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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 03-Feb-2021 08:32:04 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

Another #WhatsApp user flees #Facebook data collection https://themue.dev/blog/2021/01/10/im-off-then/

#Signal
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1. I'm off then
  
  The Facebook corporation was a thorn in my side early on with its handling of personal data for advertising purposes. On top of that, Facebook itself showed me how difficult it is to keep conversations in check. That’s why I deleted my Facebook account a while ago. It was the same with Instagram as another service of the Facebook group. As a messenger, I have been using WhatsApp for a long time.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 16-Jan-2021 18:28:49 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

"The post"{https://mst3k.interlinked.me/@Elizafox/105562613778968936} seemed to be a lot of fear-mongering, even more than the article itself.

(1) #Twitter has millions of users. There is no #ActivityPub nor #OStatus implementation in which an instance hosted on a $5/mo #DigitalOcean / #Linode / #Vultr #VPS could handle the volume of a seamless connection with #Twitter. If they adopted AP OStatus, #Diaspora, or any other current open federation protocol, instances that didn't use firewall blocking would topple once the two userbases had sufficient interconnections (within a few hours or a few days after they started federating).

(2) Twitter's business model is to push ads disguised as tweets. If their users could escape those and still interact with all the same contacts, they would. I'm certain that Twitter's management know this. They also turn all links into tracking links, and sell access to media (images, video, audio) uploads of important news events to news organizations.

(3) Most Fediverse instances are financed out of the admin's pocket. Some have financial contributors, but nothing like Twitter's revenue. As the largest and best-financed instance, they would immediately have to start implementing modifications to make AP or other existing federation protocols useful to them, and those modifications would (as Mastodon's currently do) become unofficially mandatory in order to be compatible.

(4) This isn't the first time that Twitter has considered federation, though this may be the first time they openly discussed it. Back when Identica was still a happening place (during Twitter's fail-whale days), Twitter considered federating. They didn't do it then, and I honestly do not believe they will do it now.

(5) I'd say that Twitter's #BlueSky initiative is more meant to try to get bidirectional connections across #Facebook's moat and wall than it is to surround Twitter with a cloud of #Fediverse instances.
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1. JBOD Shadow Legends (@Elizafox@mst3k.interlinked.me)
  
  from JBOD Shadow Legends
  
  https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/15/twitters-vision-of-decentralization-could-also-be-the-far-rights-internet-endgame/ So Basically Twitter is trying to push 45 and Q through the backdoor Amazing. I hate it. I hope people don't fall for this nonsense and federate with Twitter. Trust not their gifts nor admit their horse, etc.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Jan-2021 17:36:38 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

https://social.foxfam.club/objects/08cee94e-9175-480d-abab-c3b6bb386127 ( https://nu.federati.net/url/279289 )

#Facebook bans Ron Paul for criticizing censorship, then pretends it was a mistake when the media noticed.

Make no mistake. This isn't about the idiots that stormed the Capitol or even those who protested but stayed outside.

We don't have to like what people are saying to recognize the threat this wave of expulsions poses to all of us.

For one thing, the axe that crushes opponents' skulls today will be just as damaging to former allies tomorrow.

For another, political ascendancy swings back and forth. When it swings again, people who've been disconnected from online life may decide that Trump was right about Section 230, which protects even the smallest multiuser instances.
In conversation about 2 months ago from mustard permalink
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1. Facebook Locks Out Ron Paul Following Column Criticizing Big Tech Censorship, Cites 'Error' | Jon Miltimore
  
  from https://www.facebook.com/1719509558264112
  
  How did we go from banning Alex Jones to taking action against Ron Paul in the space of two years? The answer is not hard to find.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 09-Jan-2021 01:24:53 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

I'm hearing that #Google and #Apple are removing the apps for the #Parler #socnet from the #Android PlayStore and the #iOS AppStore.

I'd argue that given their duopoly on mobile operating systems, the power to arbitrarily kick someone out is scary (regardless of how deserving Parler might be; I'm not even sure I've seen a screenshot of the site). I'd argue that this is evidence that the mobile OS and app store groups of both companies need to be split up, so that competition can come ... including strong competition for mobile app stores on each platform.

