ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>The Conversation: Women’s sports are fighting an uphill battle against our social media algorithms. “Algorithms, trained to maximise engagement and profits, are deciding what appears in your feed, which video auto-plays next, and which highlights are pushed to the top of your screen. But here is the problem: algorithms prioritise content that is already popular. That usually means men’s […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/12/the-conversation-womens-sports-are-fighting-an-uphill-battle-against-our-social-media-algorithms/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/12/the-conversation-womens-sports-are-fighting-an-uphill-battle-against-our-social-media-algorithms/</a></p>
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ResearchBuzz: Firehose<p>Concordia University: New Concordia research shows social networks are vulnerable to relatively simple AI manipulation and polarization. “It seems that no matter the topic of conversation, online opinion around it will be split into two seemingly irreconcilable camps. That’s largely a result of these platforms’ design, as the algorithms driving them direct users to like-minded peers. This […]</p><p><a href="https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/17/concordia-university-new-concordia-research-shows-social-networks-are-vulnerable-to-relatively-simple-ai-manipulation-and-polarization/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/17/concordia-university-new-concordia-research-shows-social-networks-are-vulnerable-to-relatively-simple-ai-manipulation-and-polarization/</a></p>
essollteskalieren<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mas.to/@schizanon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>schizanon</span></a></span> </p><p>I'd like a feature (for Tusky) that shows me the fraction of posts (account's posts / all posts in my personal timeline) of each account I follow, for a specified timeframe, say last 1/3/6 months.</p><p>And ideally, there'd then be a feature to show a thinned out personal timeline that contains only toots of the more silent accounts (starting with the most silent) so that there's in total only x number of toots per week (say 70 or so).</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/timeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timeline</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/timelinehacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>timelinehacking</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/algorithmictimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithmictimelines</span></a></p>
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gedeonm</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://iconfactory.world/@Iconfactory" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Iconfactory</span></a></span> </p><p>This reminds me of the anecdotal evidence that number of 'followers' and 'likes' with large follower accounts sometimes don't equal actual eyeballs as there are also some streaming services that have large followers numbers in the millions but views only in the thousands, oddly. Hmm.</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AlgorithmicTimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicTimelines</span></a></p>
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently<p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/funfact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>funfact</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ARPANET1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARPANET1</span></a> routes around <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ToxicSocialMedaOnePointOh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicSocialMedaOnePointOh</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/MLTimelnes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MLTimelnes</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/algorithmictimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithmictimelines</span></a></p><p>Vs. <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ChronilogicalTimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChronilogicalTimelines</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/nomlrequired" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>nomlrequired</span></a></p>
Aral Balkan<p>Twitter is a microphone connected to a mixer owned and controlled by Elon Musk.</p><p>If you understand how microphones and mixers work, you also understand why you can’t “stay and fight.”</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>twitter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/twitterMigration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>twitterMigration</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/algorithmicTimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>algorithmicTimelines</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigTech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/socialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SiliconValley</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/ElonMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElonMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/billionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>billionaires</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a></p>
@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differently<p>Looking at the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/analytics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>analytics</span></a> of the old 🆓🐦 site makes me sad to see the day that in less than two months the sale of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> made the site completely useless and the move to <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/web3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web3</span></a> accelerate beyond the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ToxicSocialMedaOnePointOh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ToxicSocialMedaOnePointOh</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AlgorithmicTimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicTimelines</span></a> driven by <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Instagram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Instagram</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Snapchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Snapchat</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WhatsApp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WhatsApp</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Twitter</span></a> dying a horrible race to the bottom <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ARPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARPU</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DAU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DAU</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DAP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DAP</span></a> driven <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/decline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decline</span></a> of <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/web1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web1</span></a> & <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/web2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>web2</span></a> technologies. 👎</p><p> ☠️💀⚰️🥀R.I.P. 💀☠️🥀⚰️⚱️😐<br> 👎☠️ <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AlgorithmicTimelines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlgorithmicTimelines</span></a> ☠️👎</p>
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