Mozilla hat sich die Datensammlerei von 25 Autoherstellern in deren Fahrzeugen genauer angesehen. Das Ergebnis ist - wenig verwunderlich - vernichtend schlecht. Auf dem letzten Platz findet sich Nissan wieder; VW ist aber nicht sonderlich besser.
Ihr habt vielleicht schon über den neuesten Vorstoß von Google gehört, das Internet endgültig unter die Kontrolle des Konzerns zu stellen. Wenn nicht, hier die aktuellen Infos:...
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I for one am not trusting this search engine for one bit
Since mid-2016, the company has started sending data to Microsoft Bing Ads, without informed consent of its users. It did not announce this to its users until mid-2021
The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.
Something I don't understand currently about the whole Meta/Threads debacle is why I'm seeing talk about instances which choose to federate with Threads themselves being defederated. I have an account on mastodon.social, one of the instances which has not signed the fedipact, and I've had people from other instances warn me that...
Hmm interesting. I do think it's just as important that we double-defederate unfortunately. Meta/Threads has to be treated as if it's contagious.
If we stay federated with an instance that has accepted the Embrace, what do we do when the Extend happens? Is that when we defederate? Will we even recognize it?
EEE only works because it's difficult to see it happening to you. Instances that ally with Meta/Threads will actually present the same threat of EEE, or even a greater threat, because the Extend step may appear to come from non-Meta instances.
Imagine ActivityPub upgrades developed by a Meta/Threads-ally, let's say improved inter-instance moderator tools. That sounds good right?
It's basically all the exact same arguments again, but with a middle man.
Meta/Threads have different foundational priorities (namely, profit) and real incentives to monopolize.
Meta-ally instances have real and implied incentives to accommodate
Meta/Threads.
And we have incentives to accommodate the instances that we federate with, so of course kbin would use the well-developed new mod tools right?
Seems crazy not to, even if it was developed by a Meta-ally. Right?
Great! Repeat for thousands of tiny changes, that's called Extend.
That's how accepting EEE works, each little step looks great but big picture we're unknowingly in trouble. We'll have to treat any Meta/Threads-ally as if it is Meta/Threads. (Hell, some of them probably will be lol, the fediverse is just asking for astroturfing lol.)
We can trust instances that don't have economic incentives. But any instance that shows they can be swayed by money, or that shows they'll accommodate instances driven by profit, well they're showing that they'd consider eating us to become the next reddit.
Like many people I'm here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I've been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed...
So, this is coming from a reddit user. I don't really understand the microblog button and how/what kind of content it gives you and how it's organized. Can some one give a brief summation.
tl;dr: It's Mastodon. You can use Mastodon from Kbin.
The Microblog tab shows posts from Kbin + Mastodon, just like how the Threads tab shows posts from Kbin + Lemmy. So if you have people you like on Mastodon, search for them using the little magnifying glass and then follow them from Kbin. Their posts will appear in the Microblog tab.
Additionally, if people on Mastodon use a #hashtag for something, it'll automatically be sorted in magazines that care about that hashtag. This means if you follow someone and that person uses a hashtag, their post will be placed in the "Microblog" tab of whatever magazine relates to that hashtag. This allows other people to discover the person you're following through shared interests.
Magazine moderators determine what hashtags they want included in their magazine - so @Futurology has said "We would like all posts with #research to show up in our microblog section". (You can go to @Futurology directly to see what hashtags the mod team thinks are relevant.)
If no hashtags are used on a post (or none of them match any magazines), then it goes to the magazine @random.
Wanna write a tweet/toot from right here on Kbin? Put it in a microblog. Use #hashtags to organize it into a magazine, or use the dropdown on Kbin to pick a magazine manually.
People can follow your Kbin profile from Mastodon. They'll see microblogs as a Mastodon toot, and "boosts" as basically Mastodon's version of retweets. People on Lemmy don't see boosts, but will see microblogs as a "normal" Lemmy post (since Lemmy doesn't have a "microblog" tab).
(Note that it seems things which come from Mastodon don't get automatically sent to Lemmy - just microblogs from Kbin itself. That Internet Archive post I mentioned above doesn't seem to exist on Lemmy.world.)
This behavior is one of the main reasons why I chose Kbin over Lemmy; I love that I can post once and have my stuff federated everywhere else super cleanly and easily. Lemmy is a bit more messy when it comes to Lemmy -> Mastodon and the devs aren't interested in changing how it works (I asked before I came over here).
Ernest seems really invested in playing to the strengths of the fediverse, and the Kbin roadmap has him planning to integrate more fediverse services in the future. For example, Mobilizon support is planned, which is like a group calendar on the fediverse.