Again, Parler may deserve it, especially if their users used the socnet to organize their insurrection attempt. (Though I suspect many of them probably used odious #corpocentric sites like #Twitter or #Facebook, which are not being punished.)

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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Dec-2020 20:00:49 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

Apparently, the FTC (and 48 state attorneys general) are suing #Facebook over its monopolistic practices, including buying up emerging competitors.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/25/facebook-ftc-lawsuit-440645 [www politico com] CAUTION: #JavaScrippled

https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html [www cnn com]

https://news.yahoo.com/states-ftc-suing-facebook-alleged-193833264.html [news yahoo com]

The biggest question on everyone's minds should be where is #USDOJ? They should have sued back when Facebook bought #WhatsApp and #Instagram ... or at the least, been actively involved in prosecuting this lawsuit. It really does seem like DOJ's beef with #Google is that the bribes ^W political contributions weren't large enough or didn't reach the right person.
In conversation about 3 months ago from web permalink
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1. Late complication tangles FTC’s decision on suing Facebook
  
  The case would be the next stage of Washington’s legal crusade against Silicon Valley, after the Justice Department sued Google in October.
2. Dozens of states and the FTC sue Facebook for alleged anticompetitive behavior
  
  from Brian Fung, CNN Business
  
  Dozens of states and the federal government sued Facebook on Wednesday in twin antitrust lawsuits, alleging that the social media giant has abused its dominance in the digital marketplace and engaged in anticompetitive behavior.
3. States, FTC suing Facebook for alleged antitrust abuses
  
  If successful, the two cases could lead to the first court-ordered breakup of a U.S. corporation on antitrust grounds in decades.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 15:48:57 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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@vegos I agree. To most organizations, their primary concern is reach. So they congregate on big #corpocentric #socnets, even when the central corporation running things is actively hostile to their point of view.

Then they're butthurt when their accounts are shadowbanned.

Years ago, I tried to persuade some local Black churches and ethic-focused organizations to join !GNUsocial and #Diaspora, but was unsuccessful. I think they all joined #Facebook, where their posts are hidden by the algorithms.

In conversation about 3 months ago from mustard permalink
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 26-Aug-2020 22:17:31 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

Someone reposting the link to article about how #Apple's new privacy rules will affect #Facebook. https://nu.federati.net/url/274378 [arstechnica com]

Their comment is important enough that everyone should be exposed to it: 'And yes, Apple is all about "nobody violates our users' privacy except us!" '

https://bsd.network/@mwlucas/104757951604091616
In conversation about 6 months ago from web permalink
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1. iOS 14 privacy settings will tank ad targeting business, Facebook warns
  
  Facebook is worried that users won't opt in to tracking when given the choice.
2. :flan_molotov: Michael W Lucas (@mwlucas@bsd.network)
  
  from :flan_molotov: Michael W Lucas
  
  Content warning: Facebook is bad, yo, but Apple isn't better
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Aug-2020 19:28:39 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

#Apple giving users better control over inter-app tracking on #iOS 14.x, #Facebook among companies that are worried. https://9to5mac.com/2020/08/11/apple-ios-14-privacy-tracking-facebook/ [9to5mac com]
In conversation about 7 months ago from web permalink
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1. Apple doubles down on iOS 14 tracking privacy as Facebook panics - 9to5Mac
  
  from Chance Miller
  
  One of the key privacy features in iOS 14 is a new option that allows users to disable tracking between different applications. During its quarterly earnings call last month, Facebook pointed out that the new tracking setting could impact its advertising revenue, and a new report from The Information today goes into more detail.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2020 22:23:54 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

#Facebook removes “troll farm” network of pro-Trump accounts https://mashable.com/article/pro-trump-romania-troll-farm-facebook/
In conversation about 7 months ago from Shoyu permalink
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1. Facebook bans troll farm running fake pro-Trump accounts like ‘BlackPeopleVoteForTrump’
  
  from @mashable
  
  The 2020 presidential election is just a few months away.
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2020 19:28:46 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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I wanted #ADN to succeed, because I felt that many of #Twitter’s user-hostile anti-features were meant as ways to increase advertising revenue (and often copied from #Facebook, where said user-hostile anti-features frequently did increase ad revenue).

