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What Are Mastodon and Post Like? Examining Twitter Alternatives

Alternatives to BirdChan
Blocked Nazis and Boring Billionaires: What It’s Really Like on Mastodon and Post by Gwen Snyder (Jezebel)

An antifascist researcher gets the vibe of each Twitter alternative, just in time for Elon Musk to make another terrible decision.

Nazis, manosphere weirdos, dirtbag “left” trolls, ambiguous terms of service, cakes that look like people…For all its utility, Twitter has never not been a hell site. Under Elon Musk, though, things are getting undeniably worse. Seemingly every day, a new Nazi gets his account back, even as Musk issues orders to suspend accounts working to…

Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

TikTok Enshittification, a cartoon drawing of TikTok as the witch and potential users as Hansel and Gretel
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) by Cory DoctorowCory Doctorow (pluralistic.net)

https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/21Jan2023.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 https://i0.wp.com/craphound.com/images/21Jan2023.jpg?w=840&ssl=1 Today’s links Tiktok’s enshittification: The company manually allocates surplus to creators, and they can take it away again, too. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate…

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.I call this enshittification, and it is a seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the…

German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

Naked Post
German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal (Yahoo Finance)

Germany’s cartel office regulator said on Monday it had initiated proceedings against payment company PayPal Europe over the possibility that it hindered competition.

The subject of the proceedings was PayPal’s rules for extra charges and the presentation of PayPal in the terms of use for Germany, the watchdog said. PayPal did not immediately reply to a request for comment.The regulator is investigating in particular rules that say merchants may not offer their goods and services at a lower…

The Wasted Effort On Large Platforms for Small Businesses

Head in the Galaxy by Nicole T. Lasher, a partially AI assisted digital drawing of a woman with water for hair, wearing a half crown made of aquamarine, with a stylized space scene in the background.

The statistics are not that surprising. I have lost absolutely nothing from deactivating my Twitter account and basically neglecting my Facebook to near oblivion. I’ve noticed an uptick in sign-ups for some of my spiritual groups, but that’s to be expected when some large swathe of platform space becomes dead to Black folks or too…

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