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Colour me skeptical, but #Meta potentially faces USD 1.2 trillion damages in a #California trial that could change #SocialMedia forever.

No more doom scrolling or Instagram Stories? A Meta trial loss could end the social media we know
"These trials are often compared to the Big Tobacco lawsuits of the 90s, and the outcome will likely be analogous as well," one analyst told CNBC.

"Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’"
#Birds #SocialMedia #Animals #Nature

Gen Z flocks to BirdTok as birding takes flight: ‘It’s a craving for something real’
Social media and Shazam-like birdsong apps drawing young people to hobby as they seek a gentler connection to the outside world

Endlich wird mal das Problem #Algorithmus betont und nicht der Begriff #sozialeNetzwerke:
Australien sagt #SocialMedia-Algorithmen den Kampf an

Media Media
#democracy #socialmedia

Media Media
The authoritarians are winning, we can all see that. It wouldn't be the worst thing if the pro-democracy camp stopped being naive about social media.

I still don't know how I'll use it, but I'm now on W.
#socialmedia

Reacting with a “haha” or laughing emoji, such as in Facebook, Telegram, Discord, or Slack, could be ambiguous depending on context—you could either be laughing at the poster or laughing with the poster. 😅
#SocialMedia #socmed

"How social media and parrotfish poop are protecting the Maldives"
#Maldives #SocialMedia #Animals

How social media and parrotfish poop are protecting the Maldives
It started six years ago when Shaha Hashim began seeing posts across social media: Vulnerable and protected species were being fished throughout the atoll islands of the Maldives, and some were even turning up in fish markets. This included animals like the giant clam (genus Tridacna), Napoleon wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and even species of parrotfish […]

Social Media? go figure ...
#socialMedia

Bluesky’s new CEO wants a big tent, not a bubble | Decoder
#youtube

I still believe that #TikTok, Twitter, #Instagram and all other platforms happily hosting or even promoting counter-democratic endeavours should be banned EU-wide.
If the best compromise politically viable is a legal age restriction for

Breaking News aus Australien: Teenager, denen Social Media verboten wurde, nutzen Social Media – diesmal mit Fake-Accounts oder geliehenen Profilen. Das British Medical Journal bestätigt: kaum Wirkung nach dem weltweit ersten Verbot für Unter-16. Überraschend wie Wasser, das bergab fließt. @…

The great digital fatigue: How digital burnout is changing #socialmedia use [2026] | Incogni
https://blog.incogni.com/digital-fatigue-and-burnout/

RE: #socialmedia

Shocking. So unexpected.
#Facebook #SocialMedia #ragebait

Die #EU möchte verhindetn, dass ein paar 100 Afrikaner nach #Ceuta (in #Afrika) reisen. Dazu soll auf #SocialMedia einge…

Goed tegengeluid.
„Harde leeftijdsgrenzen lijken daadkrachtig”, zegt Van Achter telefonisch. Ze ziet talloze politici ermee schermen. „Die denken ‘een verbod tot zestien jaar en dan zijn we ervan af’. Maar dat is te veel vanuit de buik.” Ze wijst op recente studies in Australië, die laten zien dat zo’n 80 procent van de jongeren ondanks het verbod nog steeds op de socials zit."
#socialmedia #nrc

Post copied from Robin Evans @… but without the AI-generated image:
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LEAVING META
WITHOUT LEAVING YOUR LIFE 💎
After my posting about Meta over the past two days, one thing became very clear.
A lot of people would LIKE to leave Facebook, Instagram, or both. But parts of their actual lives are all tangled up in them.
So don’t make leaving a purity test. Start somewhere. Remove Facebook from your phone and use it only on your laptop, or better still, only on your desktop when you genuinely need it.
STOP POSTING TO META. STOP FEEDING THE TIMELINE.
Move conversations with real friends to your email, text, Signal, phone calls, Mastodon account, or wherever works for you, away from Meta.
TELL PEOPLE WHERE ELSE THEY CAN EASILY FIND YOU.
If you run a business, start putting your email address and/or website URL everywhere you promote your business so Facebook is not your only front door.
Download anything you actually want to keep. Then, when you’re ready, deactivate or delete what you no longer need.
Maybe you keep Messenger for Aunt Doris. Maybe you keep Instagram because your local café apparently believes websites were abolished in 2014.
Fine.
The point isn’t ideological cleanliness.
THE POINT IS REDUCING YOUR DEPENDENCE.
Every conversation you move elsewhere is one conversation Meta no longer owns the doorway to.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ESCAPE THE META CAGE IN ONE HEROIC LEAP.
Just start opening the door.
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#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #SocialMedia #Fediverse #people #DEPENDENCE #Messenger
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"Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan"
#Japan #Animals #Insects #SocialMedia

Social media images lead to first recording of parasitoid wasp species in Japan
Photos of a striking, iridescent wasp posted on social media by wasp enthusiasts in Japan have led to an unexpected discovery: The images are the first record of the species in Japan. The footage also helped scientists describe a male of the species for the first time. The images and a video of the wasps […]

Brüssel erfindet den digitalen Jugendschutzausweis: Ab 13 darf gescrollt werden, vorher nur mit Erziehungsberechtigten-Sichtvermerk. Australien hat mit 16 schon vorgelegt, Österreich will gleich auf 14 runter. Die EU sucht noch die passende Altersgrenze – und die Technik dafür am besten gleich mit. #heise #EU #Jugendschutz #SocialMedia https://www.heise.de/news/Von-der-Leyen-plant-EU-weites-Mindestalter-fuer-Social-Media-11454865.html

Awesome UX on Bluesky. 😏
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#UX #Bluesky #technology #socialMedia

it makes me sad that i grew up all my life with the core knowledge that Nazis are bad.... and that seemed to be a universally held - and upheld - truth.
But then everyone got addicted to social media platforms and now it's fine if those companies pay Nazis to post rage bait. People will just keep scrolling anyway.
#socialmedia #facebook #meta #morality #laziness #memory #nazi #neonazi #corporateMedia #Fascism