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The "Sift' strategy: A four-step method for spotting misinformation
S is for Stop
I is for investigate the source
F is for Find credible coverage
T is for Trace the claim to its original context
#SocialMedia
#Mastodon
#Fediverse
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240509-the-sift-strategy-a-four-step-method-for-spotting-misinformation
You know me, I love living on the edge and testing stuff. Here's yet another upcoming #SNS or #SocialMedia
"eYou", an EU #SocMed
If people who follow you on social media are called "followers", what do you call people you follow?
#SocialMedia #language #linguistics #poll
Happy Monday, fediverse!
Quick question. How well do you know the people you follow? Would you recognize them from their bios?
A new @iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.
"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/
Wrote and published a blog post last night on why I finally decided to delete my TikTok account 👀😃
#blog #tiktok #socialMedia #tech #writing
https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2026/02/17/first-step-to-freedom-deleting-tiktok/
The result is that X/Twitter is a Pornhub where everything is twisted around the particular kinks of a specific, and visibly disturbed individual. Whatever Musk wants, as the Voice of God, may or may not become the Voice of the People, but is probably what the people are going to end up talking about, whether they want to or not. This is what gives X/Twitter its Philip K. Dick quality - it’s like Dick’s novel Ubik, in which the characters repeatedly find their world being pulled back into the mental patterns of a predatory teenager-turned-existential-vampire, Jory Miller.From We're getting the social media crisis wrong: The bigger problem isn't disinformation. It's degraded democratic publics
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/1
El tiempo pasa y usuario a usuario y toot a toot, la red social Mastodon, acaba de cumplir 10 años. 🎂
Por muchos años más, para que esta red social libre y descentralizada siga evolucionando y continúe dando libertad al usuario para elegir donde quiere estar e interactuar, con cualquier otra red perteneciente al Fediverso. 🦣
#Mastodon #redsocial #socialmedia #SoftwareLibre #opensource
Marky Mark still hasn't updated the old Threads.net domain in the #Fediverse to the new Threads.com
Guess his superintelligence wasn't up to the challenge 🤖
On a side note: If #Meta wants a product to be "cool", @zuck should not wear it! 😎
❌ #Demeta now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta
#threads #ai #facebook #it #humor #mastodon #markzuckerberg #profile #joke #threadsnet #threadscom #tech #socialmedia #domain #online #internet #it #update #funny #superintelligence #zuck #artificialintelligence #ki
#SocialMedia I hope you will do everything in your power to make sure every single American voter sees this photo & understands that in our name Trump, Noem & their paramilitary forces broke in & dragged an elder fellow citizen out half naked in Crocs in Minnesota winter snow & ice for no fucking reason at all & paid the nazi loser bastards bonuses for doing it. #NeedstobeViral #FuckIce #Vote
It's an honour to announce that @jaz has joined the Newsmast Foundation as Commercial Advisor 👏
Jaz has supported the Newsmast Foundation since we first joined the Social Web. He's one of a small handful who realised the vision of our charity and believed in it from the start.
We can't wait to see how his experience helps us shape the future of Newsmast as we deliver our Apps for Change programme and help more communities join the Social Web.
Do you know any politicians who are participating in #FOSDEM? I would like to give them my letter and encourage them to #LeaveX: https://leavex.eu/letter
Tomorrow we will have the MEP @alexandrageese joining an interesting panel
The Fediverse and the EU's Digital Services Act: solving the challenges of modern social media?
After the nice presentations of @haubles and @andypiper, I've asked them, "How can a grassroots movement like the Fediverse compete with social networks like BlueSky that have the resources to travel to Brussels every other week?"
I also mentioned the @leavex campaign, which makes it easier for us to contact politicians and ask them to leave X and possibly join us. And how some politicians are already asking to remove their names from the group of politicians still on X.
I'm glad I could meet @_elena again and discuss these issues.
🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
The Sky Is Falling, The Web Is Dead - https://feed.tedium.co/link/15204/17193390/web-dead-predictions-george-colony?ref=feedle.world
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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads
"It’s all AI comments by fake people answered with fake replies by other fake people."
https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/
#news #linkedin #TechNews #technology #SocialMedia #AI #LLMs
15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO
@mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing.
#Technology #Tech #Media #Journalism #Publishing #Flipboard #Apps #SocialMedia #OpenSocial #SurfSocial
Little Green Men Dread
#SocialSplatter #Sundries #Poems #posts #SocialMedia #YesterdaysRiff #writingcommunity #blogging #haiku
#monoku #tanka
Even though sighted people have not joined this yet, I am witnessing an increased desire for more audio based social media apps such as this from sighted people. Ramblio https://ramblio.com/
Find me at https://ramblio.com/user/weird_writer
I just found a 4 minute video by Elena Rossini, @elena It's a really well-done intro video about the #fediverse.
https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/
It describes what the fediverse is, where it came from and why you are just now hearing about it.
Three years ago today, the idea of the Newsmast Foundation was born 🎂
Born from the pieces of what Twitter was, our founders knew that they needed to take action to help online communities come together to inform one another once again.
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#Newsmast #Birthday #SocialWeb #Fediverse #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Technology #3Today
We're very excited to be a 'Common Sponsor' of the @bonfire project 🔥
Bonfire offers and incredible opportunity for the Open Social Web. It will be great to see their work with various organisations, including us, come to life.
If you'd like to donate to Bonfire yourself, they've just launched a fundraiser here 👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/bonfire/community?refcode=FVxjqI1kLUOhHXxqyrS6-g
