Reddit invites mods to “feedback” conversations with the admins
Whoa - read the article. This is much worse than what's been commonly reported:
More than 30% of U.S. adults that used Twitter between March and May reported seeing content they consider bad for the world, according to a survey conducted by the USC Marshall Neely Social Media Index. That percentage was higher than rivals Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and Snapchat. Many users reported seeing tweets that condoned or glorified violence towards marginalized groups or explicit videos easily accessible to underage children.
Earlier this year, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory found that Twitter failed to take down dozens of images of child sex abuse. The team identified 128 Twitter accounts selling child sex abuse material and 43 instances of known CSAM. “It is very surprising for any known CSAM to publicly appear on major social media platforms,” said lead author and chief technologist David Thiel. Twitter responded to the issue after being contacted by researchers. This year Twitter removed 525% more accounts related to child sexual exploitation content than a year ago, according to the company.
Twitter has been slow to catch and remove some harmful content since Musk fired or faced resignations for nearly 75% of Twitter’s staff, including the bulk of the trust and safety team, which is responsible for managing responses to content reports. On average, only 28% of antisemitic tweets reported by the ADL between December and January were removed or sanctioned. The group found the posts by drawing a 1% sample of all posts from Twitter’s API, or application programming interface. Twitter has since restricted the reported tweets that were found to violate policies, the company said.
"Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, we have seen the platform go from having one of the best trust and safety divisions in the industry, to one of the worst,” said Nadim Nashif, director at 7amleh-The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media.
During Musk’s tenure, content from extremist political groups and misinformation related to national politics have increased. QAnon-related hashtags rose 91% in May compared with a year earlier, with the majority of those tweets occurring in the last six months, according to research from the ADL. In the first six months under Musk, nearly a quarter of the top Covid-19 related tweets included information about vaccines that is unproved and untested, according to research done by Media Matters, a left-leaning nonprofit media watchdog group funded by donors. In November, Twitter removed bans against Covid-19 misinformation.
The challenge with the freedom of speech, not reach policy is, “there’s no way to verify what’s actually de-amplified,” said Yael Eisenstat, head of the Center for Technology and Society at the ADL. Meanwhile, Musk himself has also engaged with extremist voices, replying to antisemitic conspiracy theories and anti-trans narratives, which boosts those posts because he is followed by 148 million people.
So advertisers, remember, if you're paying for ads on twitter, you're directly funding racism, sexism, Qanon, and pedophilia. Yep, that's right - Musk is paying far-right content creators to post on Twitter - so your advertising dollars are going directly to rapists and sex traffickers like Andrew Tate.
The July metrics must have shown them engagement is plummeting, especially content submissions, which have been garbage since the blackout. One look at r/all shows most posts being up for hours and sometimes days at a time - it used to be a matter of minutes. Doubtless this is also reflecting in their traffic metrics as well.
As someone who contributed there since the pre-Digg days, after discovering the Fediverse, I'm never going back. Reddit arrogantly assumed that there was no other platform mods and contributors could go to that would provide what they do. But when it comes down to it, the Fediverse does what Reddit did, with more features, flexibility, and without the threat of centralized mismanagement. The only thing Reddit had that the Fediverse doesn't was an audience of millions, but the audience follows the content, and the best place to create content online is right here, right now, right here, right now, right here, right now.....
Welcome to the next evolution of the web, Reddit, and to the realization that you pushed your audience to evolve past their need for you.
So a 100 year old war criminal is invited by another war criminal actively involved in genocide, China's secretary of defense, Li Shangfu, to denigrate "some people" in the US. Wonder who they could be...
Oh and guess what:
Li has been the subject of US sanctions since 2018, relating to the purchase of combat aircraft from Russia’s main arms exporter, which Beijing cites as a reason for refusing to reopen military-to-military dialogues with Washington. Last month, Li refused to meet his US counterpart, Lloyd Austin, at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore.
This is a transparent effort to work a backdoor into US foreign policy in the advent of a Republican administration in 2024, as China knows they can't get any traction with Austin or the Biden administration. Given Kissinger's reputation for dirty tricks and geopolitical manipulation, there's no way that any conversation between these two is good for the US, or for those China oppresses.
Removed
Block lemmy instance.
Jump
Not on Lemmy yet, but here's how to do it on kbin:
https://kbin.social/d/[domain here]
Block button will be on the right next to the subscribe button (which is another cool way to grab everything from a particular instance).
