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In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#Deltachat / #ArcaneChat even runs on an outdated phone ( #SamsungGalaxyXCover4 ) that hasn't got any updates for a long time. Another strong argument for changing away from #Googleplaystore , #meta and other bigtech companies.
#samsung #opensource #goodbyegooglepay
Happy #DiDay liebes #fediverse 😊
✅️ #Tutamail 🚫 #googlemail
✅️ #Protondrive 🚫 #onedrive
✅️ #CoMaps 🚫 #googlemaps
✅️ #firefox 🚫 #chrome
✅️ #ecosia 🚫 #google
✅️ #weawow 🚫 #wetteronline
✅️ #fairphone 🚫 #samsung
Und anlässlich des heutigen #digitalindependenceday:
#whatsapp gelöscht 😊
Jeder kann einen kleinen Beitrag zur Unabhängikeit und digitalen Souveränität leisten. Make #democracy great again!
#unplugbigtech #android #apple #microsoft #meta
P.S.: bitte das Bild nicht allzu ernst nehmen 🤗
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Das Bild zeigt eine wehende rote Fahne. Darauf der Kopf eines Pinguins. Unter dem Kopf des Pinguins steht: viva la open source
Haha, the first reply on zuck zuck is just genius
https://www.threads.com/@zuck/post/DVrwsE5EdSz
"Cropped and uncropped:"
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Zuckerberg and someone else photo
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Epstein, Zuckerberg and someone else photo
Just like many other social media corporations #Reddit is planning to require biometric / ID verification* of some users.
To get ahead of this, I have prepared an alternative for everyone :)
🎉 ...and just launched our rapidly growing #DeMeta Reddit community on a journey into the #Fediverse!
People can now also DeMeta on #Lemmy:
#Privacy #News #Happy #SocialMedia #celebration #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #MetaAI #Threads #Announcement #verification #Internet
It's Lets Talk Tech Thursday ...day. This week: why Oracle are in the news (and why you should be nervous). Also, Meta and YouTube have been fined, the White House have an app, and the UK government, MoD and train network have come together to test quantum navigation.
If any of that sounds interesting, have a read: https://buttondown.com/willrc/archive/lets-talk-tech-thursday-24/
#newsletter #tech #technews #LT3
#oracle #meta #youtube #quantumnavigation
I've recently summed up my thoughts on generative "AI" on my homepage. Here's a screenshot of that section.
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
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My thoughts on generative "AI"
I'm glad generative artificial "intelligence" was not a thing yet during the vast majority of my career. A number of realizations arose while exploring generative Large Language Models…
Generative AI is based on massive theft from creatives, without consent, credit or compensation. Using gen-AI is asking a chatbot to spit out the combined efforts of ripped-off creatives. It is industrializing and devaluing human expression, artistry and craftsmanship. Creatives are losing their jobs and motivation because tech corporations unscrupulously absorb and exploit their work. If you appreciate art, support the artists, not the thieves of their labor.
Tech corporations are building more and more huge data centers for AI processing, consuming lots of internet bandwidth, energy, water and more, increasing scarcity, prices and emissions, degrading the already fragile environment.
Unless you're using a fully local AI configuration, every bit of data you submit contributes to the power and reach of corporations and governments, decreasing your privacy and security.
Generative AI enables deepfakes that are widely used for abuse, deception, cybercrime, misinformation and propaganda, polluting justice, science advancement and news report credibility.
More text doesn't fit in this Alt text, but everything can be read over at https://metinseven.nl
BIG update for Instagram users! Meta is testing Instagram Plus, and it’s packed with features we’ve never seen before!
Imagine:
- Viewing stories anonymously
- Seeing who rewatched your clips
- Spotlighting stories to the front of the tray
The era of the "Super User" has arrived. Check out what’s coming! https://www.papertopost.com/instagram-plus-new-paid-features-meta-is-testing-in-2026/?utm_source=techhubsocial&utm_medium=social
#tech #bigtech #instagram #meta #instagramplus #subscription
RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114262003439129906
Ready for another joke? 🥁
The Irish Data Protection Commission, which is responsible for most major technology companies ( #Meta, #Google, #Apple, #OpenAI, #Microsoft,...) actually imposes fines in just 0.26% of the cases it handles. And even when a fine is imposed, the money is almost never collected. 🤡
Would love to see if there is a bigger #permaculture community here - left #meta and co two months ago for #upscrolled and since it’s still a smaller platform I’d love to see what’s being discussed regarding #soilhealth, #syntropicagroforestry etc. Always happy to link up and talk about practices this growing season in this climate deteriorating through #war and #exploitation of resources.
