Morning Fedi.

The tea is on, what's occurring?

#FediTalk

Nach der Fediverse-Sprechstunde ist vor der Fediverse-Sprechstunde.

Am 23.02.2026 möchte ich in der nächsten Fediverse-Sprechstunde die Anwendung Akkoma in den Mittelpunkt stellen.

👉 Wo sind die Akkoma-Nutzer:innen?
👉 Wo sind die Instanzbetreiber:innen?

Wer hat Lust, über Akkoma zu sprechen, Erfahrungen zu teilen und die Plattform den anderen im Fediverse vorzustellen?
Ganz egal ob aus Nutzer- oder Admin-Sicht – Praxis, Einblicke und Meinungen sind ausdrücklich willkommen.

📣 Gern teilen, weitersagen
💬 und bei Interesse einfach bei mir melden

#Fediverse #FediverseSprechstunde #Akkoma #FediTalk #OpenWeb #Dezentral

I understand that commercial companies pursue profits, but pushing short videos so aggressively – placing them front and center without even offering an option to hide them – is disappointing.
As a result, most people suffer: scattered attention, lack of motivation, and what experts call Short Video Addiction (SVA). This isn’t a joke – SVA is a rapidly growing, serious problem as companies like Meta, Google (YouTube Shorts), TikTok, and others profit more and more from this trend.

Recent research, such as a study in “Frontiers in Public Health” (https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/public-health/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2024.1484117/full), has confirmed just how damaging SVA can be. The study found that SVA not only impairs cognitive function and diminishes attention span but can also cause persistent, even irreversible, problems with focus and self-regulation – especially among young people whose brains are still developing.
Algorithms on platforms like TikTok and Snapchat intentionally exploit these vulnerabilities, encourage compulsive viewing, and can fundamentally change how our brains process reward.

Personally, I would really like at least the option to hide short videos—or better yet, to get rid of them completely.

To creators: What motivates you to make so much short content? Do you see it as profitable, or what?

#ShortVideoAddiction #SVA #dopamine #attention #DigitalWellbeing #Fediverse #platformcritique #FediTalk

Y'know, I think people like the Jimmy Truths dude serve as an example of the shortcomings of #Fediverse moderation. This dude has likely made like, hundreds of accounts on dozens of instances, but all the instance owners can do is suspend his account. It's gotten to the point where the dude now keeps coming back with usernames and posts mocking the admins for being unable to permanently remove him, often on the same instance repeatedly.

Larger companies can do things like send cease and desist letters, contact his ISP, hardware ban him, etc a lot easier. They simply have more resources to deal with really tenacious harassers than the average instance admin does. I'm not a networking expert, but I wish there was a way to actually deal with guys like this because as the Fediverse grows in popularity, it's likely more users like this guy will crop up.

I can imagine it being pretty easy for bad actors to focus their attention on a single instance and overwhelm it if there's enough of them. Or people like this dude so persistent and obnoxious that it wears the often volunteer staff down over a long stretch of time.

There seriously needs to be focus put on improving moderation tools for Mastodon before we get to that point.

#Fedi #FediModeration #Moderation #FediTalk #Mastodon

Δε θέλω να βλέπω ενοχές στα νεούδια... οι περισσότεροι βρεθήκαμε στη θέση σας και μάλιστα πολύ πρόσφατα...

Πατήστε πολύ #follow μέχρι να βλέπετε ένα feed και μετά ξεκαθάρισμα...

...αν κάνατε ήδη εγγραφή σε μεγάλα instances, θα σας έλεγα τώρα που είναι νωρίς να το ξανασκεφτείτε...

https://libretooth.gr (mast) - general / #linux / opensource
https://kafeneio.social/ (mast)
general
https://electricrequiem.com (calckey)
general / #music / #feditalk

#twittermigration