If you don’t own the site, you exist at their whim.
business / computers / facebook / internet / moderation / online / social media
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internet / social media / social networks
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Dogwhistles and birdsites and walled gardens, oh my!
I have both personal and professional concerns about Musk buying the birdsite.
politics / social justice / social media
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The Problems Of Fact Checking
Blunt-force fact-checking can obscure the truth as well as reveal it.
business of writing / news / politics / publishing / self-promotion / social media / social networks
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It isn’t about being truthful. It’s (just) about making them money.
In case you weren’t paying attention, Facebook’s idea of combating misinformation is to make everyone play ball by their rules. Y’know, in ways that make Facebook money.
internet / social media / social networks
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I am not a number; I am a free man, OR, why you should never rely on social media
If you don’t personally own your website and data, you don’t have a website or data. Quite simply, you cannot rely on someone else for you to have a website, platform, or social media presence.
Let me tell you why.
social media / social networks
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Centralized social media is dead, long live social media!
I’ve started using Mastodon, and now that the initial buzz has died down, I’m finding it to feel like Twitter in the early days, before the trolls and Nazis and crappiness and “sorted timelines” and “promoted tweets”.