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Maybe you should all hide your social graphs, I think that's one of the most valuable things that #Meta/#Facebook wants to mine here 🤔
Or do they want to pull of an embrace, extend, extinguish?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,…
I don't really know nor do I want to join this discussion, just pointing out the most obvious risk.
Your social graph is basically who you follow and who follows you, you can hide it in the mastodon settings.
Y'all, Meta isn't launching their Twitter alike in the EU because it would be _literally illegal there_ due to all the privacy and data collection issues they plan on having: independent.ie/business/techno…
...and some of you want to federate with them?!?!
No Instagram Threads app in the EU: Irish DPC says Meta's new Twitter rival won't be launched here
Meta will not launch its new Twitter rival, Threads, in Ireland or the EU for the foreseeable future.Adrian Weckler (Independent.ie)
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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#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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#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.
"Embrace, extend, extinguish."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,…
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#thread
#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.
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FrauTux thematisiert in einem Gastbeitrag den möglichen Beitritt von Meta (Facebook) in das #Fediverse. Lesenswert und interessante Gedanken zum Thema. 👇
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Kommentar: Fediverse vs. Meta - David gegen Goliath?
Kommentar: Fediverse vs. Meta - David gegen Goliath? Oft höre ich bei Diskussionen zum Einsatz von Open Source in Unternehmen den Satz „das ist wie David gegen Goliath“, wobei hier unterschwellig übermittelt wird, dass der Kampf aussichtslos ist und …Kuketz IT-Security Forum ⋆ IT-Sicherheit | Datenschutz
oh, here's some JUICY rumored details about meta's plans for the fediverse
tl;dr "Meta will only federate with select larger instances from the beginning. There will be contracts which also provide for financial compensation for the instance owners."
can't entirely verify their validity but it's still worth posting just in case
#FediPact #barcelona #project92 #p92 #meta #facebook #fediverse #fediblockmeta #FediAdmin #MastoAdmin #threads
Yeah, that's gonna be a hard pass from me thanks, Rachel.
Zero interest in having a conversation with #Meta "off the record" or otherwise.
Sharing this purely to be as transparent as possible with our members.
Blunt and salty reminder that in 2010, leaked chat transcripts included Zuck offering up user data he gathered on Harvard students. When asked how he got it, his response was:
“People just submitted it. I don’t know why. They ‘trust me’ - dumb fucks.”
businessinsider.com/well-these…
#meta
Da bin ich ein Wochenende weniger online, weil ich anderweitig gearbeitet habe, und schon explodiert das #Fediverse und es geht um #Meta-Instanzen und sehr berechtigten Protest dagegen.
Ich bin ehrlich fassungslos.
@markus wir müssen uns für dresden.network mal mit was auseinander setzen.
Und falls es irgendwer vergessen haben sollte, warum das Fediverse so gut ist und funktioniert, wie es eben funktioniert, habe ich hier nochmal 2 meiner Sticker dabei.
Freie dezentrale Netze statt datenfressender Monopole
Social Media? Machen wir selbst!
I decided to choose violence.
An essay on why the #TwitterMigration failed, some things to learn for the next time it's a possibility, and some thoughts on things that the #RedditMigration has done differently, especially with #Kbin.
blog.bloonface.com/2023/06/12/…
#fedimeta#meta#mastodon
Why did the #TwitterMigration fail?
I’ve been using fediverse stuff (Mastodon and, most recently, Calckey – I’m just going to use “Mastodon” as shorthand here, purists can bite me) for over a year now, a…Café Lob-On
Huge win for privacy: Record fine against #Facebook thanks to Max Schrems & @noybeu! 🥳
#Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU #privacy regulation #GDPR. 👌
Read more: 👇tutanota.com/blog/facebook-tra…
Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems.
Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR.Tutanota
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
More than € 1 billion in fines in one year: The EU is finally fighting against #Meta's abuse of user privacy!
We have a suggestion for #Zuckerberg: Do not collect data in the first place.
tutanota.com/blog/posts/facebo…
Huge win for privacy: Facebook tracking is illegal in Europe!
EU privacy regulators say Facebook and Instagram must not force users to agree to tracking by putting this requirement into their terms. This business model is illegal according to the GDPR.Tutanota
Why Would Anyone Use Another Centralized Social Media Service After This?
So, it’s been quite a year for legacy, centralized social media — and all without any really big change to the laws that govern it (yet — the EU’s are coming into force shortly, but pos…Techdirt
Apparently Twitter has marked my Mastodon instance, hci.social, as “unsafe,” along with most other instances I tried. If he’s going after littler instances like this, it seems increasingly like a vendetta against Mastodon itself instead of some happenstance/accident.
🌱 hci.social
A social platform for Human-computer Interaction researchers and practitioners. Hosted by Princeton HCI. Managed by a group of volunteers.Mastodon hosted on hci.social
The official Mastodon app seems to have a bug when posting an image. Sometimes it will let you compose the post but when you add the image, the Publish button is greyed out. There are other apps that are good, for example, Metatext and Toot! on iOS, and Tusky on Android.
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There is an Advanced web interface that looks like Tweetdeck. You can enable it in Settings, Appearance.
