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blacksam: https://thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-zuckerberg-recipient-of-worlds-first-rat-penis-transplant-announces-meta-will-stop-fact-checking/ #facebook #meta #thehardtimes #news #humor #satire
blacksam's status on Tuesday, 07-Jan-2025 20:05:09 EST
https://thehardtimes.net/culture/mark-zuckerberg-recipient-of-worlds-first-rat-penis-transplant-announces-meta-will-stop-fact-checking/ #facebook #meta #thehardtimes #news #humor #satire
Mark Zuckerberg, Recipient of World's First Rat Penis Transplant, Announces Meta Will Stop Fact Checking
tobias: The icing for today#spam #facebook #Friendica
tobias's status on Tuesday, 27-Feb-2024 14:09:01 EST
The icing for today #spam #facebook #Friendica
lnxw48a1: https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub [www theverge com] The Verge article extolling the #Fediverse. I personally think the writer has the wrong point. #Facebook isn't good. Its attraction is "everybody I know is on Facebook" and not any of its half-baked features. Therefore, multiprotocol / multi-network federated social is important to dethroning #corpocentric #socnets like XTwitter ( #x.com / #twitter ) and Meta's Facebook & #Instagram. We need bridges to connect #Nostr, the #OStatus and #ActivityPub fediverses, #Diaspora, #Farcaster, #Bluesky's #ATProto, etc. Or we need instances that speak all of the above protocols / languages. I feel this writer's exuberence will turn out to be fantasy, mostly because of misunderstanding what keeps people in the walled gardens and what it will take to free them.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 20-Dec-2023 22:09:16 EST
https://www.theverge.com/23990974/social-media-2023-fediverse-mastodon-threads-activitypub [www theverge com] The Verge article extolling the #Fediverse. I personally think the writer has the wrong point. #Facebook isn't good. Its attraction is "everybody I know is on Facebook" and not any of its half-baked features. Therefore, multiprotocol / multi-network federated social is important to dethroning #corpocentric #socnets like XTwitter ( #x.com / #twitter ) and Meta's Facebook & #Instagram. We need bridges to connect #Nostr, the #OStatus and #ActivityPub fediverses, #Diaspora, #Farcaster, #Bluesky's #ATProto, etc. Or we need instances that speak all of the above protocols / languages. I feel this writer's exuberence will turn out to be fantasy, mostly because of misunderstanding what keeps people in the walled gardens and what it will take to free them.
2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse
fu: ♲ @fodworeq@social.re: Spread the love?If I am going to use non-free #closedSouce gratis services is it better to commit to just giving my data to one company like #google or is it better to try to spread it out to more?Tags: #apple #Android #sns #SaaS #Facebook #Samsung #bing #microsoft #meta #sxm #spotify #pandora #YouTube #privacy #FreeSoftware #opensource #foursquare #linkedin #LIVEJournal #waze #maps #ford #amazonvia dandelion* /people?q=dandelion00@diasp.org client (Source) https://github.com/gsantner/dandelion
fu's status on Saturday, 25-Nov-2023 02:31:30 EST
♲ @fodworeq@social.re: Spread the love? If I am going to use non-free #closedSouce gratis services is it better to commit to just giving my data to one company like #google or is it better to try to spread it out to more? Tags: #apple #Android #sns #SaaS #Facebook #Samsung #bing #microsoft #meta #sxm #spotify #pandora #YouTube #privacy #FreeSoftware #opensource #foursquare #linkedin #LIVEJournal #waze #maps #ford #amazon via dandelion* /people?q=dandelion00@diasp.org client (Source) https://github.com/gsantner/dandelion
fu: I really like this "posted 12 years to, recieved one hour ago" ♲ @robpegoraro.com@robpegoraro.com: I’ve been blogging http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward for the Post since 2007 or so. Why bother doing another blog on the side now?One reason: Writing in a system maintained by my employer for its own purposes shuts me out of many parts of the typical blogging experience, such as playing around with the basic design of the page whenever I like or seeing real-time readership statistics. Plus, the paper just switched to a blogging system that the ombudsman, in a fit of charity, described http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/behind-the-posts-redesigned-web-site/2011/03/25/AFC3GXYB_story.html as “a bafflement to most of us trying to figure it out.”Another reason: While I’ve enjoyed using my public Facebook page http://facebook.com/robpegoraro as a blog substitute for sharing my thoughts on journalism, technology and other issues that don’t fit in my work blog, that site isn’t set up for writing longer posts. It’s a pain to find older notes I wrote there. And, more important, it doesn’t seem such a good idea to use one site that I report on all the time as my primary outlet aside from work. I’d rather write those longer notes here, then link to them on Facebook.Most of these reasons applied a year ago; I don’t know why I didn’t heed them then. In any case, please keep reading. I’ll try not to make this boring.robpegoraro.com/2011/04/06/a-s…#blogging #facebook #meta
fu's status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 01:40:33 EDT
