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Folks of #mastodon and the #fediverse I need your help to gain what the public opinion of brands on mastodon would be, I have a poll here: https://awscommunity.social/@Ric/112130070395618406 could you help boost this and get as many people as possible to fill it in, maybe @lisamelton can help too (pretty please)

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What’s people’s thoughts about big brands coming to mastodon/fediverse? #mastoadmin #mastodon please boost for more opinions.

64% Fine it’ll help the mainstream adopt it
13% Hell no stay away
9% I’ll just fediblock them
13% Idk

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There goes the neighbourhood.

#threads #meta #facebook #fediverse #mastodon #surveillance #capitalism #PeopleFarming

A (presumably federated) Threads post by surveillance capitalist Mark Zuckerberg: “First post in the fediverse! 👋 “

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Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

But, yes, please, do federate with them mastodon.social. Because senpai noticed you.

#meta #facebook #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #mastodonSocial #mastodon #usefulIdiots

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🔴🇺🇸Americans worried more about their pocketbooks than helping Ukraine: US reportedly tells Ukraine to stop striking Russian oil refineries amid largest Russian attack on Ukrainian energy infrastructure (more) https://kyivindependent.com/ft-us-reportedly-tells-ukraine-to-stop-striking-russian-oil-refineries/ #Ukraine #Press #Mastodon #USA #UK #EU #EuropeanUnion #UnitedStates #UnitedKingdom #NATO #News #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#BanRussianAgricultureFromEU
#BanRussianGrainFromPoland
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious

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Flipboard hat sich entschieden, "all in" beim Fediverse zu gehen. Was bedeutet das eigentlich konkret und warum liegt die Zukunft von Social Media in dezentralen Apps wie #Mastodon? Flipboards CEO @mike McCue hat mit @1E9tech darüber gesprochen und zum ersten Mal spannende Einblicke mit der deutschsprachigen Community geteilt.

Mehr dazu im Interview:
https://1e9.community/t/groesste-veraenderung-des-web-seit-dem-web-selbst-warum-flipboard-ins-fediverse-zieht/19997

#journalismus #journalism #tech #socialmedia #fediverse @Flipboard

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A year can go by in a flash. And that’s certainly how I feel as @Flipboard marks the first birthday of our Mastodon editorial desks. We tentatively dipped our toes into the water, not sure what to expect. What we quickly discovered was a smart, engaged community of people truly curious about our world for all its virtues and faults.

We instantly observed far more replies, favorites and boosts than we ever saw on X (Twitter) even though we had many more followers there. By November, we abandoned X to focus on Mastodon and a few other platforms.

When we launched our Mastodon accounts, we had no idea that Flipboard itself would federate, which is a work in progress. In recent months, we’ve federated our editorial curation from the app, greatly expanding your options to follow the topics you’re most interested in, such as news, politics, sports, entertainment, etc. And we’re in the process of federating publisher Flipboard accounts so that you can follow their topical Magazines. Already, you can find accounts such as Smithsonian Magazine, Euronews, Frommers, CBS Sports and SPIN.

Thank you for all of your feedback and support. If you like our work, please boost this post and help us grow our audience.

@NewsDesk
@TechDesk
@ScienceDesk
@CultureDesk
@ArtPhotosDesk

And check out two new country-specific accounts:
@FlipboardUK
@FlipboardDE

#FollowFriday #Mastodon #MastodonMigration #Media #Journalism #SocialMedia #Tech

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welp Mastodon has finally become a real place for #BreakingNews I learned of the Baltimore bridge collapse here first. Went to Xitter and bluesky and nothing there yet at all. #Baltimore #BridgeCollapse #News #Fediverse #Mastodon

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Who is the music artist or group who appears most often in your record/CD/streaming collection?

#music #Mastodon #BlackMastodon

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Great interview with Jay Graber (CEO, #Bluesky) on Decoder with Nilay Patel (@reckless1280), where they dig into some of the major difference between Bluesky (#ATProtocol) and #Mastodon (#ActivityPub).

