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Michael Dieter mdieter at gmail.com
Mon Nov 18 17:51:13 CET 2019


Hi UU,

Kind of weird seeing Ben Grosser's Demetricator incorporated into the
official UI for Facebook and Instagram. Only took like seven years of
critique and controversy for them to consider it - and of course, it
retains a sense of only being an experimental alteration to the facade
of metrification that will keep going on in the background anyway.
Improving well-being without tanking user engagement.

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 4:18 PM Geert Lovink <geert at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
> Facebook hiding likes?
> https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/26/facebook-hides-likes/
>
> Colin Horgan: We Don’t Need Social Media
> The push to regulate or break up Facebook ignores the fact that its services do more harm than good
> https://onezero.medium.com/we-dont-need-social-media-53d5455f4f6b
>
> Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s leaked internal Facebook meetings
> https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/1/20892354/mark-zuckerberg-full-transcript-leaked-facebook-meetings
>
> Transaction fees change culture bitcoin, study says
> https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2019/10/transaction-fees-change-culture-bitcoin-study-says
>
> Jimmy Wales launches WT Social:
> https://wt.social/
>
> Wellcome to WT Social
>
> As social networks have grown, they've also amplified the voices of bad actors across the globe. Fake news has influenced global events, and algorithms care only about "engagement", and keeping people addicted to platforms without substance.
>
> WikiTribune wants to be different.
>
> We will never sell your data. Our platform survives on the generosity of individual donors to ensure privacy is protected and your social space is ad-free.
>
> We will empower you to make your own choices about what content you are served, and to directly edit misleading headlines, or flag problem posts.
>
> We will foster an environment where bad actors are removed because it is right, not because it suddenly affects our bottom-line.
>
> But this will only work with your help. So join today and help change the landscape of social media.
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Michael Dieter
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