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KelsonV

@KelsonV@lemmy.ml

Techie, software developer, hobbyist photographer, sci-fi/fantasy & comics fan in the Los Angeles area. He/him.

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A Takahē refactor, as a treat - Aeracode (aeracode.org)

I mentioned this here but I am very disappointed in the removal of a web UI for a #fediverse project. I don't use Takahe myself, but this will make those users harder to engage with. If I only use a browser for my fediverse activity, I won't be able to see any of those users without following....

KelsonV,
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If they're going for something similar to GoToSocial, it will still have web pages for profiles and public posts. It's mainly a change for people who do use Takahē.

Is there already a Fediverse compatibility matrix?

Does anyone know of a Fediverse / ActivityPub compatibility list I can contribute to? I've found lots of feature comparisons, statistics databases and so on. But I'd like to help find and squash bugs in interoperability. If someone's already doing this I'll add my findings there, or I can just post my notes somewhere.

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Hmm, that's close, but not quite. I'm testing to find out what's confirmed to work and not work between each pair of platforms, not what features are supported on each.

Ex. Lemmy and GoToSocial both support following, posting, and replying, and you can do all of them from other platforms like Mastodon...but they can't interact properly with each other yet.

I'm collecting that sort of thing and reporting bugs to each project as I find them.

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It's standard boilerplate lawyerspeak for "You allow us to show other people your content." You'll find the same thing on just about any commercial site with user-supplied content, where they want to avoid getting sued for copyright infringement by their users.

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Sorry, I just can't take seriously someone who actually takes the Musk/Taibbi spin on the Twitter Files at face value.

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"The Twitter Files" is a series of cherry-picked internal documents that Musk gave to hand-picked sympathetic journalists (including Matt Taibbi) who then portrayed things like an extensive internal debate over whether to ban Trump after his supporters tried to stop the official count of the election he lost as, somehow, evidence of arbitrary liberal censorship, or the Biden campaign (which was not part of the government at the time) asking Twitter to take down posts containing revenge porn as, somehow, an example of government censorship, getting organizations mixed up and at one point even claiming that 22 million tweets were flagged for takedown by one organization, when the real number was only about 3,000 and they weren't flagged for takedown, only for review, and Twitter left most of them up.

Techdirt has a whole series of posts pointing out the flaws in the claims. This one's a good place to start: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/07/mehdi-hasan-dismantles-the-entire-foundation-of-the-twitter-files-as-matt-taibbi-stumbles-to-defend-it/

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I'm seeing several threads, including the one mentioned here, where comments are only visible when I'm not logged in. Tried on both Firefox and Vivaldi, so it doesn't seem to be browser engine related.

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So Google is now preventing people from removing location data from photos taken with Pixel phones.

Remember when Google's corporate motto was "don't be evil?"

Obviously, accurate location data on photos is more useful to a data mining operation like Google.

From Google: "Important: You can only update or remove estimated locations. If the location of a photo or video was automatically added by your camera, you can't edit or remove the location."

It's enshitification in action.

Source: https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6153599?hl=en&sjid=8103501961576262529-AP

@technology @pluralistic

KelsonV,
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Turning off location data in the camera app does still work.

Google Photos has never, to my knowledge, had the feature to remove the EXIF location from a photo from within the app/website.

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Looks like even more brands are going to vanish from Twitter soon.

One of Twitter's big advantages over Mastodon for brands and advertisers was that it was supported by a range of social media and ad management tools.

Not anymore!

Via Mashable:

"Microsoft is going to drop Twitter from its Microsoft Advertising plan next week, according to the company.

"Users will no longer be able to access their Twitter account through its Digital Marketing Center's social media management tool, according to Microsoft. Users will also no longer be able to schedule, create, or manage tweets or tweet drafts. In addition, users won't be able to view their past tweets and engagement on the Microsoft Advertising platform."

https://mashable.com/article/microsoft-drops-twitter-from-advertising-platform

@fediverse @technology

KelsonV,
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I'm reminded of the phrase about someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing, except he doesn't seem to have any sense for effective price points either.

Or maybe he does -- I still can't make up my mind as to where his Twitter approach falls on the malice/incompetence spectrum.

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