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Putting plain text into the 'Search or paste URL' box at the top left of the web interface shows results from your own posts or posts that you have boosted, favourited, or been mentioned in. You can also search for user names, display names, and hashtags located in the body of posts. Putting a hashtag into a Content Warning doesn't work. It won't be clickable and might not be searchable unless someone else has used it in the body of a post.
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If you find a post on another Mastodon instance and want to boost it on your own instance, click the … menu and then Copy Link. Go back to your own instance, paste the link into the Search box and press Enter. The post will appear below the Search box, and you can boost it from there.
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You can create Filters to block posts containing certain pieces of text from being displayed in your Home feed. If you want, the filter can hide the post behind a Content Warning so that you can decide whether to view it or not.
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In the Advanced web interface, you can search for a hashtag, click the result and it will appear in its own column. You can then click the column settings icon at the top right and Pin the column. You can add more tags to the same column, if you like.
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If you boost a post and the author edits it, you will get a notification so that you know that it has been edited.
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It's the custom on Mastodon that if you're posting about Mastodon itself, you put a context warning (CW) of "Meta" so that people's timelines aren't flooded with things they don't want or need to see. Likewise, posts about Twitter can be hidden behind a CW: Twitter (or birdsite, birbsite, hellsite, tw). "CW: meta, bird" should be an obvious one.
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When you're writing hashtags that are a combination of several words, please use "camel case" (#CamelCase) so that screenreaders used by people with impaired vision can pronounce them properly.
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Mastodon has its own thread unroller: mastodon.social/@threadunrolle…
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If you go into Settings in Mastodon's web interface and click on Other, you'll see a list of languages at the bottom which you can use to control which posts you'll see.
This works well if you select which language your own posts are in. If you make a post in a different language from your default, select that language using the button at the bottom of the edit box before you post. This way, it can be filtered out on other people's feeds if they choose not to see posts in that language.
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When posting images, please add Alt Text. This allows sight-impaired people using screenreaders to know what is in the pictures. Let's keep the Fediverse friendly to everyone.
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Please use a strong password to log in to your server. If you haven't already done so, make sure you have activated 2-Factor Authentication (2FA) in your Settings. This will keep you and everyone else safe. There are a number of good 2FA apps available in the Apple and Google app stores. In fact, iCloud Keychain on an Apple device can be used to generate 2FA keys. See this article for details: appleinsider.com/inside/icloud…
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#MetaText #Toot #iOS #Android #Tweetdeck #searching #hashtags, #ContentWarning #filters, #boost #notification #meta #CamelCase #ThreadUnroller #languages #AltText #security
How to set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain
You can balance both account security with the convenience of autofill when you set up two-factor authentication in iCloud Keychain. Here's how to do it.Darryl Boxberger (AppleInsider)
Interesting podcast episode exploring the Metaverse and the attention economy - your-undivided-attention.simpl…
#YourUndevidedAttention #Podcast #Meta #Metaverse #AttentionEconomy
#Meta kapiert den #Datenschutz nicht
Der Konzern um #Facebook #Insta & Co. sammelt Kontaktdaten (#Handynummer #Mail Adresse) von Nicht(!)-Nutzern - ohne erkennbare #Rechtsgrundlage 👎
#Löschen lassen geht, aber Meta sagt: „In bestimmten Fällen müssen wir deine #Kontaktinformationen länger aufbewahren, einschließlich nach deiner Aufforderung an uns, sie zu löschen.“
No way! 🫣
stern.de/digital/online/daten-…
Daten von Facebook löschen: So entfernen Sie Telefonnummer und E-Mail
Über Jahre sammelte der Meta-Konzern die Adressbücher seiner Nutzer:innen – um Freunde leichter finden zu können. Auch Ihre Daten könnten bei Meta gelande...Christian Hensen (STERN.de)
Meta has created a tool that lets you check if they’ve scraped your phone number or email address from someone else’s contacts list.
It also lets you remove and block your phone number or email from their database. It’s hidden away in one of their help articles:
Source: Business Insider (businessinsider.com/facebook-l…)
Facebook likely has your contact info — even if you never shared it
If any of your friends shared their address books with Facebook, the company likely has your contact info — even if you've never used its services.Jordan Parker Erb (Insider)
#Meta’s new #headset will track your eyes for targeted #ads.
gizmodo.com/meta-quest-pro-vr-…
Meta’s New Headset Will Track Your Eyes for Targeted Ads
The social media company gets one step closer to reading your mind.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
OnlyFans Bribed Meta [Facebook] to Put Thousands of Adult Entertainers on Terrorist Watch List, Lawsuits Allege
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OnlyFans Bribed Meta to Put Thousands of Adult Entertainers on Terrorist Watch List, Lawsuits Allege
Three lawsuits claim that OnlyFans paid Meta to shadow-ban users who promoted its competitors.Rodlyn-mae Banting (Jezebel)
Open source game development advances with Godot Engine 3.5 out now
Godot Engine, the free and open source full game development engine has a big new release available with version 3.5.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Well it’s always good to know what the privacy-washers are saying. Know your enemy and all that.
Also good to know who doesn’t mind having their legitimacy in privacy and human rights used to launder the likes of Google and Meta.
All very enlightening.
#privacyWashing #cpdp2022 #privacy #humanRights #institutionalCorruption #google #meta #tech