{"id":4119,"date":"2022-11-08T05:44:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T05:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/fight-election-disinfo-on-mastodon\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T05:23:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T05:23:30","slug":"fight-election-disinfo-on-mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/2022\/11\/08\/fight-election-disinfo-on-mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fight election disinfo on Mastodon (UPDATED)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Last updated: November 9<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"kg-blockquote-alt\"><p>If you&#8217;re on Mastodon, please help get the word out! <a href=\"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/5-ways-to-fight-disinfo-on-Mastodon-2.png 2018w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 720px) 720px\"><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>* Perez is former Director of Product Management for Societal Health at Twitter, and a member of the Board of Directors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.osetinstitute.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">OSET Institute<\/a>, a nonpartisan, nonprofit election technology research, development, and education organization &#8230; so he knows what he&#8217;s talking about.<\/p>\n<p>** \u00a0Mastodon&#8217;s only one of many decentralized social networks in what&#8217;s collectively called the Fediverse, but it&#8217;s getting the most attention so I&#8217;m concentrating on it here. Per Axbom&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/axbom.com\/fediverse\/\">The many branches of the Fediverse<\/a> \u00a0 and Kiernan Christ&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawfareblog.com\/what-earth-fediverse\">What on Earth Is the Fediverse?<\/a> on <em>Lawfare <\/em>are good introductions to the Fediverse \u00a0 Here&#8217;s how Christ describes it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Fediverse is a network of interconnected servers, which communicate with each other based on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comptia.org\/content\/guides\/what-is-a-network-protocol#:~:text=A%20network%20protocol%20is%20an,internal%20processes%2C%20structure%20or%20design.\">decentralized networking protocols<\/a>. These servers can be used for <a href=\"https:\/\/fediverse.party\/en\/portal\/servers\">any number of different services<\/a>, such as social media or file hosting. <a href=\"https:\/\/fediverse.observer\/stats\">The most popular<\/a> services are <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/about\">Mastodon<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/joinpeertube.org\/\">PeerTube<\/a> (video hosting, like YouTube), and <a href=\"https:\/\/pleroma.social\/\">Pleroma<\/a> (social networking and microblogging similar to Mastodon).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last updated: November 9 If you&#8217;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 &#8230; so he knows what he&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,1],"tags":[469,470,436,325],"class_list":["post-4119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales-from-the-net","category-uncategorized","tag-disinfo","tag-fediverse","tag-mastodon","tag-social-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4342,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4119\/revisions\/4342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2024.thenexus.today\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}