I really like this "posted 12 years to, recieved one hour ago" ♲ @robpegoraro.com@robpegoraro.com: I’ve been blogging http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fasterforward for the Post since 2007 or so. Why bother doing another blog on the side now? One reason: Writing in a system maintained by my employer for its own purposes shuts me out of many parts of the typical blogging experience, such as playing around with the basic design of the page whenever I like or seeing real-time readership statistics. Plus, the paper just switched to a blogging system that the ombudsman, in a fit of charity, described http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/behind-the-posts-redesigned-web-site/2011/03/25/AFC3GXYB_story.html as “a bafflement to most of us trying to figure it out.” Another reason: While I’ve enjoyed using my public Facebook page http://facebook.com/robpegoraro as a blog substitute for sharing my thoughts on journalism, technology and other issues that don’t fit in my work blog, that site isn’t set up for writing longer posts. It’s a pain to find older notes I wrote there. And, more important, it doesn’t seem such a good idea to use one site that I report on all the time as my primary outlet aside from work. I’d rather write those longer notes here, then link to them on Facebook. Most of these reasons applied a year ago; I don’t know why I didn’t heed them then. In any case, please keep reading. I’ll try not to make this boring. robpegoraro.com/2011/04/06/a-s… #blogging #facebook #meta
Opinion | Behind The Post’s redesigned Web site
fu: One of the ways #Facebook was able to overtake rival #Myspace was by creating a dedicated user-base built upon exclusivity. In the 00s your mom couldn't be on Facebook because you needed a .edu email address to sign up. Could that strategy ever work again? Would there be benefit in pushing IT to create friendica.umich.edu, for example? #SocialMeda #SNS
fu's status on Tuesday, 24-Oct-2023 00:40:09 EDT
One of the ways #Facebook was able to overtake rival #Myspace was by creating a dedicated user-base built upon exclusivity. In the 00s your mom couldn't be on Facebook because you needed a .edu email address to sign up. Could that strategy ever work again? Would there be benefit in pushing IT to create friendica.umich.edu, for example? #SocialMeda #SNS
lnxw48a1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66913551 [www bbc co uk] #Meta / #Facebook ( #MFB ) plans for #metaverse look farther and farther away from fruition. I can see some use for a metaverse ( after all, several years ago, many teens and twenty-somethings were clamoring about an early version of the metaverse, #Second_Life ). I just don't think at this point that a single vendor's platform (and remember, they also own #Oculus, the company that makes their 3D goggles) is able to get enough mindshare ... and as far as I know, MFB's version doesn't interact with competing platforms.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 20:14:34 EDT
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66913551 [www bbc co uk] #Meta / #Facebook ( #MFB ) plans for #metaverse look farther and farther away from fruition. I can see some use for a metaverse ( after all, several years ago, many teens and twenty-somethings were clamoring about an early version of the metaverse, #Second_Life ). I just don't think at this point that a single vendor's platform (and remember, they also own #Oculus, the company that makes their 3D goggles) is able to get enough mindshare ... and as far as I know, MFB's version doesn't interact with competing platforms.
Metaverse: What happened to Mark Zuckerberg's next big thing?
lnxw48a1: #Meta #Facebook's #Instagram service has a new mobile app that directly competes with #Twitter, called #Threads. Threads, with 100M users after 5 days is the fastest growing mobile app ever, according to https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/instagram-threads-twitter-users-elon-musk-million-b2372336.html [www independent co uk] One hundred million downloads & signups, but I wonder how many have posted at least once. I'd like to see their monthly active users number when it comes out.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 01:28:26 EDT
#Meta #Facebook's #Instagram service has a new mobile app that directly competes with #Twitter, called #Threads. Threads, with 100M users after 5 days is the fastest growing mobile app ever, according to https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/instagram-threads-twitter-users-elon-musk-million-b2372336.html [www independent co uk] One hundred million downloads & signups, but I wonder how many have posted at least once. I'd like to see their monthly active users number when it comes out.
Instagram Threads hits 100 million users
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/290941 [www techdirt com] MetaFaceBook (MFB) launches its “Threads” Twitter alike. https://nu.federati.net/url/290942 [www techdirt com] #Twitter threatens to sue #Meta #Facebook #Instagram over its #Threads #Fediverse service.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 14:02:50 EDT
https://nu.federati.net/url/290941 [www techdirt com] MetaFaceBook (MFB) launches its “Threads” Twitter alike. https://nu.federati.net/url/290942 [www techdirt com] #Twitter threatens to sue #Meta #Facebook #Instagram over its #Threads #Fediverse service.
Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About
Something Stupid This Way Comes: Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads, Because Meta Hired Some Of The People Elon Fired
lnxw48a1: https://beach.city/@vantablack/110563155848847142 #Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them. The participants appear to be deleting evidence. I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 16:08:53 EDT
https://beach.city/@vantablack/110563155848847142 #Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them. The participants appear to be deleting evidence. I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers.
lnxw48a1: #F-Droid has SlimSocial for #Facebook and SlimSocial for #Twitter. I had not heard of #SlimSocial at all. But since I closed my Facebook account years ago and rarely log into my Twitter account, I don't need them.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 00:33:23 EDT
#F-Droid has SlimSocial for #Facebook and SlimSocial for #Twitter. I had not heard of #SlimSocial at all. But since I closed my Facebook account years ago and rarely log into my Twitter account, I don't need them.