#fediverse #federation #socialweb #socialmedia

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/decoder-with-nilay-patel/id1011668648?i=1000650348585

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They didn't even bother to change the word "toot" on #TruthSocial in the Dutch language

Yes, he did not "build" TruthSocial but took #Mastodon source code and added anoher front end

The current source code is from 2022 meaning that they don't comply with the Mastodon licence OR they run a old version that has critical security flaws

Talk about a major fail..

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The reason why #Threads and #Mastodon are incompatible is that Mastodon is a community, and Threads is a market. That's it.

It's not big Fed vs small Fedi. It's not platforms vs protocols.

It's communities vs markets.

Communities are supportive and markets are extractive. Communities answer to those who must live with decisions made. Markets answer to money.

And wouldn't you know it, those contrasting forces influence people's behaviors, goals, and motivations for engaging with others.

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Dear @Gargron,

A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:

“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”

https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?

Thank you.

PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia

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你好 #Mastodon！

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Hello all, I'm trying something new to get a better vision of #Sengi users, what you like in the app, what you don't like and miss.

(yes, it's a survey 😶)

You can find it here: https://forms.gle/QbVhVQDnuShfvhUB9

Since it's the first time I'm doing this exercise, don't hesitate to give me any feedback about the process by itself!

Also, boosting for visibility will be highly appreciated. 🙂

#mastodon #pleroma #app #fediverse

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Hallo liebe #Mastodon-#Community! ❤️

Falls jemand mein neues #YouTube-#Video auf meinem #Kanal noch nicht gesehen haben sollte: Sehr gern gleich mal vorbeischauen und auch gern mal meine bisherigen Videos anschauen! 🥰

Selbstverständlich gilt das Gleiche wie auch sonst immer: Liken, kommentieren und weiterpetzen ist natürlich nicht verboten und sogar sehr gern gesehen! 🥰

Impressionen vom Wasserstoffzug Alstom Coradia iLint (Frankfurt (Main) - Königstein (Taunus)
https://youtu.be/6TiAl8TajVc

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⛔️🇺🇸Trump sides with Putin: Donald Trump's plans to force Ukraine to cede land and people for a temporary reprieve, thus allowing Putin to rearm is now open foreign policy aim of MAGA Americans (more) https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2024/04/7/7450134/ #Ukraine #USA #UnitedStates #Mastodon #NATO #EU #EuropeanUnion #Press #News #russiaUkraineWar #10yrInvasionofUkraine
#BanRussianAgricultureFromEU
#BanRussianGrainFromPoland
#NoUSRepublicans2024
#BetterOldThanSeditious
#USHouseBackOnVacationDay13

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In December, we started to federate the accounts of some Flipboard publishers and in February, we introduced Magazines to the fediverse. Now, we’re taking two important steps: federating the accounts of 400 creators and expert curators; and enabling two-way communication so that new followers and fediverse activity are visible and actionable in the Flipboard app.

To learn more about this, take a look at our blogpost:

https://flipboard.medium.com/flipboard-federates-11-000-magazines-by-400-creators-and-enthusiasts-82dd94691f74

Find all the handles of our newly federated curators here:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iUFTo6rPvhqzCReLaM1c6-xUKRuBVqlZVStZl9Al-EU/

Thanks so much to everyone who has given feedback on what we’ve done so far. We welcome your thoughts and comments as we continue on our journey to fully federate Flipboard.

#Fediverse #Federation #Flipboard #ActivityPub #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #Curation #MastodonMigration

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Introduction, or better to say, re-introduction :-)

Well well well. I guess I should introduce myself a bit :-)

Hi, my name is Expert Plus, or at least this how do I call myself on Internet. I used to have else nicknames, but I prefer that one.

I am interested and focused on privacy. I am 3D artist as well.

I discovered Mastodon back in April 2021, but then left, because at the time I was (and still is unfortunately) a Twitter user, when it was still called Twitter, when it felt like Twitter, when was Twitter's API used to be free and not paid.

