A bitter, angry rant on #scoopz shaming all these #maga idiots I've seen who are currently going around to everyone on #socialmedia who looks fairly healthy on #snap to say "JUST GET A DAMN #JOB YOU ARE LAZY".
People are seriously doing that, and it made me cry earlier that we are in 2025 and people like that still exist.
It needs to stop. That behavior goes against every core value a decent person should have and is the DEFINITION of shameful.
One problem with Mastodon that bothers me is that you can't change your user ID, your nickname, so to speak. To do so, you have to move your account, migrate to another account, which can be on the same instance.This comes with the inconvenience of not being able to move your posts automatically.
I had my first account in late 2016, with Mastodon newly created, shortly after my first Twitter account. I didn't use it much and then switched to this instance (infosec.exchange) to follow people and information related to infosec and bugbounty (bughuntercat).
Then I got tired of that cat and migrated to this account with my real name. I can't seem to get comfortable with this. Maybe it's my habit of hiding and my reluctance to use real personal information online.
I no longer even know who I really am, so I pretend to be someone else.
I have an account that's the oldest I have right now, and I'm tempted to move everything there. In the end, people don't really care who you are or if you even exist. It would have to be something permanent because I'm getting old and my autistic ass doesn't like so many changes at all. I've moved 45 times in my 62 years of life and it seems I have the urge to do the same with my online digital spaces. To read the work of good people who do hacking, programming, and tinkering I really like this instance with the devices, so well managed by Jerry @jerry .
I only have Mastodon and an Instagram account that I share with my wife. I know that I may not have much time left in this world since my health is plummeting like a kamikaze plane and I don't want to continue wasting my time on vain things.
I don't even know why I'm telling you this, which by right might not matter.
I want to have and live an autistic, almost monk-like life, quiet and without looking out the window at that toxic world in which I have lived for many years. Thank you for sharing your cats, memes, jokes, and your work here.
(The photo is of Hakka, my youngest cat, who is 8 years old. A tremendous rooftop fighter whom I admire. A martial artist like his human father.
#mastodon #infosec #actuallyautistic #socialmedia #socialnetwork #cats
Am Mittwoch hat unser Bündnis " @offene_netzwerke und demokratische Öffentlichkeiten" unsere 4 Forderungen zum 🇪🇺 „Europäischen Gipfel zur Digitalen Souveränität“ vorgestellt.
Hier das Video in 26 Sprachversionen
🔗 https://displayeurope.video/w/1xijkEtEd4dMnvJD386s7C
Mit dabei:
@bjoernsta
@rstockm #savesocial
#SpeakingOutOfPlace welcomes #OmarZahzah to discuss his book #TermsOfServitude: Zionism, #SiliconValley, and Digital / #SettlerColonialism in the #PalestinianLiberation Struggle
#Palestine #PalestineSolidarity #media #digitalMedia #socialMedia #mediaCriticism #tech #BigTech #censorship #digitalCensorship #cyberharassment #digitalRights #digitalActivism #Gaza #oPt #books @bookstodon
Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook and Instagram after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to court filings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/11/23/tech/meta-buried-social-media-harm/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #meta #facebook #instagram #socialmedia #mentalhealth #us
Top Execs Exit #Trump Media Amid Allegations of CEO’s Mismanagement and Retaliation
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Several people involved with the former president’s company, operator of #TruthSocial, believe the departures were retaliation following internal complaints about CEO Devin Nunes to the company board.
#News #DonaldTrump #DevinNunes #TrumpMedia #Business #SocialMedia #Tech #Media
I think large social networks should verify users. It's like getting a driver's licence. If you don't want to verify your identity, you can, but you won't see content from unverified individuals and your content won't be visible to others.
The only problem is implementation. We need a system that chooses what data to transfer (name and age) and how.
Everything we write on open social networks should be something we can say on the street.
🚀 The Future is Federated - issue no.12 👩🚀
"Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 2)"
mentioning: @alttexthalloffame @Gargron @FediTips @ivory @IceCubesApp @Tusky @Simx72 @phanpy @jon @mathi_gwithyas @rysiek
#TheFutureIsFederated #tech #Fediverse #BigTech #SocialMedia #FOSS #blog #accessibility #AltText #CW #ContentWarnings #Phanpy #Ivory #Tusky #Mastodon #IceCubes
#Fandom isn't big in the open #SocialWeb and the current issue in siloed #SNS / #socialmedia is:- A black person #cosplay of a white elf- A #fanart of a white elf as blackThe consensus is:- Cosplay is fine- Fanart is not: it is "blackwashing" & "cultural appropriation"How about you?#Anime
#Fandom isn't big in the open #SocialWeb and the current issue in siloed #SNS / #socialmedia is:
- A black person #cosplay of a white elf
- A #fanart of a white elf as black
The consensus is:
- Cosplay is fine
- Fanart is not: it is "blackwashing" & "cultural appropriation"
How about you?
