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  1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 00:04:45 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Twitter / #XCorp to collect #biometric, #stateID, other personal information #PII from some users as part of its plan to transition into an "everything" service. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66679922 [www bbc co uk]
    In conversation about 9 days ago from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. X, formerly Twitter, to collect biometric and employment data
      from https://www.facebook.com/bbcnews
      The social media firm, formerly Twitter, will gather facial information if premium users give consent.
  2. simsa03 (simsa03@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jul-2023 00:56:54 UTC simsa03 simsa03
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    A quick reminder and recap what the rebranding of Twitter as X is about:

    The rebranding of Twitter into X seems to signal that Musk uses the platform as basis for becoming a fintech company.¹ (Musk already registered Twitter Payments LLC with the Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Twitter-FinCEN-registration-2022.pdf )¹

    But Musk is not alone in that or even the first. In 2019 Zuckerberg planned the same for Facebook with the introduction of the crypto-currency Libra.²

    At that time Libra seemed to have gone nowhere as Visa, Mastercard, ebay, and PayPal pulled out of Libra project in 2019.³

    Still, the fintech Libra Networks was registered in Zurich, Switzerland, in 2019 for Facebook (2,5 billion users in 2019) and its subsidaries Instagram, WhatsApp, and Messenger (each about 1 billion users).⁴

    So the difference seems to be that whereas Zuckerberg in 2019 tried to establish financial services based on crypto-currency throughout his platforms, it is not clear whether Musk wants to rely on crypto as well (as crypto was one major reason the aforementioned Visa, Masertcard, PayPal pulled out of Libra).

    But both projects planned to become an "online bank" of sorts. With the difference that as a fintech, by siphoning off user data, data of purchases, and behavioural statistics no bank is allowed to do, they can create financial products much faster and distribute them via their platofrms far more widespread than any bank could.⁵

    In fact, back in 2019 Zuckerberg didn't seem to realise but Musk now does seem to understand that both platforms are not or are no longer in the ad-business but in the online banking business. That is: Hitherto both platforms thought of their business as creating profits by selling ads to users who in exchange for their eyballs are permitted the free use of these platforms. But should the transition from ad-business to fintech prove successful, this will have major impact on the global financial markets and banking sector -- up to the default of major banks.

    Obviously, the syphoining-off of behavioural user data is not only relevant in the financial and banking sector but in all areas where "prediction products" can contribute to manufactoring, product development, AI training, purchasing optimzation, etc. These "prediction products" can even themselves be traded in what Shoshana Zuboff has called the "behavioural futures markets".

    Combine state surveillance with capitalist surveillance, and the separation of people in two groups (the more or less hapless customer-citizens on the one hand and the unaccountable producer-citizens on the other) has significant consequences on democracy as "asymmetries of knowledge translates into asymmetries of power".⁶

    But even without the societal and political ramifications, the economic and financial look most impactful. No wonder that Musk expects Twitter/X to "be ultimately extremely valuable"¹ And it may explain why Zuckerberg shows interest in the #fediverse. He who creates the first global "banking app" will rule the field. A pretty dire development from the days when m-pesa was created to link African agricultal communities an dcustomers in 2007.⁷

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    ¹ Ashley Belange, "Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into 'everything app' " https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/fast-moving-musk-makes-very-slow-progress-turning-twitter-into-everything-app/

    ² Kari Paul, "Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jun/18/libra-facebook-cryptocurrency-new-digital-money-transactions

    ³ Orion Rummler, "Ahead of Zuckerberg testimony, new setbacks for Libra" https://www.axios.com/2019/10/12/mark-zuckerberg-libra-facebook-congressional-testimony

    ⁴ Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi, "Facebook forms Swiss fintech firm with payments focus" https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-switzerland-payments/facebook-forms-swiss-fintech-firm-with-payments-focus-idUSKCN1SN1ZT

