This is a powerful statement from UK journalists and we agree.

X is no longer neutral and no longer a home for journalists.

We are ready to support any and all journalists who make the move to open social networks, now and in the New Social future.

Please, feel free to send journalists or publications our way if they have any questions. Or, if you're a journalist yourself, feel free to reach out.

docs.google.com/document/d/1dF…

#SocialMedia #X #Journalism #News #OpenSocial #Mastodon #Fediverse

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists

Moving Off X: An Open Letter from UK Journalists As UK journalists, we have used Twitter – now X – for many years. It has been a resource for story-gathering, network-building, and a megaphone for getting public-interest stories to a wider audience.

^{Google Docs}

"Decentralised social media is more than just a technical shift; it's a step toward restoring autonomy and trust in our digital lives, empowering individuals and communities to connect without compromising their values or privacy."

A study by the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford finds that decentralised social media leads to citizen empowerment.

oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/dec…

#SocialMedia #Fediverse #Decentralised #Decentralized #Mastodon #Bluesky #Threads #X #Empowerment

Decentralised social media ‘increases citizen empowerment’, says Oxford study

Researchers from the Oxford Martin School find decentralised social media such as Mastodon offer potential for increased citizen empowerment

^{Oxford Martin School}

Senator @Paulatics Paula Simons rose today in Question Period in Canada’s Senate to ask the government why (the hell! - my words lol) Government is still using that platform of hate, misogyny and Russian misinformation called X!?

Boost to support the Senator!! And ask your MP, MLA, or other government representative wherever you are to do the same!!

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Twitter #X #Government #twitterMigration
youtu.be/y1D7PlvSFTE?si=73DThK…

QUESTION: Sen. Simons questions the government's continued commitment to Elon Musk's X

When Twitter became a widely-used social media platform, many government departments used it to share important information with Canadians. Now Twitter has t...

^YouTube

Mastodon Follow Pack Directory - Nov 20, 2024

Follow entire groups of accounts listed below or simply click on accounts to view their profile page and follow them from there.

This directory includes notices, instructions and follow pack directory listings.

Longform available on Mastodon Migration FediBlog >>> @mastodonmigration.wordpress.com

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#FollowPack #StarterPack #MastodonMigration #MastoTips #Help #Directory #Guides #Mastodon #Fediverse #FediBlog

Channel.org is a service for organisations, built to help them own their social media presence.

It's still early days, but we're calling on people who work for, or have connections to, for-good organisations. We want you to spread a little decentralised chaos and push for your org on decentralised social media.

If you think you can help, please, get in touch!

#Decentralised #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #CallToAction #Charity #News #Academia #Disrupt

#Fediverse is roughly analogous to how mutual aid groups organize. We should look to meatspace and figure out how to translate it.

So, instead of telling new #Mastodon users to “just follow some hashtags and people you find interesting”, we need to rebuild people’s community-building skills and translate those into the digital realm.

#Twitter, #Bluesky, #Threads, #instagram, etc are all about mass culture delivery. Let’s figure out how to do distributed cultural development.

We’re getting it wrong when we tell folks that #Mastodon is just like “Old #Twitter”. If you want that, that’s #Bluesky. Mastodon is a different kind of place.

This is a more intimate community that discourages “influencing” because there’s no profit motive for eyeballs. The microblogging approach may look similar to Twitter but the way the communities form and conversations evolve is fundamentally different.

It’s no uptopia; we’ve got a shitload of work to do to make it safer.

#Fediverse

ActivityPub Starter Kits update:

I'm making exceptional progress and am wrapping up a few things before I prepare to launch this exciting new service!

ICYMI: I'm building an open source/self-hostable Starter Kit service that will allow fediverse users to safely build kits and share/use them with ease.

#starterKits #activityPub #fediverse #onboarding

Just discovered this really great tool for PeerTube called Sepia Search. It’s a search engine that indexes PeerTube instances all in one place.

I tried it out and it immediately found my videos with logical key-phrases. And it’s super fast. It also enables filtering by video, channel, and playlist.

sepiasearch.org/

#PeerTube #SearchEngine #Fediverse #FOSS

Sepia Search

A search engine of PeerTube videos, channels and playlists, developed by Framasoft

^{Sepia Search}

Well done to the team at The Guardian for standing up against X.

