Because of X and Meta fucking things up once again, people are talking about abandoning social media, because there are no corporate free alternatives. Right.
meta
Werbung für #Pixelfed und ein erster Einstieg: Meine Pixelfed Tipps und Tricks:
https://thomas-ebinger.de/2025/01/meine-pixelfed-tipps-und-tricks/
Gebt mir gerne Feedback, was ich ergänzen soll und wo man weitere gute Tipps im Internet findet.
cc
@mho @dansup @cg
#meta #MetaAde #instagram
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Threads.net has been suspended on this server (darkmoon.social) due to Meta's policy decisions that enable systemic abuse and disinformation across its platforms.
This is a decision I've been mulling over for a while now, and recent events have pushed me to finally pull the trigger. I will not associate with fascists, even by proxy. I'm sorry to lose access to good content by people who have accounts there, but enough is enough.
#fightFascism #Meta #Threads #Defederation
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Windkraftwerke einfach pflanzen
Die 1. Folge @rebootpolitics im neuen Jahr ist endlich draußen \o/
Dieses Mal sprechen @zwecki und ich über folgende Themen:
die Urteile im Fall #Pelicot, unseren Demotag bei #Riesa1101, den #Bombenfund in #Dresden und den IT-Ausfall bei der Stadt, die #ePa, das #VW-Datenleck, die neue Betrugsmasche mit dem #Paypal-Gastzutritt, #Zuckerbergs Pläne für #Meta und sein großes Vorbild #Musk, einen rechten Ex-Richter und jetzt Abteilungsleiter im Justizministerium in #Thüringen, das geplante TV-Duell mit Rechtsextremen bei den #ÖRR, unsere Beobachtungen zur #Bundestagswahl, wie die #AfD & #CDU gemeinsam gegen #Bürgergeld-Empfänger*innen arbeiten und die Stärkung des #BVerfG.
https://podcasts.homes/@rebootpolitics/episodes/windkraftwerke-einfach-pflanzen/activity
After @zuck changed #Meta’s content policy around offensive content, I noticed that the number of sites that @threads previously blocked have now been unblocked: https://www.threads.net/moderated_servers
Sites previously blocked for trolling 🧌, or promoting vulgar content (like Baraag whose existence is evil) are also now unblocked.
Curiously, all #Pixelfed instances are still “muted,” although #Fediverse handles will still show up on #Threads.
Il va falloir enchaîner sur un #HelloQuitteMeta parce que le trip trumpiste de Zuckerberg est une abjection. Et "accessoirement" ce n'est pas à un patron américain d'imposer sa loi et sa vision du monde immonde sur l'Internet européen, merci bien.
https://www.rtbf.be/article/instagram-et-facebook-ont-bloque-des-publicites-pour-des-pilules-abortives-selon-le-new-york-times-11494303
#Meta #Facebook #Instagram #avortement #Zuckerberg #Whatsapp #extremeDroite #réactionnaire #société #féminisme #droitsHumains #santé #santéPublique
New #Introduction post!
Hello I'm Noelle! I'm a blogger and reader who also plays musical instruments (guitar, keyboard) and takes photos. I believe that Meta and Google are not only killing the planet through their data centers but also democracy through the division their products have created. They are also taking over our lives by how much time we spend a day with their products (email, social media, YouTube).
#Mastodon #fediverse #Google #Meta #blogger #reader #books #photographer
Apparently, if you have facebook or Instagram installed on your phone, #Meta was able to track your browsing habits and link them to your real identity even if you never logged in on the web, used incognito mode or a VPN. I hope Meta gets hit with every fine in the book.
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could
https://video.anartist.org/w/viWrnxAkWmjf67ezrwURb1
Cuantas veces has escuchado la frase "vivimos en una distopía"?
