391: Dispatch from the Fediverse

Tech Policy Podcast

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4.8 • 45 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Samantha Lai (Carnegie Endowment) discusses the state of federated social media (Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon, etc.). Topics include: - A map of the fediverse - What makes Bluesky new? - Tools for tiny moderators - Turning the dial of centralization - “Community” or “echo chamber”? - Will one platform “win” the fediverse? - The beauty of exit - The beauty of the unknown Links: Online Safety and the “Great Decentralization” – The Perils and Promises of Federated Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/4xsecdz5) Some (Slightly Biased) Thoughts on the State of Decentralized Social Media (https://tinyurl.com/5adexvvp) Dot Social with Mike McCue (https://tinyurl.com/2wuu7jb6) Tech Policy Podcast 358: Information Animals Fighting Information Wars (https://tinyurl.com/48d7zpy4) Tech Policy Podcast 352: Yoel Roth on the Future of Content Moderation (https://tinyurl.com/524sxe9c)

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0:00.0	So there I was at Stanford's 24 Trust and Safety Research Conference.
0:28.8	I was talking to friend of the show, Mike Maznick,
0:32.4	when Samantha Lye was kind enough to step forth and introduce herself.
0:37.3	It came up during the conversation
0:39.3	that followed that I've had two of Samantha's colleagues at the Carnegie Endowment on the show
0:44.9	before. If you're curious, you can go revisit episode 352 in which Yol Roth talked to me about
0:52.8	the future of content moderation, and episode 358 in which Aliciaowel Roth talked to me about the future of content moderation,
0:55.2	and episode 358 in which Alicia Wanlis filled me in on her theory of what she calls information ecology.
1:04.1	So Mike says, hey, clearly you need to get Samantha on.
1:09.4	Okay, maybe that's true, I think.
1:12.2	Or maybe Mike's just being polite.
1:14.3	I don't know.
1:15.5	But all doubt was dispelled later that day
1:18.1	when Mike and Samantha did an amazing panel
1:21.3	on the state of content moderation
1:23.2	on decentralized social media.
1:26.2	Got it, I said to myself.
1:28.6	Have to get Samantha on.
1:30.7	And here we are.
1:32.9	This is the Tech Policy Podcast.
1:36.1	I'm Corbyn Barthold.
1:38.2	Samantha is a senior research analyst in the technology and international affairs program
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