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Head of Community nostr:npub142g8wjn8hkfh7ghvaa4yakfuu2r8eseqga8fykxng0805cutvpnsmkkmy5 🌐🧑 Thinking about social media with FORbetter 🧭 Watching women's sport βš½πŸ’ Website: https://forbetter.ghost.io/ Gravatar: gravatar.com/saskiawelch Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/saskia-welch
Understanding what makes a social platform a community isn't straightforward. I'm very far from a sociologist, so I'm probably not the right person to ask, but as we look at growing the Social Web I think it's an important question. How do we help platforms become more?
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Platforms as the Preface to Community
The bricks and mortar aren't enough, for a home, you need love. Social platforms teach us a lot about community building. They are, after all, a b...
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RE: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/01/13/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-thousand-ways-to-join-it/ "There is no β€œpick a server” screen or β€œfind your instance”. There is no friction. This is not β€œa Mastodon app”; it is the TΕ΅t app, purpose-built for our community." This is a vision of the Social Web which I'm sure many won't agree with or, potentially, won't even understand. But, like @npub1hg6k...nwn8 I'm pretty certain this is the future. We need to make spaces which are accessible to the general user, that just take them where they want to go without a scavenger hunt. I'm so excited for this app and seeing how it can serve the existing community, Welsh people, and everyone else who wants to call it home 🏴󠁧󠁒󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 #SocialWeb #Technology #App #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon View quoted note β†’
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The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Report Is Here – IFTAS
 Really interesting insight into trust and safety on the Social Web that I'd recommend anyone in this space reads. Social platforms have to be safe and to be safe they must be moderated. There are learnings in here about the work moderators do that I think far too many of us take for granted. #SocialWeb #Moderation #Fediverse #Mastodon View quoted note β†’
Stop LinkedIn using your data to train unnamed AI! ⚠️ Quietly, LinkedIn have introduced opt-out AI training across all user content on LinkedIn without asking explicit permission. LinkedIn is used by majority of working professionals, including many of us here on the Social Web. Turn this setting off now if you want to protect your data and please boost for all to see! #AI #LinkedIn #Boost #AITraining #DataPrivacy #SocialWeb #Tech image
My relationship with the Social Web is a bit of a rollercoaster, it goes up and down and up and down 🎒 At the minute, we're up, in a big way. I dare say we might stay here with the everything we're building at @Newsmast Foundation, the leadership of @Felix Hlatky, and the work @samvie and others are doing in the EU. Let's keep it up!
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The Future of Hope on the Social Web
Things are changing on the Social Web. Now is the time to start dreaming. For a long time, many of us have understood the potential of the Social ...
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