    ⁵ Billy Bambrough, "Global Fintech Warning To Traditional Banks -- The Threat Is 'Real And Growing' " https://www.forbes.com/sites/billybambrough/2018/10/17/global-fintech-warning-to-tradional-banks-the-threat-is-real-and-growing/

    ⁶ John Naughton, " 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

    ⁷ NN, "Vodafone M-Pesa comes to Europe for the first time" https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology-news/m-pesa-romania

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    #fintech #crypto #Twitter #Musk #facebook #Zuckerberg #mpesa #surveillance #capitalism
    #sources
    In conversation about 2 months ago from gnusocial.jp permalink

    Attachments

    1. 'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism
      from the Guardian
      Shoshana Zuboff’s new book is a chilling exposé of the business model that underpins the digital world. Observer tech columnist John Naughton explains the importance of Zuboff’s work and asks the author 10 key questions
    2. Fast-moving Musk makes very slow progress turning Twitter into “everything app”
      from @ashleynbelanger
      Musk has said it would take three to five years to launch X, the everything app.
    3. Libra: Facebook launches cryptocurrency in bid to shake up global finance
      from https://www.theguardian.com/profile/kari-paul
      Digital currency will let billions of users make transactions, but is already facing opposition from US lawmakers amid privacy concerns
    4. Facebook forms Swiss fintech firm with payments focus
      from Brenna Hughes Neghaiwi
      Facebook has set up a new financial technology company in Switzerland focusing on blockchain and payments as well as data analytics and investing, Geneva's commercial register shows.
    5. Global Fintech Warning To Traditional Banks -- The Threat Is 'Real And Growing'
      from Billy Bambrough
      Fintech startups and other new businesses have been working to break the hold traditional banks have on the financial services industry for more than a decade — and now it appears to be beginning to pay off...
    6. Vodafone M-Pesa comes to Europe for the first time
      Vodafone M-Pesa - the mobile money transfer and payment service that has transformed the lives of millions of people in emerging markets - has come to Europe for the first time
  3. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Jul-2023 05:28:26 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Meta #Facebook's #Instagram service has a new mobile app that directly competes with #Twitter, called #Threads. Threads, with 100M users after 5 days is the fastest growing mobile app ever, according to https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/instagram-threads-twitter-users-elon-musk-million-b2372336.html [www independent co uk]

    One hundred million downloads & signups, but I wonder how many have posted at least once. I'd like to see their monthly active users number when it comes out.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from mustard permalink

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    1. Instagram Threads hits 100 million users
      Instagram’s Threads app has reached 100 million users, making it easily the fastest growing app ever.
  4. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 08-Jul-2023 04:50:53 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Jack Dorsey (former #Twitter CEO) was guest on the first episode of "Money Matters". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzvh4AODtWc

    Discussed lots of stuff (about 2:45:00 long). I did not watch the whole thing because of its length. I may try to complete it in smaller chunks.

    #Bitcoin #BTC #Nostr #politics #American_Empire
    In conversation about 3 months ago from mustard permalink

    Attachments

    1. Jack Dorsey discusses the future of Bitcoin, the JFK assassination, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk
      Jack sits down with Twitter founder Jack Dorsey to discuss a variety of topics ranging from the JFK assassination, to the current state of Bitcoin and crypto...
  5. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 07-Jul-2023 18:02:50 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://nu.federati.net/url/290941 [www techdirt com]

    MetaFaceBook (MFB) launches its “Threads” Twitter alike.

    https://nu.federati.net/url/290942 [www techdirt com]

    #Twitter threatens to sue #Meta #Facebook #Instagram over its #Threads #Fediverse service.
    In conversation about 3 months ago from Shoyu permalink

