Someone at a conference I'm attending just called ChatGPT "capitalism on cocaine."

Federated social media is a radical departure from corporate social media. While big companies like Google and Microsoft produce email servers that can intercommunicate with hundreds of other providers, in the world of social media, cross-company communication is largely unheard of....

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

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Hey, #admins! Along with a grad student, I am working on a paper the surveys Mastodon (and forks -- Hometown, Glitch) servers that have some connection to #Canada. We have done a lot of digging and have found ~40 instances that have some connection to Canada. We presented our work recently:

Mapping Canadian Social Media: News Sharing on Canadian Mastodon Instances

But! Maybe we're missing some. If you are willing to share, please let me know if your Mastodon/fork instance meets this criteria. Boosts appreciated!

I'm grading student papers, and I can report that one effect of generative AI is that I now suspect everything my students submit. And that's not a good place to be in while grading. #banGenAIfromUniversities

In addition to content moderation concerns, those who sign the #fedipact or otherwise pledge to block Meta cite many other reasons for doing so. vanta’s fedipact site sums up several: “that time they helped facilitate a genocide. that time they helped try to rig an election....

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

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Second, the use of Amazon and Cloudflare could also be a violation of the ethical covenant many fediverse instances adhere to, since these are corporations with poor reputations for their anti-union activities or willingness to host conspiracy theorists....

Move Slowly and Build Bridges, by Robert W. Gehl

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Because we need more #dogsofmastodon, here is Agnes.

you know where I just don't see AI slop? that's right, the fedi thank you fedi! Keep it human!

This kind of came a bit unexpectedly today, but I have a new article out:

Fediverse Blocklists: Moderation in Noncapitalist Social Media | tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique. Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society

It focuses on those most controversial moderation tools on the #fediverse: #blocklists. I consider the philosophy and practice of listing to argue that those who run blocklist services work hard to mitigate their problems. I also make a case that we simply need more scholarship on content moderation on #noncentralized, noncommercial social media. #alternativeSocialMedia

someone please make an image search system that filters out #generativeAI images it is so, so miserable to search for images now.