These issues are symptoms, not the actual problem.
business / computers / facebook / internet / moderation / online / social media
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What You Don’t Own Can Ban You If You’re Inconvenient
If you don’t own the site, you exist at their whim.
internet / technology
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It Took Me Less Than 90 Minutes To Make An AI-Powered Spam News Website From Scratch
Generative AI has made a new type of spam profitable, and it will impact all of us.
internet / social media / twitter
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There Are Lines You Cannot Uncross: Everything On The Birdsite Is Now Sus. EVERYTHING.
Having posts removed is annoying. Having things you wrote ALTERED without your knowledge or consent by a social media company means that you can trust *nothing* written on that social media site.
computers / internet / networking / social media / social networks
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Talkin’ Bout Your Verification (And Federation)
There is no central authority verifying any identity on the internet. You are responsible for doing the due diligence to make sure that account you’re talking to *really is* whom they claim to be.
communication / computers / internet / privacy
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Your Messages Are Not Private. She Found Out The Hard Way.
“Direct” is not the same as “private”.