#social-media — Public Fediverse posts

KDDI subsidiary faces criticism and questions over Mongolian wildfire https://www.byteseu.com/2467766/ #BusinessEthics #China #CorporateGovernance #Japan #JapaneseEconomy #KDDI #Media #SocialMedia #Telecoms

Fahmi: Govt Considering eKYC, Age Verification For Online Gaming Platforms #ageverification #ekyc #gaming #roblox #socialmedia

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/407876/fahmi-govt-ekyc-age-verification-gaming/

I knew one of us could get hurt eventually. I never thought it would be my friend Helen | Zoe Daniel
By Zoe Daniel

There will now be a flood of rhetoric about who is to blame. Don’t fall for the political opportunism from left or right. We are all responsible

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/helen-haines-zoe-daniels-wangaratta-opinion-ntwnfb

#HelenHaines #Australianpolitics #Independents #Australianews #Australianmedia #Socialmedia #TheGuardian #ZoeDaniel

I knew one of us could get hurt eventually. I never thought it would be my friend Helen | Zoe Daniel https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/helen-haines-zoe-daniels-wangaratta-opinion-ntwnfb #HelenHaines #AustralianPolitics #Independents #AustraliaNews #AustralianMedia #SocialMedia

Political hate speech can have real-word fallout. After the alleged attack on Helen Haines, our leaders must act | Paul Daley
By Paul Daley

Social media amplify the worst excesses of what passes for public discourse, while some media outlets foment polarisation

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/helen-haines-political-hate-speech-ntwnfb

#Australianpolitics #HelenHaines #Australianews #Socialmedia #Australianmedia #TheGuardian #PaulDaley

Political hate speech can have real-word fallout. After the alleged attack on Helen Haines, our leaders must act | Paul Daley https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/oct/20/helen-haines-political-hate-speech-ntwnfb #AustralianPolitics #HelenHaines #AustraliaNews #SocialMedia #AustralianMedia

Oh My, That’s Persistent

By Cliff Potts, CSO, and Editor-in-Chief of WPS News

Baybay City, Leyte, Philippines — 20 October 2026

A Friendly Follow-Up

After a brief interaction, the platform may decide to remain involved. A reminder appears. A suggestion returns. The same name, the same content, politely resurfacing as if the earlier silence were merely a scheduling oversight.

This is framed as helpful continuity. A gentle nudge to ensure nothing important was missed.

On Not Taking a Hint

The absence of response is not interpreted as disinterest. It is treated as an unresolved opportunity. The platform assumes that persistence is preferable to restraint.

Time passes. The suggestion remains.

Courtesy Reconsidered

In most social settings, repetition without acknowledgment would be considered awkward. A second mention might be excused. A third would raise eyebrows. Further attempts would prompt concern.

Online, however, repetition is rebranded as attentiveness.

A Mild Observation

One might quietly note that respect often includes recognizing when to stop. That politeness sometimes means allowing silence to remain undisturbed.

But bless their heart, they do hate to leave things unfinished.

RE: https://mastox.eu/@mehdirhasan/117470469010790097

#SocialMedia #FreeSpeech #TechBros #Meta #Brazil #NoKings #Albania

"The coalition leaders behind nationwide pro-democracy protests that have drawn millions of Americans to the streets in recent years were frustrated when its Instagram account was temporarily shut down during its latest demonstration on Saturday.

The No Kings movement’s account went dark for several hours while protests focused on increasing early voter turnout were under way, sparking censorship fears.

Meta apologized on Saturday and blamed the account’s temporary suspension on an automated action that’s triggered “when accounts post, share or comment at very high frequencies”.

“Unfortunately, that automated action was clearly taken in error,” a Meta spokesperson, Andy Stone, wrote on X. “Everything is now working as it should and we sincerely apologize.”

