Post #671034

2024-11-27 19:32 UTC

There was a kerfuffle on Bluesky yesterday because someone released a public dataset of Bluesky posts (with the intention that they could be used for e.g. AI training). I spent literally two hours this morning on a thread about public social media and research ethics, so figured I&#39;d share here too. :) https://skywriter.blue/pages/cfiesler.bsky.social/post/3lbwurkbfcs2w

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@cfiesler@hci.social 2024-11-27 19:33

I also briefly mention there our replication of the twitter research ethics survey on Mastodon (with @bkeegan and co.). We’ve analyzed the data and are writing a paper, but I’ll try to prioritize getting a blog post about those findings out soon!

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@cliffle@hachyderm.io 2024-11-27 19:54

@cfiesler thanks for putting that together. (I have nothing useful to add, but I wanted there to be a reply that isn't from somebody being a giant douche.)

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@slashtab@defcon.social 2024-11-27 19:55

@cfiesler Policing public data only hurts small developers and open source projects, not the corporations. they've already locked down their services and have enough users feeding data.

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@heygarrett@social.lol 2024-11-27 20:08

@cfiesler This was an interesting read! I don’t have enough knowledge in this area to form any concrete opinions, so I appreciate the perspective.

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@troypatterson@scholar.social 2024-11-27 23:41

@cfiesler Interesting read on social media and how it is being used.

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@iveyline@mastodon.world 2024-11-28 04:59

@cfiesler "The Comsumer Manifesto" by Stuart Henshall published in "First Monday" in 2000 (https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/747/656) was a fascinating early study about who owned personal data on the Internet and what rights individuals should have. #personaldata #thecomsumermanifesto. Old but enlightening.

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