#Threads by #Meta forcing itself into the #Fediverse is bad and will harm the Fediverse as a whole if not straight up kill it.
I am baffled to see claims such as "we should give them a chance!" or "this could help the Fediverse grow!", as if we're not talking about one of the probably most immoral, unethical, and predatory businesses in this day and age.
Meta isn't coming to play fair. They're coming to use us for profit.
#Meta is well known for how it removes its competitors from its way. If they can't easily crush them with their size, they buy them young - #whatsapp and #instagram come to mind. Meta has money, and they don't want anyone in their way. Buyouts are the easiest solution.
But the Fediverse cannot be bought. No one controls it. It's a collection of servers, each with its own operators and principles. There is nothing central that Meta can control here...
#XMPP. Chrome's Blink. ActiveX. The <font> tag. Even the file types your spreadsheet software uses. These are examples of open protocols (or parts of) that were taken over by a tech giant.
Because it doesn't matter how open the protocol is, if one player simply outshines the rest.
When #Google implemented XMPP into Google Talk, they slowly pulled things their way. Different implementations, protocol changes, etc. Others had no choice but to follow, or lose the biggest share of users.
When you're big enough and the vast majority of users are in your "instance", you effectively have control. If you stop playing by the rules, all other players have to either adapt to your new rules to keep federating with you, or split off and lose the vast majority of users, and have your own users move because "there's where everyone is".
And once the "big" player sucks the rest of the network dry, they can just bail and leave its hollowed victim to struggle.
Meta's plan for the Fediverse and ActivityPub is likely no different. At first they will play nice and lure in #Mastodon servers and users. Mastodon will see a meteoric rise in activity - but most of it will be from #Threads.
Meta needs Mastodon to seed activity in Threads. By federating, they can show how "active and flourishing" their app already is, with activity from servers showing in their app.
It's much easier to kickstart a platform when you have years worth of content already.
But as it grows, #Threads will stop playing by the rules. At first just slightly, with different implementations that the Fediverse will have to adapt to. Then bigger changes - perhaps a new "moral" way to monetize content. Mastodon admins will gladly take the help in paying the costs.
And since Threads has all the users, servers will have to either play along and stay federated, or break off and lose most users, plus risk their own migrating to where the action is.
Eventually #Meta will have the final say when it comes to #ActivityPub. Like how all word processors must support .docx, and all websites are built with Chromium compatibility in mind.
#Meta isn't here to play fair. They're not here to help grow the Fediverse. They want to use it as a kickstart for their own #Threads walled garden, and they will suck the life out of the Fediverse if we won't resist their reach.
They're a cold, heartless, profit-driven #mega #corporation. Not an ally.
We must not fall into this trap. We must not tag along. Meta can't take over if we won't give them the initial footing.
Если вы мигрировали с Тви или других соц.сетей, то вам будет полезно ознакомиться с этим видеороликом, который запилил @skobkin youtube.com/watch?v=ZKIZciBvCI…
Это видео рассказывает о том, что такое Fediverse, Mastodon, как ими пользоваться и что делать после регистрации.Мой профиль в Mastodon🦣: https://lor.sh/@sk...
In the last couple of years, Viola Ford Fletcher has been on a tireless campaign for accountability over the massacre that destroyed Tulsa, Oklahoma’s original “Black Wall Street” when she was a child in 1921.
Meta’s new app “Threads” is up pre-order in the App Store. Let’s do a quick check on what data they want from you compared to the official Mastodon app, Mammoth and Ivory.
Spoiler: Meta wants to know and track everything about you, and Mastodon doesn’t want anything.
PodcastData has just updated! ♻️ Now counting 4,116,719 podcasts and 96,544,798 episodes thanks to PodcastIndex. Still available for free. For every month. Since the year 2000! 📈 #opendata #opensource #rawgraphs 👉️ podcastdata.org/
Let's make LibreOffice accessible for everyone! Say hello to Michael Weghorn, our new Developer, who'll be focusing on accessibility improvements – like making LibreOffice more usable for people with visual impairments: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice, providing infrastructure and support for the community that makes the suite.
OK, that brightened my whole day. While libreoffice is already kinda accessible, issues with tables especially still persist, where you basically have to see in order to align those correctly, among other things. Another weird one is that one can't use structural navigation or browse mode inside libreoffice, which one can do in windows with office, but also with orca in other web apps. This is especially used for sr users to jump to headings, links, buttons, form elements and such very quickly, so I think this would be very useful to add. Anyway, any accessibility features and roadmaps?