Their statement: "The US presidential election campaign served only to underline what we have considered for a long time: that X is a toxic media platform and that its owner, Elon Musk, has been able to use its influence to shape political discourse."

We look forward to helping the wave of journalists and publications that will no doubt follow.

theguardian.com/media/2024/nov…

#News #Journalism #Fediverse #SocialMedia #X #Guardian

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

^{The Guardian}

The Newsmast Foundation was created in response to misinformation and the oppression of marginalised communities and expert voices on Big Tech social media.

In light of the U.S. election results, those communities are more at risk than ever.

This is our statement 👇

newsmastfoundation.org/our-blo…

#Fediverse #USPol #Statement #Trump #SocialMedia #X #Twitter #BigTech

Trump elected: Our take - Newsmast

Trump elected: Our take. In the aftermath of the 2024 US election, community is more vital than ever and we're doubling down on our mission.

^Newsmast

The week is over, here are some charts:
For two weeks in a row, #Mastodon brought more #traffic than #X / #Twitter to heise.de.
But I forgot, that's not just via @heiseonline, but also @heisec, @ct_Magazin, @heiseautos, @iX_Magazin etc. (but for Twitter its the same).

#Bluesky is way behind, #Threads even more. Only Twitter is clearly falling.

(🧵 1/3)

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

Are social media platforms that utilize algorithmic feeds inherently anti-free-speech?

In normal discourse, we all have a voice and we all have the choice whether to listen. In the algorithmic space, formulas are used to decide which voices to amplify and also which voices to de-amplify.

Here on Vivaldi Social (Mastodon), I see posts that people I follow post, including posts they choose to boost. No formulas needed. This is, IMHO, the closest to free-speech you can find, although there are some hate speech rules, which is IMHO a good thing. Basically the same as in normal, social discourse.

On Facebook I see posts Facebook thinks I want to see (and boy do they get it wrong), as well as a lot of AI generated nonsense. There are some posts in there that I am interested in, but most are not.

Twitter has turned into amplification of what Elon wants to amplify, mostly hate speech and misinformation. There are still interesting voices in there, but they are harder and harder to find.

What do you think?

#Facebook #Twitter #Mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia

• Agree (84%, 70 votes)
• Disagree (15%, 13 votes)

🆕 blog! “Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots”

As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/11/intro…
⸻
#ActivityPub #bot #fediverse

Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots

^{Terence Eden’s Blog}

Exactly two years ago, we started to post links on #Mastodon via our account @heiseonline 👇

mastodon.social/@heiseonline/1…

It took longer, than I expected, but here we are: it seems like this account now brings continuously more #traffic to heise.de than #X (#Twitter) in its entirety, although it only has ¼ of the follower number (and many of them don't seem to be active anymore).
I'll prepare some graphs after the weekend.

#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#MastodonMigration
#TwitterMigration
#Fediverse

The most important lesson, I've ever learned about online privacy is this one:

If you want something to be private online, don't put it online in the first place.

#Internet#Privacy#OnlinePrivacy#Fediverse

It's time for charities and for-good organisations to ditch X - a platform which helped grow and fund the Trump campaign - and move to alternatives where they aren't at the mercy of a single persons politics.

As a start, we're excited to be featured as an organisation which can help in this @BylineTimes article

There's a lot of hard work to be done, but we like hard work. Hard work is good work.

bylinetimes.com/2024/11/07/x-o…

#Fediverse #Charity #NGO #News #USPol #Politics #X #SocialMedia #Twitter

X-Odus: Charities and Campaigners to Abandon Musk's Twitter After Trump Endorsement – Byline Times

British nonprofits set to flee the platform after Elon Musk’s campaign for Donald Trump pays off

^{Josiah Mortimer (Byline Times)}

It's polling day in the US! 🗳️

We've heard the queues over there can get pretty long, so remember to take a snack and some water when you head out to the polls.

Take time to understand what you are voting for. This is an important moment for yourself, your family, and the people in your life.

