ML2 @mathlover@social.cleverlibre.org

If you enjoy someone's post on #Mastodon go ahead and click the star. If someone tells you that's meaningless because there's no #algorithm, ignore them. Sure, boost the post too if you want others to also see the post, but don't think telling someone you like what they posted is somehow unimportant. In real life I don't tell someone, "good job," or "well said," or "I love that," for the sake of some algorithm, I do it because I'm human and they are too. It's fundamental to being truly social.

The most important thing thing about the #fediverse is it finally brings web sites, social media, content sharing ,politics, creativity and authorship as together as they've ever been. It can and should give rise to a true laboratory and proving grounds for exploring and refining global cultural communications in every respect, and in every field. If we don't take advantage of this Renaissance moment, we may miss the greatest opportunity to matter that our generation will ever have.

Huh, http://post.news founder who knew nothing about social media, suddenly discovers that moderation isn’t just a word that starts with “m.” If they’re already struggling with < 50,000, what’s 5 million users gonna look like?

Ursula K. Le Guin

#quotes #literature #books #imagination

Does blasphemy offend you?

Been trying to keep an open mind about Post but, yeesh, it has a lot of warning signs right out of the gate, and I don't mean beta bugs. Comments run by OpenWeb? Investment by Marc Andreessen? No way to know who is reposting your content? No way to moderate comments on your posts?

It doesn't seem buggy, it seems structurally unsound in ways that will be hard to fix.

https://twitter.com/Chronotope/status/1596224339355262977
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1596606967195533312

@atomicpoet YMS did a 2.5 hour deep dive into this topic. It's a really good video if you have some time to kill
https://youtu.be/G5B1mIfQuo4

Disney is definitely a soulless corporation that used public domain material to make some of their most iconic films and then actively prevents people from doing the same now.

@atomicpoet As much as I dislike Disney, and as much as I'm always up for calling out blatant rip offs, in this particular instance this accusations has been thoroughly debunked.

The Youtuber Your Movie Sucks made an excellent video essay going through each of the levied accusations against the Lion King in excrutiating detail.

Not having a go at you or anything, I'm just a fan of critical thinking, and don't like seeing common misconceptions spread needlessly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4&t=8191s&ab_channel=YourMovieSucksDOTorg

Elmo is suspending left leaning accounts left and right.

https://twitter.com/stevanzetti/status/1596208534777397248?s=12&t=BJlXS2C215FpDAMICoWt7g

How well do you know the Online Safety Bill?

Graham Smith presents:

“a miscellany of statements about the Bill: familiar slogans and narratives, a few random assertions, some that I have dreamed up to tease out lesser-known features. True, false, half true, indeterminate?”

Read on to find out:

https://www.cyberleagle.com/2022/11/test-your-knowledge-of-online-safety.html #OnlineSafetyBill

I’ve been using Mastodon since Saturday, but I am going out on a limb with a prediction: Mastodon (or the Mastodon model) is the future of social media.

It has the potential of curing the worst evils of social media and creating a genuine and workable public sphere.

I will develop this idea into an essay as soon as I can grab the time, hopefully today.

@jeffjarvis
It's deeply frustrating watching my friends who ought to know better—journalists, tech policy people, etc.—acknowledging that Twitter's on the outs, but then getting excited about moving to yet another closed, proprietary platform.

Trying to forward to people interested in #MindBrainEducation

If you're worried that this could be mistaken for nuclear launches, don't. A lot of the munitions launched so far were already dual-capable. And in practice, unless there's a massive launch towards EU capitals or the United States itself, none of the nuclear powers will be sitting at the football wondering whether to launch-on-warning. They'll always wait for it to land and then decide later. So at least that's off the table.

I’ve had a lot of people ask me recently why not stay on Twitter and fight.

The reason is because Musk controls the algorithm. He could ban you tomorrow, and he could also just deprioritize every one of your tweets so no one sees them.

You can’t fight and win when the opponent has complete control over the field of conflict.
#TwitterMigration

‘Kanye West announces 2024 presidential bid - BBC News

‘West said his request for a running mate left the former president, who recently launched his own re-election campaign, "most perturbed".
In a video titled Mar-A-Lago Debrief, West claimed: "Trump started basically screaming at me at the table, telling me I'm going to lose. Has that ever worked for anyone in history?"’

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-63754702

“I’m not letting some billionaire take this platform away from me” says person providing free content and eyeballs for said billionaire. 🙃

Since Mastodon saw its initial popularity circa 2017, I've noticed that most users and those reporting on it either don't think about the Fediverse as anything more than Mastodon, or treat its history as beginning with Eugen Rochko and the beginning of Mastodon. In fact, Mastodon is the latest in a long line of federated social networks, going at least back to Identi.ca, and though I wasn't around for all of it,I find this history pretty interesting. (Thread; boosts welcome!)