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Here's a Moneycontrol exclusive newsbreak that has echoed across the internet. đŸ”„

#Meta is mulling a #Twitter competitor codenamed ‘P92’ which will also be interoperable with #Mastodon.

@deepsekharc & @tsuvik bring us details about what this might look like. A thread đŸ§” Image
The app will be #Instagram-branded and will allow users to register/login to the app through their Instagram credentials, sources said. đŸ“Č

@moneycontrolcom has seen a copy of an internal product brief that elaborates on the functioning and various product features of the app.
This development comes at a time when tech companies are eyeing an opportunity to capitalise on the growing trend of Twitter users looking to migrate to alternative platforms, with the chaos in #Twitter caused under the new owner @elonmusk

#SocialMedia #ElonMusk
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Ich wollte nen Tweet mit Screenshots posten, aber Twitter ist derzeit gerade so kaputt, dass man anscheinend keine Bilder mehr posten und anklicken kann.

Hey, fast so, als hÀtten die bösen #Elon-Kritiker recht damit gehabt, dass er die Plattform an die Wand fÀhrt... #TwitterDown
Unseren Tweet gibt es also erst ein andermal... Wer #Volksverpetzer-Content weiterhin zuverlĂ€ssig sehen möchte und nicht vom erratischen Musk abhĂ€ngig sein möchte, der kann sich die #VolksverpetzerApp holen 😉

Apple: apps.apple.com/de/app/volksve

Android: play.google.com/store/apps/det

Und weil auch Links nicht mehr funktionieren muss ich leider darum bitten, selbststÀndig in den App-/Playstore zu gehen und "Volksverpetzer" zu suchen lol

Oder vielleicht klappt es mit Ascii QR Code 😂 Ah ne, zu viele Zeichen 😂
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If I click on this @nytimes story from #Twitter I see only this code string:

{"errors":[{"message":"Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint, please see developer.twitter.com/en/docs/twitte
 for more information","code":467}]}
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The classic #trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The #ModeratorsTrilemma goes, "Large, diverse userbase; centralized platforms; don't anger users - pick any two." 1/  A trilemma Venn diagram, showing three ovoids in a triangul
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The Moderator's Trilemma is introduced in "Moderating the Fediverse: Content Moderation on Distributed Social Media," a superb paper from @ARozenshtein of @UofMNLawSchool, forthcoming in the journal @JournalSpeech, available as a prepub on @SSRN:

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Though I didn't know it at the time, Jan 29, 2020 was my last day at #BoingBoing; as it happens, that was nearly exactly 19 years after my *first* day at Boing Boing. 1/ William Blake's watercolor of Cerebrus, the three-headed hel
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Though it was a tough decision, it was the right one, and while I'm no longer helping to write the site, I'm still an ardent reader, a co-owner, and a well-wisher.

I started writing Boing Boing at the age of 30. When I stopped, I was 49. That's a lot of living. 3/
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The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees. 1/ Tweedledee and Tweedledum, standing at the bottom of Humpty
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Microsoft has nothing to lose. It's spent billions on #Bing, a search-engine no one voluntarily uses. Might as well try something so stupid it might just work. But why is Google, a monopolist who has a 90+% share of search worldwide, jumping off the same bridge as Microsoft? 3/
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Poor people pay higher time tax; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/02/10/my-


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This week (Feb 13-17), I'll be in #Australia, touring my book #ChokepointCapitalism* with my co-author, @rgibli. We're doing a remote event for #NZ on Feb 13. Next are #Melbourne, #Sydney and #Canberra Tickets just released for Sydney!

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Poor people pay higher time tax: The rich truly do get more hours in the day.

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Here is how #platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. 1/
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I call this #enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a "two sided market." 3/
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#OSINT. Quisiera comentarles y compartirles algunas técnicas o herramientas para #Mastodon, que a la fecha me vienen facilitando la vida como #AnalistaOsint para el desarrollo con éxito de las muchas investigaciones.
#OsintResearchers #Socmint #ManuelBot #Cyber
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1⃣ #Followgraph para Mastodon. Recurso muy indispensable, que permite ingresar cualquier cuenta de #Mastodon y obtener una lista de cuentas seguidas por las personas a las que sigue este perfil. Ayuda mucho a encontrar conexiones entre personas.

✅ followgraph.vercel.app

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2⃣ #MastodonInstances. Herramienta para buscar en la lista completa de instancias en #Mastodon. Puede ayudarlo a elegir la instancia correcta (coincidiendo con publicaciones como spam, otros) y encontrar contenido ilegal para investigar delitos.

