socialmedia
If people who follow you on social media are called "followers", what do you call people you follow?
#SocialMedia #language #linguistics #poll
Options: (choose one)
Happy Monday, fediverse!
Quick question. How well do you know the people you follow? Would you recognize them from their bios?
A new @iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.
"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/
The latest round of #protests in #Iran is large, significant and sharp. We shall hope and see if the people of Iran have success this time
Here's a little #socialMedia wrinkle and it is amazing
#Women have been lighting pictures of the #Ayatollah on fire, and lighting cigarettes with it
Burning photos of the supreme leader is a serious offense
Women smoking is restricted
Not a single (mandatory) #hijab to be seen
The result is that X/Twitter is a Pornhub where everything is twisted around the particular kinks of a specific, and visibly disturbed individual. Whatever Musk wants, as the Voice of God, may or may not become the Voice of the People, but is probably what the people are going to end up talking about, whether they want to or not. This is what gives X/Twitter its Philip K. Dick quality - it’s like Dick’s novel Ubik, in which the characters repeatedly find their world being pulled back into the mental patterns of a predatory teenager-turned-existential-vampire, Jory Miller.
#LongRead #SocialMedia #disinformation #misinformation #democracy #X #twitter
Marky Mark still hasn't updated the old Threads.net domain in the #Fediverse to the new Threads.com
Guess his superintelligence wasn't up to the challenge 🤖
On a side note: If #Meta wants a product to be "cool", @zuck should not wear it! 😎
❌ #Demeta now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta
#threads #ai #facebook #it #humor #mastodon #markzuckerberg #profile #joke #threadsnet #threadscom #tech #socialmedia #domain #online #internet #it #update #funny #superintelligence #zuck #artificialintelligence #ki
Conceito de rede social?
É impressão minha, ou, desde o TikTok, o parâmetro de “rede social” está abrangente para um caralho?
Estudantes meus de ensino fundamental consideram Youtube como rede social. Agora há pouco um camarada da faculdade falou que “Ficou muito interessado pela rede social alternativa Substack (!)“.
Parece que o simples fato de haver recursos de comunicação basta para considerar plataformas de entretenimento como redes sociais. Se isso de fato aproxima ou não as pessoas, estreita relações ou cria comunidades, foda-se, né? É lateral.
O que vocês pensam sobre isso? O conceito de rede social mudou ou mudaram os usuários? #Youtube, #TikTok e #Substack podem ser consideradas como #socialmedia?
@batepapo
🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
The Sky Is Falling, The Web Is Dead - https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17193390/web-dead-predictions-george-colony?ref=feedle.world
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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads
15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing.
#Technology #Tech #Media #Journalism #Publishing #Flipboard #Apps #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial
Little Green Men Dread
#SocialSplatter #Sundries #Poems #posts #SocialMedia #YesterdaysRiff #writingcommunity #blogging #haiku
#monoku #tanka
Even though sighted people have not joined this yet, I am witnessing an increased desire for more audio based social media apps such as this from sighted people. Ramblio https://ramblio.com/
Find me at https://ramblio.com/user/weird_writer
I just found a 4 minute video by Elena Rossini, @elena It's a really well-done intro video about the #fediverse.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
It describes what the fediverse is, where it came from and why you are just now hearing about it.
Three years ago today, the idea of the Newsmast Foundation was born 🎂
Born from the pieces of what Twitter was, our founders knew that they needed to take action to help online communities come together to inform one another once again.
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#Newsmast #Birthday #SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Technology #3Today
We're very excited to be a 'Common Sponsor' of the @bonfire project 🔥
Bonfire offers and incredible opportunity for the Open Social Web. It will be great to see their work with various organisations, including us, come to life.
If you'd like to donate to Bonfire yourself, they've just launched a fundraiser here 👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g