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Drumroll for da #poll
@quiltgran @Grumpygrannyquilts @heidilifeldman @jcrabapple
‘Murrican #thanksgiving gratitude-family-and-friends-day in the US
Biggest debate ever on #twitter .
What are you serving, making, buying for #thanksgiving day?
Pardon the botanical pedantry please.
- #Sweetpotato pie (genus ipomoae) (0 votes)
- #Pumpkin pie (genus cucurbitae) (0 votes)
Well, even though we'd like them to come here, better late than never.. and we'll still be here for them when Bluesky falls!
"I would hate to exclude people who might choose to stay on Twitter,” - for sure, we wouldn't want to deprive the Broligarchs, racists, bigots, fake AI and bots from their daily dose of Neuroscience content!
Good news!
The #University of #Amsterdam has also decided to "no longer actively post on #Twitter"!
The news item says: "... we are looking for a suitable alternative."
Let's do our best to convince the university to at least *also* have a presence here on social.edu.nl!
@SLURF @SURF @wlaatje @RaulInzaurralde @OpenTech_AUC @vtijms @bon @foxy @mfmcl
Maybe @vuamsterdam can help convince the UvA to join us?
Senator @Paulatics Paula Simons rose today in Question Period in Canada’s Senate to ask the government why (the hell! - my words lol) Government is still using that platform of hate, misogyny and Russian misinformation called X!?
Boost to support the Senator!! And ask your MP, MLA, or other government representative wherever you are to do the same!!
#Mastodon #Fediverse #Twitter #X #Government #twitterMigration
youtu.be/y1D7PlvSFTE?si=73DThK…
1 av 3 användare på Twitter är en bot?
Undra hur det kommer se ut på Bluesky?
youtube.com/watch?v=GZ5XN_mJE8…
- YouTube
Bekijk je favoriete video's, luister naar de muziek die je leuk vindt, upload originele content en deel alles met vrienden, familie en anderen op YouTube.www.youtube.com
Folks, please do delete your X accounts, by all means, but I’d be very surprised if that meant that your data is deleted or that Elon Musk won’t be using it to train his AI, etc.
I put in a data deletion request after deactivating my account in 2022 and set the Irish DPC on them when they didn’t. After several back and forths, with the Irish DPC being less than worthless, I gave up. Afaict, there is zero enforcement of GDPR Article 17.
CC @noybeu
#Austria: Left-wing journalists leave #Musk's platform #X hand in hand
Source: postdiscus.com/2024/11/austria…
#news #Twitter #hate #protest #moderation #fail #problem #freespeech #journalism #boycott #politics #economy
Austria: Left-wing journalists leave Musk's platform X hand in hand
Departure mood on X: Austria's left-wing journalists are leaving the platform for Bluesky. The reason? Elon Musk, "super troll" and destroye...PostDiscus | A critical eye to the usual narrative
Manche sagen: Sollte man nicht auf X bleiben, um dort menschenfeindliche Ansichten zu widersprechen? Klares Nein! Das wäre, als würde man sich in das Bierzelt einer rechtsextremen Partei setzen, in der Hoffnung, deren Überzeugungen durch Diskussion zu ändern – ein aussichtsloses Unterfangen, das eher deren Bühne stärkt als echte Veränderung bewirkt.
STOP #ENSHITIFICATION
Support #Mastodon!
I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting technical work on moderation and ranking that I truly admire, and I’ve got lots of friends there who really enjoy it.
But I’m not on Bluesky and I don’t have any plans to join it anytime soon. I wrote about this in 2023: I will never again devote my energies to building up an audience on a platform whose management can sever my relationship to that audience at will
@pluralistic
#bluesky #x #twitter #facebook #socialmedia #enshitification
doctorow.medium.com/https-plur…
Bluesky and enshittification - Cory Doctorow - Medium
Next weekend (November 8–10), I’ll be in Tucson, AZ: I’m the Guest of Honor at the TusCon science fiction convention. I would like to use Bluesky. They’ve done a bunch of seriously interesting…Cory Doctorow (Medium)
We’re getting it wrong when we tell folks that #Mastodon is just like “Old #Twitter”. If you want that, that’s #Bluesky. Mastodon is a different kind of place.