If @Starwars wanted to have a watch party for a new episode of The Mandalorian, they could (theoretically) schedule an event on Mobilizon and have it federate to their magazine as a normal thread. Then they could (theoretically) pin the Mobilizon thread and use the comment section of the event as a Kbin megathread when the episode airs. See https://demo.mobilizon.org/ and imagine it being part of Kbin, just as Lemmy and Mastodon are "part of Kbin."
Step 1 is to go to the Magazines tab at the top of the page, and start browsing what our local instance here has to offer. But if you want to explore the wider world of the threadiverse, check out the list below:...
Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this....
Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research....
Mozilla: Cars Are the Worst Product Category We Have Ever Reviewed for Privacy (foundation.mozilla.org)
All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed
Mozilla study reveals that “modern cars are a privacy nightmare” (www.theverge.com)
All 25 car brands reviewed raised privacy concerns regarding customer data.
Mozilla: Autos sammeln Daten zum Einwanderungsstatus und zur sexuellen Aktivität (www.heise.de) German
Mozilla hat sich die Datensammlerei von 25 Autoherstellern in deren Fahrzeugen genauer angesehen. Das Ergebnis ist - wenig verwunderlich - vernichtend schlecht. Auf dem letzten Platz findet sich Nissan wieder; VW ist aber nicht sonderlich besser.
Vorlage für ein Schreiben an die Kartellbehörde / Beschwerdeformular German
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Advent's Amazing Advice: Moon over Graymoor, A 5e One-Shot fully prepped and ready to go! (ttrpg.network)
Welcome back to Advent’s Amazing Advice! The series where I take popular One-Shots, Adventures, Campaigns, etc. and fully prep them for both New and Busy DMs. This prep includes music, ambiance, encounter sheets, handouts, battle maps, tweaks, and more so you can run the best sessions possible with the least stress possible!...
Qwant - The European search engine that respects your privacy (about.qwant.com)
Designed and based in France, Qwant is the first search engine that protects its users' freedoms. Our key words: privacy and neutrality.
Big Tech can transfer Europeans’ data to US in win for Facebook and Google (arstechnica.com)
The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.
BotDefense is wrapping up operations : r/BotDefense (teddit.adminforge.de)
https://teddit.adminforge.de/r/BotDefense/comments/14riw76/botdefense_is_wrapping_up_operations/...
So, I guess Threads is officially spyware... Not at all shocked, but, Jesus that's a lot of data they're wanting.
JWST Has Now Captured All 4 Giant Planets
OC Question: Why are some instances defederating instances which don't sign the fedipact?
Something I don't understand currently about the whole Meta/Threads debacle is why I'm seeing talk about instances which choose to federate with Threads themselves being defederated. I have an account on mastodon.social, one of the instances which has not signed the fedipact, and I've had people from other instances warn me that...
YSK that Kbin can subscribe not only to magazines and communities, but entire instances.
This may be useful for folks looking to expand their feed. I discovered this on accident and it completely revolutionized my experience on Kbin....
What are the most unsettling Wikipedia articles you know?
Murder cases, freak accidents or articles triggering just good old existential crisis. Give me your worst.
Are lots of websites really going downhill and/or closing or does it just seem like it to me?
Like many people I'm here because of reddit going to shit. Twitter has increasingly been shit. gycat is shutting down in September. To me it seems like lots of bastions of social media are crumpling, but as a previous active reddit user, I've been personally effected. Is this just a frequency illusion or has something changed...
Can some one explain how the microblog feature works.
So, this is coming from a reddit user. I don't really understand the microblog button and how/what kind of content it gives you and how it's organized. Can some one give a brief summation.
OC [GUIDE] How to find interesting magazines to subscribe to
Step 1 is to go to the Magazines tab at the top of the page, and start browsing what our local instance here has to offer. But if you want to explore the wider world of the threadiverse, check out the list below:...
sub.rehab · Find your next diving spot (sub.rehab)
Find your next diving spot. A list of subreddit alternatives on different platforms.
The James Webb Space Telescope captures image of Saturn and its rings in all their shiny glory
They stole the internet from the people and we have to take it back
Fidelity has cut Reddit valuation to $5.5B from $10B (techcrunch.com)
Goodbye RIF - Talklittle's Goodbye to Reddit is Fun users (www.talklittle.com)
From the site:...
YSK about corporations' strategies to kill open source protocols (ploum.net)
Why YSK: If we want to keep the Fediverse in the hands of its users and prevent "enshittification" (search it), it's good to know how corporations kill grassroots projects like this....
Anyone know if the r/Imaginary* subreddits are planning on migrating?
Couldn't find any posts talking about the API changes on those subs, but there are like 50 of them so I might've just missed it...
Women in the History of Science | Free book download (www.uclpress.co.uk)
Women in the History of Science brings together primary sources that highlight women’s involvement in scientific knowledge production around the world. Drawing on texts, images and objects, each primary source is accompanied by an explanatory text, questions to prompt discussion, and a bibliography to aid further research....