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Social media algorithms can be redesigned to bridge divides — here’s how
"It falls to both the tech companies that built these systems and an engaged public to create technologies designed for social cohesion."
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Social media algorithms don't allow us to understand or control what we see online and why... until now! Top scholars @jonathanstray.com and @noupside.bsky.social are sharing @mysky.social, a tool that allows users to adjust their feed’s priorities and explains why certain posts appear over others.
🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand
newpublic.substack.com🧵 On social media, we feel trapped in “filter bubbles” and “echo chambers.” Often, we see this as a problem with the algorithm. Our new essay argues the problem is the feed interface itself: it constrains our movement—all we can do is scroll. We lay out an alternative vision:
From Feeds to Trails
leaflet.pubCommunication Systems
Alternative communication systems with an emphasis on decentralization
AT Protocol apps (by あ) — Semble
atmosphere.community
Social context aggregation (by Wesley Finck) — Semble
ATProto, Activitypub and FOSS applications (by CN bug hrs) — Semble
Why Cosmik Network? (by Wesley Finck) — Semble
Science Must Decentralize
Science x social media
Loneliness Epidemic
Social media (unsorted)
Will probably be sorted into separate collections
Post-Naive Internet
ATProto Memes
social hypertext
http gave us hypertext. atproto gives us social hypertext.
Community Search Engines
Unsorted interesting articles/papers
Meta/Facebook - Cautionary Tales
+ Instagram/Threads, Zuckerburg, etc
Social (media) tools
May or may not include Bluesky
Lea: research-oriented social media
Mastodon pilot for research and education
We appreciate the love ❤️ But limited engagement and few followers on Bsky makes some (not us!) question whether it's worth it Be sure to…
In an era where research evaluation methods are evolving, the Research Contribution Claim Network makes trustworthy tracking of non-traditional research output easy!
This feed built with love by your local #FAccT2026 publicity chair and #1 fan of @graze.social. If you're interested in fairness and ethics…
ATProto Science Community Garden (by ATProto Science) — Semble
Why You're Bored and Lonely: The Death of Third Places
Third Places Aren’t Gone. We Just Stopped Going.
The Disappearance of Third Places
Nowhere to Go: The Loss of Third Places
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on social media
(PDF) Facebook confessions: Corporate abdication and Silicon Valley dystopianism
Adults in Great Britain now spending more time on mobiles than watching TV
The Attention Economy and the Collapse of Cognitive Autonomy
Who Makes Money From Social Media?
People Across the Globe Increasingly Say Social Media Is Harming Democracy
Sharing of misinformation is habitual, not just lazy or biased
How Social Media Rewards Misinformation
Towards the Post-Naive Internet
Welcome to the Post-Naive Internet Era
Semble (@semble.so)
Drydown (@drydown.social)
Semble (@semble.so)
AT://meme (@atproto.meme)
ATProtoDigest memes (by nate) — Semble
nate (@zzstoatzz.io)
Habitat's road to release: 08 search - building [at] habitat
What and Whose Knowledge? Measuring Epistemic Diversity in Large Language Models
Mellon Foundation
Axios Media Trends: 🔗 Link economy breaks
FR#154 – Search and Community
Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links
Do we actually know how to make cities safer for women?
British food was complex, multicultural and flavourful in the 18th century – despite what you might think
How The Heck Do Record Players Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Male-like ornamentation in female hummingbirds results from social harassment rather than sexual selection
A new app, HyperTexting, turns the open web into a scrollable social media-like feed | TechCrunch
marking off AI slop / seo spam pages experimenting with collective action on the whole internet
HTTP gave us hypertext, atproto gives us "social hypertext"
Building on some of @chrisshank.com's work, what if we had browsers that were atproto-native? orange link = in your PDS green link = in the…
Lawsuits involving Meta Platforms
Capital One customers seek class certification over data disclosure to Meta, Google
What the Verdict Against Meta and Google Says About the Way We Live Now
Meta must face Massachusetts lawsuit over youth social media addiction, court rules
Meta Unfairly Targeted Older Workers During Layoffs Last Year, Lawsuit Claims
Meta ordered to pay $375m after being found liable in child exploitation case
Postcard · Paste a post, get a clean image
ZonePane - マルチSNSクライアント
marcomaroni.it/twitter-to-bluesky
Ente Space
Roster — Your relationships are yours
j4ckxyz/tweets-2-bsky
