"Social media" should mean that we the public decides what text, audio and video gets attention. Being decentralized ensures nobody has more say over that than they earned by having lots of people wanting to follow them. No platforms allowing more attention to be given to anyone by the owner's algo or paying for it (advertising).

#SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

it's a great day for #introduction s!

#twitterMigration #dumpMusk #SocialWeb #NoCorporateSocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse

Social media is about building an audience.

Social networking is about building community.

They must be done in a decentralized way to ensure self determination, but the norms and tech needed for both differ. We need to think and talk about this.

#SocialWeb

There's some talk of OFCOM banning X in the UK.

I doubt it will happen, but lets all be welcoming to people who do decide now is the time to try out Social Web alternatives.

#UK #X #OFCOM #Twitter #SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Welcome #BeNice #Mastodon

A Professor at Toronto Metropolitan University:

“The Government of Canada could easily decide that it was going to use LinkedIn or Instagram or wherever it posts, and journalists would switch to following them there because they want to access what they’re saying,” he continued. “There was zero audience for Truth Social when

Trump created and started using it, but the audience went to the politician. Carney and his government could take a principled position by leaving X and its horrible spawn, Grok, and his audience of journalists and politicos would go with them.”

“Apparently, our political leaders simply choose not to.”

YES!! #Fediverse #SocialWeb #Mastodon
As always a huge thank you for the Senator's @Paulatics ongoing activism. It WILL happen. (and by it I mean, government going to the social web... Bluesky is just a temporary blip until it too goes fascist or we get some proper digital sovereignty laws in place.)
https://mstdn.ca/@Paulatics/115861469408403689

RE: https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/

Really interesting insight into trust and safety on the Social Web that I'd recommend anyone in this space reads.

Social platforms have to be safe and to be safe they must be moderated. There are learnings in here about the work moderators do that I think far too many of us take for granted.

#SocialWeb #Moderation #Fediverse #Mastodon

Towards the end of 2025, we saw realisation across Europe and beyond of the danger of reliance on US technologies.

In 2026 we want to ensure this momentum grows, with communities, publishers, and even governments turning their back on US social technologies.

This isn't just the technology which already exists and has proven untrustworthy, but also new and emerging US technologies which are still under the thumb of the US government.

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #US #Europe

note: links to post of #ice shooting video.
As horrid, tragic, and fascist as this day's news has been... the one bright spot around here is that people are learning about why federated, peer distributed, and non-corporate platforms are essential for our democracy.

We used to all* believe that this was what made the corporate platforms special, but that was just a fake, a feint, and ultimately, a fascism.

sharing this video is democracy, freedom,
resistance.

Spread the word! The #SocialWeb will fight this tyranny!

*tbf: some folks saw the writing on the wall better and a lot earlier than the rest of us. Respect to them.
#peertube #usa #cdnpoli #canpoli #theAmericanFascist #ice #minnessota #fascism #ediverse #socialweb

cc: to some pioneer politicians on Fedi. @Paulatics @emilylowan @robbotteril@socialbc.ca @josie_osborne @votetanille https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/115856612394163845

@bentarnoff.com

thanks for bridging to the fedi. #SocialWeb