Below are posts associated with the “social media” tag.
🔗 linkblog: Sometimes in order to reconnect, you have to disconnect – Design Goodiness'
Between Enilda here and Josh Rosenberg’s recent decision to do something similar, I feel that I have a lot to learn from and think about.
🔗 linkblog: A social media reset | Joshua M. Rosenberg, Ph.D.'
Admire what Josh is doing here. I’ve been rethinking my own social media presence recently and want to take some cues here.
🔗 linkblog: GOP Social Media Experiments Fail (In Part) Because They Break The Troll/Amplification Cycle | Techdirt'
Insightful piece on trolling and feeding trolls.
🔗 linkblog: Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK for posting ‘offensive’ tweet - The Verge'
Very uncomfortable with this. Tweet wasn’t great, but not sure if it’s criminal. I’m sympathetic to the idea that we underpolice social media, but this is a fantastic example of why so many (including me) are worried about attempts to police it more.
🔗 linkblog: Women are splitting off from Reddit’s preppers sub.'
This is a fascinating article on prepper communities on reddit. Great example of the importance of a gender lens.
🔗 linkblog: To Make Social Media Work Better, Make It Fail Better | Electronic Frontier Foundation'
This idea increasingly resonates with me.
🔗 linkblog: just finished 'Researchers explain why they believe Facebook mishandles political ads : NPR'
Size and scale remain problems for Facebook and other social media platforms.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'The Secret to a Better Internet? Post Less, Chat More. - The New York Times'
Interesting argument. I will say that having a running Keybase chat with distant friends has been terribly helpful during the pandemic.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'Trump’s site Truth Social broke software rules, says copyleft group - The Verge'
Do not mess with open licensing.
🔗 linkblog: just read 'The Giftschrank offers a path for social media companies on content moderation transparency.'
Interesting proposal for a difficult issue.