#Integrated Social Media Platform

[manjeet2402]

Needl is a cloud-based, AI platform that offers a single unified view of all your information across – emails, chats, notes, drives, RSS feeds and frequently visited websites, along with a host of data processing and collaboration services.

https://www.needl.ai/

[todaynationnews]

Vowel | TechCrunch Japan, a virtual conferencing platform that aims to be a "meeting OS" that integrates meetings into everyday workflows

Vowel | TechCrunch Japan, a virtual conferencing platform that aims to be a “meeting OS” that integrates meetings into everyday workflows

Meetings are inevitable in getting the job done. But Vowel CEO Andy Berman says we’re steadily moving towards “conference death” in the last 18 months of workplace decentralization. .. His virtual conferencing platform has raised $ 13.5 million in venture capital funding with the aim of making pre-meeting, during-meeting, and post-meeting more fruitful. Vowel’s meeting management system features…

[curuniel]

Hey friends, why are people surprised that passively scrolling social media doesn't provide them with a sense of "genuine social connection"?

Like yeah, Facebook sucks at actual social fulfilment, but this isn't the internet's fault. It's that you still have to actually engage with a person. Send someone a message. A meme, even! Otherwise you're comparing the online equivalent of passing someone in the street to getting coffee with a friend and blaming the internet for being inauthentic.

[faggy-dog]

what is up with the weird urge i see on here to present tumblr as somehow not as shitty or evil or annoying as other social media platforms, as if all the worst types of ppl on tumblr didn’t go on to contaminate other platforms. some of you act like this shit is a hogwarts house & it’s weird lol the second you speak in defense of a social media platform you’ve already lost

[mobiloittepteltd]

[ftx360digitalagency]

Social media is such a powerful tool for business growth, in fact, that you don’t have to use every platform under the sun. Simply maintaining accounts on one or two social platforms will be enough to support your business needs and social media goals.

[orteil42]

by 2026 social media platform policies and omnipresent crypto integration will have become so unbearable we'll all go back to hosting our own personal websites with handcoded HTML. this is not a prediction this is a desperate plea

[hermajestyimher]

The Dangers of LinkedIn and How to Best Navigate this Toxic Platform:

I've been thinking of starting a post series for young professionals to discuss the struggles of life after/in-between school and the corporate world and how to better navigate through adulthood. This series is titled Surviving Our 20s.

In this first post, I will do a small rant followed by what my takeaway is in regards to LinkedIn.

LinkedIn doesn't get enough flack for how toxic and pathetic of a platform it is. So let's talk about it.

It is common to hear people speak of how bad Instagram is for our mental health thanks to the exposure to others' lifestyle highlights reals. But the catch is that for the vast majority of us, choosing to be active on Instagram is not de facto mandatory and we can carefully curate what sort of content creators we choose to follow. LinkedIn, on the other hand, has become crucial for people to succeed in their professional lives as a means of acquiring jobs and documenting their professional history and achievements.

LinkedIn is, in my opinion, one of the most damaging social media platforms for people's mental sanity. It's nothing but a never-ending circle-jerk of performative wokeness and "humble" brags designed to boost the egos of already privileged narcissists. LinkedIn is used by people who come from backgrounds of wealth (but not necessarily old money types) or who have very strong family support/structures that others lack to brag about their "accomplishments" - that they would've otherwise not been able to acquire had they been born in different circumstances - in a tone-deaf manner. This is in lieu of expecting to receive accolades from strangers online to boost their already gigantic egos.

Corporations with very toxic workplace cultures utilize superficially crafted "highlights" to paint a favorable picture that vastly differs from the way in which they treat their employees in day-to-day life. HR people creating false stories and scenarios to paint themselves as the saviors of the little privileged, often times copying and pasting the same sob stories expecting others won't catch them in the act, despite not doing anything meaningful in their real life to help those truly in need.

PR is everything, and this manufactured culture of false pretend is particularly harmful because it makes marginalized groups and people who have to work harder to reach similar levels of success feel inadequate and often not worthy of it by virtue of comparison with those who pretend to be doing better than them.

One of the most bizarre things I've seen on LinkedIn is "influencers" on that platform taking advantage of the discomfort of people, especially young people in the workforce, to say all the things they want to hear in an attempt to provide a service to "help them", but only if they buy their $500 course to land a job that is not guaranteed. It's incredibly predatory.