“We have regained access to our accounts, but Meta still owes us an explanation,” the No Kings Coalition posted on their Instagram page, on Sunday. “Restricting communications about voting in the middle of an election is unacceptable.”"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/18/no-kings-instagram-account-suspended-during-protests

#SocialMedia #Instagram #Meta #Censorship #USA #Elections #Politics

FUCK. https://www.pillowfort.social/posts/8413273/
#SocMed #SocialMedia #SafeSpace #Fandom #AO3 #spoonie #spoonies #art #nerds #queer #LGBTQ #BIPoC #disabled #people #cosy #cozy #CosyGames #CozyGames #website #sad

🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:

Advanced cat-counting techniques - https://veselin.blog/2026/10/19/advanced-cat-counting-techniques/?ref=feedle.world

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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads

#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging

Just learned today that pillowfort is closing down Dec 4. So there will probably be an increase in my posting here.

Make online safety fun and engaging with film for Digital Citizenship Week!
Learn about the current online ecosystem and how to consume informational
critically with award-winning films like And So It Begins, Navalny and The
Social Dilemma.

Check out our Media Literacy Collection to get free teaching resources.

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/media-literacy-and-journalism-lessons/

#DigCitWeek #DigitalCitizensip #OnlineSafey #Education #Teachers #Homeschooling #SocialMedia

I'm very sorry to hear that Pillowfort will be closing down in December. Here are some of my thoughts and experiences from the site.

#Blogging #SocialMedia

https://aywren.wordpress.com/2026/10/19/pillowfort-closes-up-shop-in-december/

Pillowfort Closes Up Shop in December

It’s not a happy thing to write this post. I always hate to see sites close down, especially ones that have been a home to others in terms of hosting content and fostering connections.

I’ve been a supporter and user of Pillowfort for almost 8 years, across two different accounts. Back before it launched public, I donated to the site monthly. I also took part in two of the large donation campaigns to help keep the site going.

I think I paid the $5 entry fee for my first account. I did my share of passing out free keys and encouraging friends in my social circles to try the site out. I also wrote posts about the open beta, the site redesign, and where it stood back in 2024.

Here’s the official email I received informing folks of the closure today – though I originally saw this announcement on other social channels. I won’t be linking the official post because it doesn’t seem like Pillowfort allows for the Wayback machine to archive anymore, and I don’t want to link out to something that might become a dead link in a few months.

Let this be a reminder that any third party site could up and poof on you at any time on short notice. Nothing is permanent, so be sure you keep backups of your content in a format that is useful to you.

Export Feature Incoming

Yes, Pillowfort will be providing an export feature, and that’s very kind of them! However, what that export format will be is a big question mark.

Will it include all the media images? Will the export be in a format that is of any use to the average person? Can you upload it somewhere else to another platform? Or is it just a big Zip file in a mumbo jumbo of files that have no way to reuse or sort through them?

For example, should you export from WordPress, you get your content, sure. But it’s exported into WordPress XML format which isn’t something you can just pop open on your computer and view in a standard way. It’s meant to be imported by another platform that understands WordPress XML – which is, to be sure, quite a few platforms out there.

Anyhow, just curious about that.

My Gradual Drift Away

While I hate to see Pillowfort closing up shop, I sadly admit that I am also not surprised by this announcement. The founder notes in her message to the community:

For me, as a user who financially supported the project for many years, it wasn’t really the security incident that pushed me away from using the site in the long run. It was more more the warnings I saw that indicated this site was quite fragile and may not last, especially wording used in their posts requesting financial support.

I understand that Pillowfort was completely self-funded, and needed to consistently request funding from users to keep it afloat. I had no problem with that. But as I noted in my 2024 post about Pillowfort, some of their images looked like this:

The whole “if we don’t meet this goal, we’ll only have enough funding available until X month” really left me uncertain about putting anything on that site that I didn’t want to lose. I get that they were being transparent and that it drummed up a feeling of immediacy for others to take action. But for me, it did the opposite.