Example:
Kinda disappointed by the article (Waterdeep, but no Myth Drannor, or Icewind Dale, or Thay? No Underdark?!!?!), so in protest I'm gonna post the OG D&D world - Greyhawk - the origin of Vecna and the late, great Gary Gygax's personal campaign setting.
Mainly because it's impossible to tie a solid metric between piracy viewings and marketing impact, or at least it's difficult to the point where it hasn't been done yet. You'd need to have a pirate viewership metric tied to movie sales / streaming views and prove a correlation to assign a value that you can present to media executives.
Until that metric relationship is established in dollars and cents, the studios will ignore it, as there's no proof it's making them money. You'll note that recent releases and re-releases (cough Morbius) have spoken to the industry's ineptitude in reading underground internet trends - there's no way they'll ever look at piracy as a profit center unless you can smack them in the face with a large dollar figure.
I'm not terribly surprised, given as they print bible verses on their packaging. Sad to see another relatively decent Christian business go down the alt-right rabbit hole, but their burgers aren't good enough for me to risk the plague because they can't follow basic safety guidelines.
Did you tell them it was a dirty word and not used in polite company?
Filed under "things worse than you believed possible."
Friendly reminder that Meta is already facing a lawsuit for illegally collecting patient information from hospital websites, so they absolutely have the capacity to match your use of Meta apps with your medical profile, like your location, or whether you access an out of state abortion website, or if you schedule a hospital stay out of state.
Things that GOP state attorney generals are very eager to learn about.
What wonderful news to start the day with!
As a side note, my son (who's currently in high school) reports that the Tatetification of the younglings has ceased to spread, and raggedy Andy is now openly mocked. Mad props to @gretathunberg for developing such an effective fungicide against Mildew Tate from nothing more than a slice of pizza.
Older than that by about 20 years here, but I'm on kbin.social, where it tends to be pretty diverse - there's a pretty even balance of posting by gender, where it can be determined. It definitely feels more friendly towards minorities here than some of the lemmy instances. I think it really depends on what instance you're on.
Yep - each post has an activity section that lists boosts, reduces (Mastodon style instances) and favorites (upvotes - Lemmy style instances) and the users who made them. Upvotes are under the favorites tab. Examples:
My comment:
Your comment:
If you're on kbin, you can access this under the "more" menu next to the reply & boost buttons beneath each comment.
Notepad ++
It's good work, but just to let you know, your formatting is breaking when it's posted across instances - getting a code block with a bunch of span style tags over here on kbin.
Reprint as it appears beeshaw if your view is broken:
Her presence
intoxicating as
the smell of sweet honeyher touch sends shivers
down deep
to the marrow of my bonesher gaze icy
yet it burns me
and everything withinevery time
I pray
to hold her
just for a minute longeryet when the sun comes up
she is no longer there
my silent wish
unansweredthe sheets next to me
devoid of her warmth
yet full
of her fragranceI sigh and close my eyes
only to meet her again
in my dreams
I like those metrics. Means I got like 500k upvotes in three weeks... but then I'm on https://kbin.social, so a bunch of that's coming from Mastodon, and kbin's community loves to upvote. That's ok - I fully accept the false affirmation of fake internet point inflation.
Christianity.
Probably the best performance of his career, IMHO.
The Last Temptation of Christ is probably the best I've seen. 1988, directed by Martin Scorsese with Willem Dafoe as Christ as Harvey Keitel as Judas. It was nominated for Best Director at the Oscars.
Be warned - it's not your standard Christian film, and is R rated for a reason.
Details on the film, and here are details on the novel that inspired it by Nikos Kazantzakis.
Having been there since the pre-Digg days, I simply hate what they're doing with the place. It hurts to see something you've enjoyed and contributed to over the past 20 years become the antithesis of the free and open internet it once represented. Every change they made to the site since they tried to migrate off the old.reddit.com interface has been a negative one for the users. The sudden acceleration of those kind of changes has made the site both unreadable (content is beyond stale now) and worthless to participate in.
I think for me, this disappointment turned to real visceral antipathy when I saw this page - it looks like something the CCP would design for kindergartners. It's not a place I want to be a part of at all, and I don't want my past contributions to fuel it.
Thanks! Always good to see the data behind the trend.