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Today, for Trans Day of Remembrance, @LGBTQNation has put together this Flipboard Storyboard. "Now more than ever, commemorating the Trans Day of Remembrance is a revolutionary act of solidarity that gives our community a memorial to honor our fallen, reflect on what we’ve endured, and advocate for a better future together," writes Daniel Villarreal.

https://flipboard.com/@lgbtqnation/trans-remembrance-awareness-0ttr30b1bvgfj4fa

#TransDayOfRemembrance #TDOR #TransRights #TransRightsAreHumanRights #LGBTQ #LGBTQRights

RE: https://flipboard.social/@surf/115584100375782527

Psst, there's a new version of Surf and it's awesome!

"The 'Why I’m Leaving Substack' post is the new 'Goodbye to All That,'” writes Sarah Scrier for NiemanLab. Some top newsletter writers — including Anne Helen Petersen, Lyz Lenz, and Virginia Sole-Smith — have left Substack for Patreon. Email delivery issues, poor technical support and an overemphasis on social features were reasons for their departure. Both Petersen and Lenz also referenced Substack's platforming of Nazis and hate speech in their farewell notes. Here's more.

https://flip.it/L22UTT

#Media #News #Publishing #Substack #Patreon #Newsletters #LyzLenz #AnneHelenPetersen #VirginiaSoleSmith

Missed @ben's keynote at this year's @fediforum? Here's the full transcript. "The opportunity right now isn't to build a better Twitter or to provide a nice place for people who care about Linux to chat: it's to build infrastructure that vulnerable people can actually use to organize, to communicate safely, and to build community. But we can only do that if we're building with those communities from day one, not building for them based on our assumptions about what they need."

https://flip.it/Xs9Lur

#OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Community #CommmunityBuilding #FediForum #Fediverse #Media #ActivityPub #ATProto #Protocols #Technology #Tech

After 29 years of being associated with NBC News, MSNBC is becoming independent, starting with breaking its relationships with correspondents and crews, and ending with a name change to MS NOW. Poynter Institute reports on the official 10 principles of reporting that were circulated to newsrooms staff today, and interviews Brian Carovillano, senior vice president of standards and editorial partnerships, about the way forward.

https://flip.it/lN2q.R

#News #Media #Journalism #MSNBC #NBC

FediForum is coming up. It's an unconference, so the agenda is set by the attendees, but we do know that it will be unmissable, featuring a keynote from @ben and sessions from people like @quillmatiq, @j12t and more. Here's the schedule, plus some of what's on the cards.

https://fediforum.org/2025-10/

#FediForum #Fediverse #OpenSocial #ActivityPub #Developers #Conference #UnConference

Columnist Philip Bump left the Washington Post last month after accepting a buyout. For his Pbump blog, he writes about power — who has it and is using it responsibly and how to preserve your own — and why he is not a fan of Twitter/X or Substack. "There’s value to debate and conversation, of course, but that isn’t what’s fostered on Twitter or (in my limited experience) on Substack. Instead, conversation occasionally glimmers through a waterfall of bad-faith, uninformed trolls and attacks. It’s an effort to play a college football game after the crowd has stormed the field."

https://flip.it/cVKlO2

#Journalism #Media #SocialMedia #Twitter #Substack #WashingtonPost

@molly0xfff is one of the most interesting tech critics out there, covering subjects like crypto industry spending in politics, Web3, and the tech industry as a whole with integrity and (sometimes) optimism. She spoke to NiemanLab about her Follow the Crypto site, her love of RSS, migrating from Substack to @ghost, and more. At the second and third links find her DotSocial conversation with @mike and an extract from her Fediverse House presentation at last year's SXSW.

https://flip.it/N3o96i
https://flipboard.video/w/ovAsDRovkgbihkZa3wMcUA
https://flipboard.video/w/p7cECAUgThGrfQo9Cqvb8r

#DotSocial #SXSW #MollyWhite #Crypto #Technology #Tech #RSS #Ghost

We're proud to support A New Social, a non-profit helmed by @quillmatiq and @snarfed.org. Learn more here about its mission to liberate people's networks from their platforms, and level the playing field across the open social web.

https://www.anew.social/hello-social-web/

#OpenSocialWeb #SocialNetworks #SocialWeb #Bluesky #BridgyFed #PeopleNotPlatforms

Good news! You can now find @Defector on Flipboard and in the fediverse, thanks to their federated account. Follow them for coverage of sports, pop culture, and more.

https://flipboard.com/@defector

#Flipboard #Federation #ActivityPub #Sports #Media #Journalism #Fediverse

"Despite the fact that generative AI has been a destructive force against their businesses, their industry, and the truth more broadly, media executives still see AI as a business opportunity and a shiny object that they can tell investors and their staffs that they are very bullish on," writes @jasonkoebler for @404mediaco. He describes why this pivot to AI won't work — and why media organizations should be focusing on human work and building real relationships with their audiences. "There is no reason for an individual journalist or an individual media company to make the fast food of the internet. It’s already being made, by spammers and the AI companies themselves. It is impossible to make it cheaper or better than them, because it is what they exist to do. The actual pivot that is needed is one to humanity. Media companies need to let their journalists be human. And they need to prove why they’re worth reading with every article they do."