In addition to all the issues with corporate flexing culture and fake PR, LinkedIn exposes individuals to breaches in their privacy by displaying their educational and work history to the world to see. This puts victims of harassment at risk because others can easily track them down, and it makes our private lives and information readily available to anyone who wishes to access it. IMO, this is worse than the information someone may be able to gather from Instagram and other social media platforms, as sensitive details from our personal and professional lives are not required to be shared.

If LinkedIn is a platform that you must use for professional advancements, I recommend setting digital boundaries on it like you would any other social media platform. Here are some tips that I've integrated for a healthier usage of the platform:

Only use the platform on desktop and with Google Chrome specifically, this is because you can find feed-blocking extensions that will effectively hide the news feed on the page each time you log on, so you won't have to be exposed to the cringefest that is posted there and that may lead you down a path of unnecessary comparisons and feelings of inadequacy.

Delete the app from your phone and only reinstall it if you attend networking events where connecting with important people may be relevant, then delete it again.

Keep your professional and educational background as private as possible. Make sure you have a skeleton of the timeline of positions and degrees you've completed but try not to go into details as to what you did; that is something that should be left for your resume that only select people will have access to.

Set your privacy settings to keep your photo and other information inaccessible to people who do not have an account on the platform.

Be mindful of the posts you interact with. Something as simple as liking a comment will show on your activity and will display to your network's feed. So only interact with the content you'd want others to relate you with and do not engage in arguments or other kinds of unhinged behavior with other people.

LinkedIn is a necessary evil for many of us, and in my opinion, the most toxic social media platform there is. But with proper use and boundary setting, we can derive good benefits out of it and minimize potential risks to our safety and mental health.

[zvaigzdelasas]

The threat of war in Ukraine is growing. As the unelected government in Kiev declares itself unable to control the rebellion in the country's east, John Kerry brands Russia a rogue state. The US and the European Union step up sanctions against the Kremlin, accusing it of destabilising Ukraine. The White House is reported to be set on a new cold war policy with the aim of turning Russia into a "pariah state". [...]

When the Ukrainian president was replaced by a US-selected administration, in an entirely unconstitutional takeover, politicians such as William Hague brazenly misled parliament about the legality of what had taken place: the imposition of a pro-western government on Russia's most neuralgic and politically divided neighbour. [...]

After Crimeans voted overwhelmingly to join Russia, the bulk of the western media abandoned any hint of even-handed coverage. So Putin is now routinely compared to Hitler, while the role of the fascistic right on the streets and in the new Ukrainian regime has been airbrushed out of most reporting as Putinist propaganda.

So you don't hear much about the Ukrainian government's veneration of wartime Nazi collaborators and pogromists, or the arson attacks on the homes and offices of elected communist leaders, or the integration of the extreme Right Sector into the national guard, while the anti-semitism and white supremacism of the government's ultra-nationalists is assiduously played down, and false identifications of Russian special forces are relayed as fact.

The reality is that, after two decades of eastward Nato expansion, this crisis was triggered by the west's attempt to pull Ukraine decisively into its orbit and defence structure, via an explicitly anti-Moscow EU association agreement. Its rejection led to the Maidan protests and the installation of an anti-Russian administration – rejected by half the country – that went on to sign the EU and International Monetary Fund agreements regardless. [...]

the dangers are also multiplying. Ukraine has shown itself to be barely a functioning state: the former government was unable to clear Maidan, and the western-backed regime is "helpless" against the protests in the Soviet-nostalgic industrial east. For all the talk about the paramilitary "green men" (who turn out to be overwhelmingly Ukrainian), the rebellion also has strong social and democratic demands: who would argue against a referendum on autonomy and elected governors? [...]

Meanwhile, the US and its European allies impose sanctions and dictate terms to Russia and its proteges in Kiev, encouraging the military crackdown on protesters after visits from Joe Biden and the CIA director, John Brennan. But by what right is the US involved at all, incorporating under its strategic umbrella a state that has never been a member of Nato, and whose last elected government came to power on a platform of explicit neutrality? It has none, of course – which is why the Ukraine crisis is seen in such a different light across most of the world. There may be few global takers for Putin's oligarchic conservatism and nationalism, but Russia's counterweight to US imperial expansion is welcomed, from China to Brazil.

In fact, one outcome of the crisis is likely to be a closer alliance between China and Russia, as the US continues its anti-Chinese "pivot" to Asia. [...]