    Attachments

    1. Meta Launches Threads, And It’s Important For Reasons That Most People Won’t Care About
      from Mike Masnick
      As you may have heard, yesterday Meta finally launched Threads, its Twitter-like microblogging service, built on ActivityPub, but using Instagram account credentials for login. The reaction from ac…
    2. Something Stupid This Way Comes: Twitter Threatens To Sue Meta Over Threads, Because Meta Hired Some Of The People Elon Fired
      from Mike Masnick
      Just fucking fight it out already. The whole stupid “cage match” brawl thing was started when Meta execs made some (accurate) cracks about Elon’s management of Twitter, and Elon couldn’t handle it.…
  6. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Monday, 03-Jul-2023 12:07:41 UTC Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
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    Danke #Twitter, dass Du es so gut schaffst, dass ich von Dir wegkomme. Beim alten Tweetdeck gehen noch drei Spalten, beim neuen sogar nur eine.
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/119099791264a2b95e6b8af837487908
    In conversation about 3 months ago from pirati.ca permalink
  7. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 18-Jun-2023 20:08:53 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://beach.city/@vantablack/110563155848847142

    #Meta / #Facebook is building a #Twitter clone under their #Instagram brand. Apparently, there's discussion of various #ActivityPub #Fediverse projects' lead developers signing an NDA and having discussions with them.

    The participants appear to be deleting evidence.

    I'm not spinning a conspiracy theory. I just don't think Gargron or Dansup have any idea what kinds of restrictions an NDA can contain. They risk long-term damage to their projects and some impact on their careers.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from mustard permalink

    Attachments

    1. sign the ANTI-META PACT today! (@vantablack@beach.city)
      from sign the ANTI-META PACT today!
      there are rumblings that certain big fedi admins had meetings with meta under NDA? whatttttt it looks like the post i keep seeing replies to has been deleted but the breadcrumb trail is there 👀 gargron and dansup what are you hiding 👁️
  8. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 09-Jun-2023 04:33:23 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #F-Droid has SlimSocial for #Facebook and SlimSocial for #Twitter.

    I had not heard of #SlimSocial at all. But since I closed my Facebook account years ago and rarely log into my Twitter account, I don't need them.
    In conversation about 4 months ago from mustard permalink
  9. Ji Fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 26-May-2023 17:14:33 UTC Ji Fu Ji Fu
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    So is it just #Reddit or all of surveillance capitalism following #Twitter lead to charge for the open API access that had empowered their adoption? #lemmy #fediverse


    ♲ @kixik@lemmy.ml:

    Reddit will begin charging for access to its API


    Not sure how that will affect libreddit or teddit. That'd would prevent me to get some news on specific channels, which when interesting enough, I brought to lemmy, 😀

    https://libreddit.mha.fi/r/technology/comments/12r1lh1/reddit_will_begin_charging_for_access_to_its_api

    https://libreddit.mha.fi/r/programming/comments/12r0xyz/reddit_will_begin_charging_for_access_to_its_api/

    In conversation about 4 months ago from libranet.de permalink
  10. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Apr-2023 03:08:20 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • clacke: looking for something 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    @clacke I was here in 2009, so it was still early days, but apparently not as early as it felt. For example, the former Twitter employee who created some of the standards that Identica and StatusNet used (including at least one that Mastodon still uses) was unknown to me. I remember hearing about #Twitter plans to federate with #Identica, but I was not aware that they had sent at least one message across networks before deciding to go toward the walled garden model.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from web permalink
  11. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Sunday, 23-Apr-2023 04:03:56 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Microsoft announces that its ads platform would no longer work with #Twitter. https://nu.federati.net/url/290186 [www techdirt com] In response, Elon #Musk threatens to sue #MSFT over AI training data.
    In conversation about 5 months ago from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. Microsoft Ditches Twitter From Its Ads Platform… So Elon Announces Plans To Sue Microsoft
      from Mike Masnick
      Elon Musk seems to take a personal affront to anyone who says “dude, we’re not going to pay your crazy prices for stuff.” For example, he pulled the NY Times “verified” badge weeks before everyone …
  12. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 22:01:05 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    in reply to
    • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    This "WeChat does everything" idea sounds similar to what App dot Net was trying to do. If I recall correctly, ADN was supposed to be a support layer where different things could ride atop. They built their microblogging thing and I think there were a few alpha products being built, but they ran out of funds. I think partly because their biggest product was the microblogging site, and it was mostly a smaller and paid version of #Twitter ... it is hard to gain enough paying customers for the same thing that a larger zero-price competitor offers.