I did stop posting original content to Pillowfort. In fact, I pulled the entire 2022 Quest Calendar archive off Pillowfort and consolidated it into my own blog’s Microblog section earlier this year, which I’m glad to have done in retrospect. It was the only content that would have been completely lost to the site going down, and having a month and a half deadline to move the entire year’s worth of posting into HTML format would have been a stress to rush through (it took me several months to finish this move).

As much as I wanted to use Pillowfort for other things, such as posting blog and webcomic updates, the site often didn’t always allow me to do that. Often, posting a link to my blog posts wouldn’t resolve with the informational metadata and feature image that social media sites use for links. Sometimes this worked on Pillowfort, but more often than not, it didn’t.

So, when I went through to review and cull the number of sites and socials I post my content updates to – reviewing each for usefulness and engagement – Pillowfort was one that I stopped logging into for this. Even when the posting did work, engagement was low for the kind of things I posted, and the time it took to replicate a post there was better spent elsewhere.

My Final Thoughts

All that said, I appreciated what Pillowfort set out to do. While I wasn’t always thrilled with the NSFW content push (which was one of their big trumpeting points), there were enough tools provided that I rarely ran across anything there that I didn’t want to see. I even help moderate the largest FFXIV community there, back before I founded my own on Tumblr a few years later.

I’m not clear on whether the site is closing because of lack of funding, for other reasons, or a combination of the two. I send my condolences and thanks to the team who put time and effort into developing the site and the features for everyone to enjoy, those who did their best to make the vision happen, and the communities that brought it to life.

I hope those who are looking for a new home on the net find one soon. And I hope the backup process is an easy one in a format that makes sense to the normal user.

So long and thanks for all the posts, Pillowfort!

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Meta's per-creative audiences force ad sets to stay open to all genders: Ad sets using it must start at age 25 or below and run to 65. Marketing API partners can test it from October 19, but Meta has not said how delivery treats it. https://ppc.land/metas-per-creative-audiences-force-ad-sets-to-stay-open-to-all-genders/ #Meta #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #SocialMedia #MarketingAPI

🇧🇷 Salve, Brasil
Nevermore Bolsonaro
and Trump crime syndicate

#brazil #southamerica #elections #democracy #fascism #socialmedia #politics #world #europe #eu #freedom #mexico #meidastouch
#reddit #UN

https://mastodon.online/@ciencia/117469513401387825

LinkedIn tests paying US creators for pre-roll ads on their videos: Select US creators earn when pre-roll ads run on their videos, and Business Premium members can sell 1:1 calls. What share does LinkedIn keep? It has not said. https://ppc.land/linkedin-tests-paying-us-creators-for-pre-roll-ads-on-their-videos/ #LinkedIn #SocialMedia #Creators #PreRollAds #DigitalMarketing

Das Fediverse ist viel mehr als nur ein weiterer Social-Media-Kanal: https://kaffeeringe.de/2026/10/15/das-fediverse-ist-nicht-nur-ein-weiterer-social-media-kanal/

#Mastowall zum Beitrag:
https://rstockm.github.io/mastowall/?hashtags=fedilabday&server=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social

@kaffeeringe
@Ruhrnalist

#ActivityPub #Digital #Souveraen #FediLabDay #Fediverse #socialMedia #SocialWeb #community #verbindung #menschen #mediathek #website

From international DJ to writing about life: Bangor man’s journey to mental health advocate

After spending more than a decade working in the music industry, Aaron Andrews now finds himself on a…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #bangor #CA #Canada #CoDown #Health #MentalHealth #RealLife #SocialMedia #TheTroubles
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/939236/

Marvelling at how helpful I found the hysterectomy subreddit before, during and after my recent major surgery (hysterectomy + extras) for possible gynaecological cancer (good news it isn't!). So supportive. I've been happy to support others with my experiences too. A positive use of social media. #Reddit #SocialMedia #Cancer #Health

From international DJ to writing about life: Bangor man’s journey to mental health advocate

After spending more than a decade working in the music industry, Aaron Andrews now finds himself on a…
#NewsBeep #News #Mentalhealth #AU #Australia #bangor #CoDown #Health #MentalHealth #reallife #Socialmedia #TheTroubles
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/934159/

Mastodon was created by German developer @Gargron, and one of Eurosky's co-leads, @sebastian.eurosky.social, is also German.

