@elaterite@torproject Claiming to not have a need for "#Tor" and dismissing it is like saying you don't need a first aid kit because you don't injure yourself...
It has it's reasons to exist and use even in "western" "democracies" as #NSAbook / #StasiBook aka. #Meeta nee #Facebook don't just rely on #Cookies to track users...
They literally collect data against people's explicitly denied consent and setup "shadow profiles" based off their peers snitching on them.
Wildeboer’s third theorem: Every commercial centralised service that offers “free” services and relies on ads and/or a percentage of subscription/donation fees ends up being supportive of misinformation, hate speech and far-right to nazi content. Either through ignorance or acceptance.
like, is the fediverse just high school 2 now? i thought we wanted to be better than twitter but now we're just inventing new ways to bicker and hate eachother. we're going to fucking implode if we don't get the fuck along
It looks like, if Threads knows you’re a trans person, it may just start bombarding you with transphobic posts in your For You feed — even if you’ve never interacted with that kind of content on the platform before.
so, I learned that #threads can not only get your posts, even if you blocked them (via different servers that didn't and that store your posts cus people there may follow you or interact with you), they can also monetize those posts by showing ads next to them. Thus making money off of you. Put that together with all the genocidal and fascist and other harmful activity. It makes me think that the #enshittification of the #fedi has begun. The cycles seem to move faster and faster. I love it here and I've had many elightening convos and beautiful connections. Today I read that 41% of servers have blocked threads. Maybe there is still hope.
Esp. the neurodivergent community on here is the best I've ever experienced. @actuallyautistic
@samid@actuallyautistic Please let me know of of a good one that does block #NSAbooks / #StasiBook aka. "#Meta" nee #Facebook because I just found out @stux doesn't do that anymore and I feel like I've been backstabbed with a Type 30 bayonet and it's tip is sticking out of my chest...
Irgendwelche Technik-Journalierende, die süffisant meinen, dass wenn das Fediversum sich nicht den großen Playern öffnen will, müsse es halt unter sich bleiben.
Richtig, liebe Journalierende. Es mag euch äußerst seltsam vorkommen, aber es gibt viele wunderbare und sehr kluge Menschen, die auf die riesigen Internetkonzerne keinen Bock haben, sich bewusst für ein freies soziales Netzwerk entscheiden und sich darin sehr wohl fühlen. Für euch sind diese Menschen wie Außerirdische, nicht wahr? ;-)
The Medium is The Message is part one of a series (probably). In it, I argue that #Threads is not the assumed victory for the #fediverse it appears to be.
Longterm interpolation with Threads sends the wrong signal— not that Meta and Mastodon use #ActivityPub, a protocol the average user doesn’t understand, but that both share the same beliefs for the #openweb. #PostsFromJason#FediSeriesFJ
Here we go. And if Facebook, the maker of its own AI models and the like, won't be able to slow this down (and why would it? this would boost DAU and MAU, though artifically, but that hasn't stopped Big Tech from lying about engagement before), why on Earth would we want this bleeding into the open social Web?
And using the image of people of color in this during a time where we NEED to have our stories shared and believed — by introducing these easy stream of falsification; it's deeply irresponbile and just reminds me that at the end of the day, corportism, capitalism and its acolytes care nothing for humanity, just an inflated sense of hubris for being the one to shepard in the blue Trojan horse. (https://jacky.wtf/2023/12/5Qa1)
I see we're about to have this same conversation yet again, so AGAIN:
FUCK FACEBOOK, FUCK THREADS, WALL OFF THAT FUCKING PILE OF CANCEROUS SLIME, AND FUCK YOU IF YOU RUN INTERFERENCE FOR THEM
Threads federates, you don't subscribe to anyone on the instance. Happy now?
Threads federates, you blacklist the whole instance in your user blacklist. Now happy?
Threads federates, you subscribe to a few people whose writing you like. Happy?
Threads federates. Threads users realize, they can jump ship to another Instance and still talk with and to and about their friends. Threads loses users. Happy!
I know I should have stopped using #Instagram a long time ago, but this (much like how I ignore the whatsapp notice) makes me wonder if I should just delete Instagram too.
I don't even really use Instagram anymore, and to ask €12.99 is outrageous. Which makes me think it's purposefully expensive to make you want to turn on ad tracking.
@mic Personally I'd not only cancel the account and ban them from retaining any data about me but also demand them to certifiy the irrevocable deletion of data and that they'll never ever try to track you or store ajy data aboit you ever again!
Die Meldungen über ein vermutetes Datensammeln von MS über Outlook sind alarmierend. Wir werden am Dienstag beim Treffen der europäischen Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörden die rechtlich dafür federführenden irischen Datenschutzbeauftragten um einen Bericht bitten
Hab versucht, 'nen #Instagram Account zuberstellen - unter meinem Namen. Wurde direkt nach einem Post gesperrt. Nach dem Versuch, es wiederzubeleben, wurde es unwiderruflich gesperrt. Wa soll icht tun, wenn ich morgens beim Kaffee nicht so aussehe, wie auf dem Bild beim Photoshooting.. Fuck #Meta
"Central region of Castilla La Mancha, which produces a quarter of all Spanish grain, is expected to lose 80 per cent to 90 per cent of 2023’s harvest, and water restrictions loom large."
Facebook is planning to build a €1 billion (S$1.5 billion) data centre in the middle of the drought area.
"Meta expects the facility to use about 665 million litres of water a year, and up to 195 litres per second during “peak water flow”