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Top-level
 The post-Twitter platforms like #Mastodon and #Tumblr are E2E platforms, designed around the idea that if someone asks to hear what you have to say, they should hear it. Rather than developing algorithms to override your decisions, these platforms have extensive tooling to let you fine-tune what you see. https://pluralistic.net/2022/08/08/locus-of-individuation/#publish-then-filter 30/ 10 comments
The online free speech debate is stupid because it has all the wrong focuses: * Focusing on improving algorithms, not whether you can even *get* a feed of things you asked to see; * Focusing on whether unsolicited messages are delivered, not whether *solicited* messages reach their readers; * Focusing on algorithmic transparency rather, not whether you can opt out of the behavioral tracking that produces training data for algorithms; 32/ * Focusing on whether platforms are policing their users well enough, not whether we can leave a platform without losing our important social, professional and personal ties; * Focusing on whether the limits on our speech violate the First Amendment, rather than whether they are unfair: https://doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-censorship-2026c9edc0fd 33/ The wholly artificial distinction between "freedom of speech" and "freedom of reach" is just more self-serving nonsense and the only reason we're talking about it is that a billionaire dilettante would like to create chokepoints so he can extract payola from his users and meet his debt obligations to the Saudi royal family. 34/ @pluralistic is there a tool for this app that puts together a thread that you can then share outside the app? Sort of like threadreaderapp.com did for the bird site?  |
Gregory's Server
This tooling was once the subject of intense development and innovation, but all that research fell by the wayside with the rise of platforms, who are actively hostile to third party mods that gave users more control over their feeds:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/og-app-promises-you-an-ad-free-instagram-feed/
Alas, lawmakers are way behind the curve on this, demanding new "online safety" rules that *require* firms to break E2E *and* block third-party de-enshittification tools:
https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-made-dangerous/
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This tooling was once the subject of intense development and innovation, but all that research fell by the wayside with the rise of platforms, who are actively hostile to third party mods that gave users more control over their feeds:
https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/27/og-app-promises-you-an-ad-free-instagram-feed/