severak
27.11.2024 14:37:00
A Funny Thing Happened on The Way To Your Phone: Thinking About Bluesky
Ever since Elon Musk bought Twitter two years ago, those who despise his evolving mix of predatory trolling, stunted emotional development and right-wing extremism have been hoping for an alternative.
severak
25.11.2024 16:55:53
The Great Bluesky Migration: I Answer (Some) Of Your Questions
For the last year and a half, us Bluesky users have frequently reminded one another that we are merely posters on a niche microblogging website. It's intended as a warning about hubris. A protective against the ever-present danger of poster's madness. A nerd-ass version of the Ancient Roman custom of
severak
24.8.2023 12:52:18
Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons
The ads are a window into a blatantly illegal underground economy that Meta is not only failing to moderate, but is actively profiting from and injecting into users’ feeds.
severak
14.12.2022 10:13:10
How to buy a social network, with Tumblr CEO Matt Mullenweg
Matt Mullenweg explains the myriad challenges now being faced by Elon Musk.
severak
16.11.2022 12:35:29
Mastodon on your own domain without hosting a server
Like many in the past week, I have been having a serious look at Mastodon as an alternative to Twitter.
severak
12.4.2021 14:22:00
Revealed: the Facebook loophole that lets world leaders deceive and harass their citizens
A Guardian investigation exposes the breadth of state-backed manipulation of the platform
severak
7.8.2020 10:20:46
Snormal | Tiny Projects
How I built Snormal: a social network for all the bits of content that don't make it onto your social media highlight reel.
severak
8.11.2019 15:09:58
We need to discuss race in electronic music, and we need a new way to communicate
severak
22.7.2019 16:50:45
I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me
When 8th grader Sonia Bokhari joined social media for the first time, she discovered that her mom and sister had been posting about her for her entire life.
severak
13.3.2019 16:45:19
How an App for Gamers Went Mainstream
Discord has become an indispensable tool for internet creators to connect with their fans.
severak
12.3.2019 13:49:53
Biography of Hiroyuki Nishimura: The Father of 2channel
How one man spit in the face of Japanese business culture
severak
26.2.2019 23:40:00
Zuzana Vlasatá: Facebookem k depresi? - Deník Referendum
Kniha psycholožky Jean Twengeové, podle níž iGenerace, která už nepoznala svět bez internetu a smartphonů, vyrůstá se závažnými psychickými problémy. Autorka tvrdí, že se jedná o paradoxní důsledek virtuálních sociálních sítí.
severak
3.1.2019 16:55:35
Facebook ve věci Netflixu a Spotify udělal spíš hloupost než podraz, nikdo mu však už nevěří
K řadě letošních skandálů společnosti Facebook se přidal další. Opět se týká ohrožení soukromých dat, tentokrát dokonce těch nejcitlivějších – obsahu našich soukromých konverzací v aplikaci Messenger. Facebook umožnil společnostem Netflix a Spotify, aby tyto zprávy četly, psaly do nich, a dokonce je mazaly.
severak
29.12.2018 18:43:28
Objevuju Mastodon
from https://blog.eischmann.cz/2018/08/27/objevuju-mastodon/
severak
28.12.2018 16:05:38
Some thoughts on Social Networking and Usenet
A little while ago, I wrote a thread on glitch.social about ephemerality of posting on social media as compared to Usenet. It got a little bit of traction, and one person asked if I could post more about Usenet clients. I haven’t gotten to it until today, and I thought I would post on my blog instead of on glitch. The original thread wasn’t really about Usenet clients; it was mainly about how posts on Usenet expired, which is contrary to people’s current expectations about social media, but actually worked very well.
severak
22.10.2018 14:13:38
The Instagram Stars Hiding Their Famous, Muslim-Hating Mom, Pamela Geller
GirlWithNoJob, JackieOProblems, and the rest of the Instagram-famous family have gone to great lengths to conceal the identity of their Islamophobic mother.
severak
8.9.2018 07:39:35
https://noelle.codes/so_youre_a_mastodon_moderator.pdf
from https://noelle.codes/so_youre_a_mastodon_moderator.pdf
severak
1.9.2018 11:11:33
Mastodon and the challenges of abuse in a federated system
from https://nolanlawson.com/2018/08/31/mastodon-and-the-challenges-of-abuse-in-a-federated-system/
severak
25.8.2018 11:56:12
From GNU social to Mastodon
There’s been another surge of Twitter users moving to Mastodon in the last few days and for the first time it feels like it’s getting some mainstream tractio...
severak
11.7.2018 21:10:50
How to implement a basic ActivityPub server
Today we’ll be looking at how to connect the protocols powering Mastodon in the simplest way possible to enter the federated network. We will use static files, standard command-line tools, and some simple Ruby scripting, although the functionality should be easily adaptable to other programming languages. First, what’s the end goal of this exercise? We want to send a Mastodon user a message from our own, non-Mastodon server. So what are the ingredients required?
severak
10.7.2018 00:02:47
We Are All Public Figures Now
All she did was board a plane and chat with her seatmate. Now she is a public figure, a hashtag, a target. Millions of strangers on the internet want to know about her new fictional relationship. No one understands why she is so afraid. Or maybe she isn’t afraid. How could I know? I don’t know this woman either.
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