richardazia

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richardazia,

In the current era when you install a new web browser it will ask you which old browser you want to import your data from. It will also allow you to create an account with the browser company to keep it synched. You can swap browsers daily if you like. It's relatively quick to do.

richardazia,

It bothers me when people think of social network use as addiction. If you went to a bar, restaurant, work or school you wouldn't see it as an addiction. I think that seeing social media as addictive is especially harmful when Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok use it to do immoral things. They hide behind the "but they're addicts anyway, so what does it matter?" Social networks are not addictive. They're compelling.
Does this mean that married people are addicts, to each other? Think the absurdity of calling social media addictive. It devalues our online communities to use such words.

richardazia,

I think the damage is done. It will take a while for Google et al. to re-index that quagmire of tweets.

richardazia,

A. No one cares
B. Stop making him visible.
C. May he be forgotten by history.
What a horrible little weasel he was. (he's still alive, I'm just happy we don't hear about him anymore.

richardazia,

On mastodon and calckey migrating from instance to instance is easy. I don't see it as a feature on kbin yet.

richardazia, to internet

Does kbin have duplicate link detection yet? I noticed that lemmy does. I like that I can see if a link has been shared, and avoid reposting something that has already been shared.

richardazia,

Nothing especially new. I'm surprised it has taken this long to decide to use it for AI. At the same time, I hope they have a team ready to deal with all the copyright claims. If youtube was a minefield, AI will be. They're stealing IP directly and recycling it. If Google becomes AI, then Google will make itself obsolete. We use Google to search for answers by others, not to be force-fed a single answer.

richardazia,

Now that someone else has got away with doing this Google can. They scraped it to improve search, now they scraped for AI. Iterative change.

richardazia,

They're going to collect a lot of worthless data in the process. They will need to fine tune their "signal-to-noise" algorithms and machine learning.

ChrisMayLA6, to internet
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What will be interesting this week is how the treat 's new rival to Twitter, ...

I'm expecting a lot of celebratory coverage, which will include either quick sideswipes at for being too difficult to understand, or will not mention the at all despite it's/our successes.

The media folk want a system that will pander to them in return, not a decentralised system that's happy to listen & engage with them, but doesn't work to their advantage!

richardazia,

@ChrisMayLA6 Mastodon is easy to understand. If you replace "instance" with "website" it's easier. It's a social network that works sort of like e-mail. ;-).

richardazia,

My opposition to Facebook joining the Fediverse, through threads, is that everything that Facebook touches, becomes garbage. Instagram was a fantastic photo sharing app, until Facebook bought it, destroyed the community, and then changed the app from photo sharing to video sharing. Most of the people my age were part of Facebook, when it was young, vibrant, and a network of friends of friends.
We chose to leave Facebook for a reason. We chose to leave Instagram for a reason. For the leeches to then come, and invade yet another space is frustrating. We made a conscious choice to break from our Facebook friends, and Instagram friends, and now Meta wants to invade the Fediverse.
For me, it's not about protocols. It's about their habit of invading and destroying communities. Twitter was invaded and destroyed. With Twitter's demise, I considered dumping social media, altogether. Reddit reacted so strongly to their own changes, because we have seen how badly Twitter is being treated today. Reddit doesn't want to allow that to happen to them. For clarity when I say Reddit, I mean the Reddit community, not the Reddit owners and shareholders.

w7voa, to internet
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launching competitor Thursday. https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23783227/meta-instagram-threads-twitter-competitor-app-store

richardazia,

@w7voa Facebook has two billion users. I have no desire to be a statistic. Facebook(Meta) is a site I avoid at all costs.

thorms11, to internet
@thorms11@mastodon.social avatar

everyone is talking about and how much data collects.

this is a valid argument. i just wish it mattered.

no one cares about their data and it’s gross.

also, and collect about the same.

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richardazia,

@joel Facebook is too big to fail. It has two billion people, people who use social media like they use the bathroom, a few minutes here, and there between chores. They're not invested in the network for hours at a time like people on the fediverse, threadiverse, etc. The problem is that those on Facebook are very hard to shift, and yet timelines are empty.
It's a paradox that Facebook is so huge, and yet friends are so quiet, due to the algorithms. I get the impression that no one uses Facebook anymore, and yet it has two billion users. I stopped using Facebook during the first lockdown. People were behaving in a toxic manner and I decided to quit.

@thorms11

Lsquare28, to internet
@Lsquare28@mstdn.social avatar

The privacy disclosures for the new app is…interesting

richardazia,

@Lsquare28 We will collect everything about you, so no worries. They need to collect that info, for when people start downloading apps via the meta store. It's absurd, for a microblogging app. (in theory).

J12t, to internet
@J12t@social.coop avatar

Here it is (almost). https://apps.apple.com/us/app/threads-an-instagram-app/id6446901002 interesting how they describe it.

richardazia,

It's dishonest of them to say that Threads is by Instagram, rather than Facebook, hiding behind Meta. FB is so damaged, reputation wise, that they must hide threads behind Instagram, so that the less astute, don't realise they're using a facebook app.

richardazia,

With Kbin, Calckey, Mastodon, lemmy, Hugo and more we can. We don't need to be trapped within the social media giants, especially after what happened to Instagram, Twitter, and now Reddit. Now is the time when we need to revert to the habit of using community websites, rather than social media giants.

Does anyone feel like the Internet is alive again?

Before I joined the Fediverse, it felt like the Internet was composed of only 4-5 social media sites and a bunch of corporate news articles, with only a couple of old remnant sites that looked out of place like a historic church in a business district. All of a sudden, though, it feels like people are creating lots of new sites....

richardazia,

You're an allosaur of the web like me. ;-). We were here before even the dinosaurs. ;-)

richardazia,

We don't miss the freedom. We know that we have a choice. We're from the age of web communities being twenty to thirty people large. In those days communities were small. Now we're shouting in a crowded room, to be heard. It's nice to migrate, and find places where we're heard, without having to be loud.

richardazia,
richardazia,

;-)

richardazia,

Facebook behaved immorality. It rebranded as Meta, and now they want to trick some, by saying that Instagram is making a Twitter Clone... Facebook was already Twitter's competition, from 2006 onwards.
This is my long-winded way of saying "nope".

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