Then there's @cathleen and the Open Social Web Alliance, @bjoernsta and his #SaveSocial campaign, the #LeaveX campaign launched in Germany, and #FediDay, which has been held in #Berlin for three consecutive years!

Not to mention the many German universities and scientific institutions that have left X, with advocates like @zolke.bsky.social helping drive that movement!

On the political front, @annaluehrmann is pushing the Open Social Web in the Bundestag, while MEP @alexandrageese has played a leading role in shaping the EU's Digital Services Act.

Just a few days ago, Germany's Digital Minister explicitly mentioned #Mastodon and said that scaling such platforms would be a focus in the coming months.

Another curious fact: both #WSocial and #Eurosky have #Wikipedia articles, but only in German:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W_Social
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurosky

Is Germany taking the lead in building European alternatives to Big Tech social media?

#BigTech #SocialMedia #Germany #EU #DSA #OSWA #SciXit

Police in Florida say scammers used AI to clone a sheriff's voice in a jury duty scam, mimicking the sheriff's voice and using his picture to trick residents. Voice cloning scams targeting the elderly, families and businesses have increased, with scammers using commercially available AI voice tools. https://www.404media.co/police-say-scammers-used-ai-to-clone-a-sheriffs-voice/ #Media #SocialMedia #AI

Police in Florida say scammers used AI to clone a sheriff's voice in a jury duty scam, mimicking the sheriff's voice and using his picture to trick residents. Voice cloning scams targeting the elderly, families and businesses have increased, with scammers using commercially available AI voice tools. https://www.404media.co/police-say-scammers-used-ai-to-clone-a-sheriffs-voice/ #Media #SocialMedia #AI

#BrendanByrnes

A lot of it is through-composed, as if it were the soundtrack to a dream.

https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/track/murmurations

https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/track/chromawaves-2

https://brendanbyrnes.bandcamp.com/album/astral-bloom

#Composer #Music #Experimental #Guitarist #Indie #LosAngeles #Microtonal #California #USA #tv #Socialmedia #interview

https://www.europesays.com/videos/114359/ France riots: AI photos falsely depict elderly couple ‘stripped and robbed’ • FRANCE 24 English #'fakeNews' #17October #ai #AiGenerated #ArtificialIntelligence #CURFEW #debunk #disinformation #elderly #EmmanuelMacron #FactCheck #France #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FRANCE24 #FRANCE24English #FrenchPolitics #FrenchStudentProtests #Israel #jewish #looting #misinformation #Paris #protest #Protests #riots #SocialMedia #unrest

https://www.europesays.com/at/465225/ Promi Big Brother 2026: Nina Bridney im Porträt, IRL-Streaming, Gaming #AT #Austria #BigBrother #Entertainment #Instagram #Joyn #Österreich #PromiBigBrother #Sat1 #Serien #Series #SocialMedia #TikTok #TV #Twitch #Unterhaltung #YouTube

La Conselleria d'Educació me diu que per estar a corrent de les emergències, segueixi els perfils a #X i #Instagram... 🤯

Una administració pública no hauria de restringir la comunicació d'informació tan important a plataformes privades i tancades.

Ja haurien de ser al #Fedivers!