@bgtlover Hi! Michael will initially primarily focus on improving LibreOffice for use with a screen reader, based on issues reported in the Bugzilla issue tracker. List of accessibility-related bug reports: bugs.documentfoundation.org/bu… Supporting browse mode/structural navigation will require work in the screen readers as well. There are already these reports for this: bugs.documentfoundation.org/sh… github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… (1/2)
@bgtlover For any other issues you're encountering, please report them to the bug tracker at bugs.documentfoundation.org, and then Michael (and others) can look into them. (2/2)
OK, I'm looking over the list, some of those issues I personally encountered as well, but didn't report them because they would be effectively duplicates. Very interesting the issue with nvda and structural navigation in documents, does orca suffer from the same issues? Do you expose the headings and links and such as normal at-spi accessible objects?
This is great! I use Libreoffice for much of my work, though there are some aspects that make it difficult for visual accessibility reasons.
The first issue: the flip point where text becomes white or black based on the cell color in the spreadsheet is incorrect, as a result, a lot of mid range cell colors end up with text that's not readable (unless the text color is overridden).
Another: the highlight color for certain buttons in the UI when the system is in dark mode makes the text unreadable on the button.
I'm at your disposal if you have any questions about any visual accessibility issues.
@Myndex Thanks, Myndex! Please report any issues you see to the bug tracker at bugs.documentfoundation.org, and then Michael (and others) can look into them 👍
@robini71 That would be awesome. I gave up my Office 365 subscription in December 2020. But, after using less than accessible windows Office alternatives, I bought a Mac.
Vypadá to tu teď jako setkání lidí na pláži pustého ostrova po ztroskotání: - "Haló, tady jsem! Vašek Novák!" - "Ahoj Vašku, to jsme my, Smetáčci!" - "Ahoj Tondo, ahoj Jano, ahoj Karle! Jsme tu sami?" - "Nee, viděli jsme tu už Kočičáky a tu partu z bowlingu. A támhle jsou holky z fitka!" - "Čau holky!" - "Čau Vaškůůů!"
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Na to mě neužije, tak sem budu zatím dávat nějaký svoje články. Třeba Typologii lidí, co dělají ze sociálních sítí toxické peklo: den1.cz/problem-toxickeho-twit…
Dáme si páteční ranní rant, jo?
Čtu tady i támhle, jak hrozně toxické prostředí je na Twitteru... Řeší se to, opakovaně se konstatuje, slovo "toxické" padá častěji než na přednášce z farmakologie, ale problém je, že si každý pod toxickým představí n…
I've just published my first ever blog: "The Tragedy of the Non-Commons"
I wrote it in July, frustrated by a Twitter thread about how the Tragedy of the #Commons continues to be taught at universities. I then left it (it's somewhat experiemental) but with #COP27 and #Twittermigration coinciding this week, I just wanted it to be out there. Would love for it to be shared here on our #digitalcommons and grateful for any comments
The climate and ecological emergency is a Tragedy of the Non-Commons. The fact that most resources and power are in the hands of the few has terrible consequences for us all. The ‘Tragedy of Commons’…
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My humans thought that I was just a clumsy city #cat. 🐱 To prove that I am a proper predator, I caught a mouse yesterday and brought it alive to the kitchen for them to admire my skills. 🐯🐀 Little did I know that they'd immediately take my trophy and carry it outside! 🙀 #SuchWaste #ingratitude
Suggestion: Reach out to your local government, emergency service provider, and/or news org. Let them know that Twitter has ended public access to content and that Mastodon is a working alternative *today*. I did this on the weekend with my local emergency folks and this morning I got a reply back saying they had noticed the embedded Twitter feed on their webpage was broken.
They didn't realize Twitter had cut that service. Now, hopefully, they are considering their options including Mastodon.
Seřazeno podle názvu banky, údaje pochazí z analýzy stránky Exodus, popis aktualizací nalezneš na konci stránky. My Air Air Bank v 8.5.1, 4. 7. 2023 3x trackers 27x permisions stoupající trend Creditas Banking Banka Creditas v 3.16.0, 4. 7.
Nejen trackery, ale také celkový obsah balastu je v některých aplikacích až obtěžující. V některých aplikacích se to jen hemží neustálým nabízením dalších služeb. Takto si skutečně bankovní aplikaci nepředstavuji. Za mě je v tomto ohledu také vítěz Fio, snad to tak i zůstane.
« Dans cet épisode, j'ai eu le plaisir de discuter avec Benjamin Bellamy, cofondateur de Ad aures et de l'hébergeur Castopod. Nous avons abordé des sujets tels que la monétisation et l'hébergement de podcasts, ainsi que l'utilisation de l'open source dans le domaine du podcast.
Si vous voulez découvrir une facette peu souvent abordée du podcast, à savoir l'open source, cet épisode est parfait pour vous !
Benjamin nous parle de Ad aures qui fournit différentsservices pour aider les podcasts à trouver leur public et à monétiser leur contenu. On a également parlé de Castopod, une plateforme d'hébergement de podcasts open source développée par Ad aures.
