Wired says #Bluesky is the space for “the Internet elite”.
So what they’re saying is that #Bluesky is for status seekers and clout chasers.
You know, the spot for media gatekeepers to pad their articles with social media posts that say something to the effect of, “This!” and “This!” and “You, sir, just won the Internet!”
I don’t want journalism to be taken over by AI, but the task of compiling tweets for reactionary takes on whatever scandal could totally be done with AI—and that would be a big improvement.
PS this is what I mean about the MSM and tech press jumping on the Bluesky hype bubble. It's complete with really shitty clickbait headlines like "Bluesky's best shot at success is to embrace shitposting" or "'BlueSky' wants to market itself as a 'Musk-free' space, says CEO". I can almost see the alien bat baby on the cover of Weekly World News supermarket tabloids when reading these search results LOL. Honestly this feels like an episode of the HBO show Silicon Valley almost at this point. #bluesky#msm#technews
Reading about #bluesky, it's impressive to me how little Jack has learned.
As somebody who (briefly) worked at Twitter on anti-abuse, the place is a goldmine of lessons on fucked-up behavior. And the CEO comes out of the cryptocurrency space, which also has a rich history of garbage people run wild.
But instead of something that applies any of that, they have apparently produced the same sort of tired neoliberal marketplace-of-ideas horseshit product that Twitter was to start.
I haven't used it, but from what I've read, Bluesky launched with no block button, and possibly no moderation at all. Which is unconscionable.
Maybe in 2006 you could pretend that the Internet was a nice place of hugs and rainbows. (That was untrue; even founders of the earliest social web sites in the mid 90s have abuse problems, and they were the same problems seen in the pre-Internet social computing spaces.) But today acting like 4chan doesn't exist is just announcing you aren't serious about abuse.
So in conclusion, I think #bluesky is off to a terrible start and that nobody should use it. I get that Jack is persuasive and good at fooling people. As a recovering Twitter user, I also get that people just want those feelings back.
But as things stand now, Bluesky looks like it will be worse than Twitter in terms of abuse, and that will fall disproportionally on marginalized people. Ask yourself if you want to lend your personal slice of credibility to that. Whether you want to generate free content for a billionaire, the same billionaire that fucked this up last time.
So, open message: if you're from #Meta and you are working on this #P92 service, you should contact the #W3C#SocialCG to work on compatibility with #ActivityPub.
We're excited about your project and we're here to help.
@evan This seems like the most constructive approach to me (though clearly there's absolutely no consensus around all of this, a lot of competing desires and a lot of fear of change...though I'm not sure how people think they can stop an open protocol from evolving and changing, other than building a wall around their own garden, which is fine if what someone really wants is a closed web experience, which may be entirely appropriate in some cases!).
Es hat wirklich ein gutes halbes Jahr gedauert, aber inzwischen bin ich echt clean!
Damit meine ich vor allen Dingen dieses ausufernde Mitteilungsbeduerfnis! Auf #Twitter habe ich am Tag locker 50 Tweets abgesetzt, diese zum Teil geplant...
Hier auf #Mastodon reichen mir 2, 3 Toots und die Interaktionen mit euch. Ich lese so viel mehr und das was ich hier lese, ist verdammt angenehm.
Mastodon muss nicht das naechste Twitter werden, sondern einfach Mastodon bleiben!
Beim 6. #FediverseModerationsTreff wollen wir mit euch zusammen über die Situation rund um #Project92 und eine eventuell zukünftig stattfindende Zusammenarbeit einiger Fediverse-Instanzen mit der geplanten #Meta-App sprechen, die mit Mastodon interagieren kann.
Wir freuen uns sehr, dass @stux zugesagt hat, beim #FediverseModerationsTreff morgen Abend (20 Uhr) dabei zu sein. Bisher sind auf termine.social 11 Personen angemeldet, macht gerne nochmal Werbung, damit wir uns gemeinsam eine Meinung bilden können zum Umgang mit #Meta im #Fediverse #project92
@GottaLaff Truth Social’s financial failure is further evidence that Trump himself would have failed but for the support of the fascist billionaires like Koch, Murdoch, and Mercer who call the shots in the #gop.
Die Verlagsgruppe Rhein-Main, #VRM hat heute in der Allgemeinen #Zeitung verkündet, dass auch sie ihre Aktivitäten bei #Twitter pausiert. Als Gründe wird u.a. der Missbrauch der Plattform für private Zwecke angegeben, und dass freier #Journalismus dort nun unmöglich sei
The thing about Twitter is that it really lacks a lot of the features you'd expect from a true Mastodon replacement.
For example, there's no way to edit your toots (which they, confusingly call "tweets"—let's face it, it's a bit of a silly name that's difficult to take seriously).
"Tweets" can't be covered by a content warning. There's no way to let the poster know you like their tweet without also sharing it, and no bookmark feature.
There's no way to set up your own instance, and you're basically stuck on a single instance of Twitter. That means there's no community moderators you can reach out to to quickly resolve issues. Also, you can't de-federate instances with a lot of problematic content.
It also doesn't Integrate with other fediverse platforms, and I couldn't find the option to turn the ads off.
Really, Twitter has made a good start, but it will need to add a lot of additional features before it gets to the point where it becomes a true Mastodon replacement for most users.
I realize the mistake in posting this to Mastodon, whose whole deal is decentralization...
