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I wish it were easier to follow Bluesky accounts from Mastodon. Few of the people I want to follow have made bridging possible.

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Hey! I’m writing an essay about the #fediverse for an assignment i was given to enter in a university :ghibli_sip:

I’m new here and still trying to get how everything work, do you have any suggestions about any important matter you think i should talk regarding fediv?

Do you guys think that this will be the future of #socialmedia ? Or will it remain just a niche thing?

What would you consider to be some criticisms??

(The essay should turn around this other one: ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/articl)

www.linkedin.comI'm happy to announce my retirement from UX. I want to thank everyone for… | Matthew Johnson | 258 commentsI'm happy to announce my retirement from UX. I want to thank everyone for their support through the bad times and the worst times. There are too many folks to name, but I want to shout out .Joel B. Amy Santee, and Feleesha Sterling, for serving as honest and compassionate mentors. (All three helped me arrive at this decision unbeknownst to them.) Since I got into the field six years ago, setting aside my brief bootcamp experience, UX has been the most insipid and unsatisfying career path I have ever taken (and I have taken at least three other paths). The only thing I can say I liked about it was the money and the people I was fortunate enough to work with and/or swap complaints with about the state of UX. The rest sucked. It sucked more than I ever thought it could. The suckiest part is looking for a job in UX, but I've also been severely depressed while HAVING one (and making six figures no less). For all I know, my experience with UX might even be behind the chronic pain and illness I've experienced for almost three years. (No official diagnosis of what's wrong with me yet.) There are serious consequences for not being true to oneself. This field has drained so much of my time, energy, and positivity that I feel like a fool for sticking with it this long -- but I'm a stubborn man. I hate to fail. I hate to disappoint people. I hate to give up. But, most importantly, I hate the UX job market right now more than anything (except maybe Trump and Musk). I hate the endless applications, the pointless interviews, the phony follow-up messages, the portfolio presentations, the waiting around for a response, and the boilerplate rejections. I refuse to subject myself to any more of this bullshit only to get a job in a field I despise. So, I'm out. I choose my sanity and my independence over the potential of a big paycheck and whatever status points and accolades come with it. I know who I am and what I bring to the table. I don't need anyone else's approval but my own. To all my friends and past/current/future colleagues out there, thanks again. We will keep up. I'm not leaving LinkedIn unless I get banned for being too honest. In fact, I plan to convert this profile into something more interesting. Stay tuned. And comment if you'd like, but don't ask what I plan to do next -- unless you want to piss me off. 😊 (I'm unemployed, so I get to do whatever the hell I want.) Love, Matt | 258 comments on LinkedIn

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PsyPost: Hostile tweets linked to upbringing and legal troubles, study finds. “By linking official government records to the online activity of Danish Twitter users, the researchers found that individuals with numerous criminal verdicts, more time spent in foster care, better performance in primary school, and higher childhood socioeconomic status tended to be more hostile in their social […]

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So many people in Denmark now talk about building a Danish/European social media platform (I proposed it 12 years ago and was laughed at) They want to start from scratch, but I keep saying we can build it on the ActivityPub protocol (alternatively Bueskys but I don't trust that in the long run). Anybody here who has experience with that? And know of other countries having done that? Contacts to people who could help build it? #activitypub #socialmedia @mastodon

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Musk's company Tesla paid $0 in income tax!

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Tesla, the most valuable automaker in the world valued at over $1 trillion, did not pay any federal income tax last year.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Musk #Twitter #socialmedia #x #Fediverse #Tesla #BreakingNews #Breaking

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John Burn-Murdoch (FT) asks whether 'passive consumption & constant context-switching' in our use of social media is behind the rising number of people who have difficulty with literacy & numeracy?

Thus, while international & active use of information technology can be empowering, for too many (he suggests) the shift to a more passive relationship with what their digital devices offer is having a negative impact on information processing skills....

What is the difference between honest ignorance (which we all have on any number of topics, and if we're humble, we learn) and prideful ignorance ("I know everything already, shut up")?

This man

He came to the #Wisconsin state legislature to speak against #genderAffirmingCare. Instead, after listening to testimony, he apologized and said he learned a lot

😲

On #socialMedia we are drowning in #bigotry

But, sometimes, you can educate those who will listen

Meta so scared of former New Zealand diplomat's tell-all they're trying to have it banned.

And the name of that books is: Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism, by Sarah Wynn-Williams.

It would be unfortunate if anyone heard of or read it. For Meta.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq5zyq

Sarah Wynn-Williams - close up photo of an early-middle aged woman, who has long blond-light-brown hair. She is wearing make up and is looking directly at the camera.
BBC NewsMeta stops former Facebook director from promoting critical memoirSocial media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.

📢 WissPod Jahresrückblick 2024 – Reichweite, my ass!

Müssen wir wirklich alle der Reichweite hinterherrennen? Oder gibt’s da vielleicht wichtigere Dinge in der #Wisskomm? 🤔

Beim #38c3 haben @melaniebartos und @Rupi42ai mit @neleheise & @rstockm genau darüber gesprochen – und über #Fediverse, offene Infrastrukturen & warum 2025 ein spannendes Jahr für Wissenschaftspodcasts wird!

🎧 Hört rein: wissenschaftspodcasts.de/wissp

wissenschaftspodcasts.deWisspod-Jahresrückblick 2024 oder: Reichweite, my ass! - wissenschaftspodcasts.deMit unseren Gästen sprechen wir über Podcasts in der Wissen{schaft}skommunikation, über Ziele und Kriterien – und darüber wieso Reichweite alleine nicht glücklich macht!

Great piece by @aram and @rwg

"Federated services, otherwise known as “the fediverse,” have been hailed as a network for public communication, dialogue and debate, where ordinary people, not corporations, shape their social spaces, and where advertisers, hate speech and intrusive algorithms are much easier to avoid." #fediverse #SocialMedia

theconversation.com/the-fedive

The ConversationThe fediverse promises social media without Big Tech – if it can avoid familiar pitfallsThe fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.