lnxw48a1: https://noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohibited-use-personal-data-advertising #Meta ( the #Facebook parent company ) tried to bypass Europe's GDPR in order to force users to consent to the use of personal information for advertising. After litigation, the Irish data protection authority was overruled by the European equivalent. Meta faces a fine totalling EU390 in the two cases. A third case is due to be finalized later in January.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 05-Jan-2023 18:42:53 EST
https://noyb.eu/en/breaking-meta-prohibited-use-personal-data-advertising #Meta ( the #Facebook parent company ) tried to bypass Europe's GDPR in order to force users to consent to the use of personal information for advertising. After litigation, the Irish data protection authority was overruled by the European equivalent. Meta faces a fine totalling EU390 in the two cases. A third case is due to be finalized later in January.
BREAKING: Meta prohibited from use of personal data for advertising
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/289184 [www theverge com] #Facebook parent company #Meta agrees to pay $725M in #Cambridge_Analytical class action lawsuit.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 02-Jan-2023 18:14:15 EST
https://nu.federati.net/url/289184 [www theverge com] #Facebook parent company #Meta agrees to pay $725M in #Cambridge_Analytical class action lawsuit.
Meta agrees to pay $725 million to settle Cambridge Analytica class action lawsuit
lnxw48a1: I should note that we won't add bridges to #corpocentric networks like #Twitter or #Facebook.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 13-Dec-2022 00:13:20 EST
I should note that we won't add bridges to #corpocentric networks like #Twitter or #Facebook.
lnxw48a1: @gnu2 That's a good question. I do not know. I haven't had a #Facebook account since around 2010 or so, and I have never had an #Instagram account. There was political and other news discussed, but it wasn't the focus of the people I saw, and I don't remember organizations having much.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 07-Dec-2022 09:58:48 EST
@gnu2 That's a good question. I do not know. I haven't had a #Facebook account since around 2010 or so, and I have never had an #Instagram account. There was political and other news discussed, but it wasn't the focus of the people I saw, and I don't remember organizations having much.
hypolite: Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck meeeeeee. #Privacy #Facebook ♲ @jay@macaw.social: Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook pluralistic.net/2022/11/22/fre… "If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsensually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts.”
hypolite's status on Wednesday, 23-Nov-2022 21:03:54 EST
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck meeeeeee. #Privacy #Facebook ♲ @jay@macaw.social: Tax prep services send sensitive financial info to Facebook pluralistic.net/2022/11/22/fre… "If you were unfortunate enough to e-file your US tax using HR Block, Taxact or Taxslayer, your most sensitive financial information was nonconsensually shared with Facebook, where it was added to the involuntary dossier the company maintains billions of people, including people who don't have Facebook accounts.”
lnxw48a1: In theory, I agree, but in practice, I have used #Ring, the earlier version of #Jami. The experience was so poor that I can no longer get my in-person contacts to try anything that is not #Facebook / #Instagram / #Zoom. And that's without ever trying the #videochat functionality ... we only used text chats and it was still a really poor experience. I've heard it got better, but of course, none of my in-person contacts will try it again. This also affects apps like #Briar and #Session.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 18-Nov-2022 17:56:15 EST
In theory, I agree, but in practice, I have used #Ring, the earlier version of #Jami. The experience was so poor that I can no longer get my in-person contacts to try anything that is not #Facebook / #Instagram / #Zoom. And that's without ever trying the #videochat functionality ... we only used text chats and it was still a really poor experience. I've heard it got better, but of course, none of my in-person contacts will try it again. This also affects apps like #Briar and #Session.
lnxw48a1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-stock-down-earnings-700-billion-in-lost-value [www cbsnews com] #meta, parent of #facebook, has lost over $700 million in stock value over the past year. Earnings are also down.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 28-Oct-2022 23:24:29 EDT
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-stock-down-earnings-700-billion-in-lost-value [www cbsnews com] #meta, parent of #facebook, has lost over $700 million in stock value over the past year. Earnings are also down.
Meta's value has plunged by $700 billion. Wall Street calls it a "train wreck."
lnxw48a1: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-10-billion-plan-190418341.html [finance yahoo com] #Zuckerberg plans to prevent remote workers from hiding from their bosses. #Zuck #Facebook #metaverse
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 21-Oct-2022 11:50:24 EDT
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/mark-zuckerberg-10-billion-plan-190418341.html [finance yahoo com] #Zuckerberg plans to prevent remote workers from hiding from their bosses. #Zuck #Facebook #metaverse
Mark Zuckerberg has a $10 billion plan to make it impossible for remote workers to hide from their bosses
miradlo: Ach?! #Facebook #meta #instagram #whatsapp die entscheiden was sie zulassen, no shit Sherlock. twitter.com/MickyBeisenher… https://twitter.com/MickyBeisenherz/status/1572913698498576385 ♲ @YourAnonStory@twitter.com: Meta has removed a large number of videos from its Instagram page that were related to the protests in #Iran. Meta has also prevented the publication of new posts and videos. #OpIran #IranProtests #Anonymous
miradlo's status on Friday, 23-Sep-2022 04:29:39 EDT
Ach?! #Facebook #meta #instagram #whatsapp die entscheiden was sie zulassen, no shit Sherlock. twitter.com/MickyBeisenher… https://twitter.com/MickyBeisenherz/status/1572913698498576385 ♲ @YourAnonStory@twitter.com: Meta has removed a large number of videos from its Instagram page that were related to the protests in #Iran. Meta has also prevented the publication of new posts and videos. #OpIran #IranProtests #Anonymous
lnxw48a1: @simsa04 @administrator Also the developer of #Soapbox was working on his own groups implementation based on #Facebook's groups. I am pretty sure that if he ever finishes, it will be incompatible with everyone else.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 08-Sep-2022 10:31:32 EDT
@simsa04 @administrator Also the developer of #Soapbox was working on his own groups implementation based on #Facebook's groups. I am pretty sure that if he ever finishes, it will be incompatible with everyone else.
