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The fediverse promises an egalitarian, noncommercial alternative to Big Tech for social media, but there’s a lot of work needed to make it work.
Like their predecessors in the 19th century, digital Luddites are fighting oppressive technology. Will they succeed?
The Conversation Weekly podcast speaks to Robert Gehl, an expert on alternative social media platforms, about decentralised social media.
The migrations of left-leaning users to Bluesky could deepen the divide with right-leaning users on X, and undermine cross-ideological discourse and democracy.
An expert on news consumption looks at how the popular new platform could shake up the industry.
Bluesky, the microblogging alternative to X, is having a moment. A social media researcher explains why people are flocking to it – and why it isn’t likely to recapture the early days of Twitter.
With a name that invokes freedom and a clean start and a design that promises to put control back in our hands, the Bluesky platform is attracting users away from Twitter/X en masse.
As well as becoming an ‘everything app’ and a place where lies continue to flourish, X is likely to see an increase what’s known as ‘cyberbalkanisation’.
X user numbers have fallen sharply in the US and UK, reports suggest. Alternatives are waiting in the wings.
Algorithms have been blamed for dividing society. What if they could support social cohesion instead?
The communities that call Twitter home might decide to pack their bags. If they do, they are unlikely to be able to completely reconstitute themselves elsewhere.
Twitter uses an AI-powered centrally managed algorithm to moderate what you see. On Bluesky, you have control over the algorithm that selects what you see through so-called ‘composable moderation’.
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Ontario Research Chair of Digital Governance for Social Justice, York University, Canada
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Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder
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Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University
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Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Royal Roads University
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Open Research Communications Specialist, University of Sheffield
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Senior Lecturer, School of Mathematical Sciences, Adelaide University
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Professor of Data Science; Director, Adelaide Data Science Centre, Adelaide University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Adelaide University
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Distinguished Professor of Digital Media, Queensland University of Technology
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
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PhD Student, Science and Technology Studies, York University, Canada
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Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems, University of Sydney
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Assistant professor in Business Information Technology, Virginia Tech