I'm purposely going to follow more non-Mastodon/micro-blog accounts to expand my view of the network. Anything out there you would recommend? I've been poking through #Pixelfed accounts, but surely there is more cool stuff out there!
Just got done listening to @npub1j6xz...re8c give a book talk about The Digital Closet. It's a deep critique of the underlying technologies of content moderation used by #Google and #Meta. Such important work! the book is free to read, too! https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545952/the-digital-closet/
Hey, folks from what was once called Twitter! My fedi tip is: follow hashtags. You can search for hashtags of interest and then follow them just like you can follow any account. Your timeline will fill up quickly if you do that, and then you can start to follow interesting people in the timeline. For example, some of the hashtags I follow include #blackmastodon, #mutualaid, and #canpoli, among others. I've found that I can get news just as fast here as folks on #X. #fediTips
Latest FOSS Academic post: Hey, Journalists: X is now Truth Social. Start treating it that way.
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Hey, journalists, it
 In which I argue that, if they cannot leave X, journalists need to treat it like Truth Social. Dip in, copy what you gotta copy, and get out. [replies to this post will appear as comments on my blog] #journalism #FOSSacademic
lol at the post-election coverage that suggests Trump won in spite of "rhetoric that many Americans found repulsive" umm... they found it enticing, actually. by definition
the billionaire newspaper/market/pharma owners figured out which way the wind is blowing, didn't they
People often ask why I support the #fedipact.
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Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves
"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."
 β€œI think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” [Zuckerberg] said. β€œAnd I think that that’s going to be just very exciting for theβ€”for Facebook and Instagram and maybe Threads or other kind of Feed experiences over time.”
I'd like to follow more academics from Central and South America. I can read Spanish (and I really ought to practice writing in it), and I also want to learn more from academics in that area. If that's you, please follow me and I will follow back! (boosts appreciated)
It's a long road to write a book, but I got word that, assuming the production goes as planned, Move Slowly and Build Bridges, my book about Mastodon and the ActivityPub-based fediverse, will be out from Oxford UP around August of next year! Still a lot of work to do behind the scenes: editing, proofing, indexing. But I'm already giving book talks and would be happy to do so if you want me to visit your class/university to talk about the fediverse! @bookstodon group #Mastodon #Fediverse #books
A lot of folks at #AoIR2024 are a bit peeved that more AoIR members aren't using Mastodon/the fedi instead of X. "We as a community have produced a great deal of criticism of corporate platforms," they say, "so why aren't more people switching?" I've been studying alternative social media for a long time now. To cite Stuart Hall, there are no guarantees: you do this sort of work, trying to make something better, but knowing that it's a struggle and it may fail.