Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed.

A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-leben/social-media-alternativen-bluesky-signal-co-neustart-ohne-x-und-meta-104511246

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Social-Media-Alternativen: Bluesky, Signal & Co: Neustart ohne X und Meta

Sie hadern mit Elon Musks Kurznachrichtendienst X und sind auch nicht mehr glücklich mit all dem, was Mark Zuckerbergs Meta-Konzern anbietet? Kein Problem. Es gibt Alternativen.

^{Von Dirk Averesch, dpa (Augsburger Allgemeine)}

Nice. How to leave #X / #Twitter and #Instagram? In the edition of tomorrow‘s newspaper Augsburger Allgemeine offers valuable tips and highlights alternatives in the #Fediverse, such as #Mastodon and #Pixelfed. A must-read especially for @Gargron from @Mastodon and @dansup from @PixelFed and of course @helpers / @admins

📖 Read more here in german language: https://www.augsburger-allgemeine.de/geld-leben/social-media-alternativen-bluesky-signal-co-neustart-ohne-x-und-meta-104511246

#SocialMedia #Privacy #Alternatives #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Fediverse

Betrifft neben der Stadt #Bochum auch die kommunalen Betriebe wie #StadtwerkeBochum.

Hätte früher kommen können und die verbleibenden Plattformen sind auch nicht meins. Aber besser spät als nie - wie Mister Hobbs immer sagt...

#FCK-Musk #X #Twitter #RechterTerror

https://www.bochum.de/Pressemeldungen/10-Januar-2025/Stadt-Bochum-verlaesst-Plattform-X

Stadt Bochum verlässt Plattform X | Stadt Bochum

Infos weiterhin über nbsp;WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook und LinkedIn

^{www.bochum.de}

"Meta and X are going rogue:" European Digital Rights group (EDRi) urges EU to invest in infrastructure "like Mastodon, Peertube and other key pieces of the Fediverse" to secure Europe's independence

https://edri.org/our-work/meta-and-x-are-going-rogue-here-is-what-europe-should-do-now

#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #twitter #fediverse #politics #europe

Anyone used #Friendica? My wife @redbunhead.bsky.social discovered it when I told her about #Pixelfed.

I left #Facebook ~8yr ago & then #twitter for #mastodon. She’s on #FB & #Instagram & is exploring #BlueSky. We both just joined #Substack.

We’re looking for good decentralized social networks that aren’t owned by billionaires. I miss the FB feel sometimes, so any info on Friendica is appreciated.

Wife would also appreciate tips on choosing a Pixelfed server.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica

free software for distributed social networks

^{Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)}

Thx for your link and efforts @Seirdy !

All this said, being part of a decentralized web, as pointed out in this toot, our publicly visible interaction lands on other instances and servers of the #fediVerse and can be scrapped there. I wonder if this situation actually might lead, or should lead, to a federation of servers that share the same robots.txt "ideals".

As @Matthias pointed out in his short investigation of the AI matter, this has (in my eyes) already unimagined levels of criminal and without any doubt unethical behavior, not to mention the range of options rouge actors have at hand.

It's evident why for example the elongated immediately closed down access to X's public tweets and I guess other companies did the same for the same reasons. Obviously the very first reason was to protect their advantage about the hoarded data sets to train their AI in the first place. Yet, considering the latest behavior of the new owner of #twitter, nothing less than at least the creation of #AI driven lists of "political" enemies, and not only from all the collected data on his platform, is to be expected. A international political nightmare of epical proportions. Enough material for dystopian books and articles for people like @Cory Doctorow, @Mike Masnick ✅, @Eva Wolfangel, @Taylor Lorenz, @Jeff Jarvis, @Elena Matera, @Gustavo Antúnez 🇺🇾🇦🇷, to mention a few of the #journalim community, more than one #podcast episode by @Tim Pritlove and @linuzifer, or some lifetime legal cases for @Max Schrems are at hand.

What we are facing now is the fact that we need to protect our and our users data and privacy because of the advanced capabilities of #LLM. We basically are forced to consider to change to private/restricted posts and close down our servers as not only the legal jurisdictions are way to scattered over the different countries and ICANN details, but legislation and comprehension by the legislators is simply none existent, as @Anke Domscheit-Berg could probably agree to.

Like to say, it looks like we need to go dark, a fact that will drive us even more into disappearing as people will have less chance to see what we are all about, advancing further the advantages off the already established players in the social web space.
Just like Prof. Dr. Peter Kruse stated in his take about on YT The network is challenging us min 2:42 more than 14 years ago:
"With semantic understanding we'll have the real big brother. Someone is getting the best out of it and the rest will suffer."

nun ja deren "Moderation" ist wirklich fraglich oder ist das bei ihnen die "Freiheit"?