And one of the things that I always wanted is to get verified, to get that blue checkmark badge, you know? Never got it.

I wanted to verify my identity so people would know that it was me and of course - who wouldn't want this, huh? - I wanted to be and look famous.

Of course I never got that many followers on that place, and never got verified :-(

At the time, one of the things that were popular on Twitter was #100DaysOfCode and I started using it at the time to get more discovery from people (I was interested in programming at the time and quite experimented with practicing HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc, but then I understood it's not my cup of coffee and left that interest)

Plus, I started using the #followback challenge (which means that if you follow some people who participates in that trend, they will follow you back) and after I found out it worked, I started crazily follow insane amount of people and got 200 followers.

Of course, at the time, it was smart Twitter's moderation and not Elon's stupid moderation, so I got my account suspended very quickly.

I then applied to their form (if you've been a Twitter user you know what am I talking about and you're indeed aware) and they unbanned me. Then I got banned 2 more times and after getting banned for 3rd time, I finally quit Twitter. Nope, I didn't switched to Mastodon instead, I weren't aware that it will soon become popular, I just quit Twitter without looking for alternatives. Could you believe that, huh?

Well, ok, back to my story. When I quit Twitter, it was April 2021. They banned my account with no reason right on my birthday, on 14 April 2021, when my parents gifted me an Alexa device, I logged in to my Twitter account on it, and then, apparently Twitter suspected it was a suspicious login, so after getting suspended for the 3rd time, I had quit Twitter because I got tired of its stupid bans of my account.

So, 1 year had passed. It's April 2022, and, as I was browsing YouTube (I recently became privacy focused at that time, but that's another story that I will tell the other time), I started hearing more and more rumors that Elon Musk is about to buy Twitter. Unlike people like you, who prefer to freak about him being idiot, I didn't knew Elon that well, although I was aware of his existence, and I - guess what? - believed that he is going to save Twitter and give it the freakin' edit button I needed for years!

Well, he bought it. I don't know if anyone of you, as Twitter users remember that, but at the time, the first thing I noticed that he had implemented was the down button which looked like this -> ⬇️

The second curious thing I noticed is the "Twitter Blue" thing. I looked it up but it didn't interested me.

Then, you know, Elon had "unbought" Twitter, getting rid of his deal, but then he re-bought it.

Anyways, my story is, that at the time I was using an amazing app - have no idea if anyone of you used it back in day - which was kizie.co due to the fact I needed a better Twitter app since 2019.

I will not share my eventual reaction to Elon's stupid changes as he implemented them, but will say this: in May 2022, as I heard rumors people were leaving Twitter for Mastodon, I re-joined Mastodon this time at mstdn.social .

Sure, I liked it, but still preferred Twitter because the main 3D community was there and Blender artists, like Gleb Alexandrov and Captain Disillusion (both are here now BTW, although CD had stopped being active on Mastodon and still prefers Twitter. He is on Threads as well) and else artists.

BTW, if you can name please, what 3D artists and 3D news can I follow on here, I would very much appreciate it, because that was the reason I liked Twitter, and that's - yes that's - what gave me the Twitter vibe that I miss on here. If you know anyone on here who posts news about 3D artists (example: 80 LEVELS on Twitter) , is a 2D animator artist, is a 3D Artist, let me know, because I damn need that much to follow people like these and would be very grateful for this, thank you in advance!

But back to my story. So, in May 2022, I joined Mastodon, and then....when Elon started banning many accounts, - mstdn.social former and current probably remember - many Mastodon servers started becoming unavailable to use, and even Elon made fun of it.

I don't remember, but somewhere around in 2023 (probably after rebranding, oh yeah, probably after that), I started becoming more active on Mastodon now, switched a few Mastodon servers, and now I'm on here.

Here are a few facts I noticed:

On Twitter, you're not allowed to have the "expert" username. That's ridiculous, because nobody can have that username on on there. Also, you can't have username more then 15 characters which isn't great right?