Una colaboración con @proyectouna
Locuciones invitadas de: @sarariveiro y Vir Domingo
Fuentes y referencias: https://somoschinicuil.github.io/distopia-muy-aburrida.html
#distopia #tecnofeudalismo #tecnologia #Meta #x #twitter #amazon #musk
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As Facebook Abandons Fact-Checking, It’s Also Offering Bonuses for Viral Content
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Meta decided to stop working with U.S. fact-checkers at the same time as it’s revamping a program to pay bonuses to creators with high engagement numbers, potentially pouring accelerant on the kind of false posts the company once policed.
https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-meta-abandons-fact-checking-boosts-viral-content?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France brought by authors and publishers who are accusing the company of economic “parasitism.” Read more at @Techcrunch. #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #AI #Copyright #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/mSO6-8
Several of my papers are in that LibGen database Meta used.
I feel a bunch of ways about it, but one way I feel is that it adds insult to injury. In all but two cases I was required to sign an onerous agreement to get the paper published, handing over rights to a publisher that is continuing to abuse this arrangement (in my view). I did that begrudgingly because I was early in my career and didn't think I had another option. Later I experimented with refusing to sign these agreements and publishers walked back the terms somewhat (I don't know if that's possible now).
I also feel that the Meta computer scientists responsible for this betrayed their own colleagues, which I find pretty scummy.
Anyway, I don't consent to any of this. It's been imposed on me and countless other authors.
#LibGen #meta #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
I feel a bunch of ways about it, but one way I feel is that it adds insult to injury. In all but two cases I was required to sign an onerous agreement to get the paper published, handing over rights to a publisher that is continuing to abuse this arrangement (in my view). I did that begrudgingly because I was early in my career and didn't think I had another option. Later I experimented with refusing to sign these agreements and publishers walked back the terms somewhat (I don't know if that's possible now).
I also feel that the Meta computer scientists responsible for this betrayed their own colleagues, which I find pretty scummy.
Anyway, I don't consent to any of this. It's been imposed on me and countless other authors.
#LibGen #meta #LLM #AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI
"The new feature would likely be an unwelcome one for users who would rather keep comments AI-free on Instagram, especially those who believe their friends deserve genuine comments as opposed to AI slop."
https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/21/meta-spotted-testing-ai-generated-comments-on-instagram/
#news #technology #TechNews #meta #instagram #SocialMedia #AI #slop
Uhhhhh so I just went on a really long rant on my blog about why I don't like Meta platforms. 😆
It's called "8 reasons why I think Meta platforms are pointless".
#Meta #SocialMedia #blog #writing
https://bookswithnoelle.wordpress.com/2025/06/27/8-reasons-why-meta-platforms-are-pointless-imho/
I was reminded today that Meta/Facebook's data center project is called Hyperion. Here are some facts about that name that may or may not be of interest.
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
Hyperion's name comes from two Greek words that together mean "watcher from above" or "he who goes above".
Hyperion was a Titan, the ancient Greek gods that preceded the Olympian gods like Zeus, Athena, etc. Prometheus, Atlas, and the word Titan itself are frequently used to name tech projects. A fun web search is "COMPANY_NAME Titan"; try it. It seems lost on these folks that the Titans were deposed by the Olympian gods and condemned to an eternity in Tartarus, a kind of hell. In other words they're the loser gods, if you want to be simplistic and vulgar about it.
It is believed that one of Hyperion's offspring, Helios, as well as all of Helios's offspring, were imagined as being black-skinned.
My wife, who is a classicist, and I regularly shake our heads about the names of tech projects like this. I always ask her for the dirt on the name, and she always delivers (as in the above, which I credit to her).
#DataCenters #Cloud #AI #Facebook #Meta #Hyperion #GreekGods #AncientGreece #Titans #Classics
"Your #privacy is our priority. With that message has #WhatsApp last week sent all its users a message" (translated from Dutch from an article in De Telegraaf, a large newspaper in the Netherlands)
There is too much gossip about WhatsApp according topman Will Cathcart.
"#Signal is very cool: the number of new subscriptions in the Netherlands is this year 25 times as high as before"
WhatsApp is closed source. Do you trust #Meta? Signal is #opensource.
Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up
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Companies may avoid consequences for alleged wrongdoing as the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau drops lawsuits against Capital One and Rocket Homes and pauses investigations into Meta and others — including providers of medical credit cards.
#News #Consumer #Business #Law #Meta #Tech #Trump #DOGE #Musk
The #AI race is a marathon. The finish line is product addiction. AI service providers need their models to become indispensable in corporate offices and for the average consumer.
