#astroturf — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #astroturf, aggregated by home.social.
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Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
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Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
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Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
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Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
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Tom Cruise Parrots Paramount’s Empty Merger Promises Because He Loves His ‘Hollywood Family’
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https://www.yourvoicedecides.com ist eine Website von Philip Morris, mit der eine EU-Konsultation über die künftigen Regeln für Tabakprodukte (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/17612-Tobacco-products-and-tobacco-advertising-revision-of-EU-rules_en) manipuliert werden soll.
In der Website muss man ein paar Fragen beantworten und einen eigenen Kommentar schreiben, und dann generiert eine KI daraus einen Text, den man dann an die EU schicken kann. Ich fand das Resultat nicht sehr überzeugend — typisches KI-Kauderwelsch eben — aber es wird den Leuten, die das Ganze lesen müssen, zusätzlichen Aufwand bereiten.Hier sind noch zwei Artikel über die Angelegenheit (beide auf Niederländisch):
https://www.tabaknee.nl/nieuws/item/3508-industrie-manipuleert-eu-consultatie-tabaksrichtlijn
https://www.rookvrijegeneratie.nl/artikelen/artsen-en-gezondheidsfondsen-klagen-philip-morris-aan(Warum es nur Artikel auf Niederländisch gibt, ist mir nicht klar, aber vielleicht liegt es daran, dass in den Niederlanden Ärzte und Krankenkassen protestiert haben.)
#YourVoiceDecides #PhillipMorris #Rauchen #Astroturf #AISlop #EuropäischeUnion #EU
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#高橋洋一
日本はとっくにイラン産原油の輸入を停止しているのに、イランが日本に原油を出さないことになるかもしれない✨
#YoichiTakahashi#竹中平蔵 #HeizoTakenaka #Trump #Epstein #ElonMusk
#Iran #Ukraine #Venezuela#Takaichi #SanaeTakaichi #TaroAso #ShinzoAbe
#botFarm #clickFarm #socialMedia #X #Twitter #YouTube
#astroTurf #astroturfinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWhO0RVeu3Q&feature=youtu.be
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BlueSky’s Solution To Moderating Is Moderating Without Moderating via Social Proximity
I have noticed a lot of people are confused about why some posts don’t show up on threads, though they are not labeled by the moderation layer. Bluesky has begun using what it calls social neighborhoods (or network proximity) as a ranking signal for replies in threads. Replies from people who are closer to you in the social graph, accounts you follow, interact with, or share mutual connections with, are prioritized and shown more prominently. Replies from accounts that are farther away in that network are down-ranked. They are pushed far down the thread or placed behind “hidden replies.”
Each person gets their own unique view of a thread based on their social graph. It creates the impression that replies from distant users simply don’t exist. This is true even though they’re still technically public and viewable if you expand the thread or adjust filters. Bluesky is explicitly using features of subgraphs to moderate without moderating. Their reasoning is that if you can’t see each other, you can’t harass each other. Ergo, there is nothing to moderate.
Bluesky mentions that here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/10-31-2025-building-healthier-social-media-update
As a digression, I’m not going to lie: I really enjoyed working on software built on the AT protocol, but their fucking users are so goddamn weird. It’s sort of like enjoying building houses, but hating every single person who moves into them. But, you don’t have to deal with them because you’re just the contractor. That is how I feel about Bluesky. I hate the people. I really like the protocol and infrastructure.
I sort of am a sadist who does enjoy drama, so I do get schadenfreude from people with social media addictions and parasocial fixations who reply to random people on Bluesky, because they don’t realize their replies are disconnected from the author’s thread unless that person is within their network. They aren’t part of the conversation they think they are. They’re algorithmically isolated from everyone else. Their replies aren’t viewable from the author’s thread because of how Bluesky handles social neighborhoods.
Bluesky’s idea of social neighborhoods is about grouping users into overlapping clusters based on real interaction patterns rather than just the follow graph. Unlike Twitter, it does not treat the network as one big public square. Instead, it models networks of “social neighborhoods” made up of people you follow, people who follow you, people you frequently interact with, and people who are closely connected to those groups. They’re soft, probabilistic groupings rather than strict labels.
Everyone does not see the same replies. Bluesky is being a bit vague with “hidden.” Hidden means your reply is still anchored to the thread and can be expanded. There is another way Bluesky can handle this. Bluesky uses social neighborhoods to judge contextual relevance. Replies from people inside or near your social neighborhood are more likely to be shown inline with a thread, expanded by default, or served in feeds. Replies from outside your neighborhood are still public and still indexed, but they’re treated as lower-context contributions.
