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Followers is pretty pointless. Like what are we following?
The news?
Are we the news?
Are we microblogging?
OMG, just realized, this is not a social network.
This is just everyone on their blog...
#NotASocialNetwork #followers

I published my slides from @… on my site, as well as capturing answers to questions from @… and @… and linking to ap…

#TIL Weibo's custom emoji shortcodes are in square brackets 🤔 https://emojipedia.org/sina-weibo

Simulating Online Social Media Conversations on Controversial Topics Using AI Agents Calibrated on Real-World Data
Elisa Composta, Nicolo' Fontana, Francesco Corso, Francesco Pierri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18985

And another question: Say I want to watch, comment and share videos from #Peertube (and nothing else like microblogging). Where should I create an account, which platform/software has @… in mind? It's not Peertube itself, right? Because that's for publishing…

Anyone tried https://www.itter.sh/ here? The concept seems quite cool. It's a microblogging platform entirely run over ssh on a server. From their page:
itter.sh is your escape from the noise. It's a micro-blogging platform accessed entirely via SSH. No web browser. No JavaScript. No endless scroll of algo…

Ich höre recht oft in letzter Zeit somaFM, insbesondere "The dark Zone".
(Dieser Post ist Teil der Reihe: "Bringt die schönen Zeiten zurück, als Microblogging Dienste überwiegend Belangloses enthielten, das aber wenigstens ohne Hass war)

I’ll be attending and speaking at Fedicon, as well as being at the #CoSocialCa members meetup right after.
My working title is: Beyond Microblogging: AT Protocol for Building Unique Social Apps
https://cosocial.c…

Mastodon 4.4.0 looks interesting:
* Add reminder when about to post without alt text in web UI
* Add a warning in Web UI when composing a post when the selected and detected language are different
* Add option to remove account from followers in web UI
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r

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User Location Disclosure Fails to Deter Overseas Criticism but Amplifies Regional Divisions on Chinese Social Media
Leo Yang Yang, Yiqing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03238

User Location Disclosure Fails to Deter Overseas Criticism but Amplifies Regional Divisions on Chinese Social Media
We examine the behavioral impact of a user location disclosure policy implemented on Sina Weibo, China's largest microblogging platform, using a high-frequency, real-time dataset of uncensored user engagement with 165 leading government and media accounts. Leveraging a natural experiment result from the platform's sudden rollout of location tagging on April 28, 2022, we compare millions of time-stamped observations of user behavior in the comment sections of these accounts before and after the …