[Air-L] Alternative social media != right-wing social media

[Robert W Gehl]

I'll be talking about this at AOIR :)

- Rob

On 10/31/22 13:42, default friend wrote:
> i've often wondered about this myself… how come apolitical or even 
> leftist alt social media receives so little attention? is it that it's 
> not "interesting" enough? i'm also shocked that the mainstream speaks 
> so little about the fediverse
>
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> On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 1:24 PM, Robert W Gehl 
> <air-l at listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
>
>     Apropos of the discussion about where to go when Musk takes over
>     Twitter, I wanted to share a piece I just posted on The
>     Conversation pushing back against the tendency in news (and some
>     scholarship) to reduce alternative social media to right-wing
>     social media sites, such as Gab:
>
>     https://theconversation.com/citizens-social-media-can-provide-an-antidote-to-propaganda-and-disinformation-192491
>     <https://theconversation.com/citizens-social-media-can-provide-an-antidote-to-propaganda-and-disinformation-192491>
>
>
>     I'd like us to start talking about citizens' social media (which I
>     believe the fediverse might be) as opposed to both corporate
>     social media like Twitter and right-wing social media like Gab.
>
>     Perhaps this can inform a bit of the conversation we're about to
>     have at AOIR about a possible AOIR-run social media site!
>
>     - Rob
>
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