"The ruling sent shockwaves through #SiliconValley and sparked hope among families and child safety campaigners that change may finally be coming to #socialmedia. Mark Zuckerberg’s #Meta and Google’s #YouTube were found liable for deliberately designing #addictive products used by Kaley and millions of other young people.
It was one case centred on the suffering of one young person who became depressed at 10 and self-harmed, but Kaley, referred to by her first name or the initials KGM in order to protect her privacy, was the figurehead for a much bigger fight.
“We wanted them to feel it,” one of the jurors explained to reporters. “We wanted them to realise this was unacceptable.”"
Château Big Tech. Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw.
#BigTech #data #DataHarvesting #SocialMedia #Meta
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Cartoon showing a vineyard. Instead of vines, there are rows of people standing looking at their smartphones. A robot is harvesting their brains, picking them out of their skulls and dropping them into a cargo bed. Another robot is stamping all the brains into a fine mush in a giant wooden barrel. The barrel has a logo of a golden shield with a crown above it, with the logos of Meta, X, Amazon, YouTube and Google on it, and the text ‘Château Big Tech'. A worker is filling bottles from a tap at the bottom of the barrel. Another man, resembling Mark Zuckerberg, is standing a a table with bottles and glasses on it. The white cloth draped across the table has the text 'Data for sale'. A costumer is sampling a glass.
It's hard to watch people spend a day criticizing Zuckerberg and then see them posting links to all the products that make him rich.
An LA Court's ruling on Meta and Google exposes the real causes of online harms.
Engagement-driven design and data-fuelled advertising business models put people at risk.
Yet the UK government's approach to online safety has focussed on keeping kids out and locking adults in to toxic platforms.
#onlinesafety #meta #google #youtube #bigtech #socialmedia #ukpolitics #ukpol #BreakBigTech
Semana passada ajudei uma amiga a fazer algo no app do Facebook... fazia muitos anos que eu não navegava na interface do Facebook. Gente, eu achei feio de doer! Como alguém acha que isso é um bom design e fica criticando as plataformas do Fediverso?
Esquece o fato de eu ser anti-Meta, estou julgando a interface mesmo, achei ruim demais.
What ‘Get #AgeCategoryAPI’ Really Means for Your Device:
Proposed laws would embed persistent identity verification directly into operating systems…These bills mandate #OSlevelAPIs that apps can query for age data—creating a permanent identity layer baked into your phone.
Here’s where the #lobbying gets surgical. The proposed laws hammer #Apple’s App Store and #Google Play with compliance requirements but reportedly spare #socialmedia platforms—#Meta’s core business."
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech
I'm inclined to think that those in power within #systemd have zero interest in what anyone says or thinks at this point.
#MicroSlop, #Meta, #IBM, and many of the project's 'supporters' have their #proxies inside being pushed/pulled into #compliance. The privacy door on Pandora's box is open, and many want to see it stay that way.
Looks like nothing has been pushed to a release - yet. What then? Trusted #distros go scorched earth or split into even more factions?
bride
#chatgpt #openai #youtube #microsoft #x #tiktok #reddit #instagram #meta #art #comic #unix_surrealism
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Gamification of personal interaction degrades human health.
"An AI agent instructed an engineer to take actions that exposed a large amount of Meta’s sensitive data to some of its employees, in the latest example of AI causing upheaval in a large tech company..."
It seems hard to escape the AI virus. It's also infecting the open source world…
https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware
#FOSS #OpenSource #tech #technology #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude #editor #app #apps #tools #software #linux #FreeSoftware #free #BigTech
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #Fuck_AI #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
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A compilation of screenshots featuring ignorant AI responses to questions.
"#Meta will deprecate support for #endtoendencryption beginning on May 8:
"Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option from Instagram in the coming months. Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp."
The statement says the feature is being deprecated because not enough people used it — that the whole situation is our fault."
https://www.platformer.news/instagram-encryption-meta-whatsapp/
Honestly I don't even know where to start, just speechless.
This is just sooo bad 😡
#TikTok and #Meta = pure evil:
"maximizes profits at the expense of their audience's wellbeing"
"told us that it's because the stock price is down"
"maintain a strong relationship" with political figures to avoid threats of regulation or bans"
"advice to parents with children using TikTok is: "Delete it, keep them as far away as possible from the app for as long as possible"
A redditor (Ok_Lingonberry3296) traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records across 45 states to figure out who's behind the age verification bills.
The answer is Meta - a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it.
