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TikTok goes dark in the US - POLITICO:

"The possibility of a TikTok return will now lie with Trump, who has promised to broker a deal to save the app and is considering granting it a 90-day extension."

Something tells me Meta is lurking in the shadows. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/18/tiktok-shutdown-before-us-ban-00199167

The Ghosts in the Machine, by Liz Pelly:

"Such artists often had millions of streams on Spotify and pride of place on the company’s own mood-themed playlists, which were compiled by a team of in-house curators. And they often had Spotify’s verified-artist badge. But they were clearly fake. Their “labels” were frequently listed as stock-music companies like Epidemic, and their profiles included generic, possibly ... https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2024/12/25/the-ghosts-in-the-machine.html

@taylorlorenz it's because there's a "noindex" tag in the head. This is telling search engines not to display the article in search results

All this political theater is making Luigi Mangione look cool as hell, I fear. (The optics aren’t doing anything to help the idea that we have an overly militarized police problem either.)

Is this a subtweet?

https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/w3c-statement-on-ethical-web-principles-guides-the-community-to-build-a-better-web/

Is there a noun for decentralized social media that isn't so clumsy or not affiliated with a particular protocol (Fediverse)?

When I write I keep wanting to use the word "platform" though I know that's incorrect. But there isn't a simple equivalent term.

Or even something more generic. Network? Ecosystem? "Protocol" isn't all encompassing.

This might sound out there, but I think Jeff Bezos' recent op-ed wasn't an attempt to quell the revolt by his largely liberal-leaning readership.

It was an appeal to a new demographic— the far right.

There are nods to conservatives peppered all across his open letter.

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 86 – The Fediverse Report:

"A 15 minute delay is a long time in microblogging, and significantly impacts things like breaking news, and live-posting sports events. It also meaningfully impacts the ability to have a back-and-forth conversation with people in a comment section."

The fact that this was first reported by #TechCrunch but you wouldn’t know it because they burried the lede under rosy coverage. https://fediversereport.com/last-week-in-fediverse-ep-86/

Funny thing is #Meta can't stop being a cartoon villain character long enough for the #socialweb guys to defend themselves.

They're like, "#Threads isn't so bad you guys, they actually--" BREAKING NEWS ZUCKERBERG CAUGHT FUELING AI SUPER COMPUTER WITH BABY ORANGUTANS

#ActivityPub #IndieWeb

@BeAware

https://socialwebfoundation.org/donate/

Sources:

https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/24/as-the-open-social-web-movement-grows-a-new-nonprofit-launches-to-expand-the-fediverse/

https://www.fordfoundation.org/work/our-grants/awarded-grants/

https://socialwebfoundation.org/donate/

The way this Tech Crunch article is phrased, you'd might walk away thinking that the Ford Foundation's "large grant" made up a lion's share of the #SocialWebFoundation's financial support.

But only $50k of the One Million Dollars in funding for the #SWF came from The Ford Foundation, back in February of this year.

The other $950,000?

#Fediverse #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #OpenWeb

There’s a specific flavor of aggression that comes from non-conservative, predominately white digital spaces. I think it draws from insecurity, almost like a projection.

#Twitter had it, to an extent, in the 2010s. As liberal-leaning as the hell-site was, there was always an unsettling presence of anti-Blackness. It was never overt, at least in the more liberal corners.

It was more like the persistent humming of an air conditioner— easy to tune out, but if you listened you could hear it.

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A Fedi-Coming-to-Jesus:

More than even the threat of #Meta, if the #Fediverse does not address its anti-Blackness in the general populace, it will rot the community from the inside out.

You can hate me for mentioning it if you want, but you know it's true. Deep down, you can feel it, too. Sometimes, we’re afraid to admit a problem we don't immediately know how to fix.

And that's fine—it's human. But history is clear about what happens if we don't figure this out.

#socialweb #indieweb 1/

And Twitter? Well, we all know what happened there, right? White supremacy found a crack and exploited it.

Because its never, ever, enough to simply call out cartoonish forms of racism. It’s the insidious kind that always gets us.

It thrives in environments where we falsing believe that our political ideologies exempt us from rasicm. It scans the corners of the web that willfulling ignore the absence of certain people.

The #Fediverse is not exempt. In fact, those cracks are well established.

And when white supremacy finds a sufficiently sized crack, which is never as big as we’d think, it pushes through until that crack is a gaping chasm of rushing water.

History confirms this narrative— Punks, wellness, cottagecore, furries—all well-meaning, predominantly white spaces that didn’t deal with the hums of anti-Blackness until it was too late.

They chose to get defensive instead of introspective.

#SocialWeb #Fediverse #IndieWeb

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It's this festering insecurity that makes communities vulnerable to infiltration of the more caricaturized form of racism. 

Explicit expressions of white supremacy are often forced to live in the margins of polite society. So, it must hide in coded language and micro-aggressions.

But that's not where WS wants to be. It wants to live in the sunlight, out in the open for all to see. So, WS is constantly scanning for cracks in societal norms.

#Fediverse #IndieWeb #SocialWeb

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The one thing about white Twitter spaces that always baffled me was how often their approach to Black liberation was simply to ignore Black liberators.

I don't mean metaphorically. I mean how Academia Twitter, intellectual twitter, journalist Twitter, all, would just straight up ignore Black activists in the comments.

Tell a predominant white academic that their worldview is incomplete, and doesn't consider people of color, and its crickets 🦗. Always.

#Fediverse #IndieWeb

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The older I get the more I realize just how common talent is in the world. Knowing that doesn't make talent any less impressive, just that it makes you appreciate how rare opportunity is.

You know how email is walled off to the control of like four mega corporations?

Well, we were thinking social media doesn't suck enough, so...

#threads #fediverse