[ENG]«Blacksky Is Nothing Like Black Twitter—and It Doesn’t Need to Be:
The curated feed, now run by a team of six moderators, is the meeting ground for hundreds of thousands of Black users on Bluesky. Is it ready to meet the moment?»

📰 https://www.wired.com/story/blacksky-is-nothing-like-black-twitter/

#twitter #bluesky #moderation #internet #web #blackusers #rasism #black

why is it so hard to bridge twitter accounts to mastodon, like i dont want no crossposted, im just asking for a mirror of twitter accounts.

#mastodon #twitter #repost

Das ​​ in der New York Times 😮👇🏼

You may have noticed that a whole bunch of new social media platforms have popped up in the past few years with names like #Mastodon, #Threads and #Bluesky. These may look like #X on the surface, but under the hood they are wholly different beasts than the #SocialMedia platforms we grew up on. They are part of a movement called the #Fediverse, which some sources say derives its name from “federation” and “universe.”

It’s early days for the fediverse — which has around 200 million users collectively compared with the billions on #Facebook and X — although Bluesky is growing fast, more than doubling in the past 90 days to over 15 million users. The goals of the fediverse are simple: to allow you to post to all the social media platforms from a single account.

[...]

It’s not a silver bullet for truth — plenty of people will still fall for lies and misleading content. But by seizing control of our social media environment, we can give the truth a chance.

(🎁) How the Right Triumphed Over Social Media and Helped Elect Trump https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opinion/trump-musk-social-media.html?unlocked_article_code=1.bU4.gvsV.fnsVug_VHxPO #ElonMusk #Twitter #eXit #Xodus

⬆️ @briankrebs

>> So just how integrated is X these days with TikTok?

On the path from
#TikTok >
TiXToX >
ToXic >
#X.

When just like #Twitter's husk, that's all that remains.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/the-guardian-no-longer-post-on-x-twitter-elon-musk

I hope everyone considers supporting @TheGuardian. They are one of the few remaining media outlets that still practice real journalism.

That being said, I think this move came far too late. At this point I question the morals and integrity of anyone who is still using the #Nazi hate platform that #Twitter has become at the hands of the richest oligarch on the planet, #Elmo Musk.

Guardian will no longer post on Elon Musk’s X from its official accounts

Platform’s coverage of US election crystallised longstanding concerns about its content, says Guardian

^{Dan Milmo (The Guardian)}

As more people are abandoning X, again, perhaps my short introduction to Mastodon might be of use, if you'd like to share it with your friends?

https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/

#mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia #X #twitter

A fediverse invitation for artists

A guide for newcomers.

^{Stefan Bohacek (stefanbohacek.com)}

Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

https://mastodon.social/@heiseonline/109314036284496776

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse

"A platform that used to downgrade hoaxes, conspiracy theories and false claims has become one where even the boss now spreads the stuff. That change didn’t happen immediately, but the shift of X from a useful information source to a locus of misinformation has alarmed fact-checkers worldwide."

(via @Poynter)

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2024/how-elon-musk-twitter-takeover-accelerated-misinformation/

#twitter #x #disinformation #verification

It’s easy to find misinformation on social media. It’s even easier on X. - Poynter

^{Angela Fu (The Poynter Institute)}

“Come to #mastodon! I am shadow banned on mastodon social because criticsm of Israel is censored exactly like on #X/ #Twitter!” Sending now…
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/113063493237838349

Eugen

2024-09-01 17:33:14

Please remember that Mastodon doesn't have a marketing team or budget. Whatever media coverage Mastodon gets is from inbound interest from journalists. The growth of the platform has been predominantly through word of mouth. If you want the fediverse to grow, tell your friends.

#WompWomp

“World Bank has ceased all paid advertising on #Musk's X, formerly #Twitter, after CBS News investigation found promoted ads from the org showing up under a racist post from an account that prolifically posts pro-Nazi & white nationalist content.

..a verified account w 115,000+ followers that had posted a racist image alongside a post praising Europe's colonization of Africa. CBS News is not publicly identifying the accounts spreading racist content on X”

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-bank-advertising-elon-musk-x-racism-pro-nazi-accounts/

World Bank halts paid advertising on X after CBS News finds its promoted ad under racist content

The World Bank has halted all paid advertising on X after CBS News found its promoted ads under racist posts.

^{Emmet Lyons (CBS News)}