Ethical Socials Session Notes

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What is “ethical socials”?

Social media platforms, usage and communities, where ethics are at the core of all content and communications.

Liz Hardwick

Social Media Concerns…

•Spread of misinformation

•Personal tracking

•Privacy concerns

•Worker exploitation

•Censorship

•Monetisation

•Transparency

•Explicit content

•Copyright content

•Reach limitations

•Algorithm bias

•Hidden identities

•Terms of use/Code of conduct

Ethical Socials Options

•Utilising privacy features of the existing big platforms

•Closed Socials Chat Tools

•Popular Ethical Social Platforms

•Creating your own platforms

How ethical people this socials are –

https://big-village.com/news/how-ethical-are-social-media-companies/#:~:text=Pinterest%20(70)%20and%20Linkedin%20(,platforms%20according%20to%20their%20users.

Existing Platform resources…

X (formerly Twitter) – Protected Tweets and Private Lisks

Facebook – Private and Invisible groups

Reddit – Private and Invite-only sub-reddits

Closed Social Chat Tools

https://www.pcmag.com/picks/best-secure-messaging-apps

Disappearing messages, encrypted chats, block screenshots, voice notes

Facebook Messenger

Whatsapp

Viber

Telegram

Signal

SimpleX

Popular Ethical Social Platforms

What are Decentralized social media platforms – https://dailycoin.com/top-decentralized-social-media-networks

https://wt.social

https://joinmastodon.org/

https://mewe.com/myworld

Self-Hosted Social Servers

https://pixelfed.org/

https://discord.com/

https://www.opensource-socialnetwork.org/