Page: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
Page backup: https://archive.ph/2026.03.13-193015/https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings?tab=readme-ov-file
Reddit discussion: https://web.archive.org/web/20260313143853/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/
#Meta #Facebook #AgeVerification #privacy #surveillance #dystopia #socialmedia #technology
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pheonix/116221805295722939
#Meta only exists for two reasons:
- Money
- Info gathering on everyone for reason 1
AodeRelay boostedIs this the first time a major service has removed end-to-end encryption instead of adding it? Why Instagram?
#instagram #socialmedia #privacy #infosec #technology #enshittification
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Screenshot showing, "Instagram's end-to-end encrypted messaging is ending on 8 May"
😵 🤯 Last year a #Meta Lobbyist became a new head of the #Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). Today, the former head of the DPC announced that she is now working for MHC - the Irish law firm for Meta that was previously defending Meta before the #DPC in #GPDR cases - basically a 360° seat swap between the Irish regulator and Meta.
This is not just extreme #CorporateCapture of a regulator and makes #Ireland a laughing stock within the EU, but moves like this also undermine any public...
The internet has an official name for the new #Meta stalker glasses: pervert glasses!
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@DatNoFact on Bsky shows a pic of Mark Zuckerberg in his new clunky black AI stalker glasses and says "Glad people are settling on the term 'pervert glasses.' Bonus points if you also say it while posting a picture of Mark Zuckerberg or call them Mark Zuckeberg's pervert glasses.
User @jessetaylor says "I'm taking a brave stance that may get me cancelled: there is no reason for the pervert glasses to exist."
Ending online harms isn't a game of whack-a-mole.
The only way is to bust the business model that rewards harmful results.
Nothing changes until we break the spell that keeps us on platforms; the harvesting of our data to maximise engagement and fuel advertising.
We need to get off the regulatory treadmill and #BreakBigTech.
Sign the petition ⬇️
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/break-big-tech
#OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #bigtech #meta #x #musk #zuckerberg #ukpolitics #ukpol
Presently reading the 56 page opposition brief in the #socialmedia case regarding teens - the PDF available in the article below.
O Hacker News discute os méritos de arrancar dispositivos de gravação do rosto de usuários de óculos Meta:
“Arrancar do rosto de alguém que está fazendo tudo isso voluntariamente, sem pedir sua permissão, um par de óculos que está gravando você, processando seu rosto e enviando dados biométricos e imagens para um dos piores violadores de privacidade do planeta é uma reação perfeitamente apropriada. Use toda a sua força.”
O que os óculos da Meta estão gravando? Funcionários terceirizados da Meta dizem o que eles vêem diariamente
"Os trabalhadores no Quênia dizem que se sentem desconfortáveis em ir trabalhar. Eles nos contam sobre vídeos profundamente privados, que parecem ter saído diretamente de lares ocidentais, de pessoas que usam os óculos em suas vidas cotidianas. Vários descrevem material de vídeo mostrando visitas ao banheiro, sexo e outros momentos íntimos.“A gente vê de tudo – desde salas de estar até corpos nus. A Meta tem esse tipo de conteúdo nos seus bancos de dados. As pessoas podem se gravar de forma errada e nem saber o que estão gravando. São pessoas reais, como você e eu”.
Os funcionários descrevem vídeos em que os cartões bancários das pessoas ficam visíveis por engano e pessoas assistindo pornografia enquanto usam os óculos. Clipes que poderiam causar “enormes escândalos” se fossem vazados. “Alguém pode ter andado por aí com os óculos ou por acaso os estava usando, e então o parceiro dessa pessoa estava no banheiro ou tinha acabado de sair nu”, diz um funcionário.
Fedi Meta going absurd [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Since folks can't decide who and what is to be #CW'd, I'll continue to use #hastags the way I do so, you can all either block/mute those and/or search for them, because #FullTextSearch and #CWs don't work consistently and the only issues re: #hashtag useage are IMHO #client-related.
- I'll gladly utilize anything that could
automovethem to the end (that I can run myself and doesn't require me to give someone else access to my account).
Ironia pura: #Meta #processa #Golpistas após faturar com anúncios falsos -
Via Canaltech -
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"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards."
Bradley Whitford
#BigTech #Oligarchy #Greed #FarRight #Authoritarianism #Cowardice #Meta #X #Amazon #Google
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"When authoritarianism is on rise, you can count on the richest, least vulnerable men on the planet to be the biggest cowards."
Bradley Whitford
Spread the word about the new Android app "Nearby Glasses" from @yjeanrenaud that watches for Bluetooth signals of "smart" glasses from Meta Facebook, Oakley, and Snap. No network permissions needed. AGPLv3 and coming to F-Droid ASAP.
https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses
#Android #smartGlasses #Meta #SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #FDroid