Tag: social networks
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Don’t tell people “it’s easy”, and seven more things Kbin, Lemmy, and the fediverse can learn from Mastodon (UPDATED)
Originally published June 10; last updated June 20, with several new sections. See the Update history at the end for details. Thanks everybody for the great feedback on earlier versions! Join the discussion on Screenshot from lemmy.world, June 2023 The front page of fedia.io is also all poop. I hate it when that happens.…
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How to fight election disinfo on Mastodon (UPDATED)
Last updated: November 9 If you’re on Mastodon, please help get the word out! * Perez is former Director of Product Management for Societal Health at Twitter, and a member of the Board of Directors of the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit election technology research, development, and education organization … so he knows what he’s…
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Why is “intellectual dark web” content at the top of my feed? Thoughts on WT:Social
There’s a lot of buzz about WT:Social. Here’s what to expect if you sign up.
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Algorithmic Glass Ceilings and Gendered Echo Chambers: “Bias Amplification” in Social Networks
Today’s social networks magnify societal biases.
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Mastodon: 14 perspectives on a breakthrough month
A big month for the decentralized open source social network!
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4 Things Diaspora can learn from Google+
Part 2 of A Crucial Time for Diaspora. Originally posted on Liminal States. This weekend I received an invitation through Facebook to join Diaspora. I had tried to join Diaspora last year when I learned about their Kickstarter success while writing my book on crowdsourcing, but I couldn’t get in. So of course I was…
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What can Diaspora* learn from Google+?
At last year’s Blue Hat conference, I gave a short talk on What Diaspora* can learn from Microsoft.  Now, I’d like to do the same kind of analysis with Google+. Ten weeks into the G+ experiment, what are the key learnings for a privacy-friendly distributed social network. Here’s a few early thoughts. Diaspora’s on…
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Anxious Masculinity Under Threat: Google+ and Diversity, part 6
Google+’s naming policy isn’t failing because it’s poorly implemented, or because Google’s enforcement team is stupid. It’s failing because what they’re trying to do is (1) impossible, and (2) antisocial. — Bob Blakley, Google+ Can Be a Social Network Or The Name Police — Not Both, Gartner Blog Network I wonder what folks at Google…
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The double bind of oppression: Google+ and Diversity, part 5
Ever since it launched, Ive spent most of my online time on Google+, and so far am very impressed from both the software engineering and business strategy perspectives. I think it’s on track to be a big success, so expect me to be talking about it a lot. — me, in A work in progress,…
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Prisms, Kool-Aid, and an Opportunity (a response to Vivek Wadhwa on Quora)
Silicon Valley is again drinking its own Kool-Aid; it is looking at the world through its own prism. — Vivek Wadhwa on TechCrunch Quora has that certain magic that only one or two startups a year have. When it first launched it seemed kinda dumb, a slightly better version of q&a sites from before, that…
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Calls to Boycott Amazon over Wikileaks: #amazonfail 2.0?
Heading into the busiest shopping time of the year, Amazon is suddenly facing threats of a boycott over censoring Wikileaks.  Seems like a good time to dust off the #amazonfail hashtag. It started last week, after a hacker took one of Wikileaks’ sites down with a relatively weak attack. Wikileaks moved their online base to…
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Starting the day out …
Am I the only person out there who takes a step back every few months to observe how I’m starting my online and day decide what kind of changes I want to make? If you haven’t ever done this, it can be very illuminating. Back in 2008, for example, when I was doing a lot…
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New strategies for fighting FISA and the PATRIOT Act
The notes from the “birds-of-a-feather” session I led at Computers, Freedom, and Privacy are written up on the CFP Wiki. Alas, we didn’t get the online aspects to work; still, we had a dozen people there in person, including Get FISA Right members Thomas Nephew and Chip Pitts. It was a great discussion. The opportunities…
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Creating the future at #cfp09: showtime for privacy and civil liberties activsm!
“Fight for me!” — a privacy-loving Facebook friend, wishing me luck at the conference Here’s our opportunity to realize the promise of the Net that was so present in 1990s when CFP started. — Deborah Pierce on the CFP blog The program for this year’s Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference is outstanding even by CFP’s…
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My reply to Clay Shirky on #amazonfail
Clay’s post The failure of #amazonfail admits that over the weekend, he jumped to conclusions, “believed things that weren’t true” about Amazon and was “intoxicated” by the hashtag. He now thinks he was wrong. Most of the post is written in the first person plural, assuming everybody else reacted as he did. He concludes that…
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“Dailyish updates” (draft post for The Seminal)
Draft. Work in progress — feedback welcome! The revised version will (hopefully) be posted on The Seminal
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Get FISA Right on Ideas for Change: only 72 hours left, five ways to help
Voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition closes Thursday at 2 p.m. Pacific time. Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties has just fallen to #8, and a couple of the ideas close behind us like Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students have…
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Apologies to DREAM Act advocates everywhere …
For the last six weeks of change.org’s Ideas for Change competition, I’ve been consistently impressed by the advocates for Pass the DREAM Act – Support Higher Education for All Students. The network of activists promoting the idea are giving the rest of us lessons in how to do it effectively.*Â And they and their supporters…
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Vote early, promote often: Ideas for Change and Get FISA Right
The second round of voting in change.org’s Ideas for Change in America competition kicked off today. Please vote for Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties — and help promote it! To vote, just click on the Vote here button on the widget on the right. (If your vote doesn’t…
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On to the second round of “Ideas for Change in America”!
Also posted on the new Get FISA Right blog Happy new year! My idea Get FISA Right, repeal the PATRIOT Act, and restore our civil liberties finished #2 in the Criminal Justice category of change.org/MySpace’s Ideas for Change in America competition, and so has advanced to the second round. We can revise the idea over…