You can keep up with discussion in the @uspolitics Feed or stay up to date on all things Harris in the @KamalaHarrisWin Group.

#USPol #Election #Fediverse #FederateTheVote #USPolitics

TRUMP CRIME FAMILY

Elon Musk’s Genius Lawyer Admits His $1 Million Lottery Is Total Scam

The only person dumber than Elon Musk is his lawyer in the lottery case.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Trump #BreakingNews #Breaking #Musk #Twitter #x #Fediverse

newrepublic.com/post/187879/el…

Elon Musk’s Genius Lawyer Admits His $1 Million Lottery Is Total Scam

^{The New Republic}

Elon Musk May Be An Illegal Immigrant!

Musk Could Have US Citizenship Revoked If He Lied on Immigration Forms

The richest man in the world appears to have worked in the US without authorization. According to experts, if he did so and lied about it as part of the immigration process, he could be denaturalized.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump #Musk #Twitter #x #Fediverse #socialmedia

wired.com/story/elon-musk-citi…

The University of Groningen Library are researching Academic Staff Engagement on Mastodon.

This is a really interesting bit of research from a team who have supported and made a home over here on decentralised social media.

If you're an academic, they'd love to hear your opinion to help conduct their research!

You can see more details on the original post here: social.edu.nl/@Bibliothecaris/…

@Bibliothecaris

#AcademicMastodon #Academics #AcademicChatter #Research #Research #Fediverse #Mastodon

Listened to a BBC Radio4 program on “is the internet getting worse?” (Tl;dr: yes)

Featured an interesting interview with Cory Doctorow, and for once (not guaranteed with the BBC), a decent number of non-male interviewees.

Didn’t learn much, as have already read a lot on this subject, but glad that monopoly control, surveillance capitalism and enshittification are being discussed in a channel that many people tune into.

No obvious mention of the #Fediverse, though 😒.

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0022z9r

Rethink - Rethink: Is the internet getting worse? - BBC Sounds

How can we get a better internet for everyone?

^BBC

On the two year anniversary of joining #Mastodon I'm super proud to share:

🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.13 👩‍🚀

"The #Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same."

blog.elenarossini.com/the-fedi…

with mentions of @forgeandcraft (who made this awesome Fediverse t-shirt) @phanpy @ivory @Tusky @nimi @Roneyb @davidoclubb

#FOSS #FLOSS #Matrix #TheFutureIsFederated #blog #tech #activism #BigTech #socialmedia #education

The Fediverse has empowered me to take back control from Big Tech. Now I want to help others do the same.

The Fediverse has helped me regain control from the behavior modification empires of Big Tech. Now I want to help other people do the same.

^{Elena Rossini}

#Journalists, please take note.

Given the recent capitulation of the #billionaire #MSM magnates, it should be obvious to everyone that claims of "editorial independence" have been used as cover for #CapitalistPropaganda for decades now.

Rupert Murdoch, as an example, has single handedly shattered the political #OvertonWindow in every nation under his sway.

Question: How do journalists worthy of the name challenge the billionaire narrative?

The fragmentation of the #press into the paid subscription #Wordpress #Substack #Medium model is doing the opposite.

Answer: the #PressCo-op

And, the answer ALREADY EXISTS in the form of the #fediverse. Journalists have to come together and form their own #instances and WE have to support those instances -- just like we support our own instances.

We have an incredible tool here people. We have an incredible tool to break free of paying the MSM and Wordpress style billionaires to destroy our #InformationEcosystem.

And they have destroyed it. They've built a billionaire propaganda machine in it's place while we stand around wondering

@Gargron @Strandjunker @taylorlorenz.mastodon.social @mmasnick @jeffjarvis @pluralistic @cstross

And see: Comprehensive list of federated journalists, here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Journalists on Mastodon and Fediverse (Responses)

^{Google Docs}

This group account is doing a #fediverse wide push for the #EarlyVote Don’t put it off! Find out where, when, and how to cast your ballot ahead of Election Day at VoteEarlyDay.org and make sure you’re #VoteReady. Once you do vote, post with #IVoted tag and we will boost!

#VoteEarlyDay