Social Media wird auch ohne Algorithmen nicht besser
Echokammern und Empörung: Es gibt keine Stellschrauben, die Social Media weniger toxisch machen – sagt eine neue Studie.
#SocialMedia #Wissenschaft #news
OMG I just realised blockchain based media apps like Peepeth are also examples of a "shared heap";
https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Blockchain_Social_Media_Apps
I'm borrowing a phrase there from @cwebber's blog post about BlueSky's ATProtocol architecture. Where she contrasted "shared heap" networks like ATProto with "message passing" networks like email, XMPP and ActivityPub;
https://dustycloud.org/blog/how-decentralized-is-bluesky/
(I think I remember her saying elsewhere that Matrix is a "shared heap" too?).
#SocialMedia #SharedHeap #MessagePassing
New @dpc_chat blog post: Archiving Facebook, Right Now https://www.dpconline.org/blog/archiving-facebook-right-now #digipres #socialmedia
Are newsletters the new academic social media?
More detailed ad targeting options are being removed soon, urging advertisers to trust AI-driven targeting for better performance. What do you think about this shift? #AI #advertising #SocialMedia 💬👇

Seed Dread
#SocialSplatter #Sundries #Poems #posts #SocialMedia #YesterdaysRiff #haiku #writingcommunity #blogging
https://ambientdread.net/2025/08/18/aug-17-2025/
Aug 17 2025
The Daily Dread
Yesterday
Again found lacking
In all clutch situations
Sir Submission kneels
bad seed germinates
abject moral turpitude
freedom's slow decay
#artifact #blogging #haiku #micropoem #MicroPoetry #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #posts #prompt #senryu #smallpoems #SocialMedia #SocialSplatter #Sundries #tanka #writing #writingcommunity #YesterdaySRiff

Open up mastodon and everybody is posting about president of usa, LLM (ai), and some arrest photos. Is this all we have on social media when we switch off tv? What’s the difference then. Everybody is running to have views. Well better luck making money on related social media platform.
#socialmedia #AI
Será que precisamos de mais, não de menos, câmaras de eco? Eu e a @teclista achamos que sim. E escrevemos um artigo para o Shifter.pt para vos convencer. :)
A revista esta em pré-venda aqui, com um monte de outros artigos e entrevistas fantásticos (e comprares ou subscreveres também e aproveitar para apoiar um projeto editorial independente importante!) https://shifter.pt/loja/produto/revista-7-rip-internet/
#internet #socialmedia #technology
📢 When the #US State Department announced it was suspending visas for #children from #gaza seeking medical treatment, the decision appeared bureaucratic, even procedural. But the policy shift was not the result of an internal review or of a wider strategy debate. Instead, it followed an online pressure campaign from #LauraLoomer, a far-right provocateur who proudly calls herself “a proud Islamophobe” -
📰 Featured report by Al Mayadeen 👇🏽
Gizmodo: Gen-Z’s Social Media Addiction May Have Ironically Led to an Indie Cinema Revival. “A new article published by The Guardian suggests that slowly climbing audience numbers in Europe may be driven, in part, by the affluence of film access provided by the internet. The article provides some data (as well as anecdotal evidence) that suggests the social media soaked landscape in which […]
[Beat Beta] Is AI to blame for Meta’s supposed wrongful Facebook and Instagram bans?
