“#Dataportability is the ability of a user to receive their personal data, by downloading it in a format that would be transferable to other platforms. This could include friends or connections, comments, photos, likes, and their social graph. [Like the] ability to move telephone n°s from one provider to another, which was mandated by the Telecommunications Act of 1966.
The #Utah #DigitalChoiceAct mandates portability practices for your personal data and #socialgraph.”

https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/utah-digital-choice-act-reshaping-social-media/

"In #Utah, the #DigitalChoiceAct now takes effect on July 1st 2027: it requires #socialmedia companies to provide user-authorised #portability and #interoperability interfaces for the #personaldata and #socialgraph portions a user has selected, with consent for further interactions… That is number portability for social graphs—still subject to rulemaking. Because if you do not have it, the platform has every reason to squeeze you and none to actually improve itself."

https://civic.ai/software-freedom-as-civic-care/

20 years of #Twitter… it is crucial to understand its successes & failures.

"The original #ambientjournalism framework marked a departure from traditional, intentional consumption, like reading a newspaper or watching a TV news bulletin. The main features of ambient #journalism were immediacy, unexpected discoveries, and the blending of professional and #citizenjournalism enabled by Twitter. Its architecture, with a reverse-#chronologicalfeed, a 140-character limit, and a #socialgraph-based network structure, supported what #AxelBruns called #produsage, where publics act as both users and producers of information. In this ambient environment, retweeting was not just an engagement metric but a #curatorialact of journalism. This reflects a broader shift in digital journalism research toward the news ecosystem and landscape, including ambient and networked forms of journalism emerging from #socialmedia practices."

https://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/3254

#linkedIn vs. #mastodon

At LinkedIn I need to take care very much on what to communicate, even it is just a like. I do strictly just professional things there. Never any political opinions. My contacts are national and international. Nearly all of my contacts are people I once meet in real life personally.

At Mastodon I can be also the nerd type of my personality. I can try out things. I can involve myself in discussions of topics that I should not communicate always openly.

#socialGraph

#threads vs. #mastodon

Threads is doomscrolling. Funny stuff sometimes, but at the end exhausting.

Mastodon can be boring. But If you find a nice rabbithole you can learn things and get new point of views.

#socialGraph #interestGraph

I just made my personal #sigint using my #mastodon posts by using #Google #Gemini Pro.
It is very accurate.
It does not (yet?) expose things of myself that I don't want to communicate.

#socialgraph #GenAI

7.9.0 — Spring Cleaning 🪣🧹

https://activitypub.blog/2026/02/05/7-9-0-spring-cleaning-%f0%9f%aa%a3%f0%9f%a7%b9/

now that people are leaving TikTok and losing their follower count:

social media is a reputation bank. your reputation accrues over time, and you reap the benefits. Except, currently banks DGAF about your savings.

before internet, reputation was a local currency. now, it's a global one. it needs rules and regulations.

if we stop deriding influencers, we can see they need some unionizing, since reputation banks are abusing their position.

#influencers #socialmedia #socialgraph