Basically, if you reply to a thread, you will see it anchored to the conversation, and everyone will see it in search results, as a hashtag, or from your profile, but it will not be accessible via the thread of the person you were replying to. It is like shadow-banning people from threads unless they are strongly networked.
Because people have not been working with the AT Protocol like I have, they assume they are shadow-banned across the entire Bluesky app view. No—everyone is automatically shadow-banned from everyone else unless they are within the same social neighborhood. In other words, you are not part of the conversation you think you are joining because you are not part of their social group.
Your replies will appear in profiles, hashtag feeds, or search results without being visually anchored to the full thread. Discovery impressions are neighborhood-agnostic: they serve content because it matches a query, tag, or activity stream. Once the reply is shown, the app then decides whether it’s worth pulling in the rest of the conversation for you. If the original author and most participants fall outside your neighborhood, Bluesky often chooses not to expand that context automatically.
Bluesky really is trying to avoid having to moderate, so this is their solution. Instead of banning or issuing takedown labels to DIDs, the system lets replies exist everywhere, but not in that particular instance of the thread.
I find this ironic because a large reason why many people are staying on Bluesky and not moving to the fediverse—thank God, because I do not want them there—is discoverability, virality, and engagement.
In case anyone is asking how I know so much about how these algorithms work: I was a consultant on a lot of these types of algorithms, so I certainly hope I’d know how they work, lol. No, you get no more details about the work I’ve done. I have no hand in the algorithm Bluesky is using, but I have proposed and implemented that type of algorithm before.
I have an interest in noetics and the noosphere. A large amount of my ontological work is an extension of my attempts to model domains that have no spatial or temporal coordinates. The question is how do you generalize a metric space that has no physically, spatial properties. I went to school to try to formalize those ideas. Turns out they’re rather useful for digital social networks, too. The ontological analog to spatial distance, when you have no space, is a graph of similarities.
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The Truth About Social Media Manipulation, #Japan too
#Japanese #astroTurf go exactly the same way
#TaroAso imperial Japan grand son n
#Takaichi recommends #Nati #Hitler #Election #Strategy#Nazis understood how much media is important and had all control
#OSINT #SocialMedia
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Just as a reminder: @ned put together a complete list of the guaranteed Charter rights that the Alberta government stripped away from teachers with the stroke of a pen:
https://beige.party/@ned/115493666977158101
Seems a little more draconian than enforcing laws protecting society from bird-flu or mandating vaccines in certain professions, doesn’t it? 🤔
#FreedomConvoy #ABPoli #CDNPoli #AstroTurf #UCP #DanielleSmith
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Maybe someone could poll the folks camped out at the ostrich farm how they feel about the Alberta government’s overreach?
#Budget2025 #FreedomConvoy #ABPoli #CDNPoli #AstroTurf #UCP #DanielleSmith
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Has any of our media asked Chris Barber or Tamara Lich to comment? I think their schedules are pretty clear at the moment and they shouldn’t be too difficult to find…
#Budget2025 #FreedomConvoy #ABPoli #CDNPoli #AstroTurf #UCP #DanielleSmith
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With #Budget2025 sucking up most of the oxygen in the room, I want to bring some attention back to the Alberta government’s stripping teacher’s of their constitutionally guaranteed rights.
Specifically, I’m wondering where the #FreedomConvoy folks with their “When Tyranny Becomes Law Rebellion Becomes Duty” hoodies all got to? Has anyone checked on them? Is anyone monitoring their Telegram/Rumble feeds?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuOKFCYeTbA
🤣 1.50 min mark Someone's kid ordered 25 cases of lollies from mum's Amazon app.
3.15 min. mark #FAA is a joke! *5 air traffic controllers take #traumaleave *Fighter jet at the bottom of the sea.
*Delays at #NewarkAirport16.34 min. mark: #ContentCreators fight back against #SuperRichBullies' infantile tactics. And FYI, #rightwingers do NOT own the narrative on this story.
#AstroTurf #Hollyweird #TikTok #NickShapiro22.14 min. mark #Tariffs and #China, with #Dotard47 doubling down like an idiot. Now, the #PortOfLosAngeles has seen a 50% drop in shipments with higher tariffs. And there's a vid excerpt of brainless #ScottBssent sounding like a double-downmoron.
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> Creates a #Discord Server to collaborate on ways to get the message out about Fediverse — because "#chatRooms are the best for fostering a #community".
So a proprietary #CloudflareDiscord bait-and-switch, lol.
*cough* #astroTurf
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For those who want to #getCreative all you need is #Fediverse. We produced a #FediFlyer last year (see our pinned toot) and will be updating it soon, with a popular, new #FediverseIcon designed recently.
Please don't use CloudflareDiscord.
