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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University. My next book, "Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the […] [bridged from https://aoir.social/@rwg on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Wow. I just tried Whalebird, a fediverse client. And when I responded to a DM, Whalebird changed the privacy to Public. More like failbird. I do not recommend it. #Whalebird

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

Wow, I just noticed... YouTube is kind of a hellhole, isn't it?

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The Detroit Pistons just beat the Boston Celtics by 20 and I am holding back tears. #NBA #DvE

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

[uspol] @404mediaco reporting on the infamous Trump suckin' on Musk video being removed (and then re-added) to Bluesky: https://www.404media.co/bluesky-deletes-ai-protest-video-of-trump-sucking-musks-toes-calls-it-non-consensual-explicit-material/ #bluesky #contentModeration

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

It's not the worst phrase in the world, but "Your phone is your ticket" is solidly in the top 10 phrases I hate to read

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

My university, York U, is suspending admissions to a bunch of programs, mainly in the humanities. This includes Indigenous Studies. There's news coverage in @torontostar. But it doesn't really address the cause. 1/2 #academicchatter #indigenousStudies #YorkU

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Thrilled to announce the launch of Papicoin ($PAPI), the official cryptocurrency of the network state of Red Sox Nation. Reply with a pic of your 1988 Oil Can Boyd Topps card for an airdrop

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

[uspol] cut him a check and he'll tip the balance in your favor everyone else is screwed

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Latest FOSS Academic post: https://fossacademic.tech/2025/02/15/organizing-fascism.html In which I respond to the @404media article, "You Can't Post Your Way Out of Fascism." I argue that the "you can't post" piece ignores alternative social media, which itself is a form of activism that can […]

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

I'm starting to really loathe Jekyll as a static site generator. It's an incredibly convoluted system that breaks constantly. And doing anything in the Liquid syntax is a nightmare.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

This podcast episode (with @rwg) is an unusually accurate overview of the fediverse — but so is even just the article describing it. RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUK/113996779775627553

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

This, this, one thousand times this: "I see instead a lack of clarity and a real dearth of ways for the fediverse’s various interested constituencies—let alone those of the wider networked public—to talk to each other in depth and come to common understandings before and outside of […]

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Every day for the past few weeks, I get an email from the Washington Post asking for me to confirm that I want to keep receiving their emails. For weeks now. I haven't replied or clicked on any links. They just keep sending me this confirmation request.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I spoke to @waresgemma.bsky.social and the @ConversationCA Podcast about decentralized social media: https://theconversation.com/decentralised-social-media-offers-an-alternative-to-big-tech-platforms-like-x-and-meta-how-does-it-work-podcast-249758 The episode discusses Twitter/X, Bluesky, and […]

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The most important paper of my thesis was finally published in Social Media + Society 🥳 In this paper we analysed in what ways the technological affordances of Instagram and Twitter shape the social norm dynamics of climate change publics. Few academic research […] [Original post on aoir.social]

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

People talkin' about quitting Google. Which is nice, I guess. Getting hooked on something and quitting is a big deal. But what about the folks like me who never used their stuff in the first place? Where's my gold star?!?

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

[uspol] I'm just going to put this here and apologize to the world for my home country. https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1161

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Sometimes people ask me why I moved to Canada. To them I say: DEIA diversity equity inclusion accessibility gender intersectionality indigenous LGBTQ* social justice privilege BIPOC I can say more, but I imagine you get the point.

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Google maps as I see it in Canada. Stop using Google.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

📆 Mark your calendar: @jesse & I will be doing a book event for "The Secret Life of #Data" at American University in #DC on Feb 28th. Featuring Andrew Chow as moderator, co-hosted by the Stuyvesant Alumni Association. #bookstodon #privacy #surveillance #books Register free here […]

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

With the latest update to #Mastodon's web app, we show you a little reminder when you're about to post a picture without adding alt text. Alt text is crucial for accessibility, but has other perks too, such as making it much easier to search for your post—or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

I wrote a short draft overview of alternative social media research, based on a project @rra and I are working on: https://www.socialmediaalternatives.org/2025/02/07/asm-scholarship-history.html We trace ASM scholarship back to its early days in the late 2000s, through the Unlike Us […]

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

UsefulSmallCorp is now a part of ConHugeCo. Over the next few months, we'll migrate your account to ConHugeCo, where you will be ignored except when we eliminate the free plan you initially signed up for.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

[uspol] don't blame me! I didn't vote for Musk/Trump 2024

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, y'all, I've been on the fedi a minute. I've been on Mastodon since 2017, and an admin since '22. The people at IFTAS are doing great work. Needed work. They provide space for admins to share knowledge, and they build evidence-based blocklists new instances can use to stay safe. They need […]

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Hardest thing I've had to write in quite some time: https://about.iftas.org/2025/02/06/funding-challenges-and-the-future-of-our-work/ tl;dr - we are running out of money and will not be able to pay our bills in April. As such, unless we can secure funding by end of February, we will be […]

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

[academic gripe, reviewing a paper] "We did a survey, and dammit we're going to use the data, even if the survey was flawed from the beginning." Peer review is fun.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

I just signed an executive order stating that all of this is just stupid

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Academics outside the US: were you accepted to present at a conference in the US but are now reconsidering your participation?

submitted 22 days ago • 7 comments

Social media platform by level of resistance from the average user: Facebook: "Guess I heard something but my grandson says it's fine." Twitter: : racist bot tries to sell you NFTs: Bluesky: "everything is terrible and we're all going to die... but what can you do" Fediverse: : LITERALLY […]

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

[uspol] Nacht und Nebel, 2025 edition. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-official-declines-say-whether-women-children-be-held-guantanamo-2025-02-02/

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

[uspol, recommended reading for Black History Month] Thinking about the current state of the US through the lens of Charles W. Mills's The Racial Contract: One way we might think of the massive assertion of white cis-masculinity is as a response to the violation of the racial contract in the […]

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Hey, fedi, if I wanted to start a small fediverse server (probably server-of-one) using a Canadian company, do you have any recommendations? I have experience running stuff on DigitalOcean and Linode, but they're both US companies and I want to #buycanadian #askFedi

submitted 24 days ago • 2 comments

Fun game tonight in Detroit that had two 30+ point scorers and a game-winning step back - but the Pistons couldn’t pull it out after their fourth game in six days. My recap on tonight’s #Hawks vs #Pistons game 🔽 @detroitbadboys.bsky.social www.detroitbadboys.com/2025/2/3/243...

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

[uspol] spinning it so hard I get vertigo

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

You know something else Ontario could do about this mess? Get Google Classroom TF out of our public schools. We have home-grown in Ontario D2L, an outstanding education portal. Universities across the country use it. There is so much more integration potential and no foreign oligarchy scraping […]

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments