«Les plateformes doivent donner aux utilisateurs un véritable choix. Les systèmes que nous voyons aujourd’hui exigent généralement des individus soit qu’ils paient soit qu’ils acceptent l’usage de toutes leurs données»
I feel like 99% of #facebook page spamming could be eliminated by just filtering for messages containing “Last Warning”. That's assuming fb actually cared about scammers, which does not seem to be the case.
1/2 #FactFriday
Even when you get a ecard from an actual #friend on your #birthday from a legit birthday card website, it STILL could be from a #scammer - be careful! You could be clicking on a malicious link!
I had such a card recently, and was concerned because as far as I knew, my birthday had never been leaked (we always teach people to be careful about who they tell their birthday to. e.g. don't reply to "try this fun game" which needs your birthday info).
2/2
So I wanted to investigate further (because obviously now scammers knew my birthday)
Long story short, I worked out they got my info from Facebook. Not my publicly available info(!), but they've got it from a #Facebook#breach and quite a while ago. I recognised one name, but we aren't connected on Facebook (anymore - we may have been at one stage, but if so it was a long time ago). So the scammer used this data on a legit ecard site to make it look like it's from an actual friend. Be wary!
Is #Discord succumbing to #enshittification? Time and again, I am tormented by this question. My answer, in a word, is, "Yes, I think so, but I don't know how it all comes together." That's thirteen words. Writing everything down, I still don't have an answer. The long and short of it, as always, is not 'if,' but 'when;' I'm stuck in If, knowing I need a bus to get to When, but the timetable changes every time I look.
I can't help but point out to my friends that #Discord got its start in an eerily similar fashion to #Facebook. Both are, in origin, cut from the same cloth - they're both billion-dollar Silicon Valley startups propped up by venture capital. Back when Facebook first opened to the public, its biggest competition was Rupert Murdoch's MySpace. Murdoch does at least half your PR for you - he's a senescent media mogul who spies on end users with a nagging twitch.
All #Facebook had to do was not be MySpace. They promised potential users, "Sign up for our service, tell us who your friends are, and we'll make sure that their posts reach your eyeballs as soon as they're posted. Oh, and we'll never, EVER spy on you. Promise." We all know how that turned out. It's only a promise if it can be broken.
Hello and welcome to the RPG Design Quest! As a new site with a bunch of features, it can be a little confusing at first. But if you keep in mind this is organized toward discussions and interest groups, it will make a lot of more sense! For some, it helps to think of it like an old school portal site done with modern tools. Note: Everything is subject to change and update. This is a fresh beta test launch site. Some bugs are expected. There will be a bug report and feature request form soon.
This is just quick onboarding intro to get you started. It doesn’t cover all the options, but rather just enough to get you familiar with where to look for things and how to navigate around.
Sign Up
Starting off, signing up is like any other site. We have a selection of social sign in options reflecting our gamer circles. But you can also sign up directly as normal. Just click that signup button up top. If you haven’t yet, do that and then come back! Note: Open registration is temporary.
Quick Overview
The site has a feed, like Mastodon, Facebook, or Bluesky. It is a chronological feed of all activity on the site. In that spirit, any reaction, comment, or other active interaction will bump an item to the top of the feed. It is responsive to activity.
Groups are the central piece of the Quest. You can think of them like topic forums on a classic forum site, but with a bunch of additional features. Just as there is a main feed, and one for each member of the Design Quest, there is a feed in each group as well. You can freely join, leave, or even create groups. Note: Created groups may be subject to review, consolidation, or (in extreme cases) removal.
When you click on a group, it will show a header and a bunch of tab options. On the lower right of the banner, it will show you your group status, including an option to join if you are not a member. Below that are the different tabs:
Feed: The activity feed for everything in the group.
Discussions: Forums! Post and reply to discussion threads here.
Photos: Just what it says on the label.
Docs: Collaborative docs. Deprecated until I have the capacity to fix some layout issues.
Albums: Photo albums.
Documents: Uploaded files like text documents and PDFs.
Members: List of group members.
Send Invites: Send invites to join a group.
Send Messages: Send direct messages to group members.
Manage: This is where the group management options are for any group you’re the organizer or moderator.
That’s pretty much it! Everything really is what it says on the label, more or less. Groups are based around their activity feed and discussions, but they provide a full set of tools for interaction and collaboration.
