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Your friendly reminder to download your Twitter (X) archive as long as it's still possible. (And as long as you're still interested in keeping the content you produced there)
https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
@tanepiper
There is a logic to links in comments getting more engagement as you are forcing people to engage to receive the value of the link. Essentially you're holding the link hostage and forcing people to "pay" by tapping on your post.
I have a talk I do about this in which I ask a person in the audience if they want my book. And just as I'm about to hand it to them I instead throw it across the room and shout "It's in the comments!"
@weiming
@weiming Iâm not even sure it really exists! Hootsuite ran an experiment a few years back and this is what a lot of people seem to be basing everything on. The LinkedIn algorithm has changed multiple times since then and LinkedIn certainly do not discourage linking. They have help articles on placing links in posts.
The Hootsuite experiment:
https://blog.hootsuite.com/linkless-tweets-experiment/
LinkedIn explaining how to add a link to a post:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301
For years, people have been getting and heeding the advice of adding links to comments on LinkedIn, rather than including them in the main post. The supposed reasoning is that LinkedIn penalizes external links and your post will receive less views if it has links to content outside the LinkedIn platform.
I explain why this widespread behavior bothers me so much.
https://axbom.com/linkedin-accessibility-link-in-comments/
#Accessibility #LinkedIn
I donât mean to shame anyone, but I do want to question the practice of purposely hiding links from main posts on LinkedIn. I honestly think itâs one of those situations where many donât reflect on the full extent of consequences for something as simple as posting a link.
This widespread behavior has been bothering me, and I want to explain why.
When you publish a post on LinkedIn and then say âthe link is in the commentsâ you are making life harder for people.
â People with visual impairments will have to hunt for it through several comments as theyâre often not able to quickly determine which comment actually contains a link (as, you know, they canât easily see it).
â People with impaired cognitive abilities (persistent or temporary) may struggle to understand that they now need to seek out a link instead of seeing it immediately - and how to find it or ask for it.
â People with weakened motor skills may have to navigate several hard-to-tap areas to find what you are promising to share.
â And of course, itâs obviously more difficult for all readers to rummage for the link than it is to find the link in the very place where you wrote âthe link is in the commentsâ.
I understand that this behavior started because Hootsuite (and maybe a few others) did a study a few years back and determined that it was harder to get posts to go âviralâ if they had external links in the main body of a post.
Are you confident this even still applies? Are you confident that it truly applies to your posts? But more importantly: Is this a tradeoff that you are making intentionally? That is, making it harder for people (and more so for those who are already underserved) so that you may â possibly but not certainly â gain a benefit?
This is a good example of where humans are adapting to technology rather than technology adapting to humans. Social media âexpertsâ are encouraging non-intuitive behavior that creates obstacles for other humans, and many human publishers are trusting this advice without considering further implications.
From an accessibility perspective itâs of course disheartening that this tactic has become so common.
If you want to get real and trustworthy information on how the LinkedIn algorithm has been changing, and the type of content that LinkedIn values, why not listen to the Entrepreneur podcast âProblem Solversâ. They recently did an interview with LinkedIn editor-in-chief Dan Roth and director of product Alice Xiong. The title of the episode is aptly named: Why LinkedIn Doesnât Want You Going âViralâ.
Link to the episode: https://pca.st/h530nibw
Yes, thatâs an external link. I hope you donât wish I had put it in the comments.
#Accessibility #LinkedIn
@AasaMariaHedberg
Det Àr Jennifer Lyn Parsons: https://bio.link/pixelpaperyarn
Gillar den ocksÄ!
@selfcare
Excellent take on FSD (Full Self-Driving as marketed by Tesla, which of course is neither full or self-driving):
"one issue with reaction times, dulled perception, and loss of skill is that in normal driving, you only really need to react to sudden crazy shit other drivers can do, but with âfsdâ, in addition to that, you also need to react to sudden crazy shit your own car can do. with no âfsdâ, you usually would employ defensive driving principles to keep yourself safer, but how do you do defensive driving with your own car as the source of danger?"
- dima1109 on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/wwzjf6/comment/ilpaxsi/
â ïž re: âJagâ pĂ„ nĂ€tet, sociala kanalval
@dinkompismia @LeoR1010
Tack för era reflektioner. Ni Àr bÄda personer som fÄr mig att stanna upp och tÀnka nÀr jag verkligen behöver det. Komma ihÄg att vara mÀnniska. Att jag inte bara kan slÄss mot vÀderkvarnarna.