The risk of civil war is nevertheless growing, and with it the chances of outside powers being drawn into the conflict. Barack Obama has already sent token forces to eastern Europe and is under pressure, both from Republicans and Nato hawks such as Poland, to send many more. Both US and British troops are due to take part in Nato military exercises in Ukraine this summer.

The US and EU have already overplayed their hand in Ukraine. Neither Russia nor the western powers may want to intervene directly, and the Ukrainian prime minister's conjuring up of a third world war presumably isn't authorised by his Washington sponsor

2014

[ssweeneys]

“I would love to share my normal life so that people can see that it’s not all glamour. But I can’t because one, I like my privacy, and two, social media is another platform for business. Sharing my life on it could go against the integrity of the business and brand I’m trying to create.”  —Sydney Sweeney

[probablyasocialecologist]

Even in the absence of profitability, platform capital extracts value and undermines the viability of other economic forms. The appreciating asset value of the platform occurs through deteriorating social prospects elsewhere: what Facebook does for journalism, Spotify does for musicians and Uber Eats for independent restaurants. In each case, the basic means of access to a market or a public is privatized, and becomes an opportunity for rent extraction. This represents a new phase of what David Harvey terms accumulation by dispossession, only it is the infrastructure of civil society that is being seized, and it is rapidly capitalized start-ups doing the dispossessing, without the direct intervention of the state. The most important contribution of states to platform capital is regulatory neglect, built on a Chicago School orthodoxy stating that so long as prices are not rising for consumers, all is well. A turning point in the development of the platform economy was 2007, which witnessed the launch of the iPhone, allowing platforms to become more spatially integrated, and the sudden growth of Facebook users, but also the start of the credit crunch that signalled the coming financial crisis. As Srnicek details, the crisis triggered three developments that provided the conditions for platforms to prosper: exceptional monetary policies that pushed investors further towards high-risk and unprofitable tech start-ups in search of returns; widespread cash hoarding and tax evasion by firms such as Google; and a disempowered, under-employed labour force that was ready to accept the precarious, high-surveillance employment being offered by the platform economy.

William Davies, The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Social Media

[liongoatsnake]

Quick question, what are systems? Are they the same as having DID/multiple-personality disorder? I’m confused and would like to know more, thanks :-)

This answer is going to be pretty simplified for brevity, but for disclosure there are a lot of details and history and discourse (and when I use that word here, I’m using it in the traditional sense, not how the word is used on social media platforms).

Another thing to keep in mind is that we first found the community over 15 years ago and so we might reference concepts that aren’t talked about anymore.

The word plural is a very broad term to describe when someone is “more than one in one body.” It is a very board term that can fit any number of varied experiences.

The word multiple specifically refers to where those who are “more than one” actually present as individual persons with their own sense of individuality.  

The word system refers to a collection of people or entities within a single instance of a plurality (i.e. a single body that is plural). In the past there was a lot more meaning as to why people said, “plural system” or “multiple system” or “median system” over simply saying they were “plural,” “multiple,” or “median” and some of that reason does have to do with the ways dissociative identity disorder (back when it was still regularly called multiple personality disorder) was once treated. Back 30ish years ago, anyone who was more-than-one (plural) regardless of just about anything was labeled with MPD (even spiritual practices like spirit possession in various religions) and told they HAD to go through this process of removing the existence of their plurality through a process called integration which included the permanent merging/fusing of members. In psychiatry for a long time was the only treatment offered and not everyone who was more-than-one agreed with this single-option approach. In the late 80s/early 90s a community began to form for people with these kinds of experiences and part of this community really disagreed with integration being the ONLY option. These people preferred goals that focused on functionality, cooperation, and such and that didn’t force anyone to permanent merge/fuse if they didn’t want to. This is where the idea of being a system came out of. Back then someone could be multiple (plural wasn’t widely used until some decade later), but only the multiples who weren’t pushing for only integration started out using it. They used system to refer to their organization (using the dictionary definition of system to refer to things working together). (Again, that is a major oversimplification because a lot of this spanned a decade and more and you also had a lot of influences going on. Again, trying to give a cliff-notes version to something that could take a whole BOOK of text to really do it justice.)

So that’s the history behind the term. But these days system doesn’t have all those internal community meanings anymore. Its just used by most people as referring to a collection of headmates/alters/parts/whatever terms they personally prefer for themselves within a single physical body.

