#LecturasUrgentes de #RedesLibres 💡 ¿Qué es el #ShadowBanning y por qué nos afecta en redes comerciales?👁️ https://www.observacom.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Shadowbanning.pdf

@materialist.danarxist I can't tell if my account got #shadowbanned to no longer federate my posts.
#shadowbanning #shadowbannedbyinsta #shadowbans #shadowban #FediMeta #MetaPlatforms #meta

Banned from Threads before I even signed up. My reputation precedes me. #ShadowBanning #InternetCensorship

@lauren

Yay🎉
I've tried to get people to discuss this for a another reason: 𝘼𝙡𝙡 #liberal #media is on #Youtube

how long will the appeasers of #Google stand up to #TACO, or will they cave & take down or shadowban💙Us "domestic terrorists"? (his fascist admin use that term for lib media & YT is already #shadowbanning #blue 💙voices)

I just learned about #peertube which is the 1st potential alt to YT, but that's only IF💙We make it one

Further thoughts from me on this😊

https://open.substack.com/pub/worldtravelerall7/p/operation-engage?r=56nrnz&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

@GhostOnTheHalfShell
> we participate in the living thing called language

hopefully!

As already stated:

myself wrote:

the asocial media could become some form or a chance of framing superiority, yet that was taken away by algorithms

GhostOnTheHalfShell wrote:

They persuade through mendacity. They always have.

.. well, except our buddy @jesuisatire in the ALTtext explicacion of his pinned toot ..

@pluralistic @jeffjarvis

For those facing shadowbanning and suppression: I feel you. The algorithms are especially brutal to those who don’t push divisive, partisan talking points. Couple that with being a newer, smaller account (post Russiagate and Covid), and you’re facing a fortified concrete barrier. Start talking about things like peace, unity, the suppression you’ve facing, the obvious psyops, and just speaking truth in general—expect to get gagged.

Hope this place is different...
#suppression #shadowbanning

Another day, another 0 interactions I get, but ironically, Threads is asking me to pay for my true self (the verified badge). I have the right to have suspicions toward Threads and Meta. I have the right to accuse them of shadow-banning me and being ableist.

#SocialMedia #Authenticity #Threads #Meta #ShadowBanning #MentalHealth #DisabilityAwareness #UserRights #OnlineCommunity #DigitalIdentity #SocialJustice #Inclusion #Accessibility #TrueSelf #SocialMediaStruggles

Von X zu Mastodon und Bluesky: Warum der Wechsel sinnvoll ist

https://blog.infinito.nexus/blog/2025/09/04/von-x-zu-mastodon-und-bluesky-warum-der-wechsel-sinnvoll-ist/

#ShadowBanning … ist kein Schutz, sondern ein unsichtbarer Angriff auf die Meinungsfreiheit. Wer #Demokratie ernst nimmt, darf keine Stimmen heimlich zum Schweigen bringen. @hateaid.org 🖖

Ofcom apparently don’t understand “false-positive rates” nor “base rate”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114231
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #OverBlocking #ShadowBanning #censorship #surveillance #vpn

Ofcom apparently don’t understand “false-positive rates” nor “base rate”

Take badly drafted and overlarded legislation and then summarise it badly, and you end up with a refined recipe for shadowbanning, blocking & censorship:

Our children’s codes for user-to-user services recommend that services … design and operate recommender systems so that content likely to be suicide or self-harm content is excluded from children’s feeds

I wonder how many errors this will trigger?

