Finally, the #FTC intends to impose real #privacy rules on #Meta: New services or service changes only after an independent privacy evaluation shows that they are compliant. No commercial use of data harvested from #underage users.
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.
US-Behörde: Facebook immer noch "substanzielles öffentliches Risiko"
Trotz Rekordstrafe soll Meta weiter Datenschutzauflagen verletzt haben. Die FTC will jetzt speziell Kinder schützen. Ob das Manöver gelingt, ist offen.
What a shit #Facebook is. Someone registered an account with my email, and now I receive shitload of spam from them. I cannot remove that account, FB forms are not working and it seems the only way to delete that account is to PROVIDE scanned document of my ID, which will not match the said account and it’s my ID I don’t want to share with Facebook. Fuck you, Suckerberg. I hope you rot in agony along with your shitty scam company.🤡
US FTC says as a result of #Facebook misleading parents and failing to protect the privacy of children using the Messenger Kids app, Meta will now be prohibited from profiting from data it collects on users under 18.
Gestern bin ich auf #LinkedIn über einen Thread gestolpert, der mich an #facebook erinnerte und dazu brachte, im Ergebnis circa 30 Profile zu blockieren. Auslöser war ein Beitrag zu #Habeck und #Graichen. Dazu kann man gern stehen, wie man will, aber dieser Thread eskalierte sofort in Hass, merkwürdige Vergleiche, Verschwörungsmythen und extreme Forderungen. Die Akteure: >>>
I wish I never got exposed to any #SocialMedia. I was a late #Facebook adopter & it didn’t take me long to feel depressed because of all my friends faked charmed lives. Then I found out my overseas cousin, who I was fond of, turned out to be an annoying asshole. I had a friend stalk me around Facebook & comment to every post I made. After 3 years I dumped FB. In 2016 I was on Twitter when disgusting liar clown #Trump won & got fully addicted to all the depressing news. For what? I believe FOMO.
I am seeing people share things and news links intended to persuade or outrage people.
When I look to see what sources are cited, for corroboration, so on and so forth, there is nil. I've done this for roughly about 90% of the things I ran into via the the Explore tab, & I turned up nothing 60% of the time.
Another thing I realized yesterday is that I've been holding back on fully embracing Mastodon as my social media home. I've felt so burned by #Facebook monetizing its users that my profile there is filled with fake info, and I rarely post there anymore...especially anything personal. I basically only keep the account around to check in on friends and family.
Here, I don't feel like a product; I feel comfortable opening up a bit more. It's been taking some adjustment, to say the least!
WordPress.com: Why #Twitter Auto-Sharing Is Coming to an End
For WordPress.com and #Jetpack users, Twitter will no longer be part of Jetpack Social. However, we’re adding #Instagram and #Mastodon very soon. In the meantime, auto-sharing to Tumblr, #Facebook, and #LinkedIn still works as expected, and you can continue sharing your blog post links on Twitter manually through their app or desktop site.
This confirms what I've been thinking #Musk is going to do with #twitter. He's turning it into a big mall: first he partnered with eToro to expand the #financial services they offer, now he's trying to set up a virtual #news stand, next it will be #shop-fronts for every #brand that wants to sell things on Twitter.
The idea here is that he'll get rent for the shop-fronts, while also getting a cut off all the transactions...
@unattributed That actually sounds like a good idea considering how much people use social media; but, we've never seen this done successfully because (both #FaceBook and #Instagram have failed at this).
But, I was mostly referring to #Twitter trying to become a home for articles. I doubt it will find a way to integrate them well; it's still a microblogging platform at heart, after all.
The idea of charging per article is pretty cool though.
"The fediverse is like social-media unionization for journalists
Dear journalists, this is the best opportunity you'll ever get to actively fight back against the attention-hoarding platforms that have been grossly undermining the power of the Fourth Estate for the past two decades.
A true revolution for independent media is available to you as a mere three-step process..."
@strypey I think some headway could be made on the way orgs compromise their #Twitter & #Facebook presence. When an org does not consider total twtr/fb abandonment as an option, a good middle ground is to get them to at least remove the twtr & fb links from their public facing websites. The essay simply suggests orgs stop using twtr as a “default” w/out detailing what that means.
#Twitter invested at least $13M in #Bluesky.
Sure, they say it operates independently, but Musk must still retain significant influence and control through Twitter's stake. Moving from Twitter to Bluesky might seem like flipping off Musk, but is it really? Did moving from #Facebook to #Instagram make you feel like you just flipped off Zuckerberg?
Maybe this why Bsky is getting such a boost on birdsite right now. The goal was eventually to integrate it to Twitter (Verge reported).
Meanwhile, there is a true #Fediverse that is not built and controlled by billionaires.