Notices by Stéphane Bortzmeyer (bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr)

Les rézosocios, ça ne sert pas qu'à mettre des images de chat, ça sert aussi à dire qu'il neige.

Dix millionième pouète de la journée qui annonce « ici, il neige »

https://botsin.space/@DNSresolver/113520147749370076

Does the Internet Route Around Damage? (Spoiler: in the case of the Baltic Sea Cable Cuts, yes)

https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/does-the-internet-route-around-damage-baltic-sea-cable-cuts/

@aral @noybeu Isn't it a bad advice? If you delete your account, a bad guy could register an account with the same identifier, and use (and waste) your reputation.

@becha But jobs.ripe.net does not exist https://botsin.space/@DNSresolver/113514012392249457

Alexandre Faye (Bibliothèque nationale de France)

The Buzz-f project: track virality on the BnF Web archives (experimental).

#HIVI

Quentin Lobbé (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences – CAMS/CNRS, EHESS)

Nice visualisations.

#HIVI

There were memes before the Internet. The analysis of a chain letter in the USA in the 19th century.

It was not a scam but a real fundraising system.

Fun fact : the number of people that you "must" relay the letter to, increased when the photocopiers became common.

#HIVI

Good morning, Luxembourg! Second day of the #HIVI conference about online virality https://hivi.uni.lu/2024/06/25/hivi-final-conference-online-virality-past-present-future/

This morning, I give a small talk about the possibility of virality on the fediverse.

Coincidence, one of the authors of the book of the #HIVI project https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111311371/html just wrote in The Conversation about the number 1 viral thing: cats 🐈 https://theconversation.com/pourquoi-les-chats-ont-envahi-internet-243088

OK, let's start. Idil Galip (University of Amsterdam) on "Beyond Virality: The Triumph of “Niche” Content on Algorithmically Ordered Platforms"

(Yes, every platform, including Matstodon or Pleroma interfaces, order according to an algorithm. But she talks about the platforms that do not follow a chronological order and choose which content to display.)

#HIVI

Bucher even acknowledges that social scientists do not use algorithm in the correct sense. For them, it is simply a synonymous of software taking decisions they don't like.

"It's like we are talking of God"
.

#HIVI

NIche content is something which is not mainstream (does not an incredible number of likes/reposts) but has a lot of meaning for a specific group.

Content does not need to be successfuli n numbers to be important. (As the speaker says "define success")

#HIVI

Live experience: the speaker displays a crossover of two memes and asks who in the audience know what these memes are about. (Four hands raised. I had myself no idea.)

#HIVI #niche

I love the term "curated spontaneity".

#HIVI

Sorry for not live tooting the roundtable this morning at the #HIVI conference but I was in it so I could'nt fediwriting at the same time.

Then the workshop where, in small groups, we worked on analyzing memes. The group I'm in worked on the "Put it back" meme after the #Evergiven was freed from the Suez Canal.

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Ever-Green-PUT-IT-BACK-by-llevine2934/74851521.SWO0S.XYZ

#HIVI

Roundtable on methods and archives at #HIVI.

Fred Pailler starts: how do you study online virality? Which sources? Internet Archive, scientific datasets, commercial platforms (APIs less and less open to researchers), Wikipedia keeps track of some memes, etc

Ben Els (Bibliothèque nationale du Luxembourg) about the Luxembourg Web Archive, which archives all the luxembourgish Web sites. (All the sites under .lu and a few others.)

Plus extra collection for important events.

They also have a special access to news sites with paywall like https://lequotidien.lu. (Harvest becomes more and more difficult, crawlers struggle with various barriers. For instance, crawling Facebook for pages of election candidates is hard.)

#HIVI

First question: "why is it useful to study online virality, after all?"

#goodQuestion #HIVI

"Virality is a good excuse to study a lot of interesting things"