Moving to https://kbin.social/m/FediPact
Hi all, because this instance has tended to be somewhat unreliable, we'll be concentrating on the magazine at https://kbin.social/m/FediPact...
Hi all, because this instance has tended to be somewhat unreliable, we'll be concentrating on the magazine at https://kbin.social/m/FediPact...
fedidb.org no longer has a list of FediPact instances for some reason....
Meta's upcoming 'P92' app is reported to have ActivityPub compatibility (link)...
With the launch of Threads, there's been a lot of interesting talk about the safety and privacy risks it poses to people on the fediverse, if and when Meta begins federating. But it's also worth examining the risks to the social systems....
great collection of resources, writing, etc for supporters of a Fedi that's free from the clutches of surveillance capitalists. Thanks to @ophiocephalic for putting it together :)
Don’t know how many have seen this, but @vantablack provided screen shots of a conversation with someone who claims to have friends at meta and knows something about their strategy and what’s covered by the NDAs:...
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
For the moment kbin doesn't offer the possibility of blocking an instance. The only possibility if offers is to "silence" it, that means, the user don't see the posts from this instance, but the instance (Meta in this case) can access the data posted by the user....
We, the moderation and administration of tech.lgbt, are signing the Anti-Meta Fedi Pact in fellowship with our peer communities. (https://vantaa.black/pact)...
Experts say it underscores the importance of encryption and minimizing the amount of user data tech companies can store
I wrote an article outlining some of the reasons why I think we should defederate Meta.
Protests over secret study involving 689,000 users in which friends' postings were moved to influence moods
The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel
I plead my case to Mastodon's lead dev @Gargron here: https://mstdn.patatas.ca/@smallpatatas/110516124221635618...
Tech giant ends policy in the U.S., adopting a country-by-country approach.
Exclusive: Calls for Meta to curb rise in scams on its platforms, which will cost UK households £250m this year
A good post by Darnell Clayton. This is from late May, so there's been a bit of new information since, but I don't think it changes much about his analysis.
Some suggestions that have been made:...
archived 6 May 2023 13:48:40 UTC
The Stanford Internet Observatory documented how a web of social media accounts advertises and distributes abuse materials