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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 28-Apr-2021 02:05:36 UTC ![Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]](https://nu.federati.net/avatar/2-48-20170112021558.png)
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
Reminder that newspapers changed their comment sections to based on #Facebook because it was believed the "real names policy" would force people to self-moderate.
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Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 03-Apr-2021 19:59:19 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
https://9to5mac.com/2021/04/03/personal-data-from-over-500m-facebook-users-leaked-online/ [9to5mac com]
Five hundred million #Facebook users’ e-mail addresses and telephone numbers leaked. -
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/
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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. -
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. -
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.) -
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. -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Nov-2020 15:48:57 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
@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. -
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 -
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] -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Aug-2020 22:23:54 UTC
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#Facebook removes “troll farm” network of pro-Trump accounts https://mashable.com/article/pro-trump-romania-troll-farm-facebook/ -
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2020 19:28:46 UTC
Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]
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. -
N-5-O-body (n5admin@n5.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 24-Jul-2020 18:37:30 UTC 
N-5-O-body
#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 -
simsa03 (simsa03@pleroma.site)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2020 02:56:23 UTC 
simsa03
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 -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 06:47:09 UTC 
Strypey
"#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/ -
Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 05:29:18 UTC
Strypey
"#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 '
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Strypey (strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Mar-2020 04:38:00 UTC
Strypey
"#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
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. -
Balu (balu@mastodonten.de@mastodonten.de)'s status on Saturday, 01-Feb-2020 09:49:28 UTC 
Balu
Happy #FOSDEM everybody! 🎉 🎉
And don't forget to be grateful for #Google 😇 , #Amazon 😇 and #Facebook 😇 to sponsor the event! 💞
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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.
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