But, I thought, how many people will pay for App Dot Net, when they can grit their teeth and use Twitter without paying? My answer was “not enough to make it profitable”, and that turned out to be true.

In conversation about 7 months ago from Shoyu permalink
N-5-O-body (n5admin@n5.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2020 18:37:30 UTC N-5-O-body
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#Mozilla, this ad leaves me conflicted. If #Facebook is accepting racist ads, then, yes, I want them to stop. If they have people posting racist posts, I want them to stop the worst ones, but people who hold / exhibit some lesser levels of racism may be won over to anti-racism if people can see what they're thinking and engage with them.

There's a person in the US Midwest, age in the mid-twenties, that I've allowed to remain in my timelines despite his use of racist terms (e.g., the N-word) and occasional posting of anti-Jewish memes. Why? I'm hoping that he eventually recognizes the value of people who may not share the same ancestral background as he does.

If he was subject to strict hate speech rules, he'd soon be banished to some alt-right racists' forum and be convinced to bomb some other ethnic group's congregating points as part of a "fight for racial purity".

On the other hand, there's a guy that was so racist that he got kicked off of Gab. When he first joined the Fediverse, he was talking about committing violent racist acts. For all I know, he may still be doing so, if he's found an instance that will allow that. That guy is already too far gone ... there's little chance that he could be convinced to abandon racism OR violence, so restricting him from every possible channel makes it easier for the FBI to track him.

I guess I'm saying that there's a balance that must be struck. I don't want _real_ nazis spewing their hate on the platforms that people use, but an ignorant young person that just hasn't ever lived where they must interact with people of other ancestries could get better if people unlike them start relating to them. https://n5.federati.net/attachment/6176

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simsa03 (simsa03@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2020 02:56:23 UTC simsa03
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Casey Newton, "Half of all Facebook moderators may develop mental health issues" @www.theverge.com/interface/2020/5/13/21255994/facebook-content-moderator-lawsuit-settlement-mental-health-issues

Casey Newton, "The Trauma Floor : The secret lives of Facebook moderators in America" @theverge.com/2019/2/25/18229714/cognizant-facebook-content-moderator-interviews-trauma-working-conditions-arizona

Casey Newton, "Bodies in Seats : At Facebook’s worst-performing content moderation site in North America, one contractor has died, and others say they fear for their lives" @theverge.com/2019/6/19/18681845/facebook-moderator-interviews-video-trauma-ptsd-cognizant-tampa

Casey Newton, "The Terror Queue : These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD" @theverge.com/2019/12/16/21021005/google-youtube-moderators-ptsd-accenture-violent-disturbing-content-interviews-video

#exploitation #facebook #ptsd #mentalhealth

In conversation about 10 months ago from pleroma.site permalink
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 06:47:09 UTC Strypey
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"#SurveillanceGiants lays out how the surveillance-based business model of #Facebook and #Google is inherently incompatible with the right to #privacy and poses a systemic threat to a range of other rights including #freedom of opinion and expression, freedom of thought, and the right to #equality and non-discrimination."
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/11/google-facebook-surveillance-privacy/
In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
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1. Invalid filename.
  
  Facebook and Google’s pervasive surveillance of billions of people is a systemic threat to human rights
  
  There needs to be a radical transformation of Facebook and Google's surveillance business model as it poses a systemic threat to human rights,
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 05:29:18 UTC Strypey
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"#FOAF allows a group of friends to represent their real-life social graph digitally by hosting FOAF documents on their own homepages. It allows them to do this without surrendering control of their data to a centralized database in the sky run by a billionaire android-man who spends much of his time apologizing before congressional committees."
- #SinclairTarget, 'Friend of a Friend: The #Facebook That Could Have Been '
https://twobithistory.org/2020/01/05/foaf.html
In conversation about a year ago from mastodon.nzoss.nz permalink
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1. Friend of a Friend: The Facebook That Could Have Been
  
  Why didn't the FOAF standard give us distributed social networking in the 2000s?
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 04:38:00 UTC Strypey
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"#Facebook’s community governance will likely continue to be contested, not least because of what it represents: a corporate hegemony that is far removed from networked publics which used to provide a counterweight to state and corporate power over individuals."

