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Policymakers HAVE the toolbox with the DSA to regulate social media to protect children. Bans are signs of lazy politicians trying to score brownie points with their electorate.

As requested by @liabelle.me here are all the unique features of @mu.social which I will keep up to date as we progress

In case anyone is curious to study how network effects lose critical mass, search inclusion is a good opportunity to update scientific theories of collective action

My move to @eurosky.social is official I guess 🥳

Never read Babel as a cautionary tale against empire, where the punishment of plurality in languages was a "refusal to let one order claim the whole future". Great cautionary tale on AI, building a system that grows past our understanding will be the consequence of our own actions.

WOW -- Danish reporter *goes there* with Rutte "You sit next to Trump when he talks about conquering Greenland, lashes out at allies like Spain -- things it doesn't seem like the old Mark Rutte would approve of. Does this have any affect on your self-respect when you sit there and say nothing?"

I missed the initial convo here about the CJEU ruling that platforms are no longer exempt from liability over their algorithmic control of content, but the potential implications are so big! @kellyfincham.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...

There’s been an enormous furore over plans to introduce mandatory age verification for social media. While many people think it’s a good thing but policy experts oppose to. To help explain why; the online gaming platform Roblox has provide us with a very timely case study. Brief 🧵

This paper about the publicly available data that is missing from Meta's and TikTok's research tools/APIs, by Luka Bekavac and Simon Mayer, is super interesting. And this graphic is a doozy. arxiv.org/html/2601.12...

actually macron and others know a ban won’t work to curb the way social media companies target/commodify kids. but remarkably it’s Meloni who says it.

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

wrote in 2024 already for @sampolmaandblad.bsky.social why Eurovision is so important for Israel and how it has weaponized the competition for information warfare purposes. nathalievanraemdonck.com/2024/05/23/t...

"When political pressure determines whether people can gather, it doesn't just limit movement—it reshapes how we think, how we make decisions, and how we relate to one another. It isolates us, creates distance, and fuels tension, all while shrinking the already fragile space for civil society."

Julia Angwin says Meta, "one of the most powerful media organizations in the world and one of the most valuable members of the S&P 500 — is at the start of a long, slow decline that will trigger aftershocks to our economy and our society." (Kudos to the graphic artist, very Monty Python.)

🚨🚨 #Bluesky is doing very well. @ec.europa.eu has changed some of their policies in respect of interaction with social media & are now prioritising #Mastodon, Bluesky & #linkedin. #X has been completely been removed from the "Follow" function (whilst FB & youtube is at the bottom of the page).

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Could Americans really create the first ever public aviation transport? Very much here for this socialism experiment 🔥 #spirit2.0 letsbuyspiritair.com

the government of zambia is announcing that it canceled RightsCon. this is a serious attack on civil society, the global & local ones. thousands of people - activists, academics, govt etc - are en route to lusaka. to cancel at this late stage is just horrible.

the dumbest feed idea I have ever had, please enjoy

an extremely funny thing about it is that it's a cluster of "stop fedposting, stop sephiroth-posting about violence, win political power and then make change" accounts, 95% of whom are on various "centrist coward shitlib" leftist bluesky lists

Recent jury verdicts signal a turning point in addressing harms to children from social media platforms, but courts can’t fix systemic failures, argues Salil Tripathi. Real change requires regulating companies—setting standards, enforcing safeguards, and ensuring accountability.

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

Why is it so complicated to fact-check claims about severe harms when people misunderstand how they're quantified? Thoughtful article by @nathalievanraemdonck.com, via the @aoir.bsky.social Mastodon server at @[email protected] nathalievanraemdonck.com/2026/04/21/f...

Altijd interessant leesvoer.

Getting back into blogging this year, I’m starting with the online discourse RE: the CNN “rape academy” story and the misnumbered “62 million men” participating. I reflect on a tension between accuracy and activism that deserves nuance nathalievanraemdonck.com/2026/04/21/f...

