> Zuckerberg declared in a March update that Meta's "single largest investment is advancing AI and building it into every one of our products." Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told CNBC in April that he, along with Mark Zuckerberg and the company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, were now spending most of their time on AI.
@rysiek@TechDesk@intelwire #Facebook + #AI = #dystopia and #psyops at a new level. Perhaps the #metaverse adventure was just a smoke screen or distraction from what they have been working on all along. There has never been a more urgent time for Facebookers to poison their data and orchestrate escape.
Bluesky is going to skyrocket to mainstream popularity and actually replace Twitter, and Mastodon cannot, because Bluesky is being designed to be simple, fun, and — most importantly — easy to understand.
"The vast majority of violence, including virtually every terrorist attack in the last 25 years, coming from the far right, has not been from anyone affiliated with a group. Most of what we see in the violent actions are individuals who are radicalized online into toxic cultures"
The #Metaverse - the once-buzzy technology that promised to allow users to hang out awkwardly in a disorientating video-game-like world - has died after being abandoned by the business world.
“#Layoffs are definitely a confession of poor #management," Jeffrey Pfeffer, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Business School, told me. His reasoning: Research shows that generally, layoffs don't improve a company's fortunes. Quite the opposite: They don't reliably raise a company's profits or stock price, but they do reliably reduce remaining employees' morale, commitment, productivity, and trust.
“When Mark Zuckerberg declared 2023 "the Year of Efficiency" for #Facebook parent #Meta Platforms, several questions seemed unavoidable: Aren't companies supposed to be efficient every year? If this is the Year of Efficiency, what were all the previous years the Years of Squandering?”
I am conflicted by @mozilla content policies announcement. I appreciate that a lot of thought went into it, but I think they could be used to eliminate a lot of necessary social tension.
An example is their violent content policy: “Users may not share content that depicts abuse of humans or animals, or that includes excessively gory or violent imagery that…can disturb other users.“
I am a lifelong #vegetarian and I’ve been #vegan for 20 years. Photos of meat/dead animals disturb me. Am I to assume then that sharing this content will be banned in that instance? And if not, why not?
Also, nothing on who will be #moderating content. Is it volunteers, #Mozilla staff, external contractors??
Mozilla is a very well-funded nonprofit with almost $75 million dollars in assets. If any organization can scale a #fediverse#Mastodon instance, it is them. Yet even they are replicating the #Twitter#Facebook#Meta model of outsourcing moderation.
Outsourced moderators will be denied Mozilla's famous world-class benefit packages AND all the rights non-contracted workers are entitled to. Thanks to Prop 22, they could even be gig workers or perma-temps.
#ichbrauchmehrzeichen um meine Beiträge so zu beschreiben wie ich es gerne möchte. 500 Zeichen pro Trööt sind einfach nicht genug.
Auf #Twitter, #Instagram und #Facebook habe ich viel mehr Möglichkeiten. #Mastodon ist da einfach zu beschränkt, um ordentlich arbeiten zu können.
Ich hoffe, dass sich das ändern wird und die Anzahl an möglichen Zeichen auf 1.500 signifikant erhöht wird. Bei der Bildbeschreibung sind ja auch 1.500 Zeichen möglich, warum nicht im Trööt selbst?
Been trying out #Calckey. Seeing how full-featured it is, it seems to me that a Calckey instance devoted to education would be a great use of the software! #Edutooters
The last sentence of the article is literally the only reason I have any interest in Facebook anymore (I don’t have an account). It’s become the main place to buy/sell stuff in my community.
“I really like Marketplace. I recently just moved, so that was where I got most of my furniture.”
#Twitter is a proprietary platform. #Facebook is a proprietary platform. #WhatsApp is a proprietary platform. #Instagram is a proprietary platform. #Telegram is a proprietary platform. #Signal is a proprietary platform. #Mastodon is a proprietary platform.
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Social media is kinda melting down right now. Except Mastodon... Mastodon is doing fine...
#SGGQA 298: The Calm Before Google I/O, Twitter Blue is a Flop, Bluesky off to slow start, Facebook Pages Hacked