thejapantimes (@thejapantimes@mastodon.social)
The trial set to play out in Los Angeles Superior Court until the end of March will serve as a critical test for thousands of similar lawsuits that target not only Meta and Google, but also TikTok and Snap. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/02/11/tech/youtube-lawyer-addiction-videos/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #instagram #tiktok #snapchat #youtube #facebook #socialmedia #alphabet #google #addiction
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media (@media@eicker.news)
#Wikipedia is considering #blacklisting #Archivetoday after the archive site was used to direct a #DDoSattack against a blogger who tried to uncover the mysterious founder's identity. Wikipedia editors are debating removing all links and adding it to the #spam blacklist, which could affect over 695,000 links across 400,000 Wikipedia pages. The archive site is commonly used to #bypass news #paywalls and preserve web content. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-blacklist-archive-today-after-site-maintainer-ddosed-a-blog/?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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medien (@medien@mastodon.social)
»Umfrage: Hälfte der Deutschen will Verbot der Plattform X bei weiteren Rechtsverstößen« https://netzpolitik.org/2026/umfrage-haelfte-der-deutschen-will-verbot-der-plattform-x-bei-weiteren-rechtsverstoessen/?Multiplikator.in #Medien #SocialMedia
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kairos (@kairos@mast.lat)
No siempre es necesario un consejo,
ni palabras largas ni soluciones apresuradas.
A veces el alma no pide respuestas,
pide descanso.
Pide sentirse acompañada
en medio del cansancio que no siempre se sabe explicar.
Hay dolores que no se arreglan con frases,
heridas que no cierran con lógica.
En esos momentos,
una mano que sostenga dice más
que mil explicaciones,
un oído atento vale más
que cualquier opinión,
y un corazón que entienda
sin juzgar ni interrumpir
se vuelve refugio.
Escuchar también es amar.
Quedarse en silencio,
mirar con empatía,
respetar el tiempo del otro
sin imponer caminos.
Porque cuando alguien se siente comprendido,
el peso se aligera,
aunque el problema siga ahí.
A veces no necesitamos que nos digan qué hacer,
solo necesitamos saber
que no estamos solos.
Y ese gesto simple,
tan humano y tan sincero,
puede ser el inicio de la sanación. #skypilot #socialmedia #socialmediachanel
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kairos (@kairos@mast.lat)
Él la llamó y le hizo una pregunta
en voz baja, vacío:
"Escuché que funcionó con otra persona, funcionó.
Dime, ¿estás feliz con él?'
El descaro simplemente explotó: "¿Quién eres?
¿Quién eres tú para mí ahora, para que yo lo sepa?
¿Qué dejaste en tu alma?...¡nada!
Deja de jugar conmigo.
Me besas las manos delante de todos
entonces podrás pasar.
Te encanta durante un mes, tres meses ¡no!
¡Podrías volverte loco!
No quiero vivir mi vida y entender
que me dejaron solo.
Sí..Estoy apareciendo con otro ahora,
No estoy parado junto a la ventana.
Y borré tu número al infierno, recordándolo de memoria.
No dejaré que tu corazón se ofenda más
¡Tengo miedo por él!
Tosió y volvió a preguntar
en voz baja, vacío:
Lo entiendo...y aún así respondo,
Dime ¿estás feliz con él?
Mamá susurró: "Dile la verdad"
No tengo fuerzas para mirarte.
Y él, ya sabes, no llamaba
¡Ojalá yo fuera feliz por otro lado!
Cereza #poemas #skypilot #socialmedia #socialmediachanel
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kairos (@kairos@mast.lat)
Nada es para llevar,
todo es para vivir aquí.
Atte: la vida.
La vida no se empaca,
no se guarda para después,
no se deja pendiente en la puerta
como algo que algún día retomaremos.
La vida sucede ahora,
en este instante frágil
que no vuelve.
Nada de lo que amas
puede guardarse para más tarde.
Ni los abrazos,
ni las palabras,
ni las oportunidades.
Todo pide presencia,
todo reclama ser vivido
con los pies en el suelo
y el corazón despierto.
A veces vivimos como si hubiera reservas,
como si el tiempo esperara,
como si siempre hubiera otra ocasión.
Y la vida, en silencio,
nos recuerda que no se repite,
que no hay recibos ni devoluciones.
Lo que no se vive hoy
se convierte en recuerdo,
en ausencia,
en “hubiera”.
Y pesa más lo no vivido
que cualquier cansancio.
Por eso la vida no ofrece atajos,
ofrece momentos.
No promete eternidad,
regala instantes.
Y nos pide algo simple
y a la vez tan difícil:
estar.
Estar de verdad.
Escuchar sin prisa,
amar sin condiciones,
perdonar sin aplazar,
decir lo que sentimos
antes de que sea tarde.
Nada es para llevar.
Todo es para sentir aquí,
para aprender aquí,
para amar aquí.
Atte: la vida,
que no se guarda,
que no se presta,
pero que, cuando se vive,
lo da todo. #skypilot #socialmedia #socialmediachanel
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archives (@archives@neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network)
BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”
Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.
Bluesky mentions that here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update
As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.
I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.
Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.
Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.
Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.
Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.
Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.
Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.
I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.
In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.
I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.
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feedle (@feedle@mastodon.social)
🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
1994: Publishing comes to the Web — and design matters - https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/?ref=feedle.world
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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads
#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging
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Mathrubhumi_English (@Mathrubhumi_English@mastodon.social)
US Trade Representative`s office deleted a social media post featuring a map of India including J&K and Aksai Chin https://english.mathrubhumi.com/news/world/ustr-removes-india-map-jammu-kashmir-aksai-chin-gww7ar0i?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #USTR #socialmedia #indiamap #jammu
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archives (@archives@neon-blue-demon-wyrm.x10.network)
The Virulent Infection of BlueSky by Extremely Online, Brain-Rotten Zombies from X Continues
So, it appears a new migration from Twitter to Bluesky is underway. It appears to be some of the most virulent former 4chan users possible. Yep, I got off Bluesky just in time, lol. I’ve been keeping tabs on a particularly virulent and toxic subgraph on Twitter for years. It pretty much stayed off Bluesky because they couldn’t act like abusive dumpster fires there. Welp, looks like they’re becoming more active on Bluesky. It’s not looking good over there.
That they are on the move says something. It’s sort of like how the US is suddenly a place that is hospitable to measles. It was all but eradicated here.
My husband likes to say that you can tell where not to be by where I am looking from somewhere else. I like fires. So if I am observing your platform or community from a distance, you probably don’t want to be there.
Edit:
I had originally posted the above on a now-defunct federated blog. It got blasted to Mastodon. Someone replied and asked what I think is causing this. I debated actually answering, then decided that I’ve had enough of the dumpster fire that is social media. I decided not to wade through social media tech discourse into what will mostly likely be an Internet argument with a complete stranger. I am a techie dragon, and I engage with things to learn how they work so I can tinker with them. I only engaged with tech discourse to get my hands on how the tech works. There’s nothing in it for me to be part of larger conversations. Arguing with random strangers on social media is not an epistemically useful format. I do think I should answer, though. Just on my blog.
I treat social media like I do an addictive substance. I do not believe in abstinence, but I do believe in harm-reduction paradigms, so when I see everyone overdosing on social media, I pull back and shut down a lot of accounts. The Fediverse instance where the first part of this blog post was posted has been taken down, moved to this blog, and this section appended to it.
I often use the word weeb pejoratively. Here, I am using it categorically. There really isn’t an “official” name outside of otaku or weeb culture. I am at the fringes and intersections of it as a furry. My husband is a millennial weeb. With that being said—
The migration is in large part because Bluesky is capturing the otaku/weeb niche of X. X hosted networks that were ecosystems of “anime fans.” These included anime and manga artists, doujin and hentai artists, VTuber fans, NSFW illustrators, fandom shitposters, niche fetish communities, and other chronically and extremely online content creators and influencers. That culture relied heavily on timelines, informal networks, and discovery through reposts, replies, and algorithmic amplification.
Elon Musk pretty much destabilized X’s ecosystems and social networks from multiple directions at once. Algorithm changes made reach inconsistent. Moderation created anxiety and uncertainty about what would get suppressed or unintentionally “viral”. Bots, engagement farming, and blue-check reply spam actively poisoned fandom conversations.
Bluesky is the memetic and cultural progeny of early imageboard cultures. I conducted a phylogenetic analysis of the memetics, which you can check out here:
Bluesky is a competitor of X for otaku and fandom communities. Bluesky has a lot of the aspects of old Twitter dynamics around which fandom culture evolved. Recently, Bluesky introduced something big in those communities: going live. Since X is no longer habitable for weebs, they are moving to Bluesky.
For example, the AT protocol already has PinkSea:
And, of course, there is WAFRN:
I cope and deal with issues via personal, private sublimation and not so much exhibitionism of my art or consumption of art. So, while I do make comic books and do a shit ton of weeby art, it’s for the purpose of sublimation, so I’m not too interested in being a part of a community. That’s a large reason I am not active in those spaces. I’m quite cynical, in general, so I am suspicious of any community — and I mean any community, at all. Honestly, I am mildly contemptuous of mass participation or any sense of belonging. So, my art stays private, because it is created for me – and just me.
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media (@media@eicker.news)
»Will drinking hot water help me lose weight, clear my skin or treat cramps?« https://theconversation.com/will-drinking-hot-water-help-me-lose-weight-clear-my-skin-or-treat-cramps-274950?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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renovatio06 (@renovatio06@mastodon.social)
Yannis #Varoufakis nennt die #SocialMedia-Platzhirsche "digitale Lehensgüter" und #TechFeudalisten, die nach unbeschränkter Macht streben und längst nicht nur die #Digitaldomäne dominieren. #NaomiKlein, die mit "ShockDoctrine" nach Hurricane #Katrina bekannt wurde, fordert stärkere Regulierungen, insbesondere Schutz vor #Deepfakes und #Identitätsdiebstahl. Wer wirklich wissen will, wie mächtig Tech-Konzerne bereits sind... https://www.youtube.com/live/7iRc3ZkHzRU?si=yYTCuYphyE-c1EpW
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