lnxw48a1: #Ohio takes lead plaintiff spot in class-action lawsuit against #Facebook. https://nu.federati.net/url/287248 [www thecentersquare com] #California is also part of this lawsuit. #CA #OH #lawsuit
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 03-Aug-2022 23:28:56 EDT
#Ohio takes lead plaintiff spot in class-action lawsuit against #Facebook. https://nu.federati.net/url/287248 [www thecentersquare com] #California is also part of this lawsuit. #CA #OH #lawsuit
Ohio takes lead in class action lawsuit against Facebook
lnxw48a1: It would be nice to have a big chunk of the people who are using #corpocentric #socnets like #Twitter and #Facebook and #Instagram move some or all of their presence over to the #OStatus and #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse, but I'd much rather they come because they want to try something different instead of coming because they are fleeing some change or impending change over there. Why? Because these networks will never give them everything that those did. I personally believe that these networks can give some benefits that those cannot, but thus far, we've mostly tried to replicate their functionality ... without the benefit of nearly unlimited VC cash and a centralized model which puts $CentralizedNetwork at the center of its users' communications, where benefits built upon centralized knowledge of users' actions / choices / contacts. Therefore, in 2-3 weeks, I expect 9 out of 10 new users to have have returned to Twitter ... or to some centralized network that springs up to duplicate Twitter without the Musk factor. This has happened before. Maybe not on this scale, but it has happened. Multiple times. And always, most of them leave.
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 27-Apr-2022 19:11:54 EDT
It would be nice to have a big chunk of the people who are using #corpocentric #socnets like #Twitter and #Facebook and #Instagram move some or all of their presence over to the #OStatus and #ActivityPub branches of the #Fediverse, but I'd much rather they come because they want to try something different instead of coming because they are fleeing some change or impending change over there. Why? Because these networks will never give them everything that those did. I personally believe that these networks can give some benefits that those cannot, but thus far, we've mostly tried to replicate their functionality ... without the benefit of nearly unlimited VC cash and a centralized model which puts $CentralizedNetwork at the center of its users' communications, where benefits built upon centralized knowledge of users' actions / choices / contacts. Therefore, in 2-3 weeks, I expect 9 out of 10 new users to have have returned to Twitter ... or to some centralized network that springs up to duplicate Twitter without the Musk factor. This has happened before. Maybe not on this scale, but it has happened. Multiple times. And always, most of them leave.
hypolite: Because I could I keep thinking about a couple #Twitter threads criticizing #Mastodon (the #Fediverse, really) for being inherently different than closed commercial platforms using far-fetched hypotheticals and extraordinary occurrences; while I do not want to make a useless point-by-point response, instead I'll tell you what I like about federated social media and #Friendica in particular. After #Facebook froze my account for using a pseudonym (a spottily enforced rule), I started hosting my own #Diaspora pod because I could. I didn't know anyone so I initially made contacts with other podmins and progressively extended my circle through shared posts. This is how I learned about #Friendica, a platform that was compatible with both #Diaspora and #OStatus (#GNUSocial, #StatusNet ) because it could. Written in #PHP, liked both the multi-protocol approach and that I could contribute code to it. So I started hosting my #Friendica node and I kept following the same Diaspora accounts, because I could. When #Mastodon was first released based on OStatus, I started following several accounts on there because I could. When #ActivityPub was released and supported by Mastodon, we followed suite a few months later, because we could. With popularity came the right-wing trolls and free speech extremists who organized their own federated instances, but they never bothered me much as I blocked their entire instance domains because I could. None of these are currently possible with commercial platforms. Not all people will end up hosting their own node and it's fine, but the breadth of possibility is what makes federated social network attractive.
