Mastodawn

Fediverse is still the most lively social network I have ever used, since MySpace in 2003. It is better than Twitter or any commercial social media platform ever was. Absolutely love being here.

The most profound thing about it is the international coverage. After the first wave of enshittification in 2010, algorithms took over, and suddenly as a polyglot I was labeled as Finnish. No more visible international posts, people only saw the Finnish ones.

I've noticed the same effect in commercial AI. It ignores the fact that I use English online 99% of the time and still replies to me in Finnish despite all instructions. Algorithms and AI label you. They assign you a language, a status, a certain type of person. There's no changing that.

The Fediverse and Mastodon are delightfully mine, yours, and truly open source - respecting privacy. Nobody's machine can tell you, "You are this, and this is why we do that."

Fuck labelers and the fog machines. Let me be me. Here, on my own server, I can embrace my weirdness and post however I want, how often I want, whenever I want, in whatever language I choose - without constantly worrying about how my identity will be perceived by a machine.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon #Fediverse

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Nicole Parsons Jul 10

@rolle

Algorithms and AI are worsening the political and cultural divides of all nations.

Republicans, and other far right voters, are stuck in an information bubble starting with Fox News and then Twitter and now Truth Social.

Algorithms & AI are deepening that divide with the help of Russian bots and Koch Network PR manipulation.

Mastodon actively supports a broader access to information.

It's like walking down the aisles of a wonderful book store or public library.

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Cassandrich

@Npars01 @rolle Information bubbles are also affecting people who see themselves as "left" or "progressive", but not in the way the narrative says.

The problem is not that these folks are stuck in bubbles with other people like them who largely have reasonable beliefs and goals and shared facts-based reality.

The problem is that they're stuck in bubbles shaped by their/our enemies who run the platforms they're using and make it so you can get a feel-good rush by dunking on nazis and blue-maga in ways that actually amplify their reach and impede imagination of a better world.