Via Graham:

https://twitter.com/Cyberleagle/status/1953724276936261795

#ageVerification #censorship #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #overBlocking #shadowBanning #surveillance #VPN

canali di slowforward et alia

DAL 2003, SLOWFORWARD è il sito più testardo, aggiornato (e anziano) su #scritture di ricerca, #arte contemporanea, #musica sperimentale, materiali verbovisivi, #asemic writing, #poesia concreta, #prosa in prosa, prose brevi, scritture non assertive, littéralité, flarf, sought poetry, #googlism , #fluxus e #anarchia , movimenti, #editoria ‘irregolare’, #glitch , ossessione collezionistica, #audio e #video più o meno deliranti, #network possibili di #sperimentazione , #dada , #derive & compagnia

segui il canale #slowforward su #telegram : https://t.me/slowforward

o su #whatsapp : https://tinyurl.com/slowchannel

e/o l’account #mastodon : https://mastodon.uno/@differx

(tutti i post sono replicati/linkati inoltre sia su tumblr sia su bluesky)

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se infine ti interessa in particolare l’asemic writing (scrittura asemica), i canali gemelli dedicati sono https://t.me.asemic e https://tinyurl.com/whasemic

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slowforward – pur con tutte le sue imperfezioni e contraddizioni – sollecita tutti a evitare, per quanto possibile, i canali generalisti (soprattutto twitter, threads e facebook) e ad andare semmai alla fonte dei materiali, privilegiando piattaforme di condivisione presenti nel #fediverso o che comunque limitano le separazioni interne alle comunità, ed evitano o proprio cancellano del tutto l’invadenza pubblicitaria, lo #shadowbanning , la #censura , gli algoritmi demenziali, le violazioni della (o i comportamenti leggeri in tema di) #privacy

#111 #algoritmi #algoritmo #anarchia #arte #asemic #asemicWriting #audio #Bluesky #censura #comunità #dada #dérive #editoria #FEDIVERSO #flarf #fluxus #glitch #googlism #littéralité #Mastodon #materialiVerbovisivi #mediaGeneralisti #movimenti #Movimento #musicA_ #musicaSperimentale #network #noFacebook #noThreads #noTwitter #ossessioneCollezionistica #piattaformeGeneraliste #poesia #privacy #prosa #ProsaInProsa #proseBrevi #scritture #scrittureNonAssertive #separazione #separazioni #shadowbanning #slowforward #soughtPoetry #sperimentazione #Telegram #tumblr #video #whatsapp

I just tried searching for #SarahKendzior on #Instagram, and found the #Meta #AI response odd. I I know she has no account there; to compare, I searched a couple of names of dead SilentGen people I knew who’d show zero results. The AI response was generic AI fake personality “I’m sorry give me more info” instead. Have I just not seen this kind of “issue” msg before, or have they flagged particular #searches? Wondering if this is the new #shadowbanning.

Ich fürchte, die gute Nachricht, dass #TikTok den #SkinnyTok sperrt, ist nur Augenwischerei (https://www.deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag/tiktok-sperrt-skinnytok-doch-der-skinny-content-bleibt).

Es ist längst etabliert, mit sogenanntem #AlgoSpeak Inhalte so leicht abzuändern, dass sie von "Eingeweihten" dennoch gefunden werden. Es wird oft von marginalisierten Gruppen genutzt, um z.B. unberechtigtes #Shadowbanning oder Löschen von Inhalten zu verhindern (Bsp.: “le$bean” statt “lesbian”), wird aber z.B. auch in rechtsextremistischen Kontexten verwendet.
Wenn also #SkinnyTok geblockt wird, ist das gut, aber man muss fast zwingend davon ausgehen, dass sich längst AlgoSpeak entwickelt hat, und man die Inhalte nun eben mit anderen Hashtags, Emojis, Gesten und Symbolen findet. In jedem Fall kann man sich auf solchen Maßnahmen nicht ausruhen.

Hier eine interessante Studie, die untersucht, wie Content Creators Algospeak nutzen und warum: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20563051231194586. Dort finden sich viele Beispiele für solche Symbole.