The current criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder in the DSM-5 includes these criteria:

 Criterion A - " Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession. The disruption of marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning. These signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual."

Criterion B - “Recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.”

Criterion C  - "The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.”

Criterion D - “The disturbance is not a normal part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice. Note: the symptoms are not better explained by imaginary playmates or other fantasy play.”

Criterion E, in part, states - “The symptoms are not attributable to the direct physiological effects […] of a substance or another medical condition […].”

Not everyone meets all criteria, and it takes meeting all criteria to be diagnosed. Someone can meet Criterion A but not meet one or more of the others. (And because the criteria has changed over time you have issues where someone diagnosed under a previous DSM might not be diagnosed under the current one. So, the plural community has experienced a greater and greater rift over time as more and more of its members no longer fit under the DSM’s criteria. (Remember, in the 80s and early 90s even people who experienced spirit possession because of their cultural practices were diagnosed with MPD and some of those such people were also around the early community.)  This rift has certainly caused issues. (And this isn’t even getting into the history and added influences of what can cause plurality. Which in and of itself is a can of worms. Again, would need a book to do indepth.)

Within the past decade-ish and that began on Tumblr there has been an ever increasing… disagreement over who can and cannot use certain words and a heck of a lot of other… discussions. But this discourse really did not exist pre-2013. (We find it painfully ironic that around the same time the DSM-5 came out and blatantly stated that not everyone who was more-than-one in one body had DID unless they also experience certain other criteria [something many in the community fought for] is also around the same time that “syscourse” arose. And it’s been causing harm ever since.)   

But yeah. This kind of slid more into the history of these terms, but we’re by our nature history people. Plus, because of being burned by syscourse to the point we’re not super active in the community anymore. (WAY too many times have we been attacked despite our own diagnosis, trauma history, and such because the side that are “anti-endogenic” does not care if they harm their own… But that is a personal misgiving.)   

If you would like more in-depth information here are a few links for a little bit more information:

[shitpostsampler]

Hi, I know it would be really hard to change platforms but the ceo of gumroad is doing some sketchy shit right now... like searching the customer database to see if people on Twitter have ever used the service. It's highly immoral and he is doing it to clap back on people and its not cool

We've been trying to monitor the situation since last night's call out post by one of their employees. Prism and I are not supportive of NFTs, and didn't want to be associated with them to begin with. With the social media meltdown from the Gumroad CEO, it appears we have an even more fast-acting catalyst to get our butts in gear.

We've also been working on our own web space for some time, even if it hasn't been priority. The pay what you want/can model was always part of our core belief system in this project, and was something that was non-negotiable for us in terms of switching platforms. Originally, Gumroad was the only place to offer this pricing. We thought we would have to find someone to code our own shop if we wanted to leave.

It seems that now, though, there are many more shops that allow website integration AND the pay what you want model. We've started combing through options.

If anyone has a) suggestions/preferences/horror stories about any of the other options out there-- Sellfy/SendOwl/Payhip -- please, please, please speak up. We can only go by what Google spits out at us as information.

b) someone who can code us a shop of our own (we can pay them!).

Please, let us know! It's time to abandon ship and we need a life raft and a new boat.

[staff]

Hey Tumblr,

With the 2020 United States Presidential Election on our horizon, we wanted to proactively beef up our Community Guidelines to stymie any political interference. 

There’s precedent—not paranoia—backing this decision. In 2016, the Internet Research Agency or IRA (a group with close ties to Russian intelligence)  was found to have created hundreds of fake accounts across most social media platforms, including Tumblr. Their sole objective was—is!—to sow dangerous seeds of misinformation. The declassified DNI report refers to the IRA as “professional trolls.”

These “professional trolls” are not welcome on Tumblr, and we wanted our Community Guidelines to reflect that. We clarified our “Confusion or Impersonation” section by renaming it “Impersonation and Non-Genuine Behavior,” specifying that impersonating a public official is not allowed. Parody? Totally fine. Pretending to be Bill de Blasio to spread false info about NYC? Absolutely not fine. Also, it doesn’t even sound fun.

We also added a whole new section on integrity:

“Election Integrity. You may not use Tumblr to defraud nor impede the integrity of the United States Census or local, regional, or national public office elections. Bottom line: do not create or promote content designed to suppress, intimidate, or confuse voters or U.S. census participants. This includes spreading false information about how to vote, when to vote, or where to vote.” 