En écoutant cette épisode, vous allez beaucoup entendre parler d'open source, de mesure d'audience et de comparaisons plus précises des chiffres d'audience, mais aussi de l'importance de la transcription pour la découvrabilité des contenus et de publicité par recommandation.
On y évoque aussi l'avenir du podcast à travers l'évolution en cours du flux RSS et de l'Open podcast Prefixe Project (op3.dev/). Des sujets qui peuvent sembler complexes mais dont Benjamin nous explique l'importance.
Benjamin nous parle aussi de son interview d'Adam Curry et de Dave Jones, pour le Podcast Magazine, qui est probablement la seule entrevue en français de ces deux références de l'univers du podcast.”
Happy Fourth of July! In 2008 I did a little production for a phone voicemail service wherein I sang two verses of "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" with some effects I'd found recently (Clone Ensemble and Yamaha Pitch Fix) that I thought were interesting. I did a little narration explaining what's going on. Now, for your listening pleasure, I present this audio, complete with the 2008 introduction. Enjoy!
It's always satisfying to hear the proper version of this. I'm sorry that we basically hijacked it 20 years later for our imperialistic national anthem.
@seedy Aah, that way around was it? No surprise there. British and stealing things, unless we're talking about British TV shows and Americans nabbing those. lol
@FreakyFwoof @seedy Wikipedia says the lyrics were written in 1831, to the tune of "God Save the King." IIRC "God Save the King/Queen" dates from the 14th century?
An update on #BlueSky and #AI. They have answered to questions and revealed that their deal with hive.ai specifically forbids the latter from training their models on user data. BlueSky have also updated their TOS to be more clear.
See the linked toot from @growlbeast for more details.
I’d still avoid it personally, their “moderation” is nonexistent and I wouldn’t touch anything backed by cryptobros, but for now this is good news :)
Bsky does have say in how Hive uses the data Hive gets from Bsky as it's part of the agreement they have with Hive and It would have to be disclosed in our user end ToS.(The ToS states our data is NOT used beyond moderation models, meaning it does not go to the image gen model.)
BSky has been updating their ToS to be more clear about it apparently too.
here's an email sent from the team to my friend regarding some of this:
To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative AI models.
BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they use all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images.
Hive's APIs enable developers to integrate pre-trained AI models that address technically challenging content understanding needs into their applications.
An update on #BlueSky and #AI. They have answered to questions and revealed that their deal with hive.ai specifically forbids the latter from training their models on user data. BlueSky have also updated their TOS to be more clear.
See the linked toot from @growlbeast for more details.
I’d still avoid it personally, their “moderation” is nonexistent and I wouldn’t touch anything backed by cryptobros, but for now this is good news :)
@growlbeast Yes another user shared that, and I will still say that her closure looks like a way to cover themselves x3
Regardless, BlueSky still sends all posts and images to a third party that specializes in AI labeling and training, it’s a feature of their network. They could just change their mind and start using the content sent to them, even without the knowledge of the BlueSky team.
Wouldn't that be against our ToS as users on Bsky though and open up Hive to being sued?
I'm an artist and I want people to be talking more about this but I don't know if I agree that this is "covering themselves" Bsky ToS does state that your data won't be used beyond their Moderation services so It has to be that..legally.
That can change in the future but am I incorrect that it would mean Bsky would then have to change their ToS in accordance?
it won’t be used by THEM beyond moderation. I don’t think that TOS binds their service providers, but they may have a deal in place to make it so.
You can be sure there is no legal recourse, their TOS is really vague and one team member is not an official communication. Besides, it’s not like other social media companies do things differently.
Bsky does have say in how Hive uses the data Hive gets from Bsky as it's part of the agreement they have with Hive and It would have to be disclosed in our user end ToS.(The ToS states our data is NOT used beyond moderation models, meaning it does not go to the image gen model.)
BSky has been updating their ToS to be more clear about it apparently too.
here's an email sent from the team to my friend regarding some of this:
As long as the code behind "smart" home devices is proprietary, these companies are free to spy on us as much as they like. Help us fight back: tell your friends about free software and urge then to join the FSF! Support #FreeSoftware. fsf.org
DECtalk allows you to adjust two undocumented parameters, f7 and f8. While the results of f8 aren't entirely clear, f7 definitely does something. Here's an example of it being set to 100.
Also welcome new followers! This feed is weird most of the time. Expect random roars about speech synthesizers, MIDIs, ringtones, module files, as well as occasional odd shitposts about the words that imply the existence of others.
