It's a bit ranty towards the end, but there's some fascinating insights here into shifting sands of the ZuckerBorg's metrics, FarceBook enshittification, and so on:
Started looking at KartoView, Mapillary and Mapilio as ways to contribute to @openstreetmap KartoView log in with OSM doesn’t seem to work. Mapilio crashes when you try to record. Mapillary work quite well, then I found out it’s been bought by #Meta and now I’m not so keen. Any recommendations? #OpenSource#OpenStreetMap#DigitalMap#OSM
i think the most annoying thing about this whole discourse is that people refuse to judge threads by the standard of any other fedi instance
like if a mastodon instance got set up and federated right now and it allowed the shit threads allowed it'd be widely defederated IMMEDIATELY
there are accounts literally CALLING FOR THE DEATHS OF QUEER PEOPLE on there right fucking now
the only reason people are even willing to give them a chance is because it's a big corpo, but that should only be reason to give them less of one lmao. especially considering meta's history in particular
don't let them lower the bar for moderation standards here
#Meta#AI offers “helpful” suggestions to The Onion’s posts. They are hilarious at times, because it is clear that the AI does not know that #TheOnion is satire.
"every single terrible thing you see on facebook — be it some sort of horrible right wing nonsense or a confusing and annoying product decision — is made in pursuit of growth. every bit of damage that meta has caused to the world has been either an act of ignorance or deliberate harm"
When I heard #threads was gonna federate, I got hopeful. all the journalists and politicians might leave #xitter for a place that can also provide them a huge audience but with less assholes. and we will slowly get them to go independent as they recognize that controlling their work doesn't require losing their followers etc. enough people do that and it gets "locked open". we win.
so of course now #meta has to tell them politics won't get the algo boost there...
Falls hier jemand auch ein Konto bei #Facebook oder #Instagram hat: Ab 26. Juni will Betreiberkonzern #Meta die Inhalte von Beiträgen fürs Training eigener KI einsetzen. Man kann widersprechen. Doch Meta entscheidet, ob es den Widerspruch annimmt.
Auf unserer Internetseite haben wir Infos dazu und Vorschläge für Argumente, die man ins "Einspruchformular" schreiben kann:
It might be obvious and old news, but on my rare logins to #Instagram I saw a new message of their privacy policy to be updated this month: Every content from every post will be used to train their AI.
If you are a visual artist of any kind and use the platform, #Meta will use your creation against you, literally. You either learn how to publish and own your data, or you’ll be stolen.