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In "Social Quitting," my latest @LocusMag column, I analyze the precipitous #VibeShift of the dominant social media platforms: how we so quickly went from wondering how to get shut of them to asking where we go now that we're all ready to quit.

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The core of the argument revolves around #surpluses - that is, the value that exists in the service. For a user, surpluses are things like "being able to converse with your friends" and "being able to plan activities with your friends." 3/
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No matter how benevolent a dictatorship is, it's still a dictatorship, and subject to the dictator's whims. We must demand that the owners and leaders of tech platforms be fair and good - but we must also be prepared for them to fail at this, sometimes catastrophically. 1/ Moses confronting the Pharaoh, demanding that he release the
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Maybe you trust #TimCook to decide what apps you are and aren't allowed to install - including whether you are allowed to install apps that block #Apple's own extensive, nonconsensual, continuous commercial surveillance of its customers. 3/
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Elon Musk has purposely degraded the value of Twitter because it is an impediment to his desire for unaccountable power. Responsible progressive commentators must open Mastodon accounts, encourage their audiences to join Mastodon, & set up cross-posting to make it easy for all

Some starter info on Mastodon for those who don’t know much of it nbcnews.com/tech/mastodon-

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I left #teaching on Friday. I've had a few days to recover and gather my thoughts, and here they are. I loved the school, loved the children, had great success and was proud of my achievements but after 7 years of giving my heart and soul, I had to stop. Something has to change.
When I joined the school I was impressed with the enlightened attitude to workload, in particular the feedback policy (no crazy book marking, lots of WCF and verbal feedback instead), and behaviour was better than nearby schools... but...
After COVID and the new #OFSTED framework, expectations seemed to ramp up, and behaviour declined. My work days lengthened, while - a victim of my own success - class numbers at GCSE and A-level rose. We couldn't recruit, so I was stretched to breaking point.
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0/ In the past weeks, #Mastodon network grew by 50% (and counting). A growth level that would impress any investor. And a growth level that makes many of the network's older users weary. To grow or not to grow – this is the big question for the #Fediverse. A đŸ§”:
1/ (Now that it is again OK to mention on Twitter other social networks, like Mastodon)
theverge.com/2022/12/18/235

2/ New users are organically joining Mastodon, at a steady pace of 300k/week. Will the institutional backbone grow and adjust as well? I recently published an opinion on this in @techpolicypress: techpolicy.press/priorities-to-

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#ContentModeration is fundamentally about making social media work better, but there are two other considerations that determine how social media *fails*: #EndToEnd (#E2E), and #FreedomOfExit. 1/ Moses confronting the Pharaoh, demanding that he release the
These are much neglected, and that's a pity, because how a system fails is every bit as important as how it works. 2/
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Guter @tomlangpaul Kommentar in der #zib zu #pressefreiheit & #musktwitter. Gut, dass Alternative KanĂ€le fĂŒr QualitĂ€t Content geschaffen werden, aber kompletten Biedermeier RĂŒckzug in den kuscheligel #Mastodon Sozial Salon der Gleichgesinnten wird es hier nicht geben.

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#ZeitfuerNeues (Mastodon @kenwinkler@semiosen.de) wĂ€hlt Fehdehandschuh statt Biedermeier RĂŒckzug. Freundliches und Persönliches auf Mastodon. #followme.
Twitter Fokus auf BeitrÀge #klassenkampfvonoben & #partizipation im Kampf gegen #the1percent und Knechte: #fckmsk , #oevp usw.
Trotz Minikonto unter 2000 follower genießt #ZeitfuerNeues die volle Aufmerksamkeit von #musktwitter mit #shadowban Reichweiten BeschrĂ€nkungen, die Interaktionen um rund 70% drĂŒcken. BeitrĂ€ge, die bis mehrere hunderte Likes erhielten, stehen heute bei 7 bis 10 Likes. #Klartext
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1/11 #GITwitter is on đŸ”„ w #MedEd

It all started on one #MondayNight @DCharabaty

@MondayNightIBD was created & led the way for other platforms incl @ScopingSundays

👇#Tweetorial:Setting up Structured #MedEd Platforms on Social Media in @AGA_Gastro

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2/11 Firstly ❓- Are #SoMe based #MedEd platforms & activities useful?

This survey by @DCharabaty & team 📝 at @DDWMeeting shows:

✅ Respondents suggesting change in practice based on discussions in 👆
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3/11 Ready to get started ?

