The future is here today : you can't play Bach on Facebook because Sony says they own his compositions
James Rhodes, a pianist, performed a Bach composition for his Facebook account, but it didn’t go up — Facebook’s copyright filtering system pulled it down and accused him of copyright infringement because Sony Music Global had claimed that they owned 47 seconds’ worth of his personal performance of a song whose composer has (...) http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/13326
@brandon 100% agree. I really dislike consumer tech culture. I browsed Google Play for the first time yesterday and it was pretty much thumbnails of everything that sucks about the world in one place.
I unsubbed from LinkedIn emails on day two. I check it periodically. It's very useful when going to find a new job, which I seem to do once every couple of years (I work with a lot of startups). LinkedIn has gotten me jobs a few times. People reach out to see if I'm available and interested, then we connect. Overall, for all their dark patterns (which seem to have subsided since Microsoft bought them, thankfully), it's been a net positive in my life.
@valerauko to be fair, Mastodon didn't kick him off, the admin of his instance did. If I were him, I'd spin up my own instance. That's the power federation gives us.
Wil Wheaton's done with social media. I'm certain he'll be happier for it.
What the fediverse and twitterverse before it did to him is inexcusable, no matter anyone else's hot take (especially mine). No god-damned wonder he's done.
Let's try and do better. At least in this small corner of the fediverse, I enjoy seeing none of the toxic shit I was subject to on 🐦 (and I wasn't even a target!)