cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/17961250

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[This is an opinionated piece by Renée DiResta, associate research professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown in the U.S.]

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Today [...] user exodus [from large platforms like Facebook and Twitter] to smaller platforms has become increasingly common — especially from X, the once-undisputed home of The Discourse. X refugees have scattered and settled again and again: to Gab and Truth Social, to Mastodon and Bluesky.

What ultimately splintered social media wasn’t a killer app or the Federal Trade Commission — it was content moderation. Partisan users clashed with “referees” tasked with defining and enforcing rules like no hate speech, or making calls about how to handle Covid-19 content. Principles like “freedom of speech, not freedom of reach” — which proposed that “bord

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/24353606

I'd like to introduce a new Lemmy community intended to help keep Fediverse moderators and users informed about current/trending disinformation campaigns.

I'm currently seeking to compile a list of reliable sources related to political/social/corporate disinformation campaigns. If anyone has any recommendations, I'd love to hear about them in the comments. Once I have a curated list, I'll publish it in the community sidebar for reference.

To get things started, I've already reposted a few articles from https://euvsdisinfo.eu/, which was the main inspiration for this community.

My hope is that, alongside the excellent projects developed by @[email protected] (such as fediseer, fedi-safety, and threativore), this community will play a

So I look in the modlog from time to time. There's been some actions I've seen that I don't agree with, but there is no way to see the context, so I've never spoke up. But today I saw something that concerned me. I'm just going to copy/paste the modlog so you see what I see.

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >[email protected] reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >[email protected] reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod Banned

AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >[email protected] reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community Socialist Rifle >[email protected] reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >[email protected] reason: Lib expires: in 1 year mod

Banned AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet from the community >[email protected] reason: Lib expires: in 1 ye

Over the past week or so there has been a serious spam problem hitting mastodon and rest of the fediverse especially misskey over on the japanese side of things and the story behind it is absolutely wild.

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185

Hey all,

I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!

We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place

This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th

Some instances that are joining in:

• toast.ooo
• lemmy.zip

Join the Lemmy Community [email protected]

Join the Matrix Space #lemmy-canvas:matrix.org

99% of the reason that I use Reddit is to share cool things with like-minded people in podcast and movie subreddits (e.g. r/LPOTL, r/MST3k). However, I don't see any communities like these in the Lemmy or Kbin world when searching in all communities.

Is there something I'm missing?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/273039

On mobile fluffychat allows me to view my old messages

Boomer bod cant read this

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.perthchat.org/post/263227

Hi there, I'm Aine from etke.cc and we've built MatrixRooms.info (announcement on the etke.cc website, will be announced on #thisweekinmatrix:matrix.org today, matrix room:

#mrs:etke.cc ).

I want to suggest our new service to find rooms for Room of the Week section, hope that helps 😉

The more OC we have the better

Boomer in like Facebook/tiktok is their final technology frontier.

My friends/circle (ages 19 - 72): 95% don't know how to set up Adblock on desktop. 20% only use computers once a week. 5% use shortcuts like copy and paste. 30% of them buy iphones bc they find android too hard too bother with (I agree with this). 1% struggle with basic concepts like knowing if they are posting a status or DMing someone. Tho 10% trade stocks by themselves, so with sufficient motivation they could learn.

I have onboard 1 person irl and I had to walk them through it.

I rate the fediverse as 0/10 for assessibility to boomers but have not tried the whole fediverse

Mastodon thread about the recent policy change regarding using the mastodon trademark.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/330836

Good article that criticizes Pew Research Center's new report of reducing "alternative social media" just to sites like Parler, Gab, Truth Social and so on. It makes a good explanation of the Fediverse (referred as "citizens’ social media") and sees it as an antidote to the propaganda and misinformation promoted on those platforms.

More nuance is needed here: the Pew report focuses solely on what mass media scholar Kristoffer Holt calls “right-wing alternative media.” And in doing so, it misses a more democratic form of alternative media, what communication scholar Clemencia Rodríguez refers to as “citizens’ social media.”

And for all of us tired of both big tech and online trolling, citizens’ social media is our way forward.