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The #CSAM clusterfuck just became even more shitty:
Dutch researcher Danny Mekić has looked at #advertising data from #Twitter & says that the @EU_Commission's #DGHome has used #SurveillanceAds based on prohibited data categories to target people with #disinformation about the #ChatControl proposal.
#YlvaJohansson's department specifically targeted people in member states that had been critical of her proposal but excluded people who are likely to value #privacy.
dannymekic.com/202310/undermin…
Undermining Democracy: The European Commission's Controversial Push for Digital Surveillance – Danny Mekić
The European Commission wants to turn digital communication apps, such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Instagram, TikTok and X, into mass surveillance tools so that digital communications of all EU citizens, including their live conversations, photos and vide…Danny Mekić
Twitter faces legal challenge after failing to remove reported hate tweets
HateAid in Germany alerted the social media giant to antisemitic and racist tweets, which were not taken downJason Burke (The Guardian)
От себя тоже поприветствую всех пришедших и дам несколько советов.
✅ Заполните профиль и поставьте аватарку. Неплохой идеей будет указать там ваши увлечения или вид деятельности.
✅ Напишите что-нибудь: приветствие, пост о себе (тут используют тег #introduction
✅ Листайте ваши локальные и глобальные ленты, и подписывайтесь на тех, кто интересен - тут нет алгоритма, который будет подсовывать вам контент. Набрать свою ленту нужно будет самостоятельно. Также возможно вам будет полезно зайти в настройки и установить языки контента, которые вы хотите видеть в ленте.
✅ Общайтесь с людьми.
✅ Не бросайте как только Twitter опять даст заднюю - дайте свободным соцсетям шанс, они могут вас удивить.
Эти простые советы могут помочь вам не заскучать и заинтересовать других людей подписаться на вас.
Если будет интересно почитать про Mastodon и Федивёрс в целом - список статей и постов по этой теме есть внизу на нашем проекте-лендинге Fediland:
fediland.github.io
Добро пожаловать и удачи!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #twitter #migration #TwitterMigration #log #новичкам #newbies
Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
Of course I immediately closed out my connection because I'm a good person. Oh, but it's the weekend and Evil Sheldon is in control so I kept the party going for a while since Twitter insisted on it.
#TwitterDown #Twitter #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS
Twitter’s value down two-thirds since Musk takeover, says investor
Asset manager Fidelity reports that stake worth $20m in October 2022 is now worth just under $6.6mAlex Hern (The Guardian)
Why we're here and not at the hellsite.
#Twitter is expected to end its participation in the EU's code of practice of disinformation in the coming days.
The code of practice is a voluntary rulebook that contains measures meant to counter online disinformation.
twitter.com/stary_mrzout/statu…
They truly understand the benefits and the culture here which promotes the engagement of #blind people. nfb.org/about-us/press-room/na…
@nationsblind #feditips
National Federation of the Blind Moves Away from Twitter, Establishes Mastodon Server and Account | National Federation of the Blind
Baltimore, Maryland (May 4, 2023): In light of recent events, including the laying off of Twitter’s entire accessibility team and changes to its API that have broken accessible Twitter clients used by our community, the National Federation of the Bli…nfb.org
Want to try Bluesky? Look carefully at the terms of service.
Signing up means signing over your content.Elizabeth de Luna (Mashable)
> In a pretty meaningful way, “speech and reach” is the model of #Twitter today. You just don’t get to choose your recommendation/discovery algorithm.
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> The only way to effectively fight harassment in a social network is effective, contextual moderation. The Fediverse showed that having communities, which embody that context and whose admins and moderators focus on protecting their members, is pretty damn effective here. This is exactly what BS is not doing.
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BlueSky is cosplaying #decentralization
rys.io/en/167.html
> Almost exactly six months after #Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager even, to jump head-first into another toxic relationship. This time with BlueSky.
tl;dr:
- #BlueSky seems designed to get secondarily centralized in the "reach" layer (as they call it)
- moderation is an afterthought
- Jack Dorsey
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BlueSky is cosplaying decentralization
Almost exactly six months after Twitter got taken over by a petulant edge lord, people seem to be done with grieving the communities this disrupted and connections they lost, and are ready, eager evenSongs on the Security of Networks
"Twitter is no longer reliable" said a post by New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Agency. It announced that real-time bus and train service alerts would no longer be available on the platform.
engadget.com/nycs-transport-au…
Last week, major emergency weather accounts faced disruptions over Twitter’s API access.
mashable.com/article/twitter-e…
National Weather Service accounts were not granted API exemptions by Twitter
Public safety accounts will still be limited unless they pay up for Twitter API access.Matt Binder (Mashable)
Yes, twitter really did mockingly label the Canadian national broadcaster CBC as "69% Government-funded Media".
