Political Social Grab Bag – April 2023

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Trainings & Webinar Alerts

Storytelling Strategy to Fight Disinformation– Thurs April 13 via zoom (the app says deadline of March 15 but there are still a few seats available)

Email Deep Dive– Mon April 17 & Tues April 18 via zoom

Train the Trainer– Thurs April 19 & Fri April 20 via zoom

Digital Organizing Bootcamp– Sun June 11- Sat June 17 via zoom. Applications accepted until April 15

Advanced Digital Organizing Bootcamp– Mon Aug 7- Fri Aug 11 via zoom. Applications accepted until July 1

What am I reading?

Here’s how every social media company is adopting subscriptions – Twitter Blue grabs most of the headlines (more on that elsewhere in this newsletter) but all the platforms are getting in on the money grab- this is a good summary of the programs for each platform

How a social network falls apart – Good read of historical context for the collapse we are witnessing of Twitter

GPT is Rather Good at Feed Ranking – Just read this one

The semiautomated social network is coming – Read this one too

Can Mastodon seize the moment from Twitter? – Interesting interview with the founder of Mastodon

The Homogenization of Social Media is Going To Have Some Real Consequences – Good think piece about the future of social media based on where we are now

Platform Updates

Facebook

Twitter

From the “who the hell knows what’s going on at Twitter files”: First we were told one thing then we were told something else

I’m hoping by the time you read this my Twitter blue checkmark will be gone

Live Archive going away “soon”– download anything you have archived now!

You thought 4000 characters was too many? How about 10,000 characters? <sigh>

New Twitter ToS around “Freedom of Speech” or as I call it Freedom of Hate Speech

Fancy fonts, bold and more– coming soon (maybe, probably)

Other Platforms

Snapchat is releasing their own ChatGPT powered chatbot “My AI” – initially to Snapchat+ users but eventually to everyone

Reddit is shutting down Reddit Talks

YouTube is removing overlay ads starting April 6

Gowalla is back

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