The communities that call Twitter home might decide to pack their bags. If they do, they are unlikely to be able to completely reconstitute themselves elsewhere.
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A forensic technique more often used at modern crime scenes identified blood residue from large extinct animals on spearpoints and stone tools used by people who lived in the Carolinas millennia ago.
Twitter uses an AI-powered centrally managed algorithm to moderate what you see. On Bluesky, you have control over the algorithm that selects what you see through so-called ‘composable moderation’.
Here are the trends on the cusp of transforming the online world.
Radical change at Twitter shows how quickly strategies and values can shift in Big Tech. New Zealand needs to be less reliant on overseas solutions for its own digital infrastructure plans.
The turmoil at Twitter has many people turning to an alternative, Mastodon. The social media platform does a lot of what Twitter and Facebook do, but there are key differences.
Mastodon is open-source software that enables a decentralized social media network. It operates differently from the corporate-owned social media platforms we have become accustomed to.
With Twitter users considering a relocation to the decentralized social media network Mastodon, there’s an opportunity for the CBC to lead the way in re-imagining online futures for Canadians.
Thousands of Twitter users are jumping ship – and Mastodon might become their new home. But it’s not a clone of the ‘blue bird site’.
The communities that call Twitter home might decide to pack their bags. If they do, they are unlikely to be able to completely reconstitute themselves elsewhere.
Citizens’ social media is a form of alternative media that challenges both mainstream media and right-wing propaganda.
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Research Fellow, Blockchain Innovation Hub, RMIT University
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Assistant Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Associate Professor in Information and Communication Technology Policy, Concordia University
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, University of the West of Scotland
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Professor, Sociology/Media & Technology Studies, University of Alberta
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Research Professor and Director of the Southeastern Paleoamerican Survey (SEPAS) at the South Carolina Institute for Archaeology and Anthropology, University of South Carolina
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Associate Professor in Information Systems, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
