Notices by switching.social (switchingsocial@mastodon.at), page 26

Just got a request about Facebook alternatives on the Fediverse.

There are a number of options, but the one most suitable for non-technical people is probably Friendica.

Friendica's major instances are already federating through ActivityPub (on the development branch of the code), such as:

https://nerdica.net
https://squeet.me
https://libranet.de

Friendica has a Facebook-like interface, and FB-like features such as events and photo albums.

#DeleteFacebook

Just to make clear, election advertising has always been misleading, but it's never before misled people in totally different ways simultaneously.

Posters, newspaper ads, TV spots etc are the same for everyone who sees them, and everyone has a common frame of reference about the candidate.

With online ads personalised down to the individual level, everyone sees something different, but they don't know this is happening. This makes it much easier to deceive voters, and to distort elections.

If you're interested in the off-the-grid social network Scuttlebutt, there's a good essay here about it (from a few weeks ago):

https://staltz.com/early-days-in-the-manyverse.html

It's by @staltz , the creator of the Manyverse app for Scuttlebutt, and is nicely honest about the major difficulties of using the network, as well as suggesting possible solutions.

#ScuttleButt #SSB #Manyverse #OffTheGrid #SocialNetworks

Apparently at least one major government had an insider working undercover at Twitter:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/20/us/politics/saudi-image-campaign-twitter.html

It doesn't really matter if Twitter is trustworthy or not, simply having a vast amount of personal data in one place is going to attract spies from all sorts of organisations that wish to misuse it.

This is why decentralisation is important, to make it technically more difficult to invade people's privacy.

#Privacy #Twitter

Oh wow, #DuckDuckGo seems to be getting lots of visitors lately :blobsurprised:

https://duckduckgo.com/traffic

I guess it is possible to make popular #alternatives if they're as user-friendly as the site they're replacing.

#DeleteGoogle #SearchEngines

@imacrea

If you use Instagram and your friends join Flickr instead, you'll have to move to Flickr or you'll lose contact with your friends.

If you use Pixelfed and your friends join Anfora... that's fine, because you can still follow each other as these platforms federate together through ActivityPub.

If any part of the ActivityPub network grows, all the platforms on the network get a bigger audience and all members get more potential friends.

For fans of the open source 3d graphics suite Blender, their official Mastodon account has just come to life. You can follow them here:

@Blender

You can also follow their official #PeerTube instance here:

@blender

#Blender #3dGraphics #Animation #CGI #FLOSS #FOSS #OpenSource #FilmMaking

You've got some spare time today? Why wouldn't you help getting #Funkwhale completed translated in the following languages? 😎
Here: https://translate.funkwhale.audio/projects/funkwhale/front/

I've opened a little test instance with a small group of users. After some time where the major bugs are fixed I'll open registrations. Stay tuned :blobpeek:

Added "Afternoon Class" (2014), you can watch it here:

https://kino.social/afternoon-class-2014/

Korean short animation set in a classroom 🎓

#Animation #Animated #ShortFilms #Shorts #Film

Mastodon's 2 Year Anniversary: A retrospective

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/10/mastodons-2-year-anniversary/