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N-5-O-body (n5admin@n5.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2020 22:08:12 UTC N-5-O-body
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So I haven't really looked at many #Democratic candidates. I thought the 2016 result was mostly caused by the unique dislike that their nominee #Hillary Rodham #Clinton had created since the days when her husband was Governor of #Arkansas. Her seeming belief that she alone is immune from complying with any legal requirements--the thing behind "crooked Hillary"--and her naked lust for power just turned people off.

We need to stop pretending that #Russia did this to us. The #DNC did this by preselecting #HRC and scaring away any candidates who could win. If you've seen #Facebook and #Twitter, you know that political posts and ads on these sites don't change people's political beliefs. They just cause people to flock to the post to argue and name-call in the comments.

I do see people saying that X candidate would lose to Donald #Trump, but that's hard to say.

Bernard "Bernie" #Sanders _is_ too far left for many Americans. Elizabeth #Warren is a little bit closer to the center, but she and Sanders are both offensive to many people that I talk to. And like the article ( https://n5.federati.net/url/1341 ) mentions, people who've already paid for their college and loans are mostly not going to be in favor of totally free tuition. That still does not mean that either of them could not beat Trump. I just can't tell.

Joseph #Biden? I don't know. I don't think people dislike him, I just don't think anyone is really enthusiastic about him. He's creepy like a school janitor who always decides to clean the restroom when your 8 year old daughter is in there. The evidence that he caused the firing of a prosecutor in the early stages of a corruption investigation (together with a timeline of the various ways that his sons and brother benefitted from his positions) _will_ be problematic in the same way that HRC's belief that she didn't have to meet the same standards everyone else does. (I know that as a federal employee, if this series of "coincidental" enrichments due to my position benefitted my family, I'd be in prison by now.)

The others? The little that I know of Andrew #Yang, I like. But so far, he's barely even been noticed in the crowd of tweedledees and tweedledums. And that's a good description of how most of the candidates are perceived: Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
In conversation about a year ago from n5.federati.net permalink
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1. "We’re losing our damn minds": James Carville unloads on the Democratic Party
  
  from https://www.facebook.com/CosmoPoliticsBlog/?ref=aymt_homepage_panel
  
  Why the longtime Democratic strategist is "scared to death" of the 2020 election
Balu (balu@mastodonten.de@mastodonten.de)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2020 09:49:28 UTC Balu
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Happy #FOSDEM everybody! 🎉 🎉
And don't forget to be grateful for #Google 😇 , #Amazon 😇 and #Facebook 😇 to sponsor the event! 💞

In conversation about a year ago from mastodonten.de permalink
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 12-Jan-2020 17:23:27 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

“Give Up Google”

Yes, this is a good trend, but if it stops with Google, it is an absolute failure at protecting privacy. Instead of “De-Google” it needs to be DecentraLife (including giving up #Google, #Facebook, #Amazon, #Microsoft, and other large corporations that spy on users) ... avoiding the concentration of users and resources that enables these companies to abuse users in the first place.

In conversation about a year ago from Shoyu permalink
Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)] (lnxw37a2@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Dec-2019 01:06:42 UTC Nobody [Linux Walt Alt (@lnxw37a2)]
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@Blort My family is very much still on #Wire (that is, the ones that aren't only using stuff made by #Facebook, but I never communicate with those family members except by SMS text messages).

In conversation about a year ago from pleroma.soykaf.com permalink
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2019 20:55:21 UTC Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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@sean Evan was hugely focused on #Pump.io (instead of us), until his resources ran out and he got involved with a new start up. This is also when some of his Pump-related domains were lost.
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It isn't surprising that he's active on #Twitter and #Facebook, just that Pump is still not compatible with anything else. (And that his personal Pump instance, E14N.com is gone.)

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