Still reading and hearing takes that Mastodon has “failed” as a Twitter alternative. Listen, it’s ok if it doesn’t work for someone—unlike Twitter, I think Mastodon requires more effort and cultivation to produce an experience that feels meaningful. It’s been worth it for me. But there is definitely a smell of…not sour grapes but people making broad assumptions based on their own experience while ignoring millions of other people. Will Mastodon top 100 million? Who knows. Who cares?
@glennf
Needs full text search with opt-out for individual postings and users with NoIndex or similar.
We're going to be wiped out or #Meta will bring their #ActivityPub compatible #Twitter replacement that's actually what the majority of people want. #Mastodon
#meta#monsterdon - i always love seeing the couple other people on the archive.org torrent every week, we seed 2 each other the way it was meant to be <3
Jetzt da bei @heiseonline Änderungen anstehen, die sich auf die Zugriffszahlen auswirken dürften (Abschaltung der automatischen Boosts) ist es mal wieder Zeit für einen Zwischenstand:
Ehrlich gesagt sehe ich insgesamt keinen klaren Trend: Während die Followerzahl weiter steigt und bald die 50.000 knackt 🥳 ist bei den Zugriffszahlen über #Mastodon lediglich der Abstiegstrend gestoppt. Andererseits ging es bei #Twitter zuletzt sogar stärker herunter.
I am conflicted by @mozilla content policies announcement. I appreciate that a lot of thought went into it, but I think they could be used to eliminate a lot of necessary social tension.
An example is their violent content policy: “Users may not share content that depicts abuse of humans or animals, or that includes excessively gory or violent imagery that…can disturb other users.“
I am a lifelong #vegetarian and I’ve been #vegan for 20 years. Photos of meat/dead animals disturb me. Am I to assume then that sharing this content will be banned in that instance? And if not, why not?
Also, nothing on who will be #moderating content. Is it volunteers, #Mozilla staff, external contractors??
Mozilla is a very well-funded nonprofit with almost $75 million dollars in assets. If any organization can scale a #fediverse#Mastodon instance, it is them. Yet even they are replicating the #Twitter#Facebook#Meta model of outsourcing moderation.
Outsourced moderators will be denied Mozilla's famous world-class benefit packages AND all the rights non-contracted workers are entitled to. Thanks to Prop 22, they could even be gig workers or perma-temps.
Are you new here, and trying to find your way around? Here are a couple of tips to help you build your community (bear in mind that there still aren't a lot of us here!):
Follow hashtags. This is somewhat similar to creating groups on the bird site, but better because you're not adding folks who may not wish to be part of the group. You're literally just following posts that have included a particular hashtag. They will show up in your local feed.
Note: If you're using an app, this may not be easy to do. The official app allows you to follow hashtags, but #Meta doesn't. I use Meta, so whenever I want to follow a new hashtag, I just load the Masto website.
I keep getting motorcycle POV police getaway videos in my #YouTube#shorts feed and I keep reporting them for containing dangerous acts. Wtf is wrong with people. #report#contentmoderation
#Tiktok and #ShortVideo content is a cancer regarding this. People are just rrying to go viral and do the same stupid stuff over-and-over and just hope they get the next trend. Whether it is to get others to drink tidepods orbto steal a Hyundai belinging to someone just as a joke.
But companies like #Meta, #Google, #Youtube, #Instagram, and #Tiktok are exploiting this because they are generating clicks, and they can show people ads. This is why they don't moderate these things.
The messed-up thing is that they then moderate and remove legit creators for stupid reasons and false copyright claims.
Social media is broken because it now has longer existed. It is just a bunch of advertisement companies with extra steps.
「 It should also be the cause for some serious reflection among the venture-capital community, which recklessly followed Zuckerberg into blowing billions of dollars on a hype cycle founded on the flimsiest possible press-release language. In a just world, Mark Zuckerberg should be fired as CEO of Meta (in the real world, this is actually impossible) 」 #Metaverse#Meta#Zuckerberg
「 The company has even stopped pitching the Metaverse to advertisers, despite spending more than $100 billion in research and development on its mission to be "Metaverse first." While Zuckerberg may suggest that developing games for the Quest headsets is some sort of investment, the writing is on the wall: Meta is done with the Metaverse 」 #Metaverse#Meta#zuckerberg
「 The billions of dollars invested and the breathless hype around a half-baked concept led to thousands — if not tens of thousands — of people losing their jobs 」
「 #Zuckerberg misled everyone, burned tens of billions of dollars, convinced an industry of followers to submit to his quixotic obsession, and then killed it the second that another idea started to interest Wall Street. There is no reason that a man who has overseen the layoffs of tens of thousands of people should run a major company. There is no future for #Meta with Mark Zuckerberg at the helm: It will stagnate, and then it will die and follow the #Metaverse into the proverbial grave 」
“#Layoffs are definitely a confession of poor #management," Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, told me. His reasoning: Research shows that generally, layoffs don't improve a company's fortunes. Quite the opposite: They don't reliably raise a company's profits or stock price, but they do reliably reduce remaining employees' morale, commitment, productivity, and trust.
“When Mark Zuckerberg declared 2023 "the Year of Efficiency" for #Facebook parent #Meta Platforms, several questions seemed unavoidable: Aren't companies supposed to be efficient every year? If this is the Year of Efficiency, what were all the previous years the Years of Squandering?”
Here is the list of actions the FTC has proposed against #Meta.
I don't think Meta will win over the public fighting those, most are pretty basic privacy related actions. I mean how do they want to publicly defend the monetizing of data of children?
I don't think that the idea behind the #metaverse is dead. #Gaming industry is huge and highly profitable, and the only thing missing is a smaller and cheaper headset.
The decision of #Zuckerberg and his company #Meta to focus on the #Ai in the meantime, just shows they're desperate for growth and profit ASAP.
Even though #virtualReality will bring many troubles with it's widespread usage (#addiction and #asocial behavior first comes to mind), I think it's inevitable.
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Social media is kinda melting down right now. Except Mastodon... Mastodon is doing fine...
#SGGQA 298: The Calm Before Google I/O, Twitter Blue is a Flop, Bluesky off to slow start, Facebook Pages Hacked
Good morning everyone. The second day of the #BeyondGrowth conference is starting. Being in the UK, I'm an hour delayed so I will start micro-blogging a bit later and miss the first speakers.
Here is the link to follow the plenary session this morning:
Day 2 Panel 10 -
Sophie Bloemen
It's kind of #meta (sorry not sorry for the pun) that she is talking about open source and interoperability platform and live-blogging it on the #fediverse
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Was in the process of reporting it, when I got an error message.
I have seen this for another scammer/spammer account yesterday. Also very fast.
I think this speed calls for a shoutout to the moderators and admins in the #Fediverse like @Mastodon, who are doing a great job, in contrast to the low response times of their corporate counterparts @ the #Meta brands and #Twitter (who seems to have fired everyone.) 😀
Very interesting discussion, should large language models / AI be opensource or not? Meta and Google disagree. Governments , regulators also have a role in this debate #AI#LLM#Opensource
@ErikJonker@ErikJonker You seem to be mixing up the transparency and accountability principles a bit here? Accountability calls for relevant stakeholders to take full responsibility for actions of their #ai systems and their consequences. Do you believe #Meta will adhere to this principle by (partially) open-sourcing their #LLM code? With respect to transparency it is indeed an encouraging step that they are a more open about their models than their competitors.
".. the FTC has proposed changes to the 2020 order that would prohibit Facebook owner #Meta from launching new products on any of its platforms without procuring written FTC compliance confirmation.."