    So let's say Twitter goes 100% paid, will they still be the world's leading source for news and information? I cannot answer, but I don't expect to be among their customer base.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from web permalink
  13. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Apr-2023 21:44:14 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Twitter Inc has been consumed by "X Corp", a subsidiary of "X Holdings". https://gizmodo.com/twitter-x-elon-musk-wechat-everything-app-1850322566

    I wonder how that affects people like former CEO Jack, who still had some stock that his contract requires him to hold for a number of years.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. Twitter Is Dead: It's All 'X Corp' Now
      Court filings detail that Twitter, Inc. no longer exists, and that it's been subsumed by X Corp, Elon Musk's long-talked up 'everything app.'
  14. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 06-Apr-2023 21:01:10 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://nu.federati.net/url/290076 [www forbes com]

    From 2022-09: Forbes co-sponsored a session for decentralized socnets ... included some early #Twitter builders

    Article's writer clearly didn't have good sources for some things, though. For example, there were "more than 40" #Mastodon instances. I'm positive there were more than 4000 at the time.
    In conversation about 6 months ago from web permalink

    Attachments

    1. Jack Dorsey’s Former Boss Is Building A Decentralized Twitter
      from Michael del Castillo
      A little-known group of interoperable social networks has been growing in private for years, but now that an engineer behind Twitter’s pilot, Evan Henshaw-Plath has joined the fray, the parallel universe is verging on mainstream.
  15. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Thursday, 09-Mar-2023 07:40:34 UTC Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
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    Einmal mit Profis ... #Twitter #Tweetdeck
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/179379364564098d33e5b24263661529
    In conversation about 7 months ago from pirati.ca permalink
  16. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2023 10:32:05 UTC Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
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    Ich glaube, ich auch nur noch bei #Twitter, weil es irgendwie ein morbides Vergnügen ist, den Vogel abstürzen zu sehen ...
    https://pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/image/157760330163ff296758391486206871
    In conversation about 7 months ago from pirati.ca permalink
  17. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 03:37:32 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    Apparently, there's going to be a "Twitter coin" that gets associated with likes and retweets, so that people who post popular tweets get rewarded. At least, that's what I've seen people posting. I have not logged into #Twitter to see for myself.
    In conversation about 7 months ago from web permalink
  18. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2023 01:01:06 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #Nitter instance closes due to complaint about #Twitter child porn visible from Nitter. https://pussthecat.org/nitter/
    In conversation about 8 months ago from mustard permalink

    Attachments

    1. PussTheCat.org
      PussTheCat.org provides access to open source services that are focused on privacy and video games servers.
  19. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 15:07:53 UTC Michael Vogel Michael Vogel
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    Manchmal schießt es aus sehr unerwarteten Ecken gegen #Twitter. Das bayrische Landesamt für neue Medien prüft nun, ob Twitter gegen den Medienstaatsvertrag verstoßen hat, weil Tweets von #Musk massiv priorisiert werden.
    www.blm.de/infothek/pressemitt…
    In conversation about 8 months ago from pirati.ca permalink
  20. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Tuesday, 17-Jan-2023 16:10:02 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://nu.federati.net/url/289353 [arstechnica com]

    $1,5,000,000 payment on the #Twitter purchase is due soon. Will there be a default?
    In conversation about 9 months ago from Choqok permalink

    Attachments

    1. With $1.5 billion bill due at month-end, Elon Musk’s options aren’t great
      Purchased for $44 billion, company is likely worth as little as $15 billion today.
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