happy Sunday, here's why so many folk stick around on those enshittified platforms, even though they don't really like them anymore: It's because it's Hard ™️ , and that's by design.

Featuring Network Effects, Switching Costs, algorithms, #Mastodon, and the #Fediverse ✨

https://technically-good.ca/blog/2026-03-caught-in-a-multi-billion-dollar-web-why-leaving-the-legacy-algorithmic-media-is-so-hard/

#algorithms #algorithmicMedia #socialMedia

#algomedia #socialmedia #algorithmicmedia

✨ Nice: Kreativdirektor Alf Frommer in einem Interview in der #brandeins:

"Ich finde, wir sollten nicht mehr von sozialen Medien reden, denn es geht ja gar nicht mehr um unser soziales Umfeld, also darum, wem wir folgen. Wir sehen das, was uns dem Algorithmus zufolge interessiert und unsere Aufmerksamkeit möglichst lange bindet. Deshalb finde ich den Begriff #algorithmischeMedien treffender. Und die bevorzugen eben polarisierende, zugespitzte Inhalte."

Algorithm, Image, Art by @machine_agency
An essential and critical inquiry into how algorithmic media reshape visual culture—from ancient optics to generative AI.

Lee draws on art history and media archaeology to make sense of the aesthetics and epistemology of machine-generated images.

#AIArt #MediaArchaeology #VisualCulture #MachineLearning #DigitalArtHistory #AlgorithmicMedia #ArtTheory

https://neural.it/2025/05/rosemary-lee-algorithm-image-art/

#Algorithms #AlgorithmicMedia #PlatformStudies: "Overall, this book has all the potential to become a classic in the literature on the composite relationships between users and digital technologies. While it is going to be of great appeal for all the scholars within the fields of critical algorithm and platform studies, readers from diverse backgrounds interested in issues related to the use of technology can find the book easily accessible given the clarity of the theoretical framework and development, the poignancy of the discussed empirical cases and the overall lucidity of the argument construction."

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1369118X.2024.2388092

"#X and #Meta once aspired to be go-to platforms for reliable real-time information. Each company has abandoned that goal in its own way."

“We’ve moved from #socialmedia to #algorithmicmedia,” Kreiss explains. “It’s not so much about what people are saying as it’s about entertainment, totally divorced from what’s happening right now.”

#socialmedia is dead
Long live to the #Fediverse

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-10/hamas-war-shows-facebook-twitter-have-pivoted-from-news