This is a more intimate community that discourages “influencing” because there’s no profit motive for eyeballs. The microblogging approach may look similar to Twitter but the way the communities form and conversations evolve is fundamentally different.
It’s no uptopia; we’ve got a shitload of work to do to make it safer.
TIL it is possible to import your Twitter account posts to Bluesky. Post portability may be a winning argument for many.
Source code of the tool: github.com/marcomaroni-github/…
#Twitter #Bluesky #SocialMedia
GitHub - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-bluesky: Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account.
Import all tweets exported from X/Twitter to a Bluesky account. - marcomaroni-github/twitter-to-blueskyGitHub
Does this seem like a good fit? - The #X algorithm at its finest!
It seriously appears to be going down the drains.
The other suggestions regularly change, but some #US generals & #BillGates keep showing up.
Is X trying to promote them or are those ads?
Furthermore the home page always shows #ElonMusk posts, even if you don't follow him.
#Twitter #Xitter #SocialMedia #Humor #Joke #screenshotsunday #algorithms #Internet #Microsoft #FckMicrosoft #Parody #manipulation #platform #observation
If you still have a #Twitter account, consider boosting my posts about the #Fediverse there...
twitter.com/RockstarRaccoon/st…
(Nitter addon enabled: Twitter links via https://nitter.privacytools.io)
“I'm leaving Twitter. Tried to stay, but the atmosphere has just become too toxic.”
- Stephen King
"Even the Master of Horror can't stomach what has become of Twitter (X) since right-wing fascist Elon Musk bought the company."
- Aure
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #breaking #breakingnews #Musk #Twitter #Mastodon #bluesky #Threads #Fediverse
LoL Elon's AI is mean to him 🤣
Source: fortune.com/2024/11/14/grok-mu…
#fake #propaganda #Twitter #ai #technology #news #truth #lol
Elon Musk’s AI turns on him, labels him ‘one of the most significant spreaders of misinformation on X’
His posts, it added, “can have real-world consequences."Chris Morris (Fortune)
Something a little different for this week’s article - a guide to the Twitter/X exodus from a disability and chronic illness point of view.
People are leaving the site in droves - whether because of changing privacy and data policies or in protest of Musk and Trump’s increasingly fascist and problematic behaviour.
What happens to the disability community who’ve long relied on that app for support, friendship and connection? People who are sick can’t migrate to a new platform as easily as their non-disabled counterparts.
How can we help people find community elsewhere? How can we ensure the transition takes as few spoons as possible?
Most importantly - how can we ensure no one gets left behind?
disabledginger.com/p/the-xitte…
#fediverse #twitter #bluesky #socialmedia #elonmusk #trump #exodus #disability #chronicillness #disabilitycommunity #spoonies #covidisairborne #covidisnotover #resist #leavenoonebehind
The Xitter Exodus and What it Means for the Disability Community
Disabled and chronically ill people have long used Twitter/X for community, fundraising, companionship and support. With folks leaving in droves - where will we go and how can we stick together?Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
The fact that some people who loathe Musk/Trump still find it difficult to leave Twitter/X shows the danger of signing up on a centralised platform where the network is controlled by one person or org. You are chaining yourself to a network with no idea who it may be sold to in the future, and every follower you get on that network reinforces those chains.
Whatever you choose online, please choose something with an escape option that doesn't involve losing your follows/followers. 🙏
(EDIT: Also, make sure the escape option is available the day you sign up. Don't rely on escape options being added later.)
For some reason people fleeing the sinking #Twitter / #X ship for #BlueSky don't seem to be aware of the fact that crypto bros at #BlockchainCapital bought a huge stake in the company just a few weeks ago. Like these are basically the same crypto bros who just helped #ElonMusk buy Twitter. They might even be literally the same people (I strongly suspect they are but I'm too lazy to check). Either way #BlockchainCapital was co-founded by #BrockPierce, who also brought you #Tether, AKA the company that Trump's transition team chairman manages $120 billion for. Pierce is also a friend of the #Netanyahu family.