Today the Distributed Proofreaders Blog celebrates its 46,000th unique title posted to Project Gutenberg: the fifth and final volume of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child. Congratulations and thanks to all the Distributed Proofreaders and Project Gutenberg volunteers who worked on these interesting and complex projects! blog.pgdp.net/2023/07/03/celeb…
This post celebrates the 46,000th unique title Distributed Proofreaders has posted to Project Gutenberg: the fifth and final volume of The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Chil…
The meme says: "Draw the rest of the owl…" - I really admire how you manage to go with your flow and make good use of your energy (at least it looks like that when I see this and your GNOME work). So, related to your post on starting new projects: I would say, yes, if one has the wind in one's sails, then one should go, but if the wind is gone, one is free to start a new journey and there is no obligation to maintain the leftovers.
Only two pride flags have their own emoji. For all the others we need to resort to using colourful hearts and symbols. With this tool you can just look up a flag and copy-paste those symbols.
@KaraLG84 Ilya Efimov Modern Bass. Very old Kontakt 4 thing that needs to be batch resaved to work, exposes no controls, but it's just lovely how it is.
@KaraLG84 It's the option of the mute I used, which is likely why. And also using Empire Breaks which makes break-beat drums into something playable in the here and now. Oh, and the fact that the Rhodes is the Arturia Stage 73, which, again, is old. All these things combine to make, well, that.
Buenas! Me llamo Nerea, soy de España(CyL) y tengo 22 años (Taylor's version), vengo de twitter y aunque sigo manteniendo la cuenta todo lo que está pasando allí me está cansando mucho muchito 🫠 Me gustaría hacer una #presentación un poco más extensa para ver si consigo gente para interactuar y hacernos amiwis:D Me dedico a la sanidad(soy TCAE, estoy haciendo prácticas de técnico de transporte sanitario y quiero estudiar emergencias sanitarias en un futuro) Me gustan los #videojuegos(sobretodo #nintendoswitch Llevo jugando #pokemon desde muy pequeña, #animalcrossing #acnh es uno de mis juegos favoritos, #lifeisstrange me encanta y los juegos de decisiones! Y los juegos de #supermario y #kirby me gustan mucho Suelo escuchar #taylorswift, #måneskin y #oliviarodrigo También me gustan los #libros, el #anime y #sanrio Ah, y los michis, adoro los michis #introduction #introducción
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •#Meta is well known for how it removes its competitors from its way. If they can't easily crush them with their size, they buy them young - #whatsapp and #instagram come to mind. Meta has money, and they don't want anyone in their way. Buyouts are the easiest solution.
But the Fediverse cannot be bought. No one controls it. It's a collection of servers, each with its own operators and principles. There is nothing central that Meta can control here...
...except for one: the #protocol.
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •#XMPP. Chrome's Blink. ActiveX. The <font> tag. Even the file types your spreadsheet software uses. These are examples of open protocols (or parts of) that were taken over by a tech giant.
Because it doesn't matter how open the protocol is, if one player simply outshines the rest.
When #Google implemented XMPP into Google Talk, they slowly pulled things their way. Different implementations, protocol changes, etc. Others had no choice but to follow, or lose the biggest share of users.
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •When you're big enough and the vast majority of users are in your "instance", you effectively have control. If you stop playing by the rules, all other players have to either adapt to your new rules to keep federating with you, or split off and lose the vast majority of users, and have your own users move because "there's where everyone is".
And once the "big" player sucks the rest of the network dry, they can just bail and leave its hollowed victim to struggle.
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •Meta's plan for the Fediverse and ActivityPub is likely no different. At first they will play nice and lure in #Mastodon servers and users. Mastodon will see a meteoric rise in activity - but most of it will be from #Threads.
Meta needs Mastodon to seed activity in Threads. By federating, they can show how "active and flourishing" their app already is, with activity from servers showing in their app.
It's much easier to kickstart a platform when you have years worth of content already.
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •But as it grows, #Threads will stop playing by the rules. At first just slightly, with different implementations that the Fediverse will have to adapt to. Then bigger changes - perhaps a new "moral" way to monetize content. Mastodon admins will gladly take the help in paying the costs.
And since Threads has all the users, servers will have to either play along and stay federated, or break off and lose most users, plus risk their own migrating to where the action is.
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •Eventually #Meta will have the final say when it comes to #ActivityPub. Like how all word processors must support .docx, and all websites are built with Chromium compatibility in mind.
This is how you take over an open protocol.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
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Opalium
in reply to Opalium • • •#Meta isn't here to play fair. They're not here to help grow the Fediverse. They want to use it as a kickstart for their own #Threads walled garden, and they will suck the life out of the Fediverse if we won't resist their reach.
They're a cold, heartless, profit-driven #mega #corporation. Not an ally.
We must not fall into this trap. We must not tag along. Meta can't take over if we won't give them the initial footing.
Don't trust them. Don't federate with them.
#DefederateFromMeta
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