Joshua Casey 😷 @JoshuaACasey@social.cleverlibre.org

@kathhayhoe thank you for this! 😮

I had a feeling indeed

One of the things I love the most about the Fediverse, and esp Mastodon is the lack of numbers constantly in your face :nkoHappy:

It's less of a competition this way and more about human contact and interaction

In absolute terms, both Mastodon and Instagram punch above their weight. Twitter and LI are just below. And FB is, no surprise, extremely low.

On Monday, I wrote an essay about climate and biodiversity for Scientific American. I tracked proportional engagement, calculated as (likes + shares + comments)/followers, over six social media platforms.

The winner? MASTODON, by a landslide.

Second place? INSTAGRAM. It's harder to share posts on IG, but lot of people like things there!

The loser? FACEBOOK, also by a landslide. On Facebook, I've been shadow-banned since August 2018 when they listed clean energy and climate as "socially sensitive topics" so my page there stopped growing 6 years ago and now only about 1% of my followers there ever see my posts. It's actually too bad, because that's the platform where I reach the most conservative audiences through their connections to friends and family. So even though it's dead last, I still persist.

So, it turns out that inventing your own protocol when better (read: secure) ones already exist may not actually be the best of ideas. Who knew‽

Allowing posts be their own parent? Great idea -- let's do that.

Allowing IDs of . and .. when those IDs become part of the URL? Brilliant.

Allowing follows on a like? Sure, fuck it, sounds good, throw it on the pile; maybe we can (spoiler: we can) also let a like be the parent of a post while we're at it.

I am having way too much fun with this.

#bluesky

So cool to see @Flipboard continue to improve and innovate on its support for the fediverse.

From: @mike
https://flipboard.social/@mike/110470953005320925

#NewFlipboard #ReleaseNotes

Twitter’s head of brand safety & ad quality is leaving? Why would you leave a job where you got paid to do nothing all day?

https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-loses-second-safety-executive-within-days-1954a51e

Major trigger warning: After #Minnesota police found Heather Mayer dead in her boyfriend's basement, her BDSM lifestyle seemed to quickly explain everything. But six women across four states have accused him of using BDSM as an excuse for abuse - some of them after Mayer's death.

To members of the BDSM community the message seemed clear:

“We’re not worth pursuing if anything happens — because we asked for it.”

https://www.startribune.com/heather-mayer-death-bdsm-mother-find-justice-twin-cities/600273507/?refresh=true

Allstate has joined State Farm in refusing to issue new homeowners insurance.

Do you realize the economic consequences of this threat of climate change? New homeowners will be unlikely to get new mortgages without insurance, and the costs will skyrocket.

Climate changes are going to have economic consequences far exceeding what traditional economists ever predicted.

#climatechange

https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/insurance-allstate-fires-18130622.php

🇬🇧With the error-prone #ChatControl scanner in place, your nude photos may end up with the police - but are they safe there? In Berlin, it happens that police officers seek "private contact" with women they met on duty: https://t.co/XoMi4CMCXa https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/jahresbericht-2022?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon#_idTextAnchor068

The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill threatens to weaken our data rights.

Our report into data privacy during the pandemic points us in the other direction: we need stronger protections and accountability over our data. #DPDIBill

Have a look: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-report-finds-that-ico-failed-to-hold-the-government-to-account-over-use-of-public-health-data-during-pandemic/

#GDPR #dataprotection #ukpolitics #privacy

This "AI drone kills operator" story is so much like the "Target knew woman was pregnant before she did" story from 2012 it's uncanny.

Tells more about (most) media outlets' competency that about the state of AI.

If you missed it, here's a good summary: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/turncoat-drone-story-shows-why-we-should-fear-people-not-ais/

99% of reported hate speech by Twitter Blue users was not taking down. You’re actually paying $8/month to be immune from content moderation. https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-fails-to-remove-hate-speech-by-blue-check-users-says-report-from-center-for-countering-digital-hate

The guy who can't keep a blogging site running would like to implant a chip in your brain and is looking for volunteers: https://www.reuters.com/science/elon-musks-neuralink-gets-us-fda-approval-human-clinical-study-brain-implants-2023-05-25/

Nearly 4 out of 5 people in the UK are concerned about their privacy. #BigTech isn’t.

We worked with the UK research firm YouGov to find out what people in the UK think about their online privacy and security. 77% are worried about the privacy of their data online, but 15% do nothing about it. And many believe Big Tech’s model is unethical.

Check out the report and get our top tips on how to protect yourself online: https://proton.me/reports/privacy-uk2023

#ElonMusk #Twitter

Ben & Jerry’s Ends Paid Advertising on Twitter Due To Proliferation of Hate Speech

"The platform has become a threatening and even dangerous space for people from so many backgrounds, including people who are Black, Brown, trans, gay, women, people with disabilities, Jewish, Muslim and the list goes on. This is unconscionable in addition to being plain bad business."

https://www.benjerry.com/whats-new/2023/05/ending-paid-twitter-advertising