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Social Control Media is Going Away Gradually and People Need to Return to Self-Hosting, Blogs, RSS, Truly Independently News Sites

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Summary: Social Control Media is about one company or few companies managing/herding lots of people and media outlets; we need to get away from that and the sooner, the better

THE association -- either as person or as company -- with Twitter is becoming undesirable. To quote an example we saw yesterday: "I occasionally saw it on Twitter, before I quit that hellsite, after which I kinda lost track of it."



Users are still fleeing in droves, albeit some replace Twitter with clones of Twitter [1].

Twitter lost not one but two "trust and integrity" people in just months. The eSafety head in Australia is now complaining publicly [2-4] and there are stories about "racist behavior" [5].

"Social control media is a waste of time and people who replace one network/platform with another are not correctly diagnosing the problem."At the moment it seems impossible that Twitter will turn things around. Twitter is dying, but it had a lot of momentum before, so the death is a long process.

Social control media is getting smaller, based on reports. It's not just Twitter. The Press Gazette reported earlier this week that all top 10 news sites saw a decline in traffic this past year. So it seems like the Web as a whole is waning. The Press Gazette has also just said [6]: "There are about 13,000 more PRs in England and Wales than there are journalists."

So there are more people lying to you than trying to tell you the truth. No wonder people walk away. Either way, the above video suggests that self-hosting, even something such as Gemini, would be vastly preferable. Social control media is a waste of time and people who replace one network/platform with another are not correctly diagnosing the problem.

Related/contextual items from the news:



  1. Meta and Mastodon – What’s really on people’s minds?

    It’s a weird own goal for various Mastodon admins who are running a decentralized social network based on interoperable protocols to pledge that they won’t interoperate with services from existing social networks if built on the same open protocols.

    It’s not even the hypocrisy, it’s just dumb and undermines the entire point of interoperable protocols.



  2. eSafety head goes after Twitter for content promoting online hate

    "This level of online abuse is already inexcusably high, but if you’re a First Nations Australian, you are disabled or identify as LGBTIQ+ you experience online hate at double the rate of the rest of the population.

    “Twitter appears to have dropped the ball on tackling hate. A third of all complaints about online hate reported to us are now happening on Twitter.

    “We are also aware of reports that the reinstatement of some of these previously banned accounts has emboldened extreme polarisers, peddlers of outrage and hate, including neo-Nazis both in Australia and overseas.”

    The statement said If Twitter failed to respond to the legal notice within 28 days, the company could face maximum financial penalties of nearly A$700,000 a day for continuing breaches.



  3. Australia says Twitter is top platform for online hate, demands explanation

    Twitter has lifted bans on 62,000 accounts since new owner Elon Musk took over.



  4. Twitter has 'dropped the ball' on tackling online hate

    Australia’s eSafety Commissioner says Twitter has “dropped the ball” on tackling online hate and has issued a legal notice to the social media giant demanding an explanation about what it is doing about the scourge.

    eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant says there have been more complaints about online hate on Twitter in the past year than any other platform and complaints have spiked since Elon Musk’s takeover of the company in October.



  5. The intent and impact of language: A close reading of Glenn Schembechler III’s PR firm apology
    On June 7, 2023, Glenn “Shemy” Schembechler III — son of long-serving Michigan coach Glenn “Bo” Schembechler — published an op-ed in The Michigan Daily explaining and apologizing for the racist behavior he exhibited on social media that led to his resignation.


  6. Census reveals total number of journalists and PRs: More than half female

    There are about 13,000 more PRs in England and Wales than there are journalists.



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