"I don't know if anyone is on X [Titter] anymore..."

https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/caucus/story/2018901907/campaigns-rev-into-gear-over-climate-dentalcare-and-cellphones

This comment from a working journalist speaks volumes. Only a year ago, it was unthinkable for any media professional *not* to be on Titter.

#SocialMedia #DataFarms

"Our Twitter Account TheDailyBlogNZ has been locked down after a complaint was made and despite numerous attempts to contact Twitter to resolve it, we are still shut down.

It’s ironic because they recently posted their commitment to fair elections…"

#BomberBradbury

https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2023/08/31/mediawatch-twitter-censorship-shuts-down-daily-blog-account-6-weeks-out-from-election/

#DataFarms #censorship

Wow, the #DataFarms are really circling the wagons bigtime. First Titter closing down API access, and then anonymous web access. Then cRedit closing down API access. ThemTube have been wriggling and kicking to stop instances of Invidious and Piped from working. Now they're hammering the devs of youtube-dl:

"Access denied... Due to a ruling of the Hamburg Regional Court, access to this website is blocked."

https://yt-dl.org/

Anyone know any other ways of downloading YT videos?

#YouTubeDL

"FaceBook decides which news your see and which news you don't. If FB or InstaGram or WhatsApp kicks you off their platform, it can cost you your artistic career... Or contact with your distant family... Microsoft, AirBnB, Uber, LinkedIn, the largest tech firms structure our lives in myriad ways, without regard to our wellbeing, without fear of competition, and largely without regulation. For now."

#CoryDoctorow, 'The Internet Con', 2023
https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/

#DataFarms #TechPolicy

I'll certainly be moving the job of emptying and deleting my remaining Goggle accounts to the top of my ToDo list : /

F&%king #DataFarmers. I wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire.

#privacy #DataFarms #Google #RealNamePolicy

@SylvieLorxu @daniel

Amazing how much the social media landscape has changed in recent years. Just 3 years ago, a media activist could make a statement like this, without being sarcastic:

"Twitter has been relatively more responsive to demands for Big Tech to take a stand against disinformation and even against glorifying violence."

#RedTani, Advocacy and Communications Director, @EngageMedia, July 2020

https://engagemedia.org/2020/facebook-fediverse-alternatives/

#SocialMedia #DataFarms #EngageMedia

Huh. I never thought about it before, but this is a very pithy description of corporate social media DataFarms:

"The spectacle is not an aggregate of images but a social relation among people, mediated by images."

Guy Record, 'The Society of the Spectacle'

Quoted in:
https://libcom.org/article/review-whatever-happened-situationists

#situationists #spectacle #DataFarms

So Meta are now moving their people into the #W3C community processes that standardised ActivityPub:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-swicg/2023Jul/0032.html

This is both a crisis and an opportunity.

#Standards #ActivityPub #DataFarms #Meta

Ah! Mystery solved:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/what-does-twitter-rate-limit-exceeded-mean-users-2023-07-03/

No doubt this has kicked off yet another wave of immigration into the verse from the dying blue bird. Which makes the atmosphere here a bit twitchy for a while, until all the newbies start to calm down and settle in. But still, I can't help but sit back and enjoy yet another round of schadenfreude ; )

#DataFarms

No joke, this was the title of a real article published on Psychology Today in 2012. How far we've come...

'Is There Something Wrong With People Who Don't Use Facebook?'

#ScottAMcGreal, 2012

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unique-everybody-else/201209/is-there-something-wrong-people-who-dont-use-facebook

#psychology #DataFarms #FaceBook #FarceBook

"What was painted by Reddit management, initially, as an attempt to force the deep-pocketed developers of large language model AI programs to pay for access to a massive trove of precious natural language now looks more like a grubby attempt to kill off third-party apps, and force all Reddit users into official, and more easily monetizable, channels."

#AlexPareene, 2023

https://defector.com/the-last-page-of-the-internet

#Reddit #DataFarms

I totally support this petition to establish a NZ Anti-Corruption Commission. But to sign it, I'm asked to put my name, email address and phone number into a web form that is infested with third-party JavaScript. Much of it from corporations known for DataFarming (including Goggle, FB and Titter). Ironically, this anti-corruption petition has been corrupted.

https://www.top.org.nz/petition_establish_an_anti-corruption_commission

#corruption #AntiCorruptionCommission #DataFarms

@tchambers
> More rumors of what Instagram's new Mastodon/Fediverse interoperableTwitter-like app may be:

... and right on queue, the psychopaths start to show up, hungry for the various forms of capital they hope to extract from our little subculture:

https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths

@chrismessina

#DataFarms #Meta #Barelona #fediverse

Chinese dissidents are discovering that depending on DataFarms to get their messages out isn't always reliable:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/technology/twitter-china-elon-musk.html

#SocialMedia #DataFarms #ShadowBans

@mnl
#TIL Spotify is now part of TenCent, the Chinese tech corporation that owns WeChat:

https://www.techinasia.com/spotify-tencent-deal

#DataFarms #TenCent #Spotify

> free for our use case. But that freedom...

The lack of a price is not freedom, it's patronage.

> ... came with a different kind of price

Patronage always does ;)

#MikeMasnick #DataFarms

"I think we used MeasureMap before Google bought it and wrapped it into Google Analytics. And, to be clear, Google Analytics worked decently well, had a nice interface (much nicer than most competitors) and, of course, was free for our use case. But that freedom came with a different kind of price — which is that Google was tracking users on our site. And that was becoming both more and more problematic, and more of a nuisance."

#MikeMasnick, 2021

https://www.techdirt.com/2021/07/27/techdirt-is-now-entirely-without-any-google-ads-tracking-code/

#DataFarms

Watching people who I know agree on far more than they disagree on, and whose knowledge and ethical standards I respect , ripping strips off each other in gladiatorial combat is freaky. Truly a testament to the awesome divisive power of The Algorithms.

#DataFarms #polarization

😅😂🤣

"Twitter sources say the view count feature itself may be contributing to the decline in engagement, and therefore views. The like and retweet buttons were made smaller to accommodate the display of views, making them harder to easily tap."

#twitter #socialmedia #datafarms

Ah, the schadenfreude :P

"It has now been seven weeks since #Twitter added public view counts for every tweet. At the time, Musk promised that the feature would give the world a better sense of how vibrant the platform is...

Almost two months later, though, view counts have had the opposite effect, emphasizing how little engagement most posts get relative to their audience size."

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

#SocialMedia #DataFarms