The latest FOSS Academic post is "Standards War?":
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/03/05/standardsWar.html
In which I contrast the fact that @iftas is shutting down some of its services against the advent of "Free Our Feeds," and I speculate that maybe we're seeing an ATProto/ActivityPub standards war.
Latest FOSS Academic: Introducing the Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/02/01/asmNet.html
This is a new hub for academic researchers who study alternative social media.
Pretty apropos for Global Switch Day!
Latest FOSS Academic:
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/18/makingAlts.html
In which I talk about how state regulations are affecting the development of ActivityPub and the fediverse, and how trying to make a TOS for Loops by using an online service resulted in a surveillance capitalist-friendly document.
Latest FOSS Academic!
https://fossacademic.tech/2025/01/10/moreThreadsBskyAP.html
In which I talk about my new monitoring of Threads's fediverse blocklist, the @cwebber and Bryan Newbold debate, and the trust and safety work of @thisismissem
Latest FOSS Academic is pretty much dominated by @404media materials -- shout out to them!
This ASM update is about the Bluesky bump as well as how AI is being integrated into social engineering attacks. Kind of a mix of my current research interests!
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/11/16/ASMupdate.html
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Latest FOSS Academic post:
Hey, Journalists: X is now Truth Social. Start treating it that way.
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/11/08/ASMandTFG.html
In which I argue that, if they cannot leave X, journalists need to treat it like Truth Social. Dip in, copy what you gotta copy, and get out.
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Latest #FOSSAcademic post: On Threads's Blocklist
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/06/28/ThreadsBlocking.html
In which I offer some quick analysis of #Meta #Threads new list of blocked servers.
There's so much more we can do to study what Threads is doing. Indeed, I will have a chapter on Threads in my book. But these are my initial thoughts a day into this event.
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Latest #FOSSAcademic post: "Maven Ain't So Mavenly":
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/06/12/Maven.html
In which I argue that #Maven, a new social media site, is not only breaking norms of the #fediverse by #scraping without consent -- they're ironically violating their own stated reason for existing in the first place.
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Latest #FOSSAcademic post: "Decentralization or Noncentralization, Bluesky or the Fediverse?"
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/04/30/DecentralizedNoncentralized.html
In which I contrast decentralization with noncentralization by looking at #Bluesky's approach versus that of the #fediverse.
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Latest #FOSSAcademic: "Reading the Online Harms Act with my Fediverse Admin Hat On"
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/04/10/Online-Harms-Act.html
In which I discuss Canada's proposed #OnlineHarmsAct from the perspective of a #fediverse #admin. While I understand the reason for the Act, I also note it could likely put a burden on fedi admins. And the big question I have is: how will the Act define the fediverse?
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Latest #FOSSAcademic post: Researching the fediverse from the perspective of individual or instances. In which I draw on an article by Christina Dunbar-Hester to talk about researchers' perspectives on the #fediverse, including my own.
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/03/14/Instances-and-Individuals.html
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edited to fix typo / I need glasses
Latest #FOSSAcademic blog post: a preview of my book about #Mastodon and the #fediverse
https://fossacademic.tech/2024/02/11/Move-Slowy-Preview.html
The post goes through "Move Slowly and Build Bridges" chapter by chapter -- except the conclusion, which is still in progress.
I'm really excited by this book and I hope many of you will be, too!
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Lots of folks have comments on #Meta's #Threads integrating #ActivityPub, so I thought I'd join the fun.
Latest #FOSSAcademic post: "Thoughts on Threads, or Is Mark Zuckerberg Jesus?"
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/12/16/ThoughtsThreads.html
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Latest #FOSSAcademic post: I experimented with applied #ethics in my media ethics class, asking them to come up with a #CodeOfConduct for our experimental #Mastodon instance. The results were really good!
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/11/22/EthicsAndCOCs.html
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Latest #FOSSAcademic blog post: on #ActivityPub, the Non-Standard Standard.
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/10/15/APnonStandard.html
This is based on a presentation I'll be giving at #AoIR2023. It discusses 4 key ways ActivityPub is not a standard standard.
Comments welcome! You can comment on it by (publicly) responding to this Mastodon post.
Happy to announce that my next book, tentatively titled "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media" will be published by Oxford University Press!
Read more about it, and my process of writing the book, here on #FOSSacademic
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/08/17/OxfordUP.html
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On #FOSSAcademic: an #AlternativeSocialMedia update about content moderation and @Are0h [ubiqueros.com]'s Fediverse Safety Enhancement Project:
https://fossacademic.tech/2023/08/12/ASMupdateFSEP.html
Plus, a quick note to say the #AoIR2023 preconference focusing on alternative social media is a GO!
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