And the May 2025 IndieWeb Carnival roundup is up:
"There were 20 submissions, and together they make up a pretty nice snapshot of the evolution, purpose and culture of online communities. The common thread that shone through each piece was just how important they are for the online experience."
https://thoughts.uncountable.uk/may-2025-indieweb-carnival-roundup/
#community #communities #OnlineCommunities #SmallWebCommunities #indieweb #IndiewebCarnival #blogging
I put together a few words on the importance of small web communities, and communities in general.
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/on-the-importance-of-communities/
#community #communities #OnlineCommunities #SmallWebCommunities #indieweb #IndiewebCarnival #blogging
Kevin Durant On Who Ruined Basketball Culture: “Basement General Managers And The Dark Web Commisioners”? https://www.rawchili.com/nba/58962/ #Basketball #Brooklyn #KevinDurant #NBA #OnlineCommunities #SocialMedia #Warriors
Online communities aren't just platforms—they're identity laboratories
This #PsyberSpace episode explores how digital spaces shape who we become, with fascinating generational differences in approach.
Your Discord vs LinkedIn persona? That's psychology, not deception.
The martial arts community I launched on May 21, 2001 turned 24 years old today.
Last year, we completed a multi-year migration to move the community from old software that was slowly breaking to modern community software that would ensure the community could last 30, 40, 50 years. @chrispian worked a lot on this, with an assist from @mattmecham and crew.
https://karateforums.com/topic/52125-24-years-of-karateforumscom/
#OnlineCommunities #CommunityManagement #CommunityManager #CMGR
How streaming services can complete the subscriber experience and boost retention (or what I wish they had taken from CNN+). My first long-form piece in over a year!
At CNN, I spent 18 months building a new streaming service, an ambitious $300 million dollar bet on the company’s future. CNN+ arrived on March 29, 2022.
As you may have heard, our efforts were not long for this world, and CNN+ failed to last even one full month.
https://www.patrickokeefe.com/2025/05/19/streaming-service-retention-and-cnn-plus/
“When I left [my first job in gaming], I realized that the amount of fear and anxiety that I was living with every day was crippling. … Then I left, and I realized that it was never about the job in terms of what I was doing, it was about the job in terms of what I had. I was so scared to lose it that I didn’t have the confidence that I used to have. … It took leaving to get where I am now.” –Joe King
▶️https://www.communitysignal.com/the-loot-chest-that-launched-a-career-in-community-management/
“Section 230 protects any person or any entity that publishes other people’s content online. That is pretty much every person and entity that I know. There’s nothing in its language that limits it to Big Tech. I actually hear this a lot from my friends in the legacy news media community who feel like Big Tech got this statutory advantage that they don’t have. ...
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This goofy comment showed up on a LinkedIn post I made criticizing some researchers that had deployed AI bots into a community without permission.
I read it, and it was odd. It seemed kind of like a summary of some of my points, spun around in a blender. I thought it might be AI, so I Googled the name and the first hit was some company calling this an "AI Agent" for "business development."
#AI #LinkedIn #OnlineCommunities #CommunityManagement #ContentModeration #TrustAndSafety
Like thousands of others, I am now a minority owner of the Oakland Ballers, an independent pro baseball team, after participating in their recent Community Investment Round.
In purchasing these "fan shares," you are taking an actual, tiny stake in the team, alongside the majority owners and folks like Billie Joe Armstrong, Too $hort, Alex Winter, and Chelsea Peretti.
https://www.oaklandballers.com/news/2025/04/crowdfunding-milestone-3-million
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University of Zurich Admits Secret AI Bot Based Persuasion Experiment on Reddit with Disturbing Results
#AI #GenAI #Ethics #ResearchEthics #Reddit #ChangeMyView #UZH #LLM #GenAI #AIethics #AIsafety #OnlineCommunities #Manipulation #Deception #TechNews
Researchers at the University of Zurich spammed the r/changemyview subreddit community with AI-generated comments in an effort to prove that LLMs could be used to persuade people to change their views. They did so without permission from Reddit, the moderators of the subreddit, or the members who were emotionally manipulated through their interaction with the comments.
A few points to follow.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1k8b2hj/comment/mp4vgcm/
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Watch @mike give a live demo of Surf at SXSW. Learn what Surf is for, how it brings together content and communities across platforms, and how to make your own custom feed. Audience questions at the end are also 👌.
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"X as a platform is dangerous for queer people. Perhaps it always was, but it is especially true now with far less protection in place against hateful and harmful content.
Society is going backwards, but the OSW can catapult us forward with diverse pioneers leading the charge."
@saskia on LGBTQ+ communities on the open social web
https://forbetter.ghost.io/queer-hope-on-the-open-social-web/
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Scale and monoculture are out. Cozy corners and vibes are in.
The full “Building Communities Across the Social Web” panel is out now, featuring @andypiper, @rose.bsky.team and Leila Brillson discussing what it takes to create and sustain healthy online communities in 2025. Recorded live at the Fediverse House at SXSW in March.
https://flipboard.video/w/fr6Ajy9YxgmW3ZGdAycBca
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