#contentsharing — Public Fediverse posts

TechCrunch: Snapchat now lets you share what you’re listening to in real time. “Snapchat is now letting users share the music they’re listening to in real time via a new feature in Snap Map, TechCrunch has exclusively learned.”

"Empirical research on social media and politics has primarily treated platforms as distributive systems that expose users to particular messages. The mediatization literature, however, suggests shifting attention upstream: from circulation to production. Under intense competition for platform attention, political actors who depend on visibility face pressure to learn from recurrent differences in reach and engagement - shaping politics around platform media logic. This paper examines that production-side dimension of platforms political impact by introducing attention price analysis: an exploratory method for estimating the differentiated attention returns associated with forms of expression. Using RoBERTa reward models trained on residualized engagement across X/Twitter, Bluesky, and Mastodon, the analysis compares how platform environments reward rhetorical, emotional, epistemic, and relational features of public communication. The attention signal differs sharply across platforms and engagement actions. X/Twitter sharing rewards antagonism while penalizing respect and nuance; Bluesky reposting favors neutral, lower-emotion language; and Mastodon boosts reward reasoning, nuance, compassion, and collective expression. Toxicity is rewarded across platforms, but in bounded and nonlinear ways. The findings suggest that moving from X/Twitter to less engagement-optimized alternatives such as Bluesky and Mastodon does not eliminate attention pressures, but it may reward less antagonistic and more deliberative forms of politics. The paper contributes a production-side approach to social media and politics by making one dimension of platform media logic empirically visible."

https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.04220

#SocialMedia #Language #Politics #Twitter #Mastodon #Bluesky #ContentSharing

🔒🎥 Oh, joy! The #EU #Court #of #Justice just turned into the #fun #police, ready to slap cuffs on anyone daring to share RT videos. Next up: arrest warrants for forwarding cat memes, because clearly, sharing content is the real crime these days. 🙄🚔
https://tass.com/world/2154415 #ContentSharing #MemePolice #DigitalRights #HackerNews #ngated

Spotify introduces Messages for content sharing among friends and family: Spotify launches Messages feature on August 26, 2025, enabling one-on-one conversations with content sharing for users aged 16+ in select markets, expanding social. https://ppc.land/spotify-introduces-messages-for-content-sharing-among-friends-and-family/ #Spotify #MusicSharing #SocialMedia #ContentSharing #Messaging

ICYMI: Threads expands sharing with new public feed options: Meta's Threads platform introduces public feed sharing, enabling users to explore and connect through curated topic lists. https://ppc.land/threads-expands-sharing-with-new-public-feed-options/ #Threads #Meta #SocialMedia #PublicFeed #ContentSharing

ICYMI: Threads expands sharing with new public feed options: Meta's Threads platform introduces public feed sharing, enabling users to explore and connect through curated topic lists. https://ppc.land/threads-expands-sharing-with-new-public-feed-options/ #Threads #Meta #SocialMedia #PublicFeed #ContentSharing

New Jersey Institute of Technology: Most Facebook News Links Are Unread by Users Sharing Them, Study Finds. “What are the odds Facebook users read the news articles they end up sharing with the rest of the world? Only one in four, according to a recent study of our news sharing behavior spanning almost a full U.S. election cycle, which was published in Nature Human Behaviour.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/03/new-jersey-institute-of-technology-most-facebook-news-links-are-unread-by-users-sharing-them-study-finds/

Neu im Blog:
Das große Link-Mysterium – Warum hält die TYPO3 Community ihre Schätze versteckt?
https://wwagner.net/blog/a/das-grosse-link-mysterium-warum-haelt-die-typo3-community-ihre-schaetze-versteckt

#TYPO3Community #ContentSharing #WebDevelopment

Sorry all.
I only just realised that I’ve been boosting unwarned posts. Sorry about that.

The banner comes up for “Matches filter ‘politics’” and my brain shortcutted to
“ok good, it already has an alert, so I don’t need to reply with the “TW reblog, US pol” CW.”

#content #ContentSharing #contentWarning #trigger #triggerWarning #politics #political #pol #USpol #canada #mexico #northAmerica #NApol #election #election2024 #election24 #ElectionResults #electoral #ElectoralPolitics #electoralCollege #label #warn #alert #mental #mentalHealth #kind #theSunYetRises #gfdi

Signal has stories now!

https://signal.org/blog/introducing-stories/

#Signal #SignalApp #Privacy #SocialNetwork #ContentSharing