Other Main Features
On top of the full feed and groups, the top menus also takes you to a list of all recent forum posts, the member directory, and member blogs. If you are signed in, you can connect with people from their profile or the member directory, as well as write your own blog posts! So you can connect with peers and friends here, as well as have a space to express your own thoughts. Related to the intention of a full-featured community website, there is also a live chat!
If you click the little bubble on the lower right, the chat window opens. Live chat works for both individuals and groups!
A bunch of options will show if you click on your profile icon/name in the upper right. It has links for your account settings, profile, timeline/feed, joined groups, and everything else like that you’d expect. It also has an option for email invites. You can invite people to join. This will become more important in the future when open registrations close.
Next to that (from right to left) is the notifications bell, direct messages inbox, and the search.
Your Profile
Your profile is so much more than just your profile! It’s a complete collection of your archives and tools.
Much like groups, when you go to your profile there are a bunch of tabs! Of course, the profile tab is the default open tab. We’ll go through editing profiles in a minute, but let’s go through those options first:
Timeline: This is your main feed. Like there is a feed for the whole site and each group, there is a feed of your activity.
Profile: This is your literal profile. It has all the information you entered and options to edit it.
Post: This is your blogpost tab. It shows your posts and has a “create” option for you to write a blog.
Connections: This tracks your connections with other people and connection requests they sent you.
Groups: This shows your joined groups and any group invitations you received.
Photos: This shows your photos and albums, with an option to add photos and create albums.
Forums: Here you’ll find the topics you started, your replies, and your favorited forum posts.
Docs: Shows all collaborative docs started or edited by you, with an option to create a new doc.
Documents: Shows the files you uploaded with an option to organize into folders.
Email Invites: Allows you to send email invites and see the invites you sent.
Editing Your Profile
Like many other modern sites, you can click on your banner or profile picture to update/replace them.
You can also update your images here. But the key section is the main one. There are 5 tabs:
Details: Basic profile details and a few old school questions.
Socials: A place for all of your links.
Credits: Work credits you want to list.
Availability: Your availability for collaboration and/or hire.
Thoughts: A place to share a few extra thoughts.
Any section or entry you choose not to enter will simply not show up on your profile. No pressure to fill in blanks! Whatever you choose to fill in will make up your profile. Add as little or as much as you’d like.
Every time, you think it couldn't get any worse, a new revelation tops it off. As an author, I wonder how long it will take for the book market to be completely enshittified.
Thank you for the #giftArticle! ⬆️ @writers@bookstodon
“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.
Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”
The company said Friday that it will apply “#MadeWithAI” labels to a range of video, audio & images. Meta’s previous policies against #manipulated#media, which were written in 2020 before the #tech industry’s #AI boom, only applied to video content.
The expansion follows criticism from #Meta’s #Oversight Board, which called the company’s existing policies “incoherent” in Feb after an altered video of President #Biden remained on #Facebook because it didn’t violate Meta’s rules.
The #Oversight Board, an outside group funded by #Meta, called on the company to extend the policy to address #altered audio as well as videos when they falsely depict people doing things.
“We agree w/the Oversight Board’s argument that our existing approach is too narrow” because it only applies to #fake speech & not altered actions, Meta VP of #Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a stmnt.
Sharing what's going on with actual #fediverse#censorship happening over on #threads. Zuck has beef with a small #nonprofit newsroom calling out #meta#facebook ethics and they've decided to try wiping it off the internet. Tell all your friends to bring their receipts to #mastodon before they're gone too
If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.
And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.
I received a notice this morning that a link to the Marion newspaper raid article was taken down for "cybersecurity" reasons. Looks like I wasn't the only one.
A week or so later, one good thing about the #xz#backdoor is how it all pretty much played out on Mastodon and in the #fediverse. The discussion wasn't on #x or #twitter, not #facebook or #stackedoverflow or whatever. Analysis and investigation and discussion happened here on #mastodon. Even #wired magazine gave credit.
A serious flaw with the #fediverse over #meta products like #instagram and #facebook is there is a serious lack of #parrots over here. #Cockatiels and other parrots bring such great joy to my life it's too hard to stay away from these other platforms.
I made the mistake of commenting on a public news post over on CorporateBook about our record high temperatures, saying “if only we’d listened to climate scientists 50 years ago…” and all the crazies had to reply with the usual propaganda.
Yes, climate change has occurred naturally before. But never at the rate we’ve seen the last few decades.