The last addition we made to our Community Guidelines reads as follows: “Repeat violations of our Community Guidelines may result in permanent blog or account suspension.” This is not a new policy—it’s just reworded to make our stance as clear-cut as possible: We do not tolerate repeat violators of our Community Guidelines.

Democracy requires transparency and honesty. If we are made aware of any targeted disinformation campaigns on Tumblr from the IRA or groups like them, we will swiftly take action. We have a moral obligation to you, ourselves, and the future of democracy to do whatever is within our power.

If you want to help combat misinformation, check out this video on @world-wide-what for some helpful tips, share this infographic by Tumblr Creatr Ellis van der Does (@ellisvanderdoes) for the National Association for Media Literacy Education (@medialiteracyed), and please (please!) make sure you are registered to vote. 

Stay safe, Tumblr.

[cheturetailsoftware]

The client's objective was to tie customers with loyalty programs through social media platforms so that consumers could share and like merchant products to earn loyalty points/rewards for more detail https://www.chetu.com/case-study/loyalty-app-integrates-with-social-media.php

[skaldish]

I'll level with y'all on this—I've been focusing on my store a lot because I'm trying to find an additional source of income in the face of disability.

To the shock of no one, I'm a web designer by trade. My background lies in writing and art. It's not lost on me how much I can do with my skillset...but there's also not a lot I can do outside of it.

A few years ago, I started developing chronic soft tissue damage in my dominant hand due to daily computer-work for my job. This, combined with my rapidly-declining mental health due to the pandemic, forced me to move from full-time to contract with my current employer so I wouldn't completely destroy my body or my mind.

I'm blessed that I live in a state that with quality state health insurance. My living expenses are extremely low and I don't need to make a whole lot to squeak by.

However, I now live with a permanent physical limitation, which limits what I can do on a day-to-day basis. Because of this, I've started to look into setting up long-term investments. This includes literal economic investments like stocks and bonds, but also in projects that will sort of just...semi-run themselves after I put in the work needed to get them going.

Given my skillset, e-commerce is perfect for this.

Let me tell you all a little secret. Setting upon an online store and selling things is stupidly, ridiculously easy. It's even more ludicrously easy when you know how to use what I call "rich people tools"—the kind of online marketing solutions wholeass companies use to advertise and grow.

These tools run like a well-oiled machine. Everything about them is about minimizing effort while maximizing profit. Most so-called "social media," like twitter, facebook, and pinterest? They all integrate with these tools seamlessly, because the true purpose of these websites is to be marketing platforms for business owners, so they can deliver their ads directly to people's eyeballs in environments where their guards are down.

It's actually pretty fucking disgusting.

(I've always hated advertisements and the culture that surrounded them. It's why I don't try to push products too heavily here even though I know I can queue up a million reblogs for them. Knowing what I know now just makes me hate it all even more.)

But anyway, for the last month or so, I've been thrown into an ethical dilemma. I don't want to, and never wanted to, monetize Skald's Keep. Its purpose is to be a free website that competes against the monetization and commercialization of Heathenry.

But it's also supposed to be a trustworthy website. By having a store that clearly sells a plethora of direct-to-consumer products, it looks like I have ulterior motivations, and that's not what I'd call trustworthy.

And yet, I need a livelihood, and e-commerce is the strongest play I've got.

Fortunately, I think I figured out my own problem just by hashing things out here—I need to start my own business separate from Skald's Keep. An entirely different website altogether that's clearly just a store, one I can market to hell and back with the disgusting tools capitalism built for itself without sacrificing my intentions for Skald's Keep.

As for the current Skald's Keep store? I think it would be a BALLER idea to turn it into a hub for indie pagan publications—a place to feature all the devotionals, guides, and workbooks I see so many people here make but don't have one place to put 'em.

It would be stupidly easy too. The product entries can link off to whatever platform you're hosting your book on; lulu, amazon, etc. All you'll have to do is give me the link to your book, the image of the book cover, and the paragraph description, and I'll plug it all in. That way, I can showcase the work of the community without necessarily needing to "recommend" it for educational reasons. You'd basically just take advantage of my high-ranking results on google.

It will also create a library where people can easily find non-Folkish stuff, which takes money away from them and puts it in the hands of the average pagan.

Yes, I think this is the plan y'all. We will have our cake and eat it too.

Thanks for being such a great audience and for putting up with my hair-brained shenanigans as I was working through this. <3