Tag: social media
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We are eternally ephemeral
Required Reading: How to disappear completelyS.E. Smith | The Verge “Every digital media format, from the Bernoulli Box to the racks of servers slowly boiling the planet, is ultimately doomed to obsolescence as it’s supplanted by the next innovation, with even the Library of Congress struggling to preserve digital archives.”
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The importance of your own online place
For The Love of God, Make Your Own WebsiteGita Jackson | Aftermath “Unfortunately, this is what all of the internet is right now: social media, owned by large corporations that make changes to them to limit or suppress your speech, in order to make themselves more attractive to advertisers or just pursue their owners’ ends.”
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Goofing around with the social medias
My plan is to have daily summary of the things I like elsewhere until that becomes unnecessary or unwieldy (or I just abandon it due to forgetting, which is more likely). Feel free to follow me in any of those places.
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If you hold the banhammer, can you banhammer yourself?
Like, an early subset of Twitter users are Something Awful forum goons — the most prominent of whom is Dril — and they love fucking with people. Elizabeth Lopatto, “Elon Musk learns the hard way that being a Twitter troll is way more fun than being a mod” at The Verge Did not think I…
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Everything in content moderation…
Content moderation is what Twitter makes — it is the thing that defines the user experience. It’s what YouTube makes, it’s what Instagram makes, it’s what TikTok makes. They all try to incentivize good stuff, disincentivize bad stuff, and delete the really bad stuff. From Nilay Patel’s “Welcome to hell, Elon” at The Verge
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Cory Doctorow: How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms
That’s because the Benevolent Dictators can sometimes turn malignant. Some of the policies that Big Tech insists keep its users safe actually endanger those users’ lives. Source: How to Leave Dying Social Media Platforms This is one of the articles that started me on my way to reclaiming a space online just for me.
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Social Media Exile
I don’t think social media is really all that healthy. I’ve been positive in dealing my own rhetoric, especially in class. I’ve tried to discuss its functions conceptually, that there are benefits if you curate well and hypervigilant, but the labor costs outweigh the benefit. I have been mindful of how I feel when I’m…