#OMN (Open Media Network)Jun 22, 2025

This is a story of power, plain and simple

The state of the world, over the last few years, we’ve been watching a familiar story unfold, we’ve seen repeat itself in radical spaces, tech movements, and grassroots networks for decades. It starts in the grassroots with "progressive" #fashernistas (yes, them) pushing themselves into the front to speak for “us.” They talk the talk of decentralisation, care, community, and #FOSS ethics. They wear all the right hashtags: #opensocialmedia, #Fediverse, #commons, #techforgood. But when […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/this-is-a-story-of-power-plain-and-simple/

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Feb 2, 2025

To anyone that sees this on Canadian Bluesky. 🇨🇦

You have done the hard part moving from traditional platforms.

Now choose Canadian. Use Canadian Mastodon and the Fediverse.

If you're in BC consider #SocialBC
https://socialbc.ca/about
#trumptariffs #canpoli #opensocialmedia

SocialBC

This Mastodon Instance is intended to serve citizens and residents of British Columbia, Canada. We respectfully occupy this virtual space within the Traditional Territories of First Nations peoples.

Mastodon hosted on socialbc.ca
Media Economies Design LabJan 23, 2025

What if social media were under our control?

https://lookslikenew.net/podcast/what-if-social-media-were-under-our-control/

#activism #blacksky #CorporateMedia #MediaPolitics #MediaStudies #MEDLab #OpenSocialMedia

What if social media were under our control? – Looks Like New

GENKIJan 21, 2025

そろそろみんな #Fediverse  初めてもいい頃じゃない？
 でも  でも  でもいいから…とりあえず Web 標準化の #ActivityPub  という物があるんだからさ、不満もあるかもしれないけど結構人も増えてきたし使ってみようよ、という気持ち

#Mastodon #Pixelfed #Misskey #SocialMedia #SNS #OpenSocialMedia

SeaGL 2026: Nov 6th and 7thNov 4, 2024
#Seagl2024 presents: FediTest: Testing decentralized, heterogeneous systems with complex protocols (like the Fediverse)
By: Johannes Ernst
Saturday, 11/09 09:00PST
Category: Systems and Platforms
Link: https://pretalx.seagl.org/2024/talk/ZU7MDV/
#FOSS #FLOSS #FediTest #Fediverse #ActivityPub #opensocialmedia
FediTest: Testing decentralized, heterogeneous systems with complex protocols (like the Fediverse) SeaGL 2024

We are witnessing a resurgence of decentralized systems whose nodes communicate through open, symmetric protocols. For example, the Fediverse, the open social media network built around the ActivityPub standard, has been growing substantially in recent years. However, quality control of such systems using complex protocols like ActivityPub is difficult. How do you test your own application against others, each of which might take a couple of hours simply to install? Enter FediTest, an open-source project building a test framework for testing these kinds of systems, and a test suite for the Fediverse. We will describe the problem as we see it, explain our approach, and demo live tests.

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸Sep 24, 2024

The chart of the evolution of the gun emoji from the various platforms is interesting. What is less interesting, and more disturbing, is that the bros at X have decided the gun emoji should be more “badass”... and be a gun again.

Because of course they do.

https://blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesigns-water-pistol-emoji-back-to-a-firearm/

And we are left to ask our friends still on that platform: WHY?
#Musk #guns #openSocialMedia

X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.

Emojipedia - The Latest Emoji News
#OMN (Open Media Network)Sep 19, 2024

Challenges: online governance, trolling, and privacy

It's interesting and useful to look at the critical issue of online governance, community dynamics, and the problem of #mainstreaming trolling on both the #dotcons and #opensocialmedia platforms like #Mastodon, #Fediverse and the broader #openweb Let's start with mastodon, the complexity of (default) privacy settings leads to public conversations inadvertently shifting into private spaces, this is a UX problem, but it also points to a larger issue with how we handle communication, trust, and […]

https://hamishcampbell.com/navigating-challenges-online-governance-trolling-and-privacy-is-no-small-step/

Challenges: online governance, trolling, and privacy – #OMN (Open Media Network)

Mastodon MigrationSep 2, 2024

For those choosing Bluesky as their next social media platform, what do you think would happen if Elon Musk offered $1B to buy the company?

Maybe it is a good time to give Mastodon, the Fediverse and truly people powered Open Social Media a harder look.

#Brazil #Bluesky #Mastodon #billionaire #socialmedia #opensocialmedia #Fediverse

Show threadfaraiweSep 1, 2024

Para cobrir as muitas, muitas #perguntas e #dúvidas similares de #Brasileiros na #Migração para #Mastodon ... 🇧🇷

Se você usou, conheceu ou ouviu falar de #IRC or #BBSs (yes, I am OLD), você não terá problemas para entender #Mastodon / #Fediverse.

Instâncias/servidores independentes, baseadas em um protocolo de software aberto ( #FOSS #OpenSocialMedia #ActivityPub ) conectadas ( "federadas" ) por escolha de comunidades/administradores permitindo usuários a conectarem com outras pessoas e grupos de interesses similares, dividir trabalho/arte/idéias/etc SEM INTERESSES COMERCIAIS além de sua própria produção individual (você é livre para oferecer seus serviços profissionais, SEM SPAM)

Você pode escolher suaS instânciS (sim, plural) dentro de Mastodon, e estas instâncias sendo conectadas ( #federated ) com outras, usuários nas outras instâncias poderão ver seus posts. Não existe algoritmo, então Boosts de indivíduos são importantes, para disseminar posts. Uso de hashtags ajuda a procurar e achar posts com assuntos que interessam a você.

Siga gente livremente! É a melhor forma de expandir sua #timeline

Respeite escolhas dos usuários; ninguém é OBRIGADO a deixar você seguir. Você também tem escolha de ter um perfil aberto ou controlado; diferença sendo quem pode ver o que você post, e sew podem seguir você SEM sua permissão.

Traga sua contribuição à sopa cultural do Mastodon. Divirta-se! Respeite os usuários, assim como você gostaria destes respeitarem você. Siga regras das instâncias. Não empurre ou tente forçar SUA visão de mundo aos outros, quaisquer que estas sejam. Faça o que você gosta, deixe outros fazerem o que gostam, desde que não prejudique outros, Fácil!

Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸May 27, 2024

Has there ever been a micro-blogging site that allows you to make a post visible to all *except* individual accounts?

Like if you were planning a surprise birthday party for your best friend? :)

Edit: It would be cool if Mastodon allowed this. @Gargron

#OpenSocialMedia #FeatureRequest