Et si on rédigeait un article de presse sur le fediverse et qu'on le publiait un peu partout dans la presse ? Pour le moment on a pas une image super positive car 3000 serveurs c'est compliqué, que l'ui est austère...ça me gave.
Le tout en passant sous silence ce qu'on reproche aux réseaux sociaux capitalistes : cambridge analytica, transphobie, déni du rechauffement climatique...Et ça fait pas bouger plus que ça :bugcat_what:
Pourquoi ne pas faire une tribune pour inviter le gouvernement à suivre l'exemple de la commission européenne et des institutions allemandes qui sont sur mastodon ? :)
Pourquoi ne pas imaginer un immense dossier de presse sur les réseaux sociaux : ferme à clic, les modo de facebook, le contenu violent, le genocide des meymar puis on aborde le fédiverse avec l'interview des modos, des admins, des hebergeurs...et on présente quelques instances françaises, francophones.
Ça me brancherait bien comme aventure et qu'elle soit portée collectivement. Pas facile mais mon reve serait d'aller à la gare et de lire plusieurs grands titres sur le fédiverse. Et de donner envie à d'autres personnes de nous rejoindre. :)
I wonder what going public will mean for Reddit's nsfw communities. How long it's going to take until investor pressure forces them to crack down and bully or outright ban nsfw subreddits one by one.
Reddit is somewhat unique in that it's one of the largest remaining sites, or perhaps the largest since the Tumblr nsfw purge, that are fine with nsfw content and that recruit a considerable share of their users via nsfw content.
What are some other good sources for news, maybe rpg discussions?
One thought I had while browsing is how it would be nice if all those sites allowed you to login with your own made up identity that already exists. Like if I could log in as my mastadon randomwizard to go leave a comment.
Some 7% of Reddit’s free share float (or more) has been sold short so far, according to an estimate from the analytics company Ortex cited by Reuters. That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could...
I'm looking for a #Mastodon client that has a #Reddit like threads. I don't like the timeline view where all the replies and new posts get tangled together.
Today I finished day 100 of #100DaysOfSwiftUI by @twostraws. It's the end.
And to be honest, I feel a bit too overwhelmed to know what to write. Of course I'm proud of myself, because I never thought I'd ever get this far. But I'm also very sad because there's no Paul who will talk to me every day anymore 😥
I started my #SwiftUI journey about six months ago, with the Playground app from #Apple. I discovered Paul's 100 Days via #Reddit and stuck with it to the end. 💡
I am Daniel Knowles. I live in Chicago and I write for The Economist.
My first book, "Carmageddon: How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do About It", just came out. It is about the history of how cars first ruined cities; how they are still ruining cities in Europe and America; how they are about to ruin even more cities in Asia and Africa; and what we need to do to stop it.
I tried to just cover the "news" on this one, but I'm still too emotionally invested in how these social media services keep getting worse. https://somegadgetguy.com/2024/03/15/reddits-ipo-i-hope-it-fails/
I hope Reddit's IPO fails. It probably won't though...
I haven't been on #Reddit for a while, but here's a helpful tip for anyone who's thinking about participating in their IPO.
Reddit claims to be "the front page of the internet," like the Forum Romanum of our day. This claim is false, and easily disproven. If you want to see the TRUE face of reddit, look at the posting/comment history of the AutoModerator account.
What you see on reddit's front page is a veil. The REAL reddit is bots, scams, porn, and no small amount of hate.
TIL I learned that there's a subreddit devoted to mocking "ridiculous" names given to children by their parents (usually unusual spellings, and yes, some go completely overboard). I made it three posts before I found my daughter's name on one of their lists. Daddy is mad!!!
Visit #FanFiction.net, and you too can try to decide who you dislike more: #CloudFlare, the website admins, or the authors who keep posting there (hint: the last one is kind of unreasonable but not entirely without merit). Most websites give you at least one reason to hate them in 2024, but this is a three-for-one deal. For even more choice, get your #fanfic recommendations through #Reddit, where everybody ends up linking to the terrible, unnecessary mobile-specific version of the site because they have a terrible, unnecessary mobile-specific version of the site. #fanfiction
Tay gently pushed the plastic door of the printer shut with an edifying "click".
Servicing Dark Printers had been illegal for years now. They enjoyed the seditious thrill.
It had started as a subscription grab after the printer companies tried hobbling third party toner cartridges.
"Subscribe for a monthly fee and you'll never run out of toner again."
"Let us monitor your printer so you don't have to."
People saw it for what it was - vendor lock in - but they had no choice really, not after all the printer companies started doing it.
Then came generative AI.
Everyone wanted to scrape every word ever written on the internet, tokenize it and feed it to an #LLM. #Reddit sold out, then #Tumblr, even open source darling #WordPress - selling out their user base for filthy token lucre.
So people started hiding their words, their art, their thoughts, their expression, not behind disrespected robots.txt, but through obscurity.
Rejecting Website Boy's "fewer algorithmic fanfares", they forked into the Dark Fedi.
Unscrapeable, unscrutable, ungovernable.
But people had forgotten about the printers.
The printers had to be connected 24/7, for "monitoring".
But you could tokenize postscript as easily as HTML.
And so every time a document was sent to a printer, it was harvested for tokens. Even secure documents. Documents not online.
Tay shut the metal door behind them, Dark Printer cossetted safely in its Faraday cage, and shuffled the hot stack of A4 paper it had borne.
It was a children's story, about how words were sacred, and special, and how you had to earn the right to use them.
'Along with Sherwood Park, the subreddits for Lethbridge, Medicine Hat, Red Deer, Grande Prairie, and a handful of other small cities throughout Canada also recorded Russia in their top three countries of origin for users last year — results that alarmed both local users and experts on foreign interference.'
#Reddit account deleted. Before deleting, I deleted my posts going back ~15 years. Wasn't a huge number of them. Couldn't be bothered to delete my comments.
They never did seem to catch on that the few small communities I moderated were set in inactive and required mod approval for all posts, which never occurred. So basically it was dead since they pushed their luck with closing the API to 3rd party apps, and excessive general enshittification.
Alright, so many companies are using user or customer data for training #AI without consent that I think I'm going to have to make an ongoing thread to document them all. 🤖
Here we go! 1/x
Starting out with #Reddit who have sold user data to another company, that will use it to train AI:
Reddit stock is falling back to Earth because the short-sellers have arrived (qz.com)
Some 7% of Reddit’s free share float (or more) has been sold short so far, according to an estimate from the analytics company Ortex cited by Reuters. That’s something the social platform was worried would happen, noting in its prospectus that retail traders in its subreddits (and particularly on r/WallStreetBets) could...