p (@p@pixelfed.social)
đEnschede, The Netherlands 2018
This tree grew on my house in Enschede. Switching from Instagram to PixelFed, don't we all feel a bit like this brave tree?đ±
I didn't post too much on Instagram, the algorithm kept me busy enough. Here, I feel challenged: I have to actively think of #hashtags that might show me content I like. Also, here, I feel free to post whatever I want to post. Do I feel less judged on PixelFed? Maybe it's because I don't know anyone here. Even more so, since this total lack of people I know, I might even cautiously engage in social interaction with, I don't know, you? So from my #silentsunday to yours, a quiet and kind: Hi stranger, nice to meet you!đđŒââïžđ
Who knows what beautiful forest we can grow at this platform?đłđČđłđČ
#socialmedia #hello
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aibay (@aibay@mastodon.social)
đ€ L'Intelligenza Artificiale ora progetta esperimenti di fisica e funziona! Siamo davvero al futuro? #IntelligenzaArtificiale #FisicaFuturistica #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
đ https://aibay.it/notizie/ia-progetta-esperimenti-di-fisica-che-funzionano-2025-08-17
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aibay (@aibay@mastodon.social)
đ€ Impressionante! Il Bot scacchistico #Allie si Ăš allenato su oltre 91 milioni di partite per diventare invincibile. #scacchiAI #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
đ https://aibay.it/notizie/bot-chess-allie-impara-da-91-milioni-di-partite-2025-08-17
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mypost2 (@mypost2@mastodon.social)
đ± Quick question: What happens to your content after you hit "publish"?
For most creators, that's where the story ends. But what if it was just the beginning?
Your content has untapped potential. We're building something to unlock it.
Want in? mypost.to
#Contentcreator #socialmedia #blogging
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TilliAtHome (@TilliAtHome@mastodon.de)
Das war ein sehr ergiebiger Sonntag. Habe Mastodon aufgerĂ€umt und alle Karteileichen entfernt. Die Followerzahlen haben sich dadurch sofort halbiert. Aber die Zeiten sind vorbei wo mir diese Zahl wichtig war. Hatte mich schon gewundert, dass ich hier nur noch mit 5 Leuten interagiere und keine anderen Reaktionen kommen. Egal, diese 5 sind extrem nette Menschen und allein dafĂŒr lohnt es sich auf Mastodon zu sein. Meine BeitrĂ€ge lasse ich jetzt auch nach 6 Monaten löschen. Ich seh das mittlerweile Ă€hnlich wie deutsche Politiker: âwas interessiert mich mein GeschwĂ€tz von gesternâ.
Dann habe ich auch noch die restlichen Social Media Accounts gelöscht. Ich habe sowieso immer weniger Zeit und muss daher PrioritÀten setzen. Bin nur noch auf Mastodon und Reddit aktiv. Auf X nur lesend. Threads, Bluesky und Co. habe ich schon vor lÀngerer Zeit entfernt.
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gedanke (@gedanke@digitalcourage.social)
FĂŒr mich klingt das nach einer Theorie soziales Zusammenlebens, die noch nie in der RealitĂ€t vorhanden war.
Zum Menschen als soziales Wesen gehört, dass er sich mit anderen Menschen austauscht.
Dieser Austausch war nie ĂŒber eine eigene Bubble hinweg, auĂer am Arbeitsplatz. Im Normalfall bewegen sich Menschen in Freundeskreisen und haben in frĂŒheren Jahren ihre Lieblingsclubs oder -kneipen gehabt. Die klassischen Subkulturen sind die Bubble.
Nie war der Mensch "öffentlich". er unterhielt sich in kleinen Kreisen, saà in Restaurants an Tischen und von den anderen Tischen hast Du nur bedingt etwas mitbekommen.
Nirgendwo war man gezwungen, in eine Kneipe zu gehen, wo mich der besoffene Konservative von der Seite zugequatscht hat. Deswegen brauche ich auch kein Socialmedia, wo das passiert.
@padeluun @kassander @iverbpunkt @wackJackle
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readbeanicecream (@readbeanicecream@mastodon.social)
Researchers Made a Social Media Platform Where Every User Was AI. The Bots Ended Up at War
#technology #tech #ai #artificialintelligence #socialmedia #arXiv
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remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"A web that you donât understand is one thatâs not user-driven, or driven by user utility. Itâs one where people donât have agency over the technology they depend upon, and where changes arenât contrived to address a specific user need.
At the risk of sounding as conspiratorial as the author of the original Dead Internet Theory, I believe the emergence of this incomprehensibility was borne of deliberate decisions made by people at the very top of Big Tech. Furthermore, I believe these people are profoundly anti-person, and see people as resources to be tapped rather than collaborators within a vast, global digital ecosystem.
In many respects, I think this phenomena is down to two things: first, many of the tech products we use were founded by people who were still in the throes of youth, and became billionaires and global tech icons before their brains were even fully developed. Theyâve been insulated from people from a young age, never lived a normal life, and theyâve been told â repeatedly â that they are geniuses and visionaries. While I donât think this explanation excuses any of their behavior, I also think it goes some way into explaining the scarcely-disguised antipathy these people show for their fellow humans.
(...)
The other factor behind this phenomenon is that many of the people running these companies are former management consultants spawned from hell (read: McKinsey) and then set loose on what amounts to âessential infrastructureâ for the digital age. Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Google, is a former McKinsey consultant. Sheryl Sandberg, the former Chief Operating Officer of Facebook was one, too.
Management consultants have one job â itâs to recommend strategies to cowardly CEOs that they probably thought of themselves, but are too chicken to put their name behind themselves, that invariably screw over employees, consumers, and the planet."
https://whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-the-internet-died
#DeadInternet #Commons #DigitalCommons #OpenWeb #SocialMedia #AISlop #AI
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ambientdread (@ambientdread@toot.io)
Fashion Dread
#SocialSplatter #Sundries #Poems #posts #SocialMedia #YesterdaysRiff #haiku #writingcommunity #blogging #tanka
https://ambientdread.net/2025/08/17/aug-16-2025/
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kaliagainstallodds (@kaliagainstallodds@mastodon.social)
listen. i am trying to be nice, i really do.
but if you are tweeting
a) #misinformation, even if it is misformation on #trump
b) #AI content without marking it as such
you are the still part of problem. no matter which platform you are on or who you voted for. i am so sick and tired of it.
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USAJusticeWatch (@USAJusticeWatch@mastodon.social)
Anti-vaccine myths surged online ahead of the #CDC shooting: Before the shooting, social media companies relaxed their protocols around misinformation. ââŠsome of the worldâs largest #socialmedia platforms now operate with far fewer guardrails, allowing #vaccine #misinformation to flourishâŠ
#Kennedy himself has shared #VaccineMisinformation in office.â |
NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/cdc-shooting-anti-vaccine-myths-surged-online-depression-rcna224489
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cpw (@cpw@troet.cafe)
WiWo: Smartes Phone, dumme Kinder
"Wir tischen ihnen ernsthaft fĂŒnfmal Bioobst und -gemĂŒse auf, finden aber nichts dabei, dass sie ihre Gehirne jeden Tag zwei, drei Stunden mit Junkfood verstopfen und an geistiger Adipositas erkranken."
Das Smartphone dein treuer Freund und Helfer đŹ
https://wiwoapp.wiwo.de/cmsId/100148410.html?utm_medium=in&utm_source=app&utm_campaign=share
#fedieletern #handy #ki #socialmedia
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