@georgetakei YouTube and Instagram can act as magnets for complete idiots.

#SocialMedia

Social media and society go hand in hand. Right now, both are in turmoil.

That's why we believe that the focus should be on building community. Groups of people who can come together under the shared banner of an interest, a location, or a belief.

Thanks to the power of the open social web, these communities can not only span across the world, but across platforms.

We're giving you the ability to build community here. Stay tuned 👀

#SocialWeb#Fediverse#SocialMedia#Society#Mastodon

Listen! #Knowledge coming from #museums:
"#ActivityPub is plumbing. It is plumbing built on top of the web, which coordinates the ability for independently operated services, for example a collection of federated social media services, to exchange messages with each other in a decentralized manner.
So #SFOMuseum has built its own ActivityPub server for publishing #socialmedia style messages.
In doing so, it means that we can(& have)created social media accounts for 60,000 objects in our collection including this roll of #HelloKitty toilet paper from #EvaAirlines."
@thisisaaronland
https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2025/02/13/gummy/#fact2025

for #SID we at #EUKidsOnline are launching the report on David Smahel and his colleagues study on the impact of tech on teens' #wellbeing. The findings challenge the notion of a uniform effect of technology on adolescents: #socialmedia can be both beneficial and harmful depending on the context of its use. Adolescents also differ in their capacity to manage online experiences. https://eprints.lse.ac.uk/127158/

Social media has changed. The town square is no longer a place for everyone.

That's why we've posted physical 'X-scape' kits to leading voices at charities, media orgs and universities.

Early adoption of New Social is a great opportunity for the UK's leading institutions and we hope to help them catch up with many of the European organisations who have already turned to open social media.

Read about the project: https://forbetter.ghost.io/new-social-the-campaign-the-designer-the-box/

#SocialMedia#Mastodon#Twitter#X#Xodus#Fediverse

Using a new #SocialMedia platform comes with lots of learning about social norms, affordances... so we will be learning by doing and experimenting here.

Bear with us in this journey!

BDG View: ​​​​TikTok, Shifting Platforms, and Global Community

Read here: https://tinyurl.com/28d4324p

#buddhism #socialmedia #digitalmedia #politics #geopolitics #china #usa #commentary #ethics #interconnected #internet #privacy

Pet peeve about the #RedNote thing (besides the fact it's not really it's name)

For goodness sakes 小红书’s name is not in reference to Mao's little red book. Just because Westerners call that "little red book", doesnt mean the Chinese called it that. It's not a direct translation la. (For one, calling anything 小 “small” diminishes it's importance so why would the Chinese do that wei? In Chinese Mao's book is called 红宝书 (Hong Bao Shu) "The Red Treasure Book" or formally, 《毛主席语录》 (Mao Zhuxi Yulu) Quotations from Chairman Mao.

Chinese people just like to label everything red, ok? It's our most auspicious colour. It's lucky. Our hong paos are red. Our wedding dresses are red. Red is everywhere during Chinese New Year. This had been like this for thousands of years before the CPC. Alrighty?

Nah you guys won't believe me anyway why do I bother typing this 😆

#SocialMedia#Tiktokban

Ni X, ni Instagram, ni Facebook: ens trobam al Fedivers.

A Ecotxe estam de mudança comunicativa. Hem decidit deixar de publicar a #X, #Facebook i #Instagram per passar-nos plenament a les xarxes socials lliures i obertes del #Fedivers.

➡️ https://url.pangea.org/m2501xfi

Com més serem, més riurem! El 20 de gener, som-hi #juntes!

@vamonosjuntas#Mastodon#SocialMedia#Coop#Cooperativa#Cooperatives#EconomiaSocial#EconomiaSolidària#Fediverse

The fediverse has no central authority — which brings both challenges and opportunities for how it's governed. For Dot Social, @mike spoke with @kissane and @darius, two of the smartest people working on this, about the impact of the 2024 U.S. Presidential election on fediverse work, the "Xodus," what needs to be done next, and how to fund and sustain better networks for humans.

Read more about it in this blogpost.
https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/erin-kissane-and-darius-kazemi/

Listen to the conversation on https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos or wherever you get your podcasts.

#DotSocial#Podcast#Fediverse#Flipboard#OpenSocialWeb#SocialMedia#Tech#SocialWeb#Governance#Federation#Bluesky#ActivityPub#ATProtocol#SocialNetworks

The open social web is the single thing that excites me most about the internet today. I think you should be excited, too. Here's why. https://werd.io/2024/the-open-social-web-is-the-future-of-the-internet

#fediverse #socialmedia #openweb

Today is Human Rights Day.

Observed annually, Human Rights Day celebrates the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the United Nations General Assembly in 1948.

As the world becomes more divided, we hope that the rights of humans across the globe will be respected and protected. We also believe in social media as a place to raise awareness for such injustices.

You can find out more about the 2024 campaign here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/get-involved/campaign/hrd2024

#HumanRights#Fediverse#SocialWeb#SocialMedia#UN

Threads have taken us a bit by surprise this morning!

We've woken up to find that Fediverse accounts can now be followed from Threads (we haven't tried it yet, but that means they can bridge to Bluesky too).

This is HUGE!

To get involved, ensure your server isn't blocking the Threads or Bluesky domains.

To bridge with Bluesky, follow @bsky.brid.gy

#Fediverse#Threads#Mastodon#SocialMedia#SocialWeb#NewSocial#Bluesky