Wake me up when record labels and media companies learn how to build marketing platforms, besides extracting feudal rents from others who do the job they should be doing.

#Music #UMG #SocialMedia #TikTok #Copyright #IP: "Universal Music is set to pull its millions of songs from TikTok after a breakdown in talks over payments.

The move would mean the social media platform would no longer have access to songs by artists including Taylor Swift, The Weeknd and Drake.

Universal accused TikTok of "bullying" and said it wanted to pay a "fraction" of the rate other social media sites do for access to its vast catalogue.

TikTok said Universal was presenting a "false narrative and rhetoric".

Music companies earn royalty payments when their songs are played on streaming and social media platforms.

Although TikTok - which is owned by Chinese company ByteDance - has more than one billion users, it accounts for just 1% of Universal's total revenue, the label said."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68150311

What We Lost When Twitter Became X - "As a former Twitter employee, I watched Elon Musk undermine one of the Internet’s most paradoxical, special places."

Article By Sheon Han https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-we-lost-when-twitter-became-x

#X #Twitter #SocialMedia

#Gaza #Israel

The #watermelon has long been a symbol of protest for #Palestinians, and as #SocialMedia users suspect platforms of censoring content about #Gaza, the corresponding emoji is being used in place of the Palestinian flag. Like the flag, the emoji is also red, green and black. #SocialMedia

The watermelon #emoji isn’t just #TikTok speak for Palestine
https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/09/watermelon-emoji-palestine-tiktok-filter-political-statement/

FB just asked me if I want AI to answer questions in my group for me and "generate activity" and, to quote Dorothy Parker

What fresh hell is this

#Facebook #SocialMedia #WTF #AI

I am having a moment of being anxious over how my toots lately have been Off Brand, and I am not putting up enough folklore/storytelling content. And I worry people will unfollow me for not being On Brand.

Then I realize this is probably peak Birbsite conditioning talking... 😬

#anxiety #BirdSite #SocialMedia

‘Serious breach’: social media platform X booted from Australia’s misinformation code https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/nov/27/x-twitter-removed-digi-misinformation-code-australia #auslaw #auspol #socialmedia #misinformation

As of today, I have been on Mastodon for one year (after 12 on the birb site). No regrets. I have more meaningful interactions, more followers who are real people, and my timeline feels a lot less like doomscrolling. It has been good for my mental health.

I know Mastodon is not perfect, and there are important things to do better. I hope we will. This place deserves it.

#SocialMedia #Mastodon

We just reached the 14 million milestone of Fediverse users.
Not a single ad displayed.
Not a single algorithm suggestion.
Nobody pushing hate speech.

Happy milestone, #Fediverse !

#SocialMedia #Community #Mastodon #OSS

Twitter chaos after Elon Musk takeover may have violated privacy order, DoJ alleges https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/13/twitter-elon-musk-takeover-ftc-order-data-security-privacy-doj-case US Department of Justice questions compliance with FTC order on data security and privacy practices. #Uslaw #socialmedia

Is it me or people using their decades-old photos as profile pics is objectively creepy?

Example: for years I believed a guy was 30ish, but then I found a semi-recent photo where he looks like he's 70.

#creepy #avatar #socialmedia #people #photos

When we held up a mirror to Elon Musk’s Twitter/X he tried to sue us into silence | Imran Ahmed https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/06/when-we-held-up-a-mirror-to-elon-musks-twitterx-he-tried-to-sue-us-into-silence #hatespeech #advertising #socialmedia

#Attention is the fundamental event. Anything that happens outside it, does not enter your experience. Attention is a tube that directs sunlight on some part of your inner garden, and not on others. It is how you cultivate yourself. You are what you attend to. There is nothing more serious.

https://earlywithdrawal.net/tolton/2021/06/10/good-bye-harajuku

#tiktok #instagram #whatsapp #posttruth #socialmedia