelli<p>Though an old article, its relevance feels stronger than ever today: People, not numbers</p><p><a href="https://my-notes.dragas.net/2023/04/06/people-not-numbers/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">my-notes.dragas.net/2023/04/06</span><span class="invisible">/people-not-numbers/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/MyNotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MyNotes</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/tags/BeKind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BeKind</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>A news story on the BBC about Meta arbitrarily banning accounts on Facebook due to thier use of AI for moderation decisions.</p><p>It confirmed that a lot of the issues I had on Facebook when I was there was not due to my imagination!</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>meta</span></a></p>
César Pose<p>It exhausts me to have to deal with topics on social media that I find irrelevant and absurd. If I had to say what I really think about several topics, they'd send a hitman at me, because it's full of keyboard fundamentalists everywhere. I think I'm going to radically change the way I use Mastodon so I don't have to deal with other people's mental garbage; I already have enough of my own.</p><p>Edit: I'm sick and therefore in a bad mood.<br><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/actuallyautistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>actuallyautistic</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/autism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autism</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autistic</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/gifted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gifted</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/giftedness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>giftedness</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bipolar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bipolar</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/bipolardisorder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bipolardisorder</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/neurodivergent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurodivergent</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/neurodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurodiversity</span></a></p>
Ecologia Digital<p>"<a href="https://mato.social/tags/Socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Socialnetworks</span></a> were built on short posts designed for <a href="https://mato.social/tags/speed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>speed</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://mato.social/tags/scale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scale</span></a>. But what if the next era of the web was built for something deeper?<br>Two of the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/socialweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialweb</span></a>’s “<a href="https://mato.social/tags/longformers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>longformers</span></a>”…John O’Nolan, CEO of <a href="https://mato.social/tags/Ghost" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ghost</span></a>, and Matthias Pfefferle, developer of the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/ActivityPubplugin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ActivityPubplugin</span></a> for <a href="https://mato.social/tags/WordPress" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WordPress</span></a>, are integrating social features with blogs, newsletters, essays…<br>We talk about rediscovering the magic of the <a href="https://mato.social/tags/blogosphere" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>blogosphere</span></a>… and where writing belongs in the next chapter of the internet."<br><a href="https://pca.st/episode/39d99baa-2047-4192-8353-16858684b1de" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pca.st/episode/39d99baa-2047-4</span><span class="invisible">192-8353-16858684b1de</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>I was both annoyed and saddened by a story on the BBC of a woman needlessly died of Cancer because she believed her mother conspiracy theories over cancer rather than treatment by Doctor.</p><p>Once again highlights the damage social networks are doing!!!!😡😢</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>
Benjamin Smith<p>Just released my first Python library on PyPI!</p><p>`ig_degree_betweenness` is a Python implementation of the "Smith-Pittman" community detection algorithm. </p><p>This library brings the power the the {ig.degree.betweenness} R package to Python</p><p>Install from PyPI with: `pip install ig-degree-betweenness`</p><p>Link to GitHub + details in the comments.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>python</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/rstats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rstats</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/datatscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>datatscience</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
Stephen Hayes<p>Notes from underground: How social networks undermine community and promote extremism <br><a href="https://methodius.blogspot.com/2024/03/how-social-networks-undermine-community.html?spref=tw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">methodius.blogspot.com/2024/03</span><span class="invisible">/how-social-networks-undermine-community.html?spref=tw</span></a> <br><a href="https://c.im/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p>"We analyse the migration of 300,000 academic users from Twitter/X to Bluesky between 2023 and early 2025, combining rich bibliometric data, longitudinal social-media activity, and a novel cross-platform identity-matching pipeline. We show that 18% of scholars in our sample transitioned, with transition rates varying sharply by discipline, political expression, and Twitter engagement but not by traditional academic metrics. Using time-varying Cox models and a matched-pairs design, we isolate genuine peer influence from homophily. We uncover a striking asymmetry whereby information sources drive migration far more powerfully than audience, with this influence decaying exponentially within a week. We further develop an ego-level contagion classifier, revealing that simple contagion drives two-thirds of all exits, shock-driven bursts account for 16%, and complex contagion plays a marginal role. Finally, we show that scholars who rebuild a higher fraction of their former Twitter networks on Bluesky remain significantly more active and engaged. Our findings provide new insights onto theories of network externalities, directional influence, and platform migration, highlighting information sources’ central role in overcoming switching costs."</p><p><a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2505.24801v1" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">arxiv.org/html/2505.24801v1</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Bluesky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bluesky</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Academia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Academia</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Universities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Universities</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/HigherEd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HigherEd</span></a></p>
Flipboard Tech Desk<p>X had its second outage in just over a week today. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Sarahp</span></a></span> reports for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@Techcrunch" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Techcrunch</span></a></span> that the outage took place just after the platform rolled out its new DM feature. "It’s not clear if any of these changes impacted X’s stability, and the company no longer responds to press inquiries since Musk took ownership," she writes.</p><p><a href="https://flip.it/G1cQmd" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/G1cQmd</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tech</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Technology</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SocialNetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialNetworks</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>A sad fact of our modern world most people are now happier to listen to the lies on Social Networks rather than face the hard truth!</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>Recent events has once again reminded me why I left the mainstream social networks as now I am not bombarded by conspiracy theories and lies from people who should know better.</p><p>In the end I do not miss it at all and I now have more balanced ans healthier view of the world.</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>After the sad events in Liverpool the mainstream social networks are once again full of conspiracies and half truths.</p><p>This totally irresponsible of the people spreading them as I suspect they do not understand the damage they are doing or could do!</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>
Aktionsb. neue soziale Medien<p>📣 The number of followers of German scientific institutions in the <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Fediverse</span></a> surpassed the 160k mark 💥 last weekend, see <br>👉 <a href="https://mastodon-listen.playground.54gradsoftware.de/?liste=institute-de" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mastodon-listen.playground.54g</span><span class="invisible">radsoftware.de/?liste=institute-de</span></a> </p><p>Yes, it's true: we shouldn't get caught up in this nonsensical discussion about <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/reach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>reach</span></a> of <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/socialmedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialmedia</span></a>. <br>On the other hand, it’s a great success 🏆 for initiatives such as <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Unis4Mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Unis4Mastodon</span></a>, <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/Byebyeelon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Byebyeelon</span></a>, <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/WissXit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WissXit</span></a>, <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/SaveSocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SaveSocial</span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@helloQuitX" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>helloQuitX</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@leavex" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>leavex</span></a></span> and others that more than 150 research institutions in Germany are contributing to the expansion of the Fediverse.</p><p>To our friends in the <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>, we say that we are alarmed at how the new <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/USpolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpolicy</span></a> is attacking <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a>. We are trying to build decentralized and independent <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a> to make our research institutions and democracy resilient to attacks from <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/autocrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autocrats</span></a> and <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/hostilitytoscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hostilitytoscience</span></a>. <br>And we think this transformation should happen in other countries, too, to strengthen <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> <a href="https://bewegung.social/tags/eXit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eXit</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>I really glad I have left Facebook in last few months especially what it happening both in the UK and the US.</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>
The Steam Powered Story Teller<p>Trump administration has highlighted just how detrimental the major Social Networks have become to society in general!</p><p>It is time that Meta and X are taken to task for their actions!</p><p>I&#39;ll go as far, if they do not clean up thier acts they should be taken off line permanently!</p><p><a href="https://dice.camp/tags/socialnetworks" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>socialnetworks</span></a></p>