#SocialMedia #ComunicacióDeCrisi #XarxesSocials #Emergència #AdministracióPública

FYI: Engineer sues Cassie Millz over gym clip in 3.3m-view transition Reel: Captioned "Me before I became a girl," the clip allegedly steered viewers to OnlyFans. Could a June copyright registration unlock $150,000 in statutory damages? https://ppc.land/engineer-sues-cassie-millz-over-gym-clip-in-3-3m-view-transition-reel/ #Copyright #OnlyFans #LegalBattle #Sues #SocialMedia

Meta subscription plans are turning links into gold

https://disassociated.com/meta-subscription-plans-turning-links-gold/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rexi/117463721667881347

#Atheist Elon knew this perfectly well, using #socialmedia sway on blunt thinking #ChristianNationalists to destroy #democracy in his quest for immortality.

#dystopia

»Vom Engagement zum Intent: Warum Social Media eine neue Conversion-Schicht bekommt« https://allsocial.de/content/vom-engagement-zum-intent-warum-social-media-eine-neue-conversion-schicht-bekommt?Multiplikator.in #Medien #SocialMedia

https://www.europesays.com/ie/742194/ WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #Éire #IE #Ireland #leaks #Meta #Privacy #SocialMedia #Technology #WhatsApp

EU Rulings Affirm Large Platform Designations Under Digital Services Act, Digital Markets Act

“In particular, the fact that users also use other social networks does not, in itself, show that TikTok…
#Europe #EU #AdvocateGeneral #CJEU #DigitalMarketsAct #DigitalServicesAct #EUGeneralCourt #EuropeanUnion #intellectualproperty #largeplatforms #SocialMedia #tiktok
https://www.europesays.com/europe/162546/

It was a pleasure to be part of the panel "Beyond Corporate Platforms: Governance, Legitimacy and Sustainability of Decentralizing Social Media" at #aoir2026 discussing the #Fediverse as an example of alternative #socialmedia aiming at democratizing digital infrastructures and online #communication. Thank you @leofoletto @rwg @Damny @https://organica.social/@gui and @@lulubrx and Klara!

Got a notification on my FB/Meta app thing that Meta accounts are a thing that's gonna happen soon, and, for the folks that. Will. Not. Leave. Despite me flinging my Signal username/SMS number to everyone over there, I fully predict by late 2027 or even early 2028 Meta will charge people to have accounts on their thing. I hope I am wrong, but I am hoping they do start charging for accounts so people will contact me elsewhere instead of fucking Facebook Messanger. #SocialMedia

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1262978/ From international DJ to writing about life: Bangor man’s journey to mental health advocate #Bangor #CoDown #Health #MentalHealth #RealLife #SocialMedia #TheTroubles #UK #UnitedKingdom

Blogue immobilier France et international: Liens utiles - Habitat https://www.kikori.fr/p/liens.html?spref=tw
#France #Marketing #MarketingStrategy #marketingagency #MarketingSuccess #marketingtips #immobilier #immeuble #bourse #boursier #industrie #referencement #socialmedia #SEO #SEA #Web #GEO

FYI: Meta sells brands 3 to 24 hour ad windows that shut out category rivals: Ads Super Burst test flights reached a median 34 million people, Meta says, about 14% of US adults online. The research behind those lift claims is unpublished. https://ppc.land/meta-sells-brands-3-to-24-hour-ad-windows-that-shut-out-category-rivals/ #Meta #DigitalMarketing #Advertising #SocialMedia #PPC

FYI: Meta's new terms let it crawl business websites to train AI from Oct 30: Clause covers sites tied to any Facebook or Instagram business account and adds AI training rights. Meta says it is about product data. Does the text agree? https://ppc.land/metas-new-terms-let-it-crawl-business-websites-to-train-ai-from-oct-30/ #Meta #ArtificialIntelligence #DataPrivacy #SocialMedia #BusinessNews

WhatsApp Help Pages Leaked Hidden Instructions for a Meta Chatbot

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-help-pages-leaked-hidden-instructions-for-a-meta-chatbot/

📰 Stagiair Social Media

https://nieuwsjunkies.nl/artikel/1UGm

🕓 16:12 | Greenpeace
🔸 #Greenpeace #SocialMedia #NL