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🎉 OSoMe Awesome Speakers is back 🎉 Join us on February 8th for 🇺🇦 [email protected]'s talk, The Emergent Structure of the Online Information Ecosystem, at 12pm ET. Register at osome.iu.edu/events/speaker….

A perfect storm for online scams: 📈 cybercrime increased exponentially during the pandemic 🤖 deepfake creation tools are cheap and accessible 💸 platforms are investing less in moderation. nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news…

Our first newsletter of 2024 is out 💌 ✦ Check out our 7 policies for the #DigitalCommons ✦ Read more about our new team member ✦ Sign up for an Alignment Assembly on #AI, Creators, and Commons Sign up or access the issue 👉 mailchi.mp/openfuture/pol…

.danah boyd on KOSA and attempts to regulate social platforms in the name of protecting children: "This doesn’t get fixed by pushing youth to the darkest corners of the internet or outing them to their parents through surveillance tools." zephoria.substack.com/p/kosa-isnt-de…

an oldie but goodie

See you after work in Washington, DC, at our Happy Hour with the Integrity Institute from 5-7 at Bar Chinois near Chinatown lu.ma/hogkju9s

Check out Bonfire's experiment based on a design pattern documented by @DesignProsocial: adding a feature that allow moderators to label posts misleading, reliable, or related. bonfirenetworks.org/posts/content_…

"Nearly 1 in 10 Gen Zers are more likely to rely on TikTok than Google as a search engine." Top categories include finding new recipes, music and DIY tips adobe.com/express/learn/…

Let's zoom in on an under-examined dimension of online groups: the visibility of group norms. We’re sharing what we've learned about supporting community stewards in establishing prosocial norms with our co-design partner, hylo. newpublic.substack.com/p/empowering-c…

Research: most of us are lurkers. "The vast majority of those who say they use these platforms have accounts with them, but less than half who have accounts — and even smaller proportions of all U.S. adults — post their own content." news.gallup.com/poll/467792/so…

NEW VIDEO! Looking at online groups and the people who make them thrive: community stewards like mods and admins "We're building for the creators, maintainers, and community builders!"

Generative AI has the potential to disrupt content moderation as we know it, but it's not quite intuitively easy yet. Here are some tips for writing LLM-Interpretable content policies from Tech Policy Press . techpolicy.press/using-llms-for…

Experimenting with design features that make norms visible: Here's a concept sketch of a search box for community stewards that provides recommendations on steps they can take to emphasize their community’s norms. newpublic.substack.com/p/empowering-c…

"We are about to see the biggest reshuffling of power on the internet in 25 years, in a way that most of the internet’s current users have never seen before ... a few of the most important changes haven’t gotten any discussion at all." –anildash.com rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Bluesky is already bubbling with people who care about reimagining the social internet into something better. Here's a starter pack. go.bsky.app/6Da4uhc

So thrilled to be working with folks like ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳, Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK, Shoshana Zuboff, Roger McNamee and Jimmy Wales on #FreeOurFeeds. We’ve got a chance here: Bluesky’s open protocol is an incredible opportunity to reimagine social media and take it back from fickle billionaires.

Today’s one for the history books: Mastodon is becoming an independent non-profit, and Bluesky is supporting #FreeOurFeeds taking their AT Protocol in the same direction. freeourfeeds.com

For the almost 30 years I’ve spent making things on the internet, I’ve helped build and grow strong online communities. But the internet kinda feels broken. Everyone feels disconnected and overwhelmed. So I’m joining New_ Public | BSKY: @newpublic.substack.com to imagine something different and build it