Bluesky is ushering in a pick-your-own algorithm era of social media
More than 20 million people have joined Bluesky, a social network that gives you fine-grained control over what you see and who you interact with. I think it is the future of social media, says Chris Stokel-Walker
La fuga de Twitter/X y la larga marcha de las migraciones digitales.
Pensar que la fuga de Twitter/X es la gran migración de la era digital es un espejismo fruto de las altas temperaturas y un inflacionado optimismo de la voluntad. Este no es el primero ni será el ú…
ChatGPT-4 Beat Doctors at Diagnosing Illness, Study Finds - Slashdot
Dr. Adam Rodman, a Boston-based internal medicine expert, helped design a study testing 50 licensed physicians to see whether ChatGPT improved their diagnoses, reports the New York TImes. The results? "Doctors who were given ChatGPT-4 along with conventional resources did only slightly better than...
Introducing ActivityBot - the simplest way to build Mastodon Bots
As you may have read, BotsIn.Space is closing down, I have lots of automated bot accounts living on the Fediverse - and I want them to continue posting. Installing and maintaining an entire Mastodon instance sounds like hard work. Paying people to host my stuff feels like putting my fate in someone else's hands. Say… […]
If you were to design an open social networking protocol, what would that look like? Which metaphors and comparisons would you use to get a general idea of how the network functions? And what would you answer if people ask if your network is decentralised and federated?
How the 'Fediverse' Works (and Why It Might Be the Future of Social Media)
Fediverse, which is a portmanteau of Federation and Universe, is the name for a new protocol for the social internet: a bunch of different social networks and platforms that are connected to each other. Users on any of these services can follow users on any other one and respond to, like, and share posts. Here's how it works and how it could change social media.
I. La red precursora de internet nace en Estados Unidos a finales de la década de 1960 con el objetivo de facilitar la comunicación y el uso compartido de recursos informáticos escasos entre centros de investigación. Hoy en día, a pesar de ese origen en la colaboración científica, persiste el
Is BlueSky similar to the Fediverse? No.
The Fediverse is owned by the people and communities that use it. A basic server costs $5 a month all inclusive, anyone can make one. It's ad-free, made by volunteers, funded by donations, servers are independent.
BlueSky is a for-profit corporation funded by VC money. Its technical structure makes servers dependent on expensive corporate-run relays. BlueSky's business setup is eerily reminiscent of Ello: https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/
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“Don’t research us”—How Mastodon instance rules connect to research ethics
Publizistik - Mastodon is a decentralized social network that has recently gained in popularity due to the platform changes of Twitter (now X). When it comes to collecting and analyzing...
Findings Report: Governance on Fediverse Microblogging Servers
Research report on Fediverse microblogging server governance: risks and mitigations, moderation, server leadership, federated diplomacy, and governance tooling.
Por qué Mastodon es mejor que Bluesky para apostar por las redes sociales federadas
Imagen por Eukombos, Wikimedia Commons. Fe de errores: En la primera versión de este texto había un error en la descripción técnica de Bluesky. Muchas gracias a Xan López y David Alonso por el avis…
Analysis of the research about the Fediverse: Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma and other fediverse platforms [Análisis de la investigación sobre el Fediverso: Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma y otras de sus plataformas] (https://doi.org/10.3145/infonomy.24.017) - Pedro Lázaro Rodríguez
2 tables including works about the paper: Analysis of the research about the Fediverse: Mastodon, Lemmy, Pleroma and other fediverse platforms (https://doi.org/10.3145/infonomy.24.017)
Flipboard Brings More News to the Fediverse - Flipboard
Today, Flipboard is federating the profiles of nine U.S. media sites, bringing their content to millions of people in the fediverse, a rapidly growing open-social network.