‘#Meta’s ad tools are formidable, for everyone from your neighbourhood takeaway to multinational giants, and it’s a mammoth effort to stop the gap from widening further. It’s too soon to say whether #Snap’s efforts to close it will be successful – but it’s the things hidden from the normal users, as much as anything they can see on their phones, that will decide the next decade for the company.’ #Facebook#Snapchathttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/07/techscape-newsletter-snapchat
Dear Mark Zuckerberg and Leadership,
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We, #Meta employees, wish to express our disappointment and astonishment at the lack of acknowledgement and care the leaders of this company have shown toward the Palestinian community and its allies…
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I believe Flipboard will prove to be a counterweight to Threads and a prime location for news & pundits (as #Meta does not really desire the latter two on their platforms).
Hat dies Meta nicht im Griff oder möchten sie sich nicht einmischen, weil es ihren Interessen gleicht?!
»Social Media – Auf Facebook organisieren sich hunderte rechtsextreme US-Milizen:
Eine neue Untersuchung spricht von starker Zunahme der Aktivitäten im letzten Jahr. Entsprechende Gruppen sind auf Facebook verboten, Meta hat das Problem offenbar nicht im Griff«
Tja liebe Leute. Schaut euch das #Fediverse von heute noch mal an.
So wird es #Meta nicht lassen, denn sie wollen Geld verdienen.
Allein schon beim quer Lesen des Beitrags, werden eine Fülle von Befürchtungen der #Fedipact Konten indirekt bestätigt
I know #WhatsApp is popular amongst Americans 🇺🇸 who travel outside of the country, but I doubt #Meta will replace #iMessage in the #UnitedStates 🇺🇸 in the near future.
#Apple has already lost to #Facebook Messenger in #America 🇺🇸, so in a sense @zuck has already won.
A lot of people have insisted #Meta isn't getting involved with the #Fediverse to embrace, extend and extinguish it...
... but even before fully implementing Fediverse interoperability in #Threads they're already talking openly about changing its protocols to add features like monetization. 🤔
Text in a screenshot reads as follows: McCue riffed on the idea that fediverse users could become creators where some of their content became available to subscribers only, similar to how Patreon works. For instance, fediverse advocate and co-editor of ActivityPub Evan Prodromou created a paid Mastodon account (@evanplus) that users could subscribe to for $5 per month to gain access. If he’s on board with paid content, surely others would follow. Cottle agreed that the model could work with the fediverse, too. He additionally suggested there are ways the fediverse could monetize beyond donations, which is what often powers various efforts today, like Mastodon. Cottle said someone might even make a fediverse experience that consumers would pay for, the way some fediverse client apps are paid today.
Okay, so another set of stats now that April is over.
As I've said before, I am posting concurrently to Pixefed and Instagram to see what the differences are.
Let's break it down by month first. Here are average likes by month for the year to date:
January - Insta 20 / Pixelfed 8
February - Insta 21 / Pixelfed 8
March - Insta 27 / Pixelfed 11
April - Insta 26 / Pixelfed 9
Year to date, we're averaging 23.7 likes per post on Insta and 9.1 likes per post on Pixelfed.
In a world of algorithms, my manga posts are being caught into their algorithm pattern and being seen by more people. In a world without algorithms (i.e. Fedi), people like to see pictures of flowers and cats.
I mean, I get it.
Oh - and year to date, I'm averaging 0.05 likes per follower on Insta and 0.08 likes per follower on Pixelfed.
And current follower count:
Instagram - 454 (+68 since 2023)
Pixelfed - 117 (+40 since 2023)
TikTok CEO #ShouZiChew has said the company will take the fight against the new law to the courts, but some experts believe that for the #US#SupremeCourt, national security considerations could outweigh #FreeSpeech protection.
The board notes that in all three cases, #Meta found that the posts didn’t violate its policies around promoting #violence, #HateSpeech or #TerroristContent. The #OversightBoard says it will “consider how Meta should moderate the use of the phrase given the resurgence in its use after October 7, 2023, and controversies around the phrase’s meaning.” #Israel#Gaza