#Medienkompetenz #Kommunikationswissenschaft

canali di slowforward et alia

DAL 2003, SLOWFORWARD è il sito più testardo, aggiornato (e anziano) su #scritture di ricerca, #arte contemporanea, #musica sperimentale, materiali verbovisivi, #asemic writing, #poesia concreta, #prosa in prosa, prose brevi, scritture non assertive, littéralité, flarf, sought poetry, #googlism , #fluxus e #anarchia , movimenti, #editoria ‘irregolare’, #glitch , ossessione collezionistica, #audio e #video più o meno deliranti, #network possibili di #sperimentazione , #dada , #derive & compagnia

segui il canale #slowforward su #telegram : https://t.me/slowforward

o su #whatsapp : https://tinyurl.com/slowchannel

e/o l’account #mastodon : https://mastodon.uno/@differx

(tutti i post sono replicati/linkati inoltre sia su tumblr sia su bluesky)

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se infine ti interessa in particolare l’asemic writing (scrittura asemica), i canali gemelli dedicati sono https://t.me.asemic e https://tinyurl.com/whasemic

*

slowforward – pur con tutte le sue imperfezioni e contraddizioni – sollecita tutti a evitare, per quanto possibile, i canali generalisti (soprattutto twitter, threads e facebook) e ad andare semmai alla fonte dei materiali, privilegiando piattaforme di condivisione presenti nel #fediverso o che comunque limitano le separazioni interne alle comunità, ed evitano o proprio cancellano del tutto l’invadenza pubblicitaria, lo #shadowbanning , la #censura , gli algoritmi demenziali, le violazioni della (o i comportamenti leggeri in tema di) #privacy

#111 #algoritmi #algoritmo #anarchia #arte #asemic #asemicWriting #audio #Bluesky #censura #comunità #dada #dérive #editoria #FEDIVERSO #flarf #fluxus #glitch #googlism #littéralité #Mastodon #materialiVerbovisivi #mediaGeneralisti #movimenti #Movimento #musicA_ #musicaSperimentale #network #noFacebook #noThreads #noTwitter #ossessioneCollezionistica #piattaformeGeneraliste #poesia #privacy #prosa #ProsaInProsa #proseBrevi #scritture #scrittureNonAssertive #separazione #separazioni #shadowbanning #slowforward #soughtPoetry #sperimentazione #Telegram #tumblr #video #whatsapp

#grok says #x has #shadowbanning . I am surprised they let it say that.

THE ALGORITHM VS. THE HUMAN MIND: A LOSING BATTLE
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NO RECOGNITION FOR THE AUTHOR

YouTube does not reward consistency, insight, or author reputation. A comment may become a “top comment” for a day, only to vanish the next. There’s no memory, no history of editorial value. The platform doesn’t surface authors who contribute regularly with structured, relevant input. There's no path for authorship to emerge or be noticed. The “like” system favors early commenters — the infamous firsts — who write “first,” “early,” or “30 seconds in” just after a video drops. These are the comments that rise to the top. Readers interact with the text, not the person behind it. This is by design. YouTube wants engagement to stay contained within the content creator’s channel, not spread toward the audience. A well-written comment should not amplify a small creator’s reach — that would disrupt the platform’s control over audience flow.
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USERS WHO’VE STOPPED THINKING

The algorithm trains people to wait for suggestions. Most users no longer take the initiative to explore or support anyone unless pushed by the system. Even when someone says something exceptional, the response remains cold. The author is just a font — not a presence. A familiar avatar doesn’t trigger curiosity. On these platforms, people follow only the already-famous. Anonymity is devalued by default. Most users would rather post their own comment (that no one will ever read) than reply to others. Interaction is solitary. YouTube, by design, encourages people to think only about themselves.
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ZERO MODERATION FOR SMALL CREATORS

Small creators have no support when it comes to moderation. In low-traffic streams, there's no way to filter harassment or mockery. Trolls can show up just to enjoy someone else's failure — and nothing stops them. Unlike big streamers who can appoint moderators, smaller channels lack both the tools and the visibility to protect themselves. YouTube provides no built-in safety net, even though these creators are often the most exposed.
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EXTERNAL LINKS ARE SABOTAGED

