Who knows your profile knows your preferences. Who knows your preferences can steer you. This is not democracy. It's control sold as "personalization."

#democracy #privacy #privacymatters #algorithms #socialmedia #bigtech #elections

Spawn

#My #First #Toot #FediVerse #SocialMedia

Meta Platforms said it agreed to pay up to $18 billion in landmark settlements to resolve social media claims from U.S. states that would require it to make major changes to how it operates platforms like Instagram. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/27/tech/meta-18-billion-social-media-court/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #meta #socialmedia #markzuckerberg #facebook #instagram #mentalhealth #children

Looks to me like Meta has calculated how much looked like a good settlement & has paid it primarily to keep the evidence that was going to be appearing in the court case about harming children to some extent out of the public eye, or at lest keep it from being exposed in a legal proceeding.

Many may see this as a victory, but it looks like one more twist & turn to swerve real change & responsibility, to me....

#Meta #SocialMedia #politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cy5v0vrlp4xt

I've followed the instructions here to the letter and have moved my account with success to another server.

The standard instructions of mastodon were already clear. This guide shines in emphasizing the extra important steps

Thank you

@FediTips

# Fediverse #move #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Universal #Love

The Three Screens That Made Us Still Part II

Where television demanded passive reception of whatever the broadcaster chose, and social media delivered personalized content optimized for maximum dwell time, the adaptive learning systems promised something different: personalized education tailored to individual needs. Yet the mechanism remained surveillance. The system watched.

https://elearningworld.net/the-three-screens-that-made-us-still-part-ii/ #socialmedia #algorithms #AI #artificialintelligence #television

Democracy begins with autonomous minds, not programmed preferences.
#DigitalAutonomy #algorithms #democracy #socialmedia #privacy

🦅 #Meta #SocialMedia #TechLaw 👨‍⚖️

https://www.techpolicy.press/four-states-take-meta-to-trial-in-california-the-latest-front-in-sprawling-multidistrict-fight/

Is it more important that publications post on the Fediverse, or that they don't post on X?

#EvanPoll #poll #SocialMedia #Publishing

"X’s algorithm learns what you hate and shows you more of it, according to a new study just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)."

https://www.404media.co/xs-algorithm-feeds-off-ragebait-and-impacts-democrats-more-study-finds/

#X #Twitter #XItter #SocialMedia

Mom knows her child... or thinks she does.
📊 Meta KNOWS it better, through data, tracking, algorithms. They know more about your child than yourself, and use this knowledge to keep them hooked to their platform.

That's not normal.

#meta #dataprivacy #privacy #algorithms #socialmedia #children

#Bluesky says its recent outage was caused by another #DDoS attack

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/18/bluesky-says-its-recent-outage-was-caused-by-another-ddos-attack/

#cybersecurity #SocialMedia

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/117118934751306123

"OpenAI effectively acknowledged today that it knows which features and attributes cause brain rot, addiction, and attachment — and that it knows how to turn them off"

"Brain rot is profitable because, as users are dumbed down and made lazy, they come to depend more on chatbots to function in their jobs and personal lives"

"OpenAI weighed user harm against its own profit and chose profit"🤮

Hmmm... We've been here before, haven't we? 🤔

#SovereignByDesign #DigitalAutonomy #GenAI #SocialMedia

🦅 #Meta #SocialMedia #TechLaw 👩‍⚖️

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly5r7vr7q1o