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🟣Create educational handle separate from your personal account
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🟣Determine 🎯 audience to curate content that will optimize engagement

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No matter how hard conservative culture-war cannon-fodder love big business, it will never love them back. Take network policy, where rural turkeys in Red State America keep on voting for Christmas, then profess outrage when Old Farmer Comcast gets to sharpening his ax. 1/ A hunter in camo firing a rifle whose barrel has been bent b
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For two years, the @FCC has been hamstrung because MAGA Senators refuse to confirm @gigibsohn, leaving the Commission with only four commissioners. What do the GOP have against Sohn? 3/
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So the account @ElonJet seems to have gone dormant last Mon (12/5) after it was #exposed that @elonmusk pushed to shadow ban the account because it was providing easy access to PUBLICLY available info.
I wonder if I'll be secretly shadow banned using the "#VisibilityFiltering" technique for deliberately bringing news of this from a #Mastodon link.
mastodon.world/@HappyShappys/


#FreeSpeech #PublicUse #Hypocrite
I'm well aware of @elonmusk's warped sense of #FreeSpeech and that the @USConst_Amend_I only actually protects you from GOVT censorship.

Just doing my part to tip the multi billionaire's ego the wrong way.
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The online debate over #FreeSpeech *suuuuucks*, and, amazingly, it's *getting worse*. This week, it's the false dichotomy of #FreedomOfSpeech v #FreedomOfReach - whether a platform should override your explicit choices about what you want to see:

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It's wild that we're still having this fight. It is literally the first internet fight! The modern internet was born out of an epic struggled between #Bellheads and #Netheads. 3/
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Der CCCFr hat Twitter hinter sich gelassen;
die letzten Wochen waren wir beschÀftigt möglichst alle Twitter-Daten zu löschen, alle Spuren zu entfernen. Wir wollten nicht dass Twitter mit unserem Content noch Mehrwert generiert.
Unser linkbares Archiv cccfr.de/twitter-archiv
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.. bedenkt, alle DM können von Twitter gelesen werden, und ihr werdet auch NUR eure Seite der Kommunikation löschen. Sowohl Admins, als auch die Gegenseite lesen die weiter. Im Twitterarchiv sind sie auch nur als gelöscht gekennzeichnet. Das dĂŒrfte der #DSGVO nicht gefallen 2/n
.. gleiches bei euren Tweets; unser aktuelles Archiv hat immernoch hunderte MB
Unsere Daten sind nicht gelöscht, Datenspuren und Metadaten bleiben Twitter, schmierigen Regierungen und anderen Konzernen erhalten.
Wir haben kaum Hoffnung dass ein Löschen des Accounts das Àndert.3/n
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I don’t know if many colleagues in the #EconTwitter community have abandoned #Twitter in favor of #Mastodon. In case anyone is interested, I don’t plan to do it, nor do I plan to start using both. 1/11
I very much dislike what Elon Musk has been doing, but there are at least two reasons that will keep me just here. The simplest one to explain is that I don’t have the time and energy to learn how to use a new platform. 2/11
I had literally zero social media presence before signing up for Twitter. After doing that, I also signed up for Facebook and (if I remember correctly) Instagram. I don’t remember the last time I logged into those accounts. 3/11
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Update sur l'affaire #FactsAndFurious : dans un sursaut autoritaire, la CPPAP « a dĂ©cidĂ© de ne pas renouveler la reconnaissance de service de presse en ligne Ă  France-Soir » selon Les Échos et d'autres mĂ©dias (sauf l'#AFP, Ă©trangement). 1/-
Pendant ce temps les fact-checkers, ces rambos de la vĂ©ritĂ©, se rĂ©pandent sur les plateaux TV oĂč leurs jĂ©rĂ©miades dirigĂ©es contre Elon Musk qui aurait selon eux livrĂ© Twitter aux complotistes sont accueillies sans contradicteurs dans une bonne humeur complice. 2/-
Sur les profils Twitter de ces preux chevaliers, des liens #Mastodon poussent comme des champignons aprÚs une douce pluie d'automne. Leurs Tweets, coupables, prennent des allures d'accusations ad-hitlerum, pour détourner l'attention du scandale dans lequel ils sont mouillés. 3/-
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Being more active on mastodon is an interesting experience so far. The engagement numbers (likes & boosts) are crazy high compared to twitter, despite only having 380 followers there. Feels far less controlled than the bird site. And you can edit posts! mastodon.social/@samim Image
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The fact that you can edit toot's on mastodon very elegantly, makes twitter look like a silly joke. Image
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