hypolite's status on Wednesday, 27-Apr-2022 18:01:20 EDT
Because I could I keep thinking about a couple #Twitter threads criticizing #Mastodon (the #Fediverse, really) for being inherently different than closed commercial platforms using far-fetched hypotheticals and extraordinary occurrences; while I do not want to make a useless point-by-point response, instead I'll tell you what I like about federated social media and #Friendica in particular. After #Facebook froze my account for using a pseudonym (a spottily enforced rule), I started hosting my own #Diaspora pod because I could. I didn't know anyone so I initially made contacts with other podmins and progressively extended my circle through shared posts. This is how I learned about #Friendica, a platform that was compatible with both #Diaspora and #OStatus (#GNUSocial, #StatusNet ) because it could. Written in #PHP, liked both the multi-protocol approach and that I could contribute code to it. So I started hosting my #Friendica node and I kept following the same Diaspora accounts, because I could. When #Mastodon was first released based on OStatus, I started following several accounts on there because I could. When #ActivityPub was released and supported by Mastodon, we followed suite a few months later, because we could. With popularity came the right-wing trolls and free speech extremists who organized their own federated instances, but they never bothered me much as I blocked their entire instance domains because I could. None of these are currently possible with commercial platforms. Not all people will end up hosting their own node and it's fine, but the breadth of possibility is what makes federated social network attractive.
miradlo: Damals in 2014 habe ich diesen Tweet drüben bei #Facebook gepostet. Vorgestern, mehr als 7 Jahre später hat Facebook diesen Post gesperrt, er verstoße gegen die #Gemeinschaftsregeln von Facebook, wegen #Nacktheit. Ja, Facebook, schon gut... ♲ @inuido@twitter.com: Pruuust, jetzt hab ich meinen Tee ausgespuckt. RT“@rkwilde99a: Neulich in der Handarbeitsrunde...... ”
miradlo's status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 05:58:42 EST
Damals in 2014 habe ich diesen Tweet drüben bei #Facebook gepostet. Vorgestern, mehr als 7 Jahre später hat Facebook diesen Post gesperrt, er verstoße gegen die #Gemeinschaftsregeln von Facebook, wegen #Nacktheit. Ja, Facebook, schon gut... ♲ @inuido@twitter.com: Pruuust, jetzt hab ich meinen Tee ausgespuckt. RT“@rkwilde99a: Neulich in der Handarbeitsrunde...... ”
lnxw48a1: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html [wwww nytimes com] NY Times reported in 2017 that a major investor in #Facebook and #Twitter was supported by Kremlin cash.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 26-Feb-2022 17:49:54 EST
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/05/world/yuri-milner-facebook-twitter-russia.html [wwww nytimes com] NY Times reported in 2017 that a major investor in #Facebook and #Twitter was supported by Kremlin cash.
Kremlin Cash Behind Billionaire’s Twitter and Facebook Investments (Published 2017)
lnxw48a1: https://nu.federati.net/url/284899 [www cityam com] They shouldn't make these kinds of claims. They know it is not true and everyone else knows also. #Facebook's value proposition is "everybody you know is here" ... shutting out Europe would change it to "everybody you know, except those who live or have citizenship in Europe" and leave them open for retreating again when similar rules are enforced in Asia.
lnxw48a1's status on Sunday, 06-Feb-2022 10:42:51 EST
https://nu.federati.net/url/284899 [www cityam com] They shouldn't make these kinds of claims. They know it is not true and everyone else knows also. #Facebook's value proposition is "everybody you know is here" ... shutting out Europe would change it to "everybody you know, except those who live or have citizenship in Europe" and leave them open for retreating again when similar rules are enforced in Asia.
Mark Zuckerberg and team consider shutting down Facebook and Instagram in Europe if Meta can not process Europeans' data on US servers
lnxw48a1: A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect). The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking. I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked. But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 20-Dec-2021 13:31:32 EST
A #VPN provider that I used shut down without much notice (in fact, the only way I found out was that I visited their site months later, trying to figure out why I hadn't been able to connect). The #hotel I was using had a local provider that blocked #Fediverse instances (including Mastodon.Social), #Diaspora, #XMPP, #IRC, and a certain mail provider that I still use. They did not block: #Facebook, #Twitter, #GMail, or Outlook / #Hotmail Because I couldn't connect to the VPN, I discovered how many perfectly normal sites were blocked because they weren't on the top 100 list. I went downstairs and informed the front desk that I would be leaving their establishment because of their blocking. I received a phone call from their networking vendor, who logged into their router and proxy and turned off filtering on a list of about 25 sites they'd blocked. But the point is, the hotel and its provider cannot be trusted not to fsck with your data. Always use a VPN.
lnxw48a1: #spam from security at facebookmail dot something (not visible in inbox list view) Come on! You're not even trying hard. You're never going to get me to open that message. No #Facebook account.
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 09-Dec-2021 06:46:20 EST
#spam from security at facebookmail dot something (not visible in inbox list view) Come on! You're not even trying hard. You're never going to get me to open that message. No #Facebook account.
lnxw48a1: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zoom-app-personal-data-selling-facebook-lawsuit-alleges/ #Zoom denies selling isers' data to #Facebook, but here is yet another reason to avoid them.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 03-Dec-2021 12:57:11 EST
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/zoom-app-personal-data-selling-facebook-lawsuit-alleges/ #Zoom denies selling isers' data to #Facebook, but here is yet another reason to avoid them.
