Category: Fediverse
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Technology and Cymraeg
Technology and Cymraeg In June 2024 Welsh Government launched a ‘call for information‘ on what is needed to make technology more friendly to Cymraeg. I produced a response to highlight the power of open source in enabling low-cost, high quality and ‘translation-friendly’ services. I post the response in full below. Hashtags: #Cymraeg #LlywodraethCymru #WelshGovernment #OpenSource…
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Open source social media will save our democracy
In an opinion piece in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, Carole Cadwalladr describes how Facebook is the virus that has enabled the catastrophes of both Brexit, and the ascension of Mr. Trump to the White House. Facebook allows lies to spread virtually unchecked. It permits those people with the most money and least scruples to disseminate falsehoods…
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‘Hwyl fawr’ Twitter
I’ve long been intrigued by the interplay between the dark money that fuelled Brexit (amongst other nominally democratic events), and the use of social media to persuade and to influence. I’m surely not the only person who feels intense disquiet about the use of money to spread lies and misinformation – and the seeming impunity…
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Something’s happening in the Fediverse…
6 April 2020 I’ve been using the Mastodon micro-blogging platform for a while now – increasingly choosing not to use or post on Twitter and committing myself to a democracy-friendly path. I’ve become used to ‘meeting’ interesting people way outside my normal e-contact groups, and I have definitely reduced contact with the people I would…
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Can Wales lead the world in ‘safe’ social media?
Social media has energised the way in which we interact, communicate, promote and understand. As with any tool, it has the ability to be used for good, or for ill. I don’t intend here to detail the way that social media is used to abuse, to pillory, to demean and to spread hate. Nor is…
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Goodbye Instagram; hello Pixelfed
I’ve been a big fan of the open source movement for many years. I can probably trace my interest back to at least 2003, which was the year I first installed the Thunderbird email software, followed a year later by experimenting with Ubuntu as the operating system for my laptop. I think I would describe…