The Deutsche Telekom video reminding parents not to share photos of their child on social media is powerful. With all the research Iâve done into deepfakes over the past months it feels overwhelmingly important to boost awareness of online misuse and abuse of online contentâŠ
This goes for everything youâre sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WZ_k0vUDM
How much effort do you put into making your website more energy-efficient? Files, photos, scripts and content can all be optimised to reduce their carbon footprint, which is impacted by storage, transfer and downloads of all these files. And yes, caching matters.
During my studies in Media, Communication and Sustainable Development this spring I wrote a brief campaign idea, intended to encourage data efficiency.
Iâd really like to spark interest and awareness for the potential of reducing environmental impact of digital work â with simple, straight-forward measures. And an encouragement for organisations to showcase their support for a sustainable approach to digital service development
One worry now is that the increased demand for AI is instead boosting electricity and water use â moving us in the wrong direction.
Is this on your mind and what types of conversations are you having around the energy-efficiency of your website and other digital assets?
https://axbom.com/campaign-energy-efficient-website/
P.S. The featured images on my own website can be reduced by more than half by choosing the WebP image format rather than PNG or JPG. But LinkedIn wonât display WebP in this context. Iâve reached out to them to bring attention to this issue.
If there is a word for it at least I know I'm not the only one. đ. Hello all my fellow hurkle-durklers.
#HurkleDurkle
The reason I recommend DuckDuckGo as your default search engine is not only about privacy.
Did you know that DuckDuckGo can transfer your query to many thousands of different, subject-specific online search engines?
This could be Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or beyond that: media, forums, shopping or research sites. Or even XKCD.
You control where the search ends up⊠with a !bang.
https://axbom.com/duckduckgo-bangs/
#Privacy #SearchEngine
The reason I recommend @duckduckgo as your default search engine is not only about privacy.
Did you know that DuckDuckGo can transfer your query to many thousands of different, subject-specific online search engines?
This could be Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or beyond that: media, forums, shopping or research sites. Or even XKCD.
You control where the search ends up⊠with a !bang.
https://axbom.com/duckduckgo-bangs/
#Privacy #SearchEngine
@potungthul
Thanks. Yes, I have been working with digital accessibility for 20 years now. It's important to me to lead by example. And I'm happy the Fediverse supports these long image descriptions.
@shimriez
«Automation often unfolds in unexpected ways. Erik Duhaime, CEO of medical-data-annotation company Centaur Labs, recalled how, several years ago, prominent machine-learning engineers were predicting AI would make the job of radiologist obsolete.
When that didnât happen, conventional wisdom shifted to radiologists using AI as a tool. Neither of those is quite what he sees occurring.
AI is very good at specific tasks, Duhaime said, and that leads work to be broken up and distributed across a system of specialized algorithms and to equally specialized humans.
An AI system might be capable of spotting cancer, he said, giving a hypothetical example, but only in a certain type of imagery from a certain type of machine; so now, you need a human to check that the AI is being fed the right type of data and maybe another human who checks its work before passing it to another AI that writes a report, which goes to another human, and so on.
âAI doesnât replace work,â he said. âBut it does change how work is organized.â»
https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots
#AIHype
Visste du att svindlare kan fÄ möjlighet att företrÀda dig som privatperson i skattefrÄgor, och bli ombud för ditt eventuella företag, genom att skicka in en pappersblankett till Skatteverket? Visste du att de Àven kan skicka in en blankett om adressÀndring och Àndra adressen du Àr skriven pÄ? Det finns mÄnga kvarlevor frÄn den icke-digitala kommunikationen med myndigheter som skapar ingÄngar för bedragare.
NĂ„got att ordna med i sommar.
AvsÀtt 10 minuter nu och bli genast lite tryggare.
#TeknikTrygg
"Being innovative is not a license to be reckless." â FTC
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/ftc-openai-chatgpt-sam-altman-lina-khan/
@mensrea
This is so good it actually is painful to read.
My favorite humoristic take on design controlled by clients is "Designing the Stop Sign". It really highlights the need to recognise and say no to detrimental design.
Of course, in the future clients will just use AI to get what they want.
And the kicker is that the AI won't say no.
Imagine the many messes that will need to be taken care of.
This video is 14(!) years old now.
https://youtu.be/Wac3aGn5twc
#AIHype #StopSign