Zoom sued for allegedly sharing users' personal data with Facebook
polychrome: I love John Carmack. :blobmelt: "John Carmack skeptical about efforts to build the #metaverse" "Veteran developer calls it "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts" during Facebook Connect keynote address"Quote: "But that leaves many people pretty surprised to find out that I have been pretty actively arguing against every single metaverse effort that we have tried to spin up internally in the company, from even pre-acquisition times," Carmack says."I want it to exist, but I have pretty good reasons to believe that setting out to build the metaverse is not actually the best way to wind up with the metaverse."https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-10-29-oculus-john-carmack-skeptical-about-efforts-to-build-the-metaverse#meta #Facebook #Oculus #vr
polychrome's status on Monday, 01-Nov-2021 05:33:04 EDT
I love John Carmack. :blobmelt: "John Carmack skeptical about efforts to build the #metaverse" "Veteran developer calls it "a honeypot trap for architecture astronauts" during Facebook Connect keynote address" Quote: "But that leaves many people pretty surprised to find out that I have been pretty actively arguing against every single metaverse effort that we have tried to spin up internally in the company, from even pre-acquisition times," Carmack says. "I want it to exist, but I have pretty good reasons to believe that setting out to build the metaverse is not actually the best way to wind up with the metaverse." https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2021-10-29-oculus-john-carmack-skeptical-about-efforts-to-build-the-metaverse #meta #Facebook #Oculus #vr
Oculus' John Carmack skeptical about efforts to build the metaverse
lnxw48a1: I closed my #Facebook account years ago. I have never regreted it. I lost contact with a nephew that didn't use any other channel, but that fixed itself later. I considered opening an #Instagram account back when #A1's baby pictures were being posted there, but I decided not to join. As Facebook focused more on walls than garden, trying to motivate me to rejoin so I can see some content, I have never been tempted.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 05-Oct-2021 15:27:44 EDT
I closed my #Facebook account years ago. I have never regreted it. I lost contact with a nephew that didn't use any other channel, but that fixed itself later. I considered opening an #Instagram account back when #A1's baby pictures were being posted there, but I decided not to join. As Facebook focused more on walls than garden, trying to motivate me to rejoin so I can see some content, I have never been tempted.
lnxw48a1: I had heard people talking about a #Facebook outage. Now I see #Cloudflare’s post about it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ #DNS changes preceded (and later ended) the outage. Now #real_talk: No matter how much you like Facebook, #Instagram, #Whatsapp, Facebook #Messenger … you need to make sure that you and your contacts have another active channel of communication that can be used in place of each of those. Because your communications and relationships with people you care about are too important to entrust them solely to one corporation.
lnxw48a1's status on Monday, 04-Oct-2021 20:28:04 EDT
I had heard people talking about a #Facebook outage. Now I see #Cloudflare’s post about it: https://blog.cloudflare.com/october-2021-facebook-outage/ #DNS changes preceded (and later ended) the outage. Now #real_talk: No matter how much you like Facebook, #Instagram, #Whatsapp, Facebook #Messenger … you need to make sure that you and your contacts have another active channel of communication that can be used in place of each of those. Because your communications and relationships with people you care about are too important to entrust them solely to one corporation.
Understanding How Facebook Disappeared from the Internet
miradlo: Ups, also wirklich ein DNS-Problem. #dns #facebook #insta #whatsapp alles #down ♲ @henninguhle@twitter.com: Na, das ist ja mal spannend. twitter.com/briankrebs/sta… https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1445077617426718725
miradlo's status on Monday, 04-Oct-2021 15:04:59 EDT
Ups, also wirklich ein DNS-Problem. #dns #facebook #insta #whatsapp alles #down ♲ @henninguhle@twitter.com: Na, das ist ja mal spannend. twitter.com/briankrebs/sta… https://twitter.com/briankrebs/status/1445077617426718725
lnxw48a1: #Facebook tried to license #NSO's #Pegasus spyware, so it could spy on #iOS users. https://www.cultofmac.com/698979/facebook-pegasus-nso-spyware-track-iphone-users/ [www cultofmac com]
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 05-Aug-2021 03:34:00 EDT
#Facebook tried to license #NSO's #Pegasus spyware, so it could spy on #iOS users. https://www.cultofmac.com/698979/facebook-pegasus-nso-spyware-track-iphone-users/ [www cultofmac com]
Facebook allegedly tried to buy Pegasus spyware to secretly track iPhone users
lnxw48a1: https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/ny_gardeners_facebook_hoe_concerns/ [www theregister com] How do you get through to #Facebook's moderation team? Call the news media!
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 22-Jul-2021 18:50:52 EDT
https://www.theregister.com/2021/07/22/ny_gardeners_facebook_hoe_concerns/ [www theregister com] How do you get through to #Facebook's moderation team? Call the news media!
Facebook gardening group triumphs over slapdash Zuck censorbots
lnxw48a1: https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html [www cnbc com] This happened in late June and I'm just hearing about it. Federal judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit against #Facebook.
lnxw48a1's status on Friday, 16-Jul-2021 17:17:11 EDT
https://www.cnbc.com/2021/06/28/judge-dismisses-ftc-antitrust-complaint-against-facebook.html [www cnbc com] This happened in late June and I'm just hearing about it. Federal judge dismisses antitrust lawsuit against #Facebook.
