#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.
“Despite the mental toll of the work, which has left many content moderators suffering from PTSD, their jobs are some of the lowest-paid in the global tech industry, with some workers earning as little as $1.50 per hour.”
“More than 150 workers whose labor underpins the AI systems of Facebook, TikTok and ChatGPT gathered in Nairobi on Monday and pledged to establish the first African Content Moderators Union”
A few words about Mapilio, the new alternative to Mapillary and KartaView (competitors(?) to Google Street View), but mostly on how to download the images published there
Un provvedimento di limitazione è in arrivo per #Meta, con buona pace dei "Eh ma il #Garante se la prende solo con #ChatGPT, ci rubano il futuro". Io non mi preoccuperei, ma se vi va di andare di #VPN per paura #Facebook scappi con la cassa...
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!