ICYMI: Threads launches direct messaging with safety restrictions: Threads introduces direct messaging and visual highlighting system as platform reaches third year milestone. https://ppc.land/threads-launches-direct-messaging-with-safety-restrictions/ #Threads #DirectMessaging #SocialMedia #SafetyFirst #MessagingApp
#DirectMessaging
ICYMI: Threads launches direct messaging with safety restrictions https://ppc.land/threads-launches-direct-messaging-with-safety-restrictions/ #Threads #DirectMessaging #SocialMedia #SafetyFirst #MessagingApp
Threads launches direct messaging with safety restrictions: Threads introduces direct messaging and visual highlighting system as platform reaches third year milestone. https://ppc.land/threads-launches-direct-messaging-with-safety-restrictions/ #Threads #DirectMessaging #SocialMedia #SafetyFirst #TechNews
Threads launches direct messaging with safety restrictions https://ppc.land/threads-launches-direct-messaging-with-safety-restrictions/ #Threads #DirectMessaging #SocialMedia #SafetyFirst #TechNews
Engadget: X is ‘pausing’ encrypted DMs. “X users can no longer send encrypted messages on the platform. The company said in an update that it’s ‘pausing’ the feature ‘while we work on making some improvements.’ Users will still be able to view previously-sent encrypted chats, but won’t be able to send any new ones.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/30/engadget-x-is-pausing-encrypted-dms/
Digital Trends: X will purge DMs to give birth to its own messaging platform. “X, formerly Twitter, is seeking to replace the DMs section with a new messaging platform called XChat. Zack Warunek, software engineer at X, hinted that the company will be deleting the DMs section on Wednesday in a response to a user who had difficulties seeing user data on the messages they sent and received for […]
Is private messaging a feature on here? #mastodon #help #support #directmessaging #privatemessaging
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TikTok has introduced a new Group Chat feature, allowing users aged 16 and above to create groups of up to 32 people for messaging and sharing videos. #tiktok #socialmedia #directmessaging
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A lightly-scheduled week wrapped up with my wife and I seeing two D.C. teams that didn’t exist 20 years ago play against two Seattle teams: the Spirit’s 3-2 win against the Reign Friday night, then the Nats’ 9-5 loss to the Mariners Sunday afternoon. In between, a bike ride to and then through Rock Creek Park offered me a peek at actual construction progress of Maryland’s snakebit Purple Line light-rail project.
5/20/2024: The Internet Is Not Forever: 38% of Web Pages From 2013 No Longer Exist, PCMag
I missed this Pew Research Center study when it landed Friday of the previous week, but the problem of link rot is an evergreen topic, and my own career has provided numerous examples of it.
5/22/2024: Microsoft and Google’s new AI sales pitches: We’re your last line of defense against your scatterbrained self, Fast Company
This was originally going to be a recap of how Google used its I/O developer conference two weeks ago to position AI as your last line of defense against hostile humans. But then Microsoft unveiled an implementation of AI that could vastly expand the privacy attack surface of Windows users, so I had to rewrite a large chunk of this post.
5/22/2024: Which Tech Company Has the Worst Reputation?, PCMag
Seeing the former Twitter ranked at 99 out of 100 brands, above only the Trump Organization, caught my interest. But as I noted in my writeup, some of the results of this Harris and Axios project invite some skepticism about the methodology.
5/22/2024: T-Mobile Raises Rates on Many Older Plans by $5 or $2 a Month, PCMag
Halfway through writing this post, T-Mobile made me part of the story by sending a text message informing me that I’d be paying an extra $5 a month on the Business Unlimited Advanced plan that T-Mobile introduced barely three years ago.
5/23/2024: Bluesky Adds Direct Messaging, But It’s No Signal Replacement Yet, PCMag
If T-Mobile hadn’t grabbed so much of my attention Thursday, I could have written this post then. Instead, I had a little more time to try out Bluesky’s new DM feature–and to cobble together my own photo to illustrate this piece after seeing Getty Images offer nothing current.
#BlueskyDirectMessaging #BlueskyDMs #brandReputation #digitalDecay #directMessaging #error404 #GoogleAndroidScamCallDetection #GoogleIO #instantMessaging #linkRot #MicrosoftBuild #MicrosoftRecall #TMobile5RateHike #WindowsRecall
#Bluesky #DirectMessaging
"Social networking startup and X competitor Bluesky is officially launching DMs (direct messages), the company announced on Wednesday."
Not encrypted and only one-on-one, no group chats.
Bluesky now has DMs | TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/bluesky-now-has-dms/
3/3 Whatever it is, I stopped reacting to such messages altogether, no matter who it is from, or what it is they want :) If they really need something (assuming I can indeed help), they will state it fully eventually. If they don't, it wasn't important anyway.
#communication #conversation #messaging #directmessaging #chat
What #instantmessaging / #directmessaging software do you use? Please #boost.
So what is up with direct messages in mastodon.
They are definitely not end to end encrypted.
So is it like a more bring your own encryption system.
I have my pgp keys setup.
Okay I know mastodon is a public blogging platform. But sometimes you need to have private conversation.
Or is it because that could lead to spam and abuse??