Judge dismisses FTC and state antitrust complaints against Facebook
lnxw48a1: #Facebook and its advertisers are panicking as the majority of #iPhone owners opt out of tracking https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/14/facebook-tracking-app-tracking-data/ [9to5mac com] /via @gargron
lnxw48a1's status on Thursday, 15-Jul-2021 04:44:55 EDT
#Facebook and its advertisers are panicking as the majority of #iPhone owners opt out of tracking https://9to5mac.com/2021/07/14/facebook-tracking-app-tracking-data/ [9to5mac com] /via @gargron
Facebook and its advertisers are 'panicking' as the majority of iPhone users opt out of tracking
lnxw48a1: Reminder that newspapers changed their comment sections to based on #Facebook because it was believed the "real names policy" would force people to self-moderate. It turned out not to be true.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 27-Apr-2021 22:05:36 EDT
Reminder that newspapers changed their comment sections to based on #Facebook because it was believed the "real names policy" would force people to self-moderate. It turned out not to be true.
lnxw48a1: https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/03/personal-data-from-over-500m-facebook-users-leaked-online/ [9to5mac com] Five hundred million #Facebook users’ e-mail addresses and telephone numbers leaked.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 03-Apr-2021 15:59:19 EDT
https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/03/personal-data-from-over-500m-facebook-users-leaked-online/ [9to5mac com] Five hundred million #Facebook users’ e-mail addresses and telephone numbers leaked.
Personal data from over 500M Facebook users leaked online - 9to5Mac
hypolite: #introductions Better late than never, I'm Hypolite Petovan, this isn't my official name but it is my real name for all intents and purposes. I joined the #Fediverse on #Diaspora then #Friendica late 2016 after #Facebook froze my account for using this pseudonym for 10 years straight. My social media policy is to read absolutely everything my follows post. As a result, I heavily curate my follow list that will never grow bigger than what it is now mainly for time constraints. Additionally, I don't automatically follow back and unfollowing isn't personal, your content just doesn't fit with my social media usage, no hard feelings. I like liberally to signify I read, enjoyed or sympathize with a post without having anything meaningful to contribute further. I also block liberally, users and whole instances alike, the world is too big and my time is too limited to give a second chance to bigots, racists, misogynists and transphobes (including TERFs). I host my own single-user node which makes any moderation decision easy. My own editorial line is mainly about good-natured humor and social justice. Tone-wise, I do not mind aggressiveness but I do mind who it is targeted at. I do not tolerate edgy shitpost, and neither bad faith nor logical fallacies no matter how soft-spoken they are. My personal interests revolve around #programming (mainly #PHP for #Friendica ), #videogames and recently #LEGO, but I'm curious about everything and have trouble specializing in anything and don't follow the latest news for any specific topic. Hi! 👋
hypolite's status on Friday, 19-Mar-2021 12:52:23 EDT
#introductions Better late than never, I'm Hypolite Petovan, this isn't my official name but it is my real name for all intents and purposes. I joined the #Fediverse on #Diaspora then #Friendica late 2016 after #Facebook froze my account for using this pseudonym for 10 years straight. My social media policy is to read absolutely everything my follows post. As a result, I heavily curate my follow list that will never grow bigger than what it is now mainly for time constraints. Additionally, I don't automatically follow back and unfollowing isn't personal, your content just doesn't fit with my social media usage, no hard feelings. I like liberally to signify I read, enjoyed or sympathize with a post without having anything meaningful to contribute further. I also block liberally, users and whole instances alike, the world is too big and my time is too limited to give a second chance to bigots, racists, misogynists and transphobes (including TERFs). I host my own single-user node which makes any moderation decision easy. My own editorial line is mainly about good-natured humor and social justice. Tone-wise, I do not mind aggressiveness but I do mind who it is targeted at. I do not tolerate edgy shitpost, and neither bad faith nor logical fallacies no matter how soft-spoken they are. My personal interests revolve around #programming (mainly #PHP for #Friendica ), #videogames and recently #LEGO, but I'm curious about everything and have trouble specializing in anything and don't follow the latest news for any specific topic. Hi! 👋
hypolite: Just had another run in with someone that earnestly asked why #Friendica doesn't have the same amount of users as Facebook or Telegram, and then spouting random nonsense about how hobby (what Friendica is) and business (what Facebook and Telegram are) doesn't necessarily need to be separated, mentioning Elon Musk in the process. My patience for someone wanting to make #Friendica into something it isn't and realistically can't be eventually ran out and I blocked them. ♲ @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com: With each new #Facebook scandal like the recent WhatsApp-related one, the #Fediverse welcomes a wave of new users and admins. #Friendica gets its tiny share of the newly converted to decentralized social media. Some stick, most don't, but there's always this one guy (it's always a man) whose first few messages on GitHub are to angrily complain that Friendica isn't user-friendly enough and that it is spelling doom for a project they didn't know the day before and for the #Fediverse as a whole. This has been going on ever since I joined the project in 2016, and we're still here. 🤷♂️
hypolite's status on Tuesday, 23-Feb-2021 14:06:02 EST