No the real purpose is to kill your privacy and track your every move Keeping children safe is just a favourite excuse cause who can possibly object to keeping children safe? It is such bullshit, and it does not even keep children safe, esp marginalized kids who need safe spaces

Feel like a proud parent watching Joost Klein's full Coachella set 🥹 Been following Eenhoornjoost on Youtube since he got kicked out of his school Italiereis, and now the world is discovering this lil weirdo! I can imagine @maaikeverbruggen.bsky.social feels the same! youtu.be/NAbznZnrSCE?...

"social media isn’t a toxin that we can isolate and test and ban. It is an information-delivery system whose effect on any individual depends entirely on what’s in the drip" @dkthomp.bsky.social with critical nuances on social media bans for minors www.theargumentmag.com/p/against-th...

We're gonna need a bigger tent #atproto.local

The cool folks from the Eurosky team just brought you a new site: eurosky.tech, portal to the Atmosphere. I'd say it's the crispest explanation so far of what the Atmosphere brings: 1. one account 2. that works with a bunch of apps, and 3. your data from all apps is yours, portable, interoperable.

That diner goth piece is so funny. An interesting, engaging idea - what does youth culture look like when it's all learned via screens? - but the writer doesn't know that so it just blunders around cultural decay of states hit by decades of austerity so he can get over fumbling a weird bitch.

Brazil will soon find out if its new law aimed protecting children online will stick. A copy of a draft enforcement decree obtained by Tech Policy Press offers a fuller picture of how it may be implemented, fellow Tatiana Dias reports.

1 week to go! Have you registered yet? 🗓️ 24 March, 2026 🕧 5PM CET / 11AM CDT/Chicago 🔗Register here: www.members.aoir.org/event-6590105 Hope to see you!

Welcome to the next phase of hyperreality

Excellent point. Habits can be bad but they are not "addiction". And, if instead of pathologising, we think in these terms, we can create better habits for our social media usage. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Also I love to see more cross protocol work happening. Rising tides can lift all boats. Folks who want to have protocol wars can wade in and try to hold back the ocean.

Nepal's Gen Z used TikTok, Discord & Reddit to flip their country’s political system, as rapper-turned-politician Balen Shah crushed the 6-time incumbent in last week's election. Aaradhyaa Gyawali offers an account of how events played out, and what it says about the role of technology in elections.

Heeey, look, it's me! I'm super hyped to announce that @bsky.app have given me a grant to work on the standards for the Federated Credential Management API (or FedCM) to make them really work for all decentralized web applications.

Bring back whimsical Single-Purpose websites like gradient.horse

Great research project to participate in and have your voice be heard on safety and tackling harm in decentralized system, warmly recommend people to sign up!

Are you active on platforms like Mastodon, Bluesky, Pixelfed, or Eurosky? Please consider participating in an asynchronous brainstorming activity to share your suggestions to make them safer. See project details and sign up here tinyurl.com/44adp9cx @qutdmrc.bsky.social @admscentre.org.au

"our engagement with war content is never just consumption: there is always space to question what we are being shown." Scrolling and interacting with war content is inherently a political act as it shapes the visibility of such content

BTW: EU-Haul is not restricted to migrating your account to @eurosky.social - you can use it to migrate FROM any hoster TO any hoster. E.g. to @blackskyweb.xyz or even back to @bsky.app

"There is no scientific evidence to support the assumption that banning minors from accessing services would have a positive effect on their mental health and development." www.politico.eu/article/age-...

Reading this, again, you get the sense that someone at Anthropic knows how the intel community misleads by using definitions of words that are different than everyone else believes. And the people at OpenAI simply don't know or don't care about that.

I'm glad some Spanish journalists can see through this weaponization of a quirky subculture. As I'm integrating more in Spain, it's been interesting to see how the outrage over Therians was mostly confined to the hispanic ecosystem? Not sure how accurate this map is but symbolic nonetheless 🙈

Estos dos artículos sobre el fenómeno mediático detrás de los therians y el halo reaccionario que les acompaña están muy bien. Da gusto cuando alguien ordena ideas. De Paola Mendoza y Ángel Munárriz elpais.com/sociedad/202... De Paloma Martínez Varela www.eldiario.es/era/espejism...

US funding for global internet freedom ‘effectively gutted’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...