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