Just had another run in with someone that earnestly asked why #Friendica doesn't have the same amount of users as Facebook or Telegram, and then spouting random nonsense about how hobby (what Friendica is) and business (what Facebook and Telegram are) doesn't necessarily need to be separated, mentioning Elon Musk in the process. My patience for someone wanting to make #Friendica into something it isn't and realistically can't be eventually ran out and I blocked them. ♲ @hypolite@friendica.mrpetovan.com: With each new #Facebook scandal like the recent WhatsApp-related one, the #Fediverse welcomes a wave of new users and admins. #Friendica gets its tiny share of the newly converted to decentralized social media. Some stick, most don't, but there's always this one guy (it's always a man) whose first few messages on GitHub are to angrily complain that Friendica isn't user-friendly enough and that it is spelling doom for a project they didn't know the day before and for the #Fediverse as a whole. This has been going on ever since I joined the project in 2016, and we're still here. 🤷♂️
miradlo: ♲ @a_watch@twitter.com: 👉 Vom Kanzleramt zu #Facebook: Die Büroleiterin von Digital-Staatsministerin Dorothee Bär u. Partnerin von Verkehrsminister Scheuer heuert als Lobbyistin bei Facebook an - und soll dort jetzt den Austausch mit polit. Entscheidungsträger:innen organisieren www.handelsblatt.com/politik/d…
miradlo's status on Tuesday, 09-Feb-2021 14:23:03 EST
♲ @a_watch@twitter.com: 👉 Vom Kanzleramt zu #Facebook: Die Büroleiterin von Digital-Staatsministerin Dorothee Bär u. Partnerin von Verkehrsminister Scheuer heuert als Lobbyistin bei Facebook an - und soll dort jetzt den Austausch mit polit. Entscheidungsträger:innen organisieren www.handelsblatt.com/politik/d…
lnxw48a1: Another #WhatsApp user flees #Facebook data collection https://themue.dev/blog/2021/01/10/im-off-then/ #Signal
lnxw48a1's status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2021 03:32:04 EST
Another #WhatsApp user flees #Facebook data collection https://themue.dev/blog/2021/01/10/im-off-then/ #Signal
lnxw48a1: "The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself. (1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating). (2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations. (3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible. (4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now. (5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.
lnxw48a1's status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 13:28:49 EST
"The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself. (1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating). (2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations. (3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible. (4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now. (5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.
hypolite: With each new #Facebook scandal like the recent WhatsApp-related one, the #Fediverse welcomes a wave of new users and admins. #Friendica gets its tiny share of the newly converted to decentralized social media. Some stick, most don't, but there's always this one guy (it's always a man) whose first few messages on GitHub are to angrily complain that Friendica isn't user-friendly enough and that it is spelling doom for a project they didn't know the day before and for the #Fediverse as a whole. This has been going on ever since I joined the project in 2016, and we're still here. 🤷♂️
hypolite's status on Friday, 15-Jan-2021 16:49:37 EST
With each new #Facebook scandal like the recent WhatsApp-related one, the #Fediverse welcomes a wave of new users and admins. #Friendica gets its tiny share of the newly converted to decentralized social media. Some stick, most don't, but there's always this one guy (it's always a man) whose first few messages on GitHub are to angrily complain that Friendica isn't user-friendly enough and that it is spelling doom for a project they didn't know the day before and for the #Fediverse as a whole. This has been going on ever since I joined the project in 2016, and we're still here. 🤷♂️
lnxw48a1: https://social.foxfam.club/objects/08cee94e-9175-480d-abab-c3b6bb386127 ( https://nu.federati.net/url/279289 ) #Facebook bans Ron Paul for criticizing censorship, then pretends it was a mistake when the media noticed. Make no mistake. This isn't about the idiots that stormed the Capitol or even those who protested but stayed outside. We don't have to like what people are saying to recognize the threat this wave of expulsions poses to all of us. For one thing, the axe that crushes opponents' skulls today will be just as damaging to former allies tomorrow. For another, political ascendancy swings back and forth. When it swings again, people who've been disconnected from online life may decide that Trump was right about Section 230, which protects even the smallest multiuser instances.
lnxw48a1's status on Tuesday, 12-Jan-2021 12:36:38 EST
https://social.foxfam.club/objects/08cee94e-9175-480d-abab-c3b6bb386127 ( https://nu.federati.net/url/279289 ) #Facebook bans Ron Paul for criticizing censorship, then pretends it was a mistake when the media noticed. Make no mistake. This isn't about the idiots that stormed the Capitol or even those who protested but stayed outside. We don't have to like what people are saying to recognize the threat this wave of expulsions poses to all of us. For one thing, the axe that crushes opponents' skulls today will be just as damaging to former allies tomorrow. For another, political ascendancy swings back and forth. When it swings again, people who've been disconnected from online life may decide that Trump was right about Section 230, which protects even the smallest multiuser instances.
Facebook Locks Out Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship, Cites 'Error' | Jon Miltimore
bkoehn: You knew this was coming. It’s time to pull the plug on another Facebook property. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… #whatsapp #facebook #privacy
bkoehn's status on Monday, 11-Jan-2021 08:15:39 EST
You knew this was coming. It’s time to pull the plug on another Facebook property. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… #whatsapp #facebook #privacy