But I had a thought. One of the things people seem to like most about #BlueSky right now is just that you can post jokes and memes and stuff without being bombarded by hatred. And that's because nobody invited the trolls.
So... what about a totally invite-only social media platform? Invite-only, forever.
The trick: if someone gets banned, the person who invited them gets banned too.
Two more questions that I would love to hear perspectives about (either or both):
1- what do you see as the biggest ways the #Internet potentially contributes to #ClimateChange ?
2- what do you see as the ways the Internet can help address #climate issues or find solutions?
For me I think for 1 it’s the general need for electricity, and specifically power(and water)-hungry data centers. For 2 it’s remote working, and the sharing of ideas, research, sensors.
@squiblet of course many factors contribute to the divide, especially in the US. But I still hold this as the No. 1 detrimental effect big social media has, putting it before energy consumption and other kinds of waste.
1a. High-intensity low-value (actual helpfulness, rather than money) uses like crypto mining and hoarding user data add massively to the materials and energy needed.
1b. Internet-enabling appliances that never get hooked up is a total waste.
1c. Dissemination of disinformation is bad for all causes.
Meta erwägt offenbar Abo für werbefreies Instagram und Facebook
Mindestens 10 Euro monatlich und dafür keine Werbung: Die Facebook-Mutter Meta erwägt einem Bericht zufolge die Einführung eines Abos zur werbefreien Nutzung von Facebook. Wer weitere Dienste, wie etwa Instagram nutzt, soll dafür zusätzlich zahlen.
Elon Musk is launching the presidential campaign of Ron DeSantis, the man working to make The Handmaid’s Tale a reality in the US.
At least the Germans had guns to their heads if they opposed the Nazis. What exactly is your excuse for continuing to support this man and his social network?
This is looney. Jack is proposing micropayments because crypto. He’s pitching this as if we haven’t already been down the micropayments path before with traditional currency.
One of the huge problems with micropayments is because it forces the user to make a disproportionately high cognitive effort for the value being exchanged. It’s untenable to keep expending $10 of effort in order to exchange $.10 of value.
@meejah@sysop408 a browser is perfectly capable of storing a credit card number, or Paypal credentials, or any other payment system credentials. In the case of a credit card there probably will be some legal hurdles to clear, but it's not the only way.
so on #Bluesky, rather than going with the well-documented and defined webfinger protocol, behind the .well-known directory, decided to make their own shit for verifying domains via HTTP.
thus, somebody took the S3 bucket name "xrpc" and now is s3.amazonaws.com on the platform
From recent conversations, it appears the faction who wants to block #meta#threads from the get-go is much more outspoken, but also much smaller than the faction who does not (at least not from the get-go).
I don't have any numbers, and my sample size is too small to have any predictive value, but I thought to post about this, in case somebody else has corroborating anecdotes.
@J12t I'm not against commercial instances per se, but I'm against Meta specifically because of their history as a bad actor. Initially I was on the fence, but I've shifted after listening to the arguments.
Having said that, the number of people who legitimately don't care / are okay with it is likely much higher than those opposed.
So, it seems that mastodon.social is finding out, after fucking around :kek:
People are complaining about their dwindling #Follow count after mass defederation. Probably due to the frivolous handling of user content/data by federating with #meta.
This is why #Mastodon is on the decline unfortunately. Why would people use a service that causes their follower count to drop massively due to one #MastoAdmin selfishness?
In 2023 I read 15 books.
My usual rate: 60-100.
I think I've lost the ability to read anything longer than a pithy essay on Substack 😭
I read essays, blog posts, articles, #SocialMedia posts.
But, but ... I feel that I'm losing something with this.
It disturbs me that I can't even focus long enough to complete a chapter. And that all that social media blog content was affecting my mood somehow.
Am I blathering?
How do I regain my reading abilities? 😅
🧵 1/3 Was an #SocialMedia toll ist: Ich kann Dummbratzen, Schandmaulende und Müll ratzfatz blockieren. Was wir heute im Museumsdienst erlebten, mussten wir mit professionellem Lächeln und einem inneren Stinkefinger quittieren.
Es ist unfassbar, wie fies ein gewisser narzisstischer Menschenschlag sein kann. Ich wundere mich nicht, dass sich viele dem ehrenamtlich nicht aussetzen wollen.
Unsere Profistickerin, über 40 Jahre im Metier, muss sich
@NatureMC@CorinnaVahrenk1
Bei "Schmiermittel für die Haut" kann ich Hühnerfett empfehlen. Ich habe damit Creme nach einem Rezept aus der Trotula "nachgebaut" und sie hat nicht nur unerwartet gut gerochen, sondern die Haut auch wunderbar zart gemacht.
Leider ließ sich nichts davon gut für die Darstellung übernehmen. Die Besucher haben sich schon bei der Erwähnung "Hühnerfett" gegruselt und sich darin bestätigt gesehen, dass das Mittelalter wirklich eine barbarische Epoche war.
@Nike_Leonhard Glaub ich sofort. Geflügelfett war in unserer Region teurer und vor allem wurde es für Delikatessen verwendet, nicht zum Schmieren. 😉 Gänsefett - ein Must im Choucroute. (Ich bin übrigens froh, dass ich nicht in der Epoche leben muss, die ich im Museum zeige, und die liegt noch gar nicht sooo lange zurück).
