“Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?”

‪https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

I feel we have to make this relevant to USians given how low the exchange rate of Palestinian lives to the US Dollar is: Think of it this way, this probably means your credit score is also affected by the people in your WhatsApp groups.

(So, do we finally have your attention?)🤞

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #genocide #Meta

Meta and Lavender

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2].

^{Paul Biggar}

Meta is allegedly sharing Whatsapp data to the IDF.

"Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group as a suspected militant. Where are they getting this data? Is WhatsApp sharing it?"

https://blog.paulbiggar.com/meta-and-lavender/

#Palestine #Meta

Meta and Lavender

A little-discussed detail in the Lavender AI article is that Israel is killing people based on being in the same Whatsapp group [1] as a suspected militant [2].

^{Paul Biggar}

Do you still use Facebook in 2024?

#facebook #meta #instagram #facebookcom #facebookdotcom #facebook_com #privacy #socialmedia #technology #programming #2024

• yes (0%, 0 votes)
• no (75%, 3 votes)
• I have to use it because of my family/friends over there (0%, 0 votes)
• I wish I wouldn't had to use Facebook, but I use it because of my family/friends over there. (0%, 0 votes)
• I wish I wouldn't had to use Facebook, but I use it because of my family/friends over there who refuse to switch to Fediverse. (0%, 0 votes)
• I wish I wouldn't had to use Facebook, but I use it because of my family/friends over there who doesn't knows about Fediverse. (25%, 1 vote)
• Are you kidding me? Facebook violates user's privacy! (0%, 0 votes)
• just let me view the poll results :-) (0%, 0 votes)

🥳WIN: Today, @eu_edpb heard civil society's voices to stand up for people's right to have control over their data.

@POLITICOEurope reports: EDPB opposed #Meta plan to charge for privacy. #PayorOkay

EDRi's Policy Advisor @itxaso explains why privacy is not for sale for @euronews: https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/04/15/meta-must-stop-charging-for-peoples-right-to-privacy

Content warning: Developers don't care so much about spreading google or commercial links and supplying advert money from OUR clicks, sourced FROM Fediverse / Mastodon posts to THEM... (without education our users are weakest links)... Reveal/hide

I'm seeing the same thing! Pretty cool!

I can follow and like my THREADS account from Mastodon, but I can't figure out how to follow my Mastodon account on the Threads side. Have you been able to get it to work?

#Threads #Mastodon #Follow #Fediverse #Meta

I said it elsewhere, but I say it here too, I HATE how corporate social media sites have taken SOCIAL out of social media.

Thankfully the Fediverse is mostly taking that back. But if we don't expand to get those that are still on corporate social media to move here, then we'll just become the echo chambers we hate. That's why the Threads integration is a good thing. We need to expand.

#Fediverse #Fedi #ActivityPub #Mastodon #Threads #Meta #Pleroma #Akkoma #Sharkey #Misskey #IceShrimp #FireFish #Lemmy #Kbin #GoToSocial

Last month, Meta's Threads took its first step into the fediverse. @quillmatiq@mastodon.social, aka @quillmatiq@threads.net took that as his cue to experiment with how his Threads feed would look like on Mastodon. Here's what he discovered about organizing the chaos, different clients (hello @phanpy) and whether he'll cut the Threads cord when federation is complete.

https://flip.it/P_h74r

#Federation #Threads #Meta #Fediverse #ActivityPub #SpreadMastodon #Mastodon #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb

Threads on Mastodon and The Bright Future of the Fediverse

This is my journey that started as an experiment to see how my Threads feed would look like on Mastodon and ended with me finding experiences that went above and beyond my expectations.

^{Anuj Ahooja (augment)}

I’m seeing a lot of people badmouthing Facebook/Meta and saying we shouldn’t federate with Threads.

Mastodon.social is owned by Mastodon gGmbH and run by the *author* of Mastodon. Mastodon.social federates with Threads. If Facebook/Meta were toxic, do you think they would? Of course, not.

Facebook/Meta has Mastodon’s author’s (& the original Mastodon server’s) seal of approval. So you should all shush because clearly you’re mistaken.

https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

#mastodon #meta #facebook #threads

How Mastodon made friends with Meta

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

^{Zoë Schiffer (Platformer)}

how long until threads threatens to or actually does start blocking mastodon.social for allowing nudity?

would dot social bend the knee in that scenario and change their policy? probably

https://help.instagram.com/914046486923176

#FediPact #meta #threads

Wondering how many publications are going to hesitate to print criticism of #meta, now that Facebook has shown they'll make an offending outlet invisible with a snap of their fingers.

Remind me how federating with Threads is good for openness, again?

https://werd.social/@ben/112225519541277604

Adam Mosseri (mosseri@mastodon.social), who works at #Meta on #Threads, is looking to fix a bug that affects how images on Threads render on some #Fediverse servers.

He also confirms that our comments on Threads posts will be visible to Threads users soon, meaning “true” two-way federation is coming.