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If you want to see how unhealthy social media is just look at this story about DMs on Instagram. Now if you want to DM someone that you don't follow they can send just one text message.
Imagine, you're a user of Instagram. You're following friends, family and colleagues. Now consider that every fourth post is by someone you don't know anything about. Now imagine that you see the influencers several times a day, every single time you refresh your feed.
Complete strangers are invading your timeline, polluting your streams, and in general reminding you of your social isolation, reminding you to feel Fear Of Missing out. You're then told that the FOMO person can only be texted once. This is absurd, because Instagram isn't a social media site now. It is an advertising platform with user generated content spread thinly.
Threads at a Fifth of It's Peak
I read that Threads is now at one fifth of it's 100 million user peak. It's at around 20 million users. This makes sense. Why would people want a timeline filled with strangers, rather than friends? Why would people join a website/app that is part of Facebook. I know that it's called Meta, to whitewash itself, but I call it Facebook, to show that the whitewashing effort failed.
Toxic Culture and the Need For Change
That Instagram feels the need to limit DMs tells us two things. The first is that they have made Instagram toxic. It's because of this toxicity that everyone needs to protected from one eyed trouser snake pics and other forms of spam via DM. If Instagram was still a network of friends of friends, it would still be self-policing. It isn't, so new rules need to be put in place.
The second thing it tells us is that rather than tweak the algorithm to make suggestions and conversations healthier, they are just adding barriers, rather than tackling the core issues.
Social Media and Iconoclasm
This morning before getting up I read about how some people rented a villa, and damaged a statue taking photos of themselves with it. It also mentioned at least three people adding graffiti to the Colosseum. The issue with social media is that instead of having the morality of healthy communities, it has the morality of advertisers and marketers. The result is the vandalism and iconoclasm that is becoming more and more common. social media algorithms amplify emotions, and emotions, especially on social media are toxic.
The Social Media Algorithm Distortion
Social Media Algorithms Distort Social Instincts and Fuel Misinformation
Key facts:
- Social media algorithms are designed to promote user engagement, thereby amplifying inherent human biases for learning from prestigious or in-group members.
- This amplification often promotes misinformation and polarization as it doesn’t discern the accuracy of the information.
- Researchers suggest that both users and tech companies need to take steps to mitigate these effects, including user education and algorithmic changes.
Social Media algorithms are toxic. Rather than tackle the cause of toxic behaviour companies like Facebook prefer to pretend that the problem is the user, rather than the algorithm that drives humans to behave in a toxic or trollish manner. Instead of encouraging humanism algorithms amplify emotion, because emotion encourages people to stick around.
In contrast, algorithms are usually selecting information that boosts user engagement in order to increase advertising revenue. This means algorithms amplify the very information humans are biased to learn from, and they can oversaturate social media feeds with what the researchers call Prestigious, Ingroup, Moral, and Emotional (PRIME) information, regardless of the content’s accuracy or representativeness of a group’s opinions.
“It’s not that the algorithm is designed to disrupt cooperation,” says Brady. “It’s just that its goals are different. And in practice, when you put those functions together, you end up with some of these potentially negative effects.”
In addition, the researchers propose that social media companies could take steps to change their algorithms, so they are more effective at fostering community. Instead of solely favoring PRIME information, algorithms could set a limit on how much PRIME information they amplify and prioritize presenting users with a diverse set of content.
Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Threads
All of these social media sights are driven by algorithms that amplify negative emotions, rather than foster community. That's why I think hashtags are bad, and that twitter threads are bad. That's why I think commenting, re-sharing and other forms of behaviour are better, especially in a chronological timeline, as we have with blogs and most of the fediverse. I won't use pixelfed because it uses hashtags rather than categories or healthier community building tools.
We worry about AI but algorithms control more of what we see and feel, than AI.
And Finally
After decades of using Social Networks I have almost never felt the need to send DMs, especially to strangers. I usually use them sparingly, either to coordinate IRL meetings, or to share information that I do not want everyone to have access to. Instagram is restricting DMs not because they care about their users, but because they are deflecting from the problems posed by their algorithms that encourage polarisation, and trolling.
#algorithms #direct-messaging #instagram #social-media
https://blog.main-vision.com/asking-for-permission-on-instagram/
Finding that direct messaging accounts on other instances is not quick and easy.
Is there a simple workaround that avoids having to make multiple accounts?
Just checking. Does this instance have a #DirectMessaging facility? I've located it on my alt instance, but on Tusky, the DM icon on mastodon.social is replaced with a globe icon for federated posts.
Just asking for future reference
I've seen a number of new folks here at #Mastodon ("new" = less than one week; by comparison, I'm a veteran) complaining about the lack of an end-to-end #encrypted #directmessaging protocol. Granted, the bird didn't have one either, but be that as it won't...
Suppose we were to solve that problem not by retrofitting the Mastodon servers, but instead pairing Mastodon apps with tried-and-tested #opensource encrypted DM protocols, then link the user accounts between the two systems. Feasible?
#Signal Stories sind da - ein neues Feature auf das ich mich schon sehr gefreut hab:
https://signal.org/blog/introducing-stories/ (engl.)
Ein weiterer toller #WhatsApp Ersatz und problemlos mit Opt-out für die die es ignorieren wollen
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