"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}

#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.

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.

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#SocialMedia
#TwitterExodus
#TwitterMigration
#MastodonMigration
#Fediverse

meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025

#FediPact #meta #threads #project2025

AI-generated slop is all over Facebook, and it looks like that will be continuing. In a quarterly earnings call, Mark Zuckerberg said he is excited for the “opportunity for AI to help people create content that just makes people’s feed experiences better.” What might that look like? “I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated or AI summarized content or kind of existing content pulled together by AI in some way,” he explained. @404mediaco has more.

404media.co/zuckerberg-the-ai-…

#Facebook #Threads #Meta #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #TechIndustry #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

Zuckerberg: The AI Slop Will Continue Until Morale Improves

"I think we’re going to add a whole new category of content, which is AI generated."

^{Jason Koebler (404 Media)}