@fediversenews
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/mosseri/statuses/112226900398948537

Adam

2024-04-06 23:36:40

replies are coming, but this image thing looks totally broken, will forward this onto the team

Report: OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta Stole Content at Scale to Train AI

"...OpenAI in 2021 created a speech recognition tool called Whisper that could transcribe the audio in YouTube videos to create text for training its ChatGPT AI. It did so despite the opposition of employees who argued that Whisper violated YouTube’s rules. And it did so at scale, creating over one million hours of YouTube video transcripts."

#OpenAI #Google #Meta #Tech #AI #YouTube

https://www.thurrott.com/a-i/300524/new-report-documents-how-openai-microsoft-google-and-meta-stole-content-to-train-ai

“The Kansas Reflector published an artical about Meta censoring environmental articles about climate change — deeming them ‘too controversial’.

Facebook then censored the article about Facebook censorship, and then after an independent site published a copy of the climate change article, Facebook censored it too.”

https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10657-facebook-is-censoring-stories-about-illegal-raid-in-marion-kansas

Welcome to the fediverse, friend.

https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

#facebook #meta #fediverse #threads #mastodon #mastodonDotSocial #mastodonGGMBH

How Mastodon made friends with Meta

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

^{Zoë Schiffer (Platformer)}

Can someone please tell me if this is in fact the case?

(I couldn’t quote this post by @atomicpoet so I made a screenshot.)

#AskFedi #Mastodon #FediVerse #Meta #Threads

If you’re on mastodon.social, I would highly recommend that you switch to a different server that protects its people instead of exposing them to a well-known bad actor like Facebook/Meta via Threads.

For alternatives, see: https://fedipact.veganism.social

And remember that Mastodon is not the fediverse. The fediverse is much more than just Mastodon and definitely more so than mastodon.social and Mastodon gGmbH.

#mastodonSocial #mastodonGGMBH #mastodon #fediverse #threads #facebook #meta

Preparing for the merger…

#threads #meta #facebook #fediverse #fedipact #mastodon #logodesign #typography

De-federating #Threads does NOT prevent #Meta from accessing your public #Fediverse feed.

This is demonstrably false. Almost all servers that de-federate Threads still broadcast the RSS feed of your posts. This is available to everyone, even servers that are de-federated from yours.

If you don’t believe me, test this out for yourself. Append “.rss” to the end of your profile URL (exampleserver.com/@username.rss), and see what happens.

Hell, if I wanted to build a search engine for the Fediverse and not use ActivityPub, I could use RSS instead and I could index most of the Fediverse – whether you opt into it or not.

Let’s stop spreading the myth that de-federation by itself prevents Threads from accessing your public feed.

@fediversenews

NASA captures stunning photo of mastodon.social federating with Threads.

#threads #meta #facebook #mastodonSocial #resistenceIsFutile

@fabio @Rik_Dhuyvetters @eatyourglory
Understood. But I feel that we who understand the issues have a moral duty not to help #Meta: not by feeding it information about ourselves, and not by doing anything it can use to increase its users' engagement with its platform.

If Meta's users can access Fedi from where they already are, they have less incentive to step outside and find an experience free of advertising, tracking and Meta's unhealthy mind games.

@fabio @Rik_Dhuyvetters @eatyourglory
We can't wait for people to move to Linux: we have to help them. I've managed to move two family members and one friend to #Linux. I've got maybe a dozen people regularly using #Signal because I refused to use #WhatsApp and wasn't afraid to explain why. I've migrated at least three people from #Chrome to #Firefox.

IMHO, allowing Fedi to become a small curiosity on the outskirts of #Threads would be our death knell. We mustn't underestimate how evil #Meta is. They don't tolerate competition, they don't play fair, and they don't care how much damage they do as long as it makes money or entrenches their hegemony.

Everyone here knows the three E's: embrace, extend, extinguish. Are you ready to be embraced?

Meta (Facebook, Instagram, #Threads, etc.):

1. Doesn’t moderate anti-transgender hate on its platforms.

https://glaad.org/smsi/report-meta-fails-to-moderate-extreme-anti-trans-hate-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

2. Secretly pays teenagers to use their VPN service so they can access all their web activity, gets busted, then uses same app to man-in-the-middle attack Snapchat users to get their encrypted data.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/?guccounter=1

3. Lets Netflix see user DMs.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

Mastodon gGmbH to Meta:

🤗 Let’s be besties!

https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

#mastodon #meta

How Mastodon made friends with Meta

Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol

^{Zoë Schiffer (Platformer)}

Old enough to remember when the official Mastodon site used to promote a diverse range of small instances, and made fun of Meta instead of collaborating with it.

This used to be on their front page, long gone now 😢

https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU

Instead, we now have a front page telling people to sign up on mastodon.social, an instance list that prioritises large instances, and a blog gushing over how wonderful it is to see Meta federating with them.

Greatly appreciate the work Eugen has done, but his current direction of travel is deeply worrying.

#Mastodon #Fediverse #Meta #Threads #FreeFediverse #DefederateThreads

What is Mastodon? (2018)

Official animation published by the Mastodon development team in 2018, describing the basic principles of how Mastodon and the wider Fediverse work. More info about Mastodon at the JoinMastodon.org...

^Fedi.Video

So