Das #Fediverse-Erklärvideo in vier Minuten von Elena Rossini (deutsch)
https://digitalcourage.video/w/bace7684-72b1-4fcc-a365-6a5f6c8ffde7
Elon Musk's posting addiction might be causing regulators to decline a plan that would let SpaceX launch more rockets out of Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Read more at @xataka. #ElonMusk #SpaceX #X #SocialMedia #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/-Y8rwB
For Every Person...
https://www.patreon.com/posts/145970536
#Capitalism #CorporateGreed #EatTheRich #PayTaxes #BeTheChange #Consolidation #BigCorpo #BigOil #BigPharma #BigTech #War #Extinction #Peace #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #StopFossils #CleanEnergy #Patreon #ProtectNature #SocialMedia #Love #PublicTransportation
Australia’s ban of under-16s from social media platforms is now in force. But how is it working out?
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @camwilson about how the ban came to be and what might have been a better approach.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/307_how_effective_is_australias_social_media_age_limit_w_cam_wilson
#tech #autech #australia #socialmediaban #socialmediaagelimit #socialmedia #facebook #youtube
Forward-thinking journalists are not letting the “media apocalypse” happen to them. Instead, they’re doing the work that arguably has been most critical all along: building direct connections with their readers. @404mediaco's @jasonkoebler and @ProPublica's @ben join fediverse futurist @mike for a conversation about the discovery and sustainability of quality journalism.
Read more about the episode here: https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/jason-koebler-and-ben-werdmuller/
Watch and listen at PeerTube here: https://flipboard.video/w/r7z6QY3dm5EqrFmDFkAgPY, or wherever you get your podcasts.
#DotSocial #Flipboard #Federation #Fediverse #ActivityPub #OpenSocialWeb #MikeMcCue #SocialMedia #Media #Journalism #MediaIndustry #ProPublica #404Media
A new @iftas report brings insights from fediverse moderators, administrators, and community managers: worsening mod-to-user ratio, spam, burnout, lack of tools.
"Moderators are the backbone of a safer social web – but most are unpaid, under-supported, and under constant strain. If we want a future for decentralised platforms that respects user agency, civil speech, and community autonomy, we need to support the infrastructure that keeps it safe."
https://about.iftas.org/2026/01/08/the-2025-social-web-trust-safety-report-is-here/
Filipino-American software engineer, Zeu Caupa, talks about ATP—the protocol behind the ATmosphere social network where Bluesky is currently the largest app.
Exploiting Meta’s Weaknesses, Deceptive #Political Ads Thrived on #Facebook and #Instagram in Run-Up to #election2024
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Despite Meta's stated commitment to crack down on harmful content, it failed to catch tens of thousands of ads that used false claims and deepfakes of political figures to collect users’ sensitive personal data or bait them into monthly charges.
#News #Tech #SocialMedia #Business #Badvertising #Scam #Meta #Government #politics
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-instagram-meta-deceptive-political-ads-election
bear with me for a second:
a million reasons, but a big reason the #democrats lost is because the center of gravity for #media has moved to #socialmedia
where the #trolls and #disinfo play. enough dum dums bought the lies
the democrats didn't play that game. because what game can they play in that shit?
it's literally owned by #plutocrats and #fascists
so... how do we fight?
we need our own
and what do we have
#mastodon and the #fediverse
we need to grow like a fucking weed
am i wrong?
I found the "quick boost" setting in Mastodon's preferences, and like it much better with this turned on. #Mastodon #JoinMastodon #SocialMedia #tech
[edit: apparently this setting came in with Mastodon 4.5.0 in November. Seeing how quickly people have boosted this, a lot of us didn't notice but wanted it.]
«Atmospheric Computing» by Paul Frazee
> the clouds are closed, and if the clouds are closed then they'll do everything well except interoperating with others.
> We need to bridge our clouds. It's as simple as that.
More than 20% of YouTube's feed is now "AI slop," report finds
https://www.techspot.com/news/110735-over-21-youtube-now-ai-slop-report.html
#tech #technology #socialmedia #ai #artificialintelligence #aislop #YouTube
‘#OpenSource And #Ethical’ #TikTok, #WhatsApp And #Instagram Alternatives Could Transform #SocialMedia
from #Forbes
By Esat Dedezade, Contributor.
Esat Dedezade is U.K.-based journalist who covers Big Tech for Forbes
Jan 25, 2025, 12:23pm EST
[a very well-written article with a favorable yet realistic angle on the #Fediverse]
"At the heart of these alternative apps lies the Fediverse platform — a portmanteau of "federated" and "universe" that represents a radical reimagining of how social media can work. Unlike traditional platforms where users are locked into isolated ecosystems, the Fediverse operates as an interconnected network of independent servers that communicate with each other through a standard protocol called #ActivityPub."
#Pixelfed #PeerTube #Mastodon #Loops #Sup #FreeSoftware #SocialWeb #technology #news #press
Phanpy and GoToSocial is a killer combination.
GoToSocial has some great privacy controls, but has no front end by default. https://gotosocial.org
Phanpy, the alternative Mastodon web client, looks really sleek. https://phanpy.social
And it seems pretty easy to run them side by side.