The problem for venture capitalists is no one knows how long that will take. No one knows how much runway they need.
It's less of an issue for big firms like #OpenAI and #Meta. But the smaller firms will soon drop like flies when the funding wells run dry. Another oligopoly in the making.
🖥️🚲
Hi 😀 durch die einführung von #meta #ai gibt es nun einen schlagenen grund mehr, meta und #whatsapp zu verlassen. und z.b. auf #signal umzusteigen.
erzählt das auch euren technisch und #datenschutz nicht so affinen mitmenschen.
die #mdedien pennen und plappern nur #marketing sprüche nach.
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#XSF Announcement
Today the #XMPP Standards Foundation publishes an Open Letter to urge #Meta to adopt XMPP for messaging #interoperability.
It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen.
https://xmpp.org/announcements/open-letter-meta-dma/
#jabber #chat #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #standard #dma
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Meine IT Datenschutz Liste
für euch alle !! 
auch als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/PRF8ytzospxXokcfT+W-r0V9/
#Datenschutz
#Privatsphäre
#Sicherheit
#DigitaleSouveränität
#Verschlüsselung
#Chatkontrolle
#Linux
#Windows
#Windows10
#Endof10
#Windows11
#Betriebssystem
#Supportende
#Gaming
#Browser
#Fediverse
#Mastodon
#Suchmaschine
#Passwortmanager
#Informationssicherheit
#YouTube
#Werbeblocker
#2FA
#eMail
#Messenger
#UnplugTrump
#UnplugBigtech
#BigTech
#AI
#GraniteAct
#CloudAct #Fisa #ForeignIntelligenceSurveillanceAct
#Meta
#Facebook
#TikTok
#Instagram
Meine IT Sicherheits-Privatsphäre Übersicht für alle :-)
( 05.08.2025
Die weiterentwicklung von #GalyxOS stagniert
wohl erstmal...)
als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/Kvo0eIWc8SfCJYXTxujy+YlD
sachliches-Feedback wie immer, erwünscht :-)
#Privatsphäre #Datenschutz #sicherheit
#security
#AppStore
#Kryptografie
#Passwort #PasswortManager #Informationssicherheit #Informationsfreiheit #IFG #Politik #Gaming #gog #Lutris #Android
#Mail #Cloud #Browser #WebBrowser #Verschlüsselung #DNS #VeraCrypt #Fdroid #Messenger #Threema #Signal #Linux #Foss #OpenSource #UnplugTrump #Fediverse #Menschenrechte #Community #LinuxHelden
#GamingonLinux #VPN #GegenRechtsHilfe #FediLZ #Mastodon #Shopping #PreppingforFuture #Prepping #Katastrophenvorsorge #Schutzmaßnahmen #supportyourhinterland #Mobilfunk #NewPipe #uBlock #Medienkompetenz #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #YouTube #Chatkontrolle #überwachung #Matrix #Suchmaschine #Tastatur #2FA #Nichtszuverbergen
Edited 196d ago
Bé, dissabte nit fent hores extres. mastodont.cat, entre d'altres molts servidors del fedivers i externs, ha estat "escrapejat" per els bots de #Meta (https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower). La llista:
https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf
Parlant amb altres admins, he modificat el fitxer robots.txt per a impedir als màxims bots IA possibles que "escrapejin" directament mastodont.cat.
El nou robots.txt que ja tenim actiu:
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Following the success (sarcasm!) of my previous post "Battle of IMs", I decided it's time to write another post where I try to articulate in a technical but snarky way my view on the wonderful world of social media, and which one is best among the mainstream and non-mainstream ones. This is a long post, reviewing 14 different "socials".
https://gagliardoni.net/#20250818_battle_of_socials
#socialmedia #social #privacy #selfsovereignty #security #digitalsovereignty #mastodon #nostr #bluesky #ssb #securescuttlebutt #facebook #meta #tiktok #threads #x #twitter #diaspora #friendica #linkedin #xing #instagram
We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.
#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
https://vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-social-a-new-mastodon-instance/
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