Conversation

Notices

Embed this notice
Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 20:52:43 JST Evan Prodromou
in reply to
- Nelson Chu Pavlosky
@skyfaller "pervert any federation to harm the fediverse"?
What is that supposed to mean?

In conversation about 3 months ago from cosocial.ca permalink
- Embed this notice
  Nelson Chu Pavlosky (skyfaller@jawns.club)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2024 20:52:44 JST Nelson Chu Pavlosky
  
  @evan Qualified yes. They should support open standards, but without some sort of accountability, they could remove it at any time, or pervert any federation to harm the fediverse... It would be foolish to rely on it in the current climate. Perhaps some government mandate, like the adversarial interoperability Cory Doctorow has proposed?
  Also their moderation is so bad that it's been radicalizing people into Nazis, so federation might make fedi more Nazi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right_pipeline
  In conversation about 3 months ago permalink
  Attachments
  1. Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: upload.wikimedia.org
    
    Alt-right pipeline
    
    The alt-right pipeline (also called the alt-right rabbit hole) is a proposed conceptual model regarding internet radicalization toward the alt-right movement. It describes a phenomenon in which consuming provocative right-wing political content, such as antifeminist or anti-SJW ideas, gradually increases exposure to the alt-right or similar far-right politics. It posits that this interaction takes place due to the interconnected nature of political commentators and online communities, allowing members of one audience or community to discover more extreme groups. This process is most commonly associated with and has been documented on the video platform YouTube, and is largely faceted by the method in which algorithms on various social media platforms function through the process recommending content that is similar to what users engage with, but can quickly lead users down rabbit-holes. The effects of YouTube's algorithmic bias in radicalizing users has been replicated by one study, although two other studies found little or no evidence of a radicalization process. Many political movements have been associated with the pipeline...

Public

Conversation

Notices

Feeds