Wow... in August Meta will be officially killing off CrowdTangle, a major research tool for investigating Facebook and Instagram. This couldn't come at a worse time for those who are tracking disinformation ahead of 2024 elections. Yes, Meta promises to provide new research tools, but the application process is onerous and the extent to which researchers will be able to process and analyze data is unclear.
After the spyware… (ahem) after the app supplied users with numbers to call, one teen threatened “I promise you do not ban TikTok. If you want a January 6th riot, that's what's going to happen. Don't do it”
…this, after giving their full name and address at the start of the call
(Via Politico)
You missed the simple point of same vs. same , i.e. - 1:1, e.g. - mirror vs. mirror so your use of 'very-bad' seems.. perfect as an analogy that is just supporting my points. Cheers 🥂 for that Cesar Thumbs Up 👍 for my message.
You know you could just edit this so as to not have to keep replying, right? ┐( ˘_˘)┌
Because you don't seem to know a whole lot about Meta it seems not its history of... Well.. how about, as you requested in the thread above, catch UP to an industry trade coverage wise in I.T. with this linky here then circle back when you have finished reading the 1000's of articles I have already read?
Checking your English seems to be UK based, yeah? Would you like me to localize the damage that Meta has done to your specific country or USA or perhaps another region? Ireland perhaps? 🤔
#Facebook offered me a suggestion of an explicitly nazi blackmetal band, which I promptly reported for hate speech. The band featured a swastika as the background of their header image.
Facebook's reply?
"This doesn't go against our community standards."
“#Meta’s platforms, including #Facebook and Instagram, went down for thousands of users on Tuesday, because of what the company called a “technical issue.” The outage was resolved within around two hours.”
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Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.
Reactions on extreme right and pro Israeli accounts goes from sadbes, to condemnation and mostly ridicule and calling him "deeply disturbed individual".
Both #CNN and #NewsWeek were forced to edit their initial posts about Aaron Bushnell's tragic protest action to include some parts of his final words but removed the reference to #Palestine there.
Other articles refute that he might have been Jewish, his #LinkedIn and Facebook pages have been removed, together with his final post where he explained why he chose to protest the ongoing genocide in Gaza and American complicity in it by setting himself on fire.
Images of DC police holding a gun against him instead of trying to put out the fire have been deleted and accounts posting them receiving up to 2 week ban on #Facebook and #Instagram.
I'm honestly kinda sad. I'm not sure what to do on my phone anymore. #Socialmedia has become so stale and boring that I'm not even sure why I use it. Sharing experiences and communicating with people is great and all, but to what end? It's all become so fragmented now that I feel like I need 10 different accounts on different services. Frustrating.
@BeAware@cdp1337
It's not "everything opt-in only" we are talking only about BlueSky-like commercial enterprises making non-native proprietary bridges, trying to move into almost Fediverse-only principle-orientated spaces (such as being much less-corporate)...
...like a different fish altogether
or shark 🦈 joining into Fediverse waters... different type of protocol and servers and even people... all add up to something different.
So there is good reason to ask people to opt-in because "Hi we're kinda-Capitalism and we're here coming here to pretend to be like you but not quite AND like a colonial empire making a bridge... we offer our people and services 'kinda like' you do in smaller caring ways, but we do it on massive corporate scale for an engineering kick mostly and "who knows what will happen later?".
"Why do you care about our reasons?" is a question to ask yourself and them.
Since it's not guaranteed or able to be said in future about these type being bought out too 🤑 it is a real danger we're still seeing happen to communities... in exchange for 💰 down the line 🍂.
So even if you or corporate skeleton care in the same way today. it doesn't mean a rug pull later won't happen when someone totally different buys this out and put it into their own portfolio or puts it to sleep...
[no offence but it is different for more reasons than you say even if I'm talking to wrong person for some of these things].
Aside from the principles and priorities by BlueSky being in such corporate containers I think I'd like to entertain many points here and just get that cleared up....
I did read that link and basically find the google / facebook / twitters style thing engineered for Fediverse thing is not what we want (and why almost all came here in first place) so people working in BlueSky who previously were developing and working or google etc - all difficult to see as something not to later regret and usual recipe for disaster / selling out...
I'm not doubting the technological but it's little comfort to try something you could have had using ActivityPub but 'you' (those companies) ALREADY CHOSE DIFFERENT and now there is a reason(s) they want to "tap-in" ⛏️ / get into this side of things...
They could have just made Mastodon instances and been happy with more humble ways... but I'm sure there's going to be other plans here - for them it has to be constant profit for almost no reason. Never good.
I guess Jack Dorsey not being part of it any more and deleting his account is also one kind of sign too and ethical check...(he's still of a kind of general sitting board of council, but he's not working on this just in case people think he still is).
Again written for speed to really think about differences here...
Merging a proprietary protocol is a BIG DIFFERENCE... and then other reasons deepen the differences. A different fish.
I've always liked Cory Dotorow's @pluralistic work, but his latest article is just next level good. ‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything - It's a long read, but I suggest you give it some attention. I've archived it for your convenience. https://archive.ph/RO3kX#enshitification#CoryDoctorow
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not pro-monopoly - they're just realists who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the weather.
But there was a curious pattern to GDPR enforcement: while smaller, EU-based companies were swiftly shuttered by its provisions, the US-based giants that conduct the most brazen, wide-ranging, illegal surveillance escaped unscathed for years and years, continuing to spy on Europeans.
One (erroneous) way to look at this is as a "compliance moat" story. In that story, GDPR requires a bunch of expensive systems that only gigantic companies like #Facebook and #Google can afford.
"You people have no idea how backwards #US privacy law is. The last time the US #Congress enacted a broadly applicable #privacy law was in 1988.
The #Video Privacy Protection Act makes it a crime for video-store clerks to leak your video-rental history. It was passed after a right-wing judge who was up for the #SupremeCourt had his rentals published in a DC newspaper. The rentals weren't even all that embarrassing!"
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) gave a talk in Berlin that everyone should read. In it, he explains enshittification's rise and rise and rise -- and how everyone but monopolists is victimized.
It doesn't have to be this way. Cory tells us what we can do about it.
He is a sage for our times, and we should take his advice, now.
"But in case you want to use #enshittification in a more precise, technical way, let's examine how enshittification works.
It's a three stage process: First, platforms are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die."
Last night, I gave the annual #MarshallMcLuhan lecture at the #transmediale festival in #Berlin. The event was sold out and while there's a video that'll be posted soon, they couldn't get a streaming setup installed in the Canadian embassy, where the talk was held:
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Ban Online Behavioral Advertising, please Mr. #facebook and Mrs. #meta
"Such targeting supercharges the efforts of fraudulent, exploitive, and misleading advertisers. It allows peddlers of shady products and services to reach exactly the people who, based on their online behavior, the peddlers believe are most likely to be 🤪vulnerable to their messaging. Too often, what’s good for an advertiser is actively harmful for their targets"
Github vs. Email Aliases
Github dislikes email "aliases" so much that they will shadow ban your otherwise normal activities for months, and once flagged, support will request not only a "valid" email domain but also that you remove the "alias" email from the account completely.