Mastodon has most of the issues fixed. Edit button weren't on both Mastodon and Twitter, although Elon promised he would implement it, and Mastodon implemented it first (Friendica actually implemented it first long before all of that Elon-related stuff happened), and only then Elon did.

So!

Now I'm on here, have better engagement, most but not all, of my Twitter followings has been restored on here, on Fediverse, and now what?

Well, I recently switched to this Mastodon server. I used to have 140 followers before, now since I switched, it's 117. With your help, I hope I will hit 200 followers soon.

I learned how Mastodon's engagement works, I posted a few viral posts on my previous account, and hope, will post on here as well.

Oh and BTW. Guess what? The username that I have on this server is already taken by an inactive Twitter Russian account. I tried contacting anyone who was related to it, but never got any response back :-(

Anyways, hi :-)

Hope I will be welcomed on here :-)

P.S, Actually, if anyone interested, no, I didn't removed my Twitter account yet. There are still people who are my favorite (not Elon actually, I hate him and block him) who refused to joined ANY Twitter alternatives. Are you familiar with Mutahar? Mutahar, who is known as SomeOrdinaryGamers? Well, he is one of these guys who haven't joined ANY Twitter alternatives, although, back in day, he did made a video about Mastodon's Twitter account suspension and the Twitter Migration itself.

#privacy #verified #twitter #mastodon #introduce #introduction #introductions #introduction2 #introductioncontinued2 #blender #b3d #art #artist #x #elon #musk #elonmusk #twittermigration #friendica #mastodonmigration #mastodonmigration2 #socialmedia #blender #blender3d #technology #programming

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Karma is something. It’s been exactly 35 years since five boys were arrested for things they did not do, then held for a vicious attack they did not commit. The evil thug who put out this 1989 ad against the five boys (now Exonerated Five) is NOW in a NYC courtroom ON TRIAL. #nyc #centralpark #exoneratedfive #Mastodon #BlackMastodon

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😂 That was odd! When I mentioned @darnell@flipboard.com on my #WordPress blog, it pinged my #Flipboard account on my iPhone even though #ActivityPub is not yet activated (I received a push notification, which later revealed nothing 😆).

If it pings again via #Mastodon, I might do various tests upon other #Fediverse accounts (like #Misskey & #Threads).

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Hallo liebe #Mastodon-#Community! ❤️

Mit leichter Verspätung (aus unerklärlichen Gründen hab ich vergessen und übersehen, dass YouTube standardmäßig bei Premieren den nächsten Tag vorauswählt) ist mein neues #YouTube-#Video auf meinem #Kanal online: Sehr gern direkt mal vorbeischauen und gern auch mal meine bisherigen Videos anschauen! 🥰

Selbstverständlich gilt das Gleiche wie auch sonst immer: Liken, kommentieren und weiterpetzen ist natürlich nicht verboten und sogar sehr gern gesehen! 🥰

Impressionen von der Historischen Straßenbahn auf der "Nürnberger Frühlingsvolksfestlinie F"
https://youtu.be/f3dyRQFOCMg

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EU leaving Fediverse (Mastodon & PeerTube) because no one wants to operate the servers

“In recent years, a total of 40 institutions have opened an account with EU Voice, including the EU Data Protection Supervisor, the European Court of Justice and the EU Commission. The video platform, on the other hand, was used by six institutions … the EU institutions were thus the largest group of public institutions in the Fediverse worldwide.”

https://netzpolitik.org/2024/mastodon-und-peertube-eu-macht-fediverse-dicht-weil-niemand-die-server-betreiben-will/

#eu #fediverse #mastodon #peertube

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Don’t you dare say that voting doesn’t matter. In late 2022 in a recount Kris Mayes (who announced indictments of Rudy Giuliani and co today) won her election race for #Arizona atty general by 280 VOTES.

VOTING MATTERS. Everywhere. In every type of election. State. Local. Federal. https://tinyurl.com/3muy3eze

#Mastodon #BlackMastodon #usa #politics #vote #votingmatters