Twitter shows the risk of the centralised/monolithic/vertically integrated organisation approach with a benevolent dictator at the top: including the elusive nature of benevolence. 2 #IMC2024 papers examine Mastodon & Bluesky exploration of the design space of alternatives: [1/4]

And now another twitter alternative: Looking AT the Blue Skies of Bluesky  with Leonhard Balduf (Technical University of Darmstadt) & Saidu Sokoto (City, University of London)

Miss the good old twitter api? Use Mastodoner from @harisbinzia

@harisbinzia now with Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on the Mastodon Social Network

📢Here is a *non-official* calendar for #IMC2024. Use at your own peril! Chatgpt did it and it *might contain errors* such as that paper that never got in 👉 https://t.co/mRMdZxC85T

📢 Excited to share our latest paper "Fediverse Migrations: A Study of User Account Portability on Mastodon". We explore the patterns of instance switching on #Mastodon, a leading decentralized microblogging social network. 🧵

Björn Scheuermann has co-authored a preprint with study on #Bluesky, a decentralised & user-driven alternative to X. Could Bluesky's model with custom feeds & community moderation set new standards? Presented soon @ACM_IMC_2024. @Gareth_Tyson @Ignactro 👉 https://t.co/5MSgj26iOb

@IPFS is the largest decentralized file storage. In our recent @USENIXSecurity paper, we answer questions about content uploaded by users: 1) What kinds of “problematic” content is uploaded to @IPFS? 2) How is this content moderated? 3) How effective moderation is? 🧵 1/7

📢 I am seeking candidates interested in applying for a Tenured Research Position @Inria to join my team! The interested candidate must reach out and express their interest before the end of October 2024. 👉 More info here: https://t.co/GDIlj96Xop

📢 There are multiple faculty openings at @MIT_SCC shared between computing and social sciences! 🤖 One is with @MITSloan, with a focus on social, economic & ethical implications of computing & networks — and especially AI & the future of work https://t.co/U2ZEEl9KcH

📢 The list of accepted IMC 2024 papers is out! Congrats to the authors and thank you to all who submitted a paper! https://t.co/s4VtyCchXg

We have opened an Assistant/Associate Professorship in Wearable Computing @Cambridge_CL @Cambridge_Uni Please share widely and/or apply! https://t.co/XvNglqo3O6 Deadline 24 November 2024.

Boris Johnson apparently had no clue what Brexit actually was until 25 September 2020

Exciting 4-yr PhD position pushing the boundaries of LLMs for engineering at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon / TU Hamburg, supervised by the amazing Roland Aydin & co-supervised by me. Applications due on 1 Sep! https://t.co/8uQGn537B3 #PhDPosition #ML #Engineering #LLM #Hamburg

A brief 🧵 about Brexit denialism currently suffocating the country. 1/19 As a psychologist, I am all too aware that, when faced with emotionally challenging issues and threats, facing them can be very scary and the temptation is to avoid. Can entire nations act similarly? Yes.

Hey everyone! We're working with some tremendously talented high school students to learn more about soft moderation. Could you please spare 10 minutes to fill out this anonymous survey and/or repost it to your network? Thanks! https://t.co/w72O4gl82y

This surely makes Biden's debate performance look highly cogent

The ignorance on display in this article is staggering. It conveniently ignores the fact that universities are regulated into making a loss on all domestic students. This is the fault of the past (and current?) government.

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