You don't have to take my word for it. Here's the official press release: bsky.social/about/blog/10-24-2…
Moving to BlueSky is not an escape. Growing a base there is just putting in a bunch of work to create a platform that will be co-opted by crypto bros as soon as X breaks in half.
p.s. crypto bros (#a16z) also own #Substack
#crypto #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #USDT #Trump #DonaldTrump
The devil is in the details! 😈
Today X changed their #privacy policy & terms of service.
2 Highlights:
-They "collect and use your #biometric information"
-3rd party collaborators might "train their artificial intelligence models" on user #data
As a surprise for #X "Premium's Anniversary" we decided to make another guide 😜
If you still have #Xitter, make sure your "Data sharing with business partners" setting is disabled!
x.com/settings/data_sharing_wi…
Also posting this on #Twitter 😂
Even though I haven't used my Twitter/X account in over two years, I am still squatting my username.
But I decided to take the next step and delete my tweets before they're fed into their "AI".
cnn.com/2024/10/21/tech/x-twit…
I found @luca's script super useful for this, highly recommend!
github.com/lucahammer/tweetXer
GitHub - lucahammer/tweetXer: Delete all your Tweets for free
Delete all your Tweets for free. Contribute to lucahammer/tweetXer development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Disappointed #X users are going to #Bluesky instead of #Mastodon
People like what is closest to what they are already using. #Mastodon is laid gratuitously different in terms of buttons to push and links to click. People who left #Twitter earlier didn't like that and left.
The crowds are different.
The prime content providers are staying on #X. Some are going to #BlueSky. Some are reposting here with #bots
Then there is the ridiculous size limit on toots on many servers
@EUCommission
#EUpol #USpol #SocialMedia #Regulation
Social Media propaganda, in particular on #X, #Facebook, and #Instagram can probably have cost #KamalaHartis2024 the #US presidency!*
👉The #EU urgently needs to pull the plug on #ElonMusk's private right-wing #PropagandaChannel #X, formerly #Twitter, before rightwing #FakeNews narratives destroy #European democracies in the same way it happened in the #USA.
This must be done before Jan 20
"A nonprofit continuing to post to X is not only unwelcome by the crowd growing there, but they are complicit in what is to come.
That's why 62% of nonprofits active on X have already begun building a presence on new and emerging platforms."
Read about why @saskia doesn't think nonprofits should be sticking to X in her latest blog post.
forbetter.ghost.io/x-makes-you…
#SocialMedia #Fediverse #X #Xodus #Twitter #Nonprofit #Charity
X makes you complicit, it's time for nonprofits to act
Why remain on a platform that directly opposes your organisations morals? I'll start by admitting that I am angry. The thread that weaves between the lines of this blog is red and spiteful.Saskia (FORbetter)
I guess it is not a surprise. Most of you think that social media platforms that utilize algorithmic feeds are inherently anti-free-speech. So do I.
You have made the choice to join Mastodon, where the content you see is chronological and not decided by algorithms. IMHO, you have made the right choice.
I remember a time when we all viewed the Web with optimism. The more people we could get to join, the better for the world. Now it is a bit more mixed, but IMHO social media companies that utilize algorithmic feeds are to blame. We can move towards a better Web together by getting more people to join us.
#Facebook #Twitter #Mastodon #fediverse
#Legal #Meta #Instagram #Facebook
That's the way to go,
@EUCommission
Via @dw
*EU fines Meta €797 million over antitrust breaches*
"The EU Commission fined...Meta for practices favoring Facebook Marketplace that it said violated #EU #CompetitionLaw..."
"The 👉firm said that it would comply with the decision in the meantime and would work quickly and constructively to launch a solution that addresses the points raised."👈
👉Now do #X aka #Twitter, b4 it's too late!👈
#News EU fines Meta €797 million over antitrust breaches w.st/zjw0cZ
We're helping important organisations move away from Big Tech platforms and towards open New Social platforms - like Mastodon!
But, we can't do it alone. We'd love to hear which organisations you think should make the move and why, so we can show them that there is a community waiting here for them.
Better yet, if you have a connection to an important organisation, we'd love to be introduced!
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Help #SocialMedia #Tech #X #Twitter #Charity #Government #News #Academia
