Gregory's ServerIt's wild how social media outside of the fediverse has deteriorated. You have followers, but if your post doesn't please some opaque algorithm, they'll never see what you post. You have to avoid certain words to please the algorithm. If you refresh the page good luck finding the same posts again. And people put up with it.
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 @Gargron product managers will literally put voter content behind four screens in settings instead of going to therapy @samhenrigold @Gargron Meta is tired of sitting in front of Congress with both parties complaining about censorship and misinformation. It stops the spread of information, but it’s good for their business. Ultimately, it’s a testimonial to federated networks. By being so amorphous, there’s no single target for regulator anger — and little incentive for federated networks to moderate news out of feeds.  @Gargron I find it amazing also on YouTube. I watch some people that monitor the current war situations in ukraine and the middle east and they can't use the words "kill" or even "terrorist", "hamas", "hezbollah" and more without at least getting demonitized or blocked. It is complete bonkers and only going to get worse with every state in the world now taking shots at forbidding unwanted things Hello my company needs a tutor who can translate English to native native language just 50pdf words Send a message on telegram via this link!  See this artist's work. @Gargron https://www.artologica.net/the-algorithm @Gargron I find Threads algorithms to be rather primitive. Twitter is just a cynical, alt right, Elon's ego, dumpster fire.  @Gargron Instagram has been censoring political posts for months now. Even posting a comment which is factually true on a political post will get flagged.  @Gargron one interesting thing Threads insights showed me was how little my posts are seen by my followers. @Gargron I feel (as an european) that's such a weird take?! Why should Zuckerberg be able to decide what's being shared, on what is basically a major public townsquare, only because he owns it?  @Gargron "put up with it"? I'd go a step further and say it doesn't matter for most. Social media provides the illusion of being heard, and can thus satisfy the narcissism and obsessions of billions. @Gargron "🎉 Congratulations! 🎉 Collect your $100 McDonald's Gift Card now! 🍔  Thank you for creating a space without vitriol. Gave us a soft landing when Musk turned Twitter into a cesspool… I used to think the whole "the algorithm kills content" sentiment was super sensationalized until huge YouTubers started censoring words like "kill" "die" or even "gun" . Then TikTok people don't even write those words on their vids, but have to censor it like "k!LL" . Maybe I'm just a hag but it happened SO FAST like a switched flipped and weird censorship started just this year. Was it so much earlier? God I'm always so tardy to the party   @Gargron the article ends with these infuriating lines: « She’ll keep on posting, she says: “I’ll do a little yelling into the void.” Unfortunately for our democracy, she doesn’t have a lot of other choices. » It’s such a missed opportunity not to mention the Fediverse and its chronological feeds / lack of opaque algorithms. Once I’m properly caffeinated I will write an email to Mr. Fowler and also post a comment on the article… @Gargron That is the reason why we would love to welcome you in Leipzig for the "Medientage Mittelstand" 2025 for a keynote.  @Gargron that's actually going to suit some people, but I suspect not most. When I look at Threads, I'm overwhelmed by the banality of it all. What's missing is serious conversations about serious subjects, like politics.  @Gargron For me most social media platforms turned into asocial platforms. I reduced my time on platforms, only two are left: mastodon and linkedin. I turned back to provide content on my websites. I do not seek many followers, only to reach out to the serious people to discuss serious issues.   People not using any links to support their point of view out of fear their posting might be penalized for luring people out of their "opinium" den or ad-social media timeline cages into the wild wide web is something that puts me off.  @Gargron One of the most absurd things to me is the power given to the algorithm over our language. The way it is changing, shaping and erasing words from our collective vocabulary. I'm curious to know if there's ever been quite this level of interference in language before.  Threads is a shit show and I hope they will reverse the integration with fediverse.  They use the dead bird site because of freedom of speech but the dead bird site applies an algorithm that dictates what you see and who can see what you say. Crazy… @Gargron Well, as Willie Sutton famously said when asked why he robbed banks, "That's where the money is." Twitter, Instagram, etc., have really become influencer platforms. Facebook, too, though to a slightly lesser degree. Jack Dorsey's new Blue Sky (or whatever he's calling it) could become that as well. The face of what social media is has changed since the '00s; for the time being, I'd rather be here on Mastodon. @Gargron I love Mastodon. Thank you and all those everywhere that made it happen. Thanks to my excellent host @christianp for Mathstodon. Thanks everyone who is here. Everyone Is Awesome! @Gargron The Post pulls an interesting trick to distort poll results. It takes a poll which says "20 percent of U.S. adults now regularly get news on the [Instagram] social network" and recasts it as "One in five American adults regularly get their news from Instagram." Adding the word "their" suggests IG is the primary or exclusive news source for 1 in 5. The poll only says that people "get news" from it. Poll distortion is a favorite journalistic game. @Gargron @waltbaldwin You just listed most of the reasons why I left Facebook a few years ago. @Gargron This reasoning excludes the Fediverse? So you don’t think of Threads as part of it? @Gargron Download Earnweb app and earn money anywhere, anytime. Exchange Coins for valuable rewards:  @Gargron The power that Mosseri and other in similar position have to restrict what people say and how they say it is what gives Mosseri his inflated salary and inflates his ego. From a Fediverse point of view it is so archaic and baffling that is still baffling. There is n other justification for Mossery position and inflated salary beacuse threads is an absolute shit experience. He lately offer people to sue a fart soon when pressing the logo... @Gargron It alludes to this song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_IFHYzk0rY     @Gargron Well, listen who's talking. On your main server people are getting hidden because they are posting for #Palestine .  it's a really important concept that isn't talked about enough. I think people have come to expect that they will see everything from their friends ala email/sms but will only see what the corporation decides to show them in media ala social media platforms but also TV etc. #ActivityPub and rss (real podcasts) break that. people might care at the personal level but it matters culturally. #AttentionDemocracy |
@Gargron The "see what you follow" will become more and more important on platforms like Mastodon