https://flip.it/oEOZfB

#Media #Journalism #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #MediaIndustry

NewsGuard, the company that rates how reliable online information is with "nutrition labels," is retiring the words "misinformation" and "disinformation," saying they no longer help explain the threats they describe. "[They are] vague, overused, and increasingly seen as partisan. When everything is 'disinformation,' nothing is, and public trust continues to disintegrate," says a blogpost from AI and Foreign Influence Editor McKenzie Sadeghi, who explains more about NewsGuard's rationale, and what terms they will be using in the future.

https://flip.it/7yTDjO

#Misinformation #Disinformation #News #Media #MediaIndustry

Ghost’s @johnonolan and WordPress’s @pfefferle want to help blogs and long content thrive on the open social web. Meet “the longformers,” who chatted to @mike for the latest edition of Dot Social.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/john-onolan-and-matthias-pfefferle/

#DotSocial #Ghost #WordPress #Fediverse #FederatedMedia #ActivityPub #Federation

This year, social media displaced TV and online news websites/apps as the top way Americans get news, according to Oxford’s Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ). According to their latest Digital News Report, the change is happening all over the world, but "faster and with more impact" in the United States. Here's more detail and other findings from the research, courtesy of Nieman Lab.

https://flip.it/2s2ai2

#News #NewsIndustry #Media #Journalism #USNews

Remember when the web was fun? @cwebber does, and she reminded users of that in her keynote speech at last week's FediForum, in which she talked about how the fediverse can't succeed without joy. Here's @ricmac's writeup of the event, which included presentations from @_elena, @quillmatiq, @mike, @michael, @benpate and more.

https://flip.it/ft862s

#Fediverse #FediForum #ActivityPub #SocialMedia #OpenSocial

It’s Friday! It’s nearly June! How the heck did that happen?! Here’s our #NewstodonFriday selection of stories from independent newsrooms and a few that caught the Flipboard editorial team’s eye. And while there’s hard-hitting journalism in there (we live in hard-hitting times), there’s more than our usual number of inspiring, positive stories of hope and beauty amidst destruction and oppression. @timkmak’s team writes about secret apartment concerts in Ukraine. @TheConversationUS’s story is about “bone music” in Soviet Russia. We’ll end with a Tiny Desk concert from @npr to take you into the weekend. Please follow independent publishers on the open social web, engage with their stories, and donate money if you can. ⤵️

#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

They may share a suffix (and a protocol), but Blacksky isn’t hitching its wagon to the Bluesky app or team. Founder and CEO @rudyfraser.com is creating a new, fiercely independent playbook for communities — one made possible because of the flexibility of the open web. We're excited for you to hear the latest episode of @mike's Dot Social podcast:

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/blacksky-rudy-fraser/

#DotSocial #Podcast #SocialMedia #SocialNetwork #Federation #OpenSocial #OpenSocialWeb #Blacksky #BlackMastodon @blackmastodon #RudyFraser #Technology #Tech #Bluesky

The Memorial Day weekend in the U.S. typically marks the start of summer there, so here’s a collection of light and frothy… just kidding! We’ve got stagflation! We’ve got a barnstormer from @Daojoan about the global loss of virtue and morality! We’ve got Dr. Phil’s son and his payday loans! In and amongst the hard news, find a little optimism with not one, but two stories on helping birds, a piece from @TexasObserver on how Jess Rizo, whose niece died in the Uvalde shooting, turned pain into a run for public office, and some inspiring stories on activism from @Joysauce. Don’t forget to follow independent publishers on the open social web, engage with their stories, and donate money if you can. ⤵️

#Media #Journalism #News #Newstodon #MastodonMigration #FollowFriday

Graphic novel legends Art Spiegelman and Joe Sacco collaborated on a three-page “comic” about Gaza earlier this year. @thetyee’s Tom Sandborn thought that might lead to controversy, but it didn’t. He looks at the art of the comic form — how it can provoke, satirize, and challenge moral complacency, and whether it’s journalism.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2025/05/22/Comics-Power-Moral-Horror-Spiegelman-Sacco-Gaza/

#Culture #Art #Comics #Journalism #Media #GraphicNovels #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

John J. Lennon lives at Sing Sing Correctional Facility, where he is serving his 24th year of a 28-years-to-life sentence. He’s also a journalist whose work has appeared in Esquire, the New York Times, the Atlantic, and more. Until last year, he was at Sullivan Correctional Facility, where he mentored emerging writers, both informally and most recently, through the Sullivan Nonfiction Writing Workshop. He writes for @nybooks about setting that up, and what happened when it came to an end with the prison’s closure. “I often think about the time before I came to prison, when I had no promising future. I’ve come to realize that two opposing realities can be true at once: prison probably saved my life and it’s where I learned to write; and prison is a disgusting place that’s hurting me more now than ever,” he writes. “I’m both ashamed and proud of my path. But it wouldn’t have been possible if prison officials hadn’t given writing programs a chance.” [Story may be paywalled]

https://www.nybooks.com/online/2025/05/21/finding-the-story-prison-writing/

#Writing #Journalism #AmWriting #Prison #Incarceration #JusticeSystem #Crime #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday