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ASM Researchers

The forum now has a second entry, from Marc Damie. Marc calls for an opt-in research API for the fediverse, where instances could consent to have aggregated data be available for researchers:

socialmediaalternatives.org/20

The Network of Alternative Social Media Researchers · Ethics in Alternative Social Media Research: A ForumEarlier this month, news broke that an anonymous research team from the University of Zurich had conducted an experiment on Reddit’s “Change My View” subreddit. Briefly, the experiment involved using generative AI to persuade people to change their minds about topics. The researchers revealed their experiment after the fact. There was no informed consent, and the moderators of the “Change My View” (CMV) subreddit were not informed about the experiment until after it was completed. This led to massive condemnation of the experiment as a violation of research ethics: see here, here, and here, for some of the reporting. Hours ago, the CMV moderators posted a note saying the research team has apologized.
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Eric Saeger, Writer

Popular blue-checks on Twitter and elsewhere do a lot of damage when they continue to support opinions, news stories and factoids even *after* they've been proven erroneous, which they always do when they're still getting platform capital and dopamine out of it. That's one reason why corporate social media is cancer.
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Dendrobatus Azureus

@rl_dane

We learn our whole life
I'm going to start with my beloved Vim.
Bram Molenaar has setup Vim in such a way, that you may use, only use what you need, learn by accessing and processing the necessary commands in the Local help file & work in that manner for even years.

Every time you need to learn something else in Vim, you just go in that same local help file.
Vim help was set up in such a beautiful way, you can learn as you go...
It's quite clear that there will be a lot of TIL when using Vim

Complex systems like the Fediverse are also designed in that way you learn just what you need and then when you stumble upon something, you go on help
It's a beautiful thing when help and program are tuned towards each other

#VimMasterRace#Vim#programming
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shellsharks

Happy Friday everyone! Volume FIFTEEN of Scrolls has been published. Let me know what ya think!

https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025-05-09

#indieweb #fediverse #infosec #cybersecurity

Thanks to everyone mentioned below for their contributions to this week's edition. It's fun to see each week the new mentions and plenty of others who have been featured in one or more previous issues. You guys are all awesome! 🧡

@ApisNecros @anders @expressiverse @wearenew_public @TheIdOfAlan @heydon @palomakop @heatherhorns_lite @box464 @amin @hammyhavoc @adam @eli_oat @martin @bitsgalore @amin @stfn @thelinuxcast @EmilyMoranBarwick @anubiarts @rra @axxuy @moonfaced @fimion @32x33 @otterlove @wynlim @frills @chrismcolvin @cinimodev @xandra @hamatti @mttaggart @gluedex @bouletcorp2 @pathunstrom @christian @A11yAwareness @distributed @martin @Osmose

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FediDB Onboarding 🚀 : "Introducing Welcome, a new fediverse onboarding experience powered by FediDB."

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feddit.orgFediDB Onboarding 🚀 : "Introducing Welcome, a new fediverse onboarding experience powered by FediDB." - feddit.orggeteilt von: https://feddit.org/post/12164533 [https://feddit.org/post/12164533] > via fedidb@mastodon.social [https://mastodon.social/@fedidb/114477788759421170] : > > 🎉 Introducing Welcome, a new fediverse onboarding experience powered by #FediDB. > > Give it a try, and spread the word ✨ Wenn man bei “What type of content do you want to see or share?” wählt “Forum Discussions” werden im Anschluss NodeBB, Lemmy, mbin, Piefed und Lotide empfohlen. [https://feddit.org/pictrs/image/25143d93-e59a-44c9-a8b4-876bb3f3e6ad.png]
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