Lots of new folks taken interest in to Mastodon, because of Meta. Let's welcome new people 
socialmedia
I just want to take a moment to call out one particularly great contributor to the Fediverse, @dansup (aka @dansup@mastodon.social) and just say that Pixelfed and Loops are just great. Thanks for doing what you do and being who you are!
If you want to know about Pixelfed (https://pixelfed.org) or Loops (https://loops.video) check out their respective websites and send your props to Dan!
#fediverse #pixelfed #loops #socialweb #socialmedia
If you read Peter Pomerantsev in the Observer today, you'll find some support for the position set out over the last couple of days in response to an earlier post; that the Fediverse is a viable competing space for social media where the problems of the Musk/Zuckerberg controlled social media could be countered by example & practice.... this is also the strategy that Pomerantsev is promoting.
No mention of Mastodon but we can infer this is what he means!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #JustSaying #SocialMedia #Pixelfed #Instagram
@pixelfed
"Stopping a company you distrust from profiting off your personal data shouldn’t require tinkering with hidden settings and installing browser extensions. Instead, your data should be private by default. That’s why we need strong federal privacy legislation that puts you—not Meta—in control of your information.
Without strong privacy legislation, Meta will keep finding ways to bypass your privacy protections and monetize your personal data. Privacy is about more than safeguarding your sensitive information—it’s about having the power to prevent companies like Meta from exploiting your personal data for profit."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/01/mad-meta-dont-let-them-collect-and-monetize-your-personal-data
#SocialMedia #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #Privacy #Surveillance #DataProtection
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#Mastodon #IndieDev #SocialMedia
This week's net.wars, "Banning TikTok" watches two US presidents go from "Oh my God! The kids are using *TikTok*!" to "Oh, my God! The kids are *using* TikTok!": https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/01/17/banning-tiktok/ #NetWars #SocialMedia #TikTok #FreeSpeech
FediCon kicks off tomorrow in Vancouver 💫
And... our co-founder @michael is making the trip across the Atlantic to be there - that's over 7,460 km!
We wouldn't make these trips if we didn't believe in the Open Social Web and how it can be used to better the world.
In particular, Michael is looking forward to meeting all the amazing faces we speak to regularly online in person.
If you're there, say hello!
#FediCon #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #Tech #Event
Pet peeve about the #RedNote thing (besides the fact it's not really it's name)
For goodness sakes 小红书’s name is not in reference to Mao's little red book. Just because Westerners call that "little red book", doesnt mean the Chinese called it that. It's not a direct translation la. (For one, calling anything 小 “small” diminishes it's importance so why would the Chinese do that wei? In Chinese Mao's book is called 红宝书 (Hong Bao Shu) "The Red Treasure Book" or formally, 《毛主席语录》 (Mao Zhuxi Yulu) Quotations from Chairman Mao.
Chinese people just like to label everything red, ok? It's our most auspicious colour. It's lucky. Our hong paos are red. Our wedding dresses are red. Red is everywhere during Chinese New Year. This had been like this for thousands of years before the CPC. Alrighty?
Nah you guys won't believe me anyway why do I bother typing this 😆
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Starting to feel like this 2025 Influx of users is much larger than 2022 Influx of users. New users come in huge waves. Many of them also seem to genuinely like Mastodon according to the feedback. In 2022 many tried, soon gave up and left to Bluesky or back to X. Today, many have even deleted their commercial accounts and settled here.
I like this new development of things. Seeing new faces and more cat photos bring me so much joy. Thanks for being here. Remember that you matter. 
#MastoAdmin #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Meta
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[thread 3/x] Transphobia
[thread 2/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113448330077621809
[parent 1/x] https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113126756218775408
#GOP #Trump2 #fascism #Project2025
#ChristianRight #Catholicism #OpusDei #ParentalRightsMovement #populism #CultureWar
#DivisiveRhetoric #SocialMedia #memes #polarization #WedgeTactics #WedgeStrategy
#Christofascism #transgenocide
#WeaponizationOfLanguate #transgenderism
#FamilyResearchCouncil #FRC #HeritageFoundation #LibsOfTikTok #MomsForLiberty #AcPEDs
#WomensRights #misogyny #SelfDetermination
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REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news
🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"My Year of Fediverse explorations"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/my-year-of-fediverse-explorations/
with shout-outs to @pixelfed @dansup @pfefferle @gotosocial @yunohost @phanpy
#tech #Fediverse #BigTech #socialmedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog #Friendica #Pixelfed #Lemmy #GoToSocial #YunoHost #Mastodon #ActivityPub #Wordpress
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Welcome to Vivaldi Social, Mastodon and the Fediverse.