Similar broadcasters like the BBC and Australia's ABC surely have to follow CBC and stop using twitter, now that its toxic clown of an owner has shown what contempt he has for them.
If he is prepared to use his platform to paint childish graffiti on their accounts, I can't see why any serious entity would want to have anything to do with twitter.
#CBC #twitter #twittermigration #BBC #ABC
WP to Twitter, WP Tweets Pro, and Twitter's new API policies - Joe Dolson Web Accessibility
As you may have already heard, Twitter has announced that they will cease support for free access to the Twitter API. The sole information published aboutJoe Dolson (Joe Dolson Web Accessibility)
Been working on a new project the last couple of months and it's finally ready for beta release!
#Fedimeister is a #Java based #Mastodon client (available for #Linux, #Windows and #MacOS under the Apache #opensource license) with a focus on #writing and #journalism. Features:
* Break long texts into threads
* Scheduled posting
* Hashtag research
* #Twitter quote tweeting emulation
Why KCRW is leaving Twitter — and where else to find us
Twitter has falsely labeled NPR as “state-affiliated media.” It’s a term the platform applies to propaganda outlets in countries without a free press.KCRW
EN: #Twitter published parts of its source-code and people are speculating over what motivated #ElonMusk to go #opensource. Here's what they say! 👇
tutanota.com/blog/posts/twitte…
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#Twitter hat Teile seines Quellcodes veröffentlicht und die Leute spekulieren, was #ElonMusk dazu bewogen hat, #OpenSource zu gehen.
Twitter’s $42k-per-month API prices out nearly everyone
Link: wired.com/story/twitter-data-a…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
Twitter’s $42,000-per-Month API Prices Out Nearly Everyone
Tiers will start at $500,000 a year for access to 0.3 percent of the company’s tweets. Researchers say that’s too much for too little data.Chris Stokel-Walker (WIRED)
Not only does Elon Musk not have a clue what he’s talking about, but this is *exactly* what he tried to do at PayPal, claiming it needed a full “V2” rewrite of the code when it didn’t.
Instead, it shifted resources away from key areas, caused PayPal to lose much more money to fraud, and eventually got him ousted as CEO.
Last month, I wrote about Elon Musk’s time at PayPal and how he’s repeating his mistakes from that period: disconnect.blog/p/elon-musk-wa…
#tech #elonmusk #twitter #paypal
Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.
What PayPal’s history teaches us about Elon Musk’s management of TwitterParis Marx (Disconnect)
Should you leave Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram for the fediverse?
Tired of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram? Skeptical of the metaverse? The non-profit, distributed, community-oriented fediverse might be for you.InfoWorld
I know there is a lot going on at Twitter right now, but here's one more thing. Twitter is ignoring #GDPR requests from people to delete their DMs.
At the moment, when you press delete on a Twitter DM (an individual message or conversation) the DM isn't actually deleted from Twitter's servers, just your inbox view.
So people in Europe have been making requests for Twitter to blitz all their messages. It hasn't properly answered them. And now regulators are looking at it
Full story here: wired.com/story/delete-twitter…
#Twitter #gdpr #infosec #technology #news #wired
Want to Delete Your Twitter DMs? Good Luck With That
People in Europe are making GDPR requests to have their private messages erased, but Elon’s team is ignoring them.Matt Burgess (WIRED)
twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/…
techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/twit…
#twitter #apps #api #a11y
Ah, so now he wants you to produce free content for his dying, unstable platform, after threatening you, on a whim, to shut off your free access. I see.
techcrunch.com/2023/02/04/elon…
In response, I will be discontinuing all my projects that rely on Twitter's API, and I advise you all to do the same, rather than let him decide their fate.
#twitter #TwitterAPI #TwitterBots
Japanese users reported #TwitterAPI-accessed accounts being frozen a day ago. Twitter disabled Movetodon's access about 8 hours ago.
You don't have until next week.
The casualty is not the FediVerse. The casualty is the people who relied upon free-of-charge #Twitter, directly or indirectly, for everything from authentication to robot-posted pictures of possums. They've lost all of that.
They were always the product, not the customer, of course.
While #Google #Meta #Microsoft #Twitter & #Amazon are laying off tens of thousands of people to satisfy shareholders, #Tutanota continues to grow.
Welcome with us Wren, Johannes & Noah! 🥳
Join us if you are a developer wanting to fight for #privacy!
tutanota.com/blog/posts/team-2…
Tutanota keeps growing: Welcome Noah, Johannes and Wren with us!
New year, new team members! With the start of 2023 we continue the growth of the Tutanota team: Welcome with us Wren, Johannes and Noah. All of these talented software developers are already working on improving our encrypted email client.Tutanota