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The official account of the grassroots #SpreadMastodon Movement fighting to
#TakeBackSocial

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Spread MastodonApr 13, 2024
xepherApr 12, 2024

This is a GREAT blog post about #Threads integration with the #fediverse with a realistic view on how to help safeguard the future of fedi.

https://www.timothychambers.net/2023/06/23/project-and-the.html

Threads and the Fediverse - A Smarter Battle Plan to Protect the Open Social Web

With the #meta #Project92 or #Threads Fediverse offering, there has been a, well, robust discussion of how to avoid threats looming. Those advocating mass-preemptive defederation make three cases for it. ➡️ To avoid data mining … However, defederation does virtually zero to avoid any big tech entity scraping all the Fediverse public social graph today - Want proof? See here: is.gd/q8U2pv But what if they merge that Fediverse data with their own internal data from IG isn’t that worse than just scraped data?

Spread MastodonApr 13, 2024
AgnishomApr 13, 2024

Mrwhosetheboss on @pluralistic 's Enshittification

https://youtu.be/wVYG1mu8Lg8

The Internet is starting to Break - Here's Why.

YouTube
Spread MastodonApr 13, 2024
Dwight SilvermanApr 13, 2024

So You’re Locked Out of Your Two-Factor Authentication App. Don’t Panic. | Reviews by Wirecutter

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/guides/locked-out-two-factor-authentication-app-recovery/

So You’re Locked Out of Your Two-Factor Authentication App. Don’t Panic.

If you lose your phone or switch devices, you might get locked out of your online accounts. Here’s how to prevent that from happening.

Wirecutter: Reviews for the Real World
Spread MastodonOct 1, 2023
Mastodon MigrationSep 30, 2023

On blocking etiquette...

Earlier today posted "a polite warning is appropriate'" before blocking someone (https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/111155248958298902). Been thinking about this and would like to retract it.

If you feel like giving someone a warning, by all means do so, but it's entirely up to you. If it's offensive, or they have a history of off-topic replies and/or abuse, or if you just don't want to waste the time, or let your thread get jacked, it's your post, go ahead and block them. Curious what you think?

Mastodon Migration (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Agree that a polite warning is appropriate. A lot of new users arrive here from Twitter thinking that social media is a flame thrower contest. They should be given a chance to adapt their ways to more civil discourse. But what we have here is fragile and we should take appropriate measures to not permit threadjacking flame wars to overwhelm our discourse. #threadjacking

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Spread MastodonOct 1, 2023
Sarah FackrellOct 1, 2023

A milestone: Tonight, the fedi was my best source for U.S. political updates.

Thanks especially to @w7voa and @samlitzinger

Spread MastodonSep 18, 2023
Tim ChambersSep 18, 2023

Welcome @indivisibleteam to the #Fediverse!

Anyone interested in progressive US grassroots politics should definitely make this an instant follow...

@fediversenews @fediversereport @mastodonmigration

#Indivisible

Spread MastodonSep 18, 2023
Yoel RothSep 18, 2023

Since 2020, I’ve been at the epicenter of a wide-reaching campaign to intimidate social media platforms into backing away from their investments in safety and security. It worked.

New from me (gift link): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/18/opinion/trump-elon-musk-twitter.html?unlocked_article_code=4tdIbFuKLW42ISeaU4acN26WTieKQcsLEoCyhJt1DC8dcAq9yCnJjyrbKLCEWm2hVWmWh-x94MKiw-I_OrqJ8JIYpDsdvQ4BFioWZ_RXCQ4ftJfFamVymL4ZnoK5RUQIhDdY-ZuJck3JBMeNXn5VYxEZ-tp8__DgJ_29osLV2tNCx4SZkrQrNtAyYPdzMK4asGiGrshlttyZF4arTjYH7ObwQo2-GSiVT3z3QovPSQ8Q4L9ggP7frVv1zKmIi4yukMwCGcqmRYnUy8pmnGPw0wWV3c9FMTUKuc6VM7kGy9gMnz_OUsQCiX8LR3v5Ls40VVkp1tb_c7PD4BiQ6lFP2Aw&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Opinion | I Was Attacked by Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I Believe It Was a Strategy To Change What You See Online.

Yoel Roth argues that his experiences being attacked by Trump and Musk were part of a greater strategy — one that is changing what all of us see online.

The New York Times
Spread MastodonSep 18, 2023
Nathan SchneiderSep 18, 2023
Mastodon running on an Apple IIc at the @mediaarchaeologylab!!!
Spread MastodonSep 18, 2023
Tim ChambersSep 18, 2023

He sounds desperate. #Twitter

https://variety.com/2023/digital/news/elon-musk-charge-all-x-twitter-users-fee-1235726693/

Elon Musk Suggests He Will Charge All X/Twitter Users a Fee

Elon Musk may flip the switch to make X — the social network formerly known as Twitter — an entirely subscription-based platform. Musk brought up the idea of charging all users of X/Twi…

Variety
Spread MastodonAug 25, 2023
BBC News LabsAug 9, 2023
When telling big national news stories, can we deliver local digital versions to every town in the UK? What about to every ward? Read more about our latest experiment in semi-automated content generation here https://bbcnewslabs.co.uk/news/2023/salco-2023/
Salco 2023: Making news hyperlocal

An experiment in combining multiple data sources with our semi-autonomous content engine to create hyperlocal news stories