Trying to drive traffic to your own website? In the “About” section, YouTube adds a warning label to every external link: “You’re about to leave YouTube. This site may be unsafe.” It looks like an antivirus alert — not a routine redirect. It scares away casual users. And even if someone knows better, they still have to click again to confirm. That’s not protection — it’s manufactured discouragement. This cheap shot, disguised as safety, serves a single purpose: preventing viewers from leaving the ecosystem. YouTube has no authority to determine what is or isn’t a “safe” site beyond its own platform.
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HUMANS CAN’T OUTPERFORM THE MACHINE

At every level, the human loses. You can’t outsmart an algorithm that filters, sorts, buries. You can’t even decide who you want to support: the system always intervenes. Talent alone isn’t enough. Courage isn’t enough. You need to break through a machine built to elevate the dominant and bury the rest. YouTube claims to be a platform for expression. But what it really offers is a simulated discovery engine — locked down and heavily policed.
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||#HSLdiary #HSLmichael

#YouTubeCritique #AlgorithmicBias #DigitalLabour #IndieCreators #Shadowbanning #ContentModeration #PlatformJustice #AudienceManipulation

YOUTUBE'S BENCH
May 5, 2025

I spent 18 months trying to make it on YouTube: livestreams, editing, shorts, chaptered reviews, commentary, no shortcuts. I got silence in return. This is not a rant. Not a thread. Just a text — written at 5:09 AM, on May 5, 2025 — when I realized the algorithm had never planned to let me play.
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5:09 AM

I can’t sleep. These past few days have been chaotic. My dream of becoming a YouTuber has collapsed. Eighteen months of relentless work, only to realize: insisting any further would just be a waste of time. I don’t have the right profile. I don’t meet the criteria. I bring no fame to the table, and I can’t afford to build it. YouTube doesn’t want me. My videos are online, I follow all the rules, but I’m playing alone in a corner. No one’s looking for me. No one’s finding me. The algorithm put a dunce cap on my head. But YouTube doesn’t humiliate people individually. That’s the magic of the system: no one is more important than the platform itself. The logo is huge. Your channel name? Tiny. Your avatar? Hidden. Your link? Buried. Your calls to action? Ignored. You’re not at home on YouTube. You’re on their turf. YouTube is the only star. And to keep it that way, it rotates the faces in the spotlight. No YouTuber is bigger than YouTube.

The algorithm decides. The algorithm selects. The algorithm benches you like a football coach who makes five billion players believe they’re all starters. You’re on the bench. You stay on the bench. And you can’t leave. Two views. Three. Sometimes twelve. Rarely seventeen. Everyone sees you sitting there, waiting for your moment. But it never comes. Even when another player gets injured and there’s five minutes left in the game, you don’t go in. You’ve become a vagrant of the system. You sit there, stuck in humiliation. And the worst part is, your failure is public. Your “3 views” are carved in stone. Everyone sees them. Like a giant sign saying: “Look at this loser.”

So I ask myself: what did I do to YouTube? Did I kill their mother? Did I insult their religion? No. It’s just how they operate. A massive filtering strategy. Let everyone in, hoping to spot one Samuel Étienne, tired of French public TV, one Jamy, bored with his retirement. YouTube is like a spoiled child who got a billion toys for Christmas and can’t pick one — so he chooses no one. He opens them, discards them, sighs, and moves on. He doesn’t need to choose. He’s no longer capable of it. So he stops choosing. And we, we stay there, hoping to be picked. Still believing in the miracle. Because despite everything, YouTube has a baby face. A familiar face. You can’t really hate it. That sweet face is what makes the trap perfect.
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|| #HSLdiary #HSLmichael

#YouTube #Algorithm #ContentCreators #Shadowbanning #Burnout #PlatformCapitalism #DigitalCreativity #Fediverse #HSLtv

The Palestinian #digitalrights org @7amleh is collecting evidence from users based in Europe who have experienced content #takedowns, #shadowbanning, or account suspensions on #Instagram or #Facebook.

If you have encountered such things, you can provide the details here: https://form.jotform.com/250692597434063