If you are coming from a place like X, Facebook or TikTok, this place is different. The good thing is that you only see things in your feed from people you follow. The content is shown reverse chronological.
This means that you will likely see a lot less misinformation, hate speech and AI crap.
But if you do not follow anyone, your feed will feel empty. So go ahead and find people and organizations that you like and follow them. Make things interesting. There is a lot of interesting people out there.
The search is great for finding content and who to follow. Hashtags are useful when searching as well.
#fediverse #Vivaldi #X #Twitter #Facebook #TikTok #SocialMedia
#coding --> #socialcoding
#community --> #movement
#users --> #fedizens
and
#technosphere --> #sociosphere
#fediverse --> #peopleverse
#foss --> #soss
and
#socialmedia --> #socialnetworking
#socialgraph --> #socialfabric
#techstack --> #socialstack
#app --> #solution #service
#product --> #socialexperience
and
#dx #ux #ui --> #sx
#project --> #fsdl
#projects --> #ecosystem
#development --> #cocreation
#forge --> #forging
#contributor --> #peer
#contributing --> #peerproduction
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🚀 New on #TheFutureIsFederated 👩🚀
"Supporting the Fediverse, one small act at a time"
https://blog.elenarossini.com/supporting-the-fediverse-one-small-act-at-a-time/
with shout-outs to: @elduvelle @nacly @nclm @thek3nger @docpop @angie_marie2 @frank @dansup
#tech #Fediverse #activism #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #FLOSS #blog
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"Thinkers like Jean-Paul Sartre and Hannah Arendt warned us that the point of this deluge is not to persuade, but to overwhelm and paralyze our capacity to act. More recently, researchers have found that the viral outrage disseminated on social media in response to these ridiculous claims actually reduces the effectiveness of collective action.
The result is a media environment that keeps us in a state of debilitating fear and anger, endlessly reacting to our oppressors instead of organizing against them."
https://www.404media.co/you-cant-post-your-way-out-of-fascism/
I am going to revive my #Youtube channel and start posting there as well.
#clapper is fun, but I made that because of how low the barrier of entry was. It was the easiest #app to just grab and start #livestreaming with, and allows adult content so if something crazy happens at a #protest I don't lose my channel.
If I want to stream I need to use #twitch and YouTube, they are just harder to get into.
Clapper is a bit ghetto really xD
New from Francesca D'Annunzio: Under Governor Greg Abbott's multi-billion dollar border security bonanza, Operation Lone Star, the Rio Grande no longer holds back law enforcement efforts. Today's digital border reaches across Texas and beyond. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-dps-surveillance-arsenal-artificial-intelligence-lege/
This story is presented in partnership with the Pulitzer Center.
#surveillance #tech #SocialMedia #GregAbbott #police #border #privacy #security #USpol #politics #news
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Hey friends.
If you who were/are following me on Pixelfed, I'd kindly ask you to please follow me over on Vernissage if at all possible.
I decided to leave Pixelfed several weeks ago and am now posting on Vernissage.
You can follow me via this link:
Or you can even follow the associated Mastodon account here:
i use the 🦋site now...
this acc is only for watching...
please follow me there please 😉
https://bsky.app/profile/djxspeedy.bsky.social
#AEW #ROH #STARDOM #NJPW #Wrestling #ProWrestling #WomensWrestling #social #SocialMedia
Do you have any idea how long it takes to do custom transitions for like 70 #photos ?
About 5 hours apparently so you better like this because I deserve like 100 bucks for this if someone was paying me to make it.
I do accept donations if you're so inclined but I never expected a dime.
https://youtu.be/20rwAkjnIEU?si=omJijFPWoLJnYxL0
Just a compilation of my #photography with music about my #adventure through #losangeles the last few months.
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Remember when the web was fun? @cwebber does, and she reminded users of that in her keynote speech at last week's FediForum, in which she talked about how the fediverse can't succeed without joy. Here's @ricmac's writeup of the event, which included presentations from @_elena, @quillmatiq, @mike, @michael, @benpate and more.
I received an invitation to @surf by @Flipboard and I couldn't wait to share my unboxing experience! It's my first time using this platform, and let me tell you, I'm super excited. It combines Threads, BlueSky, and Mastodon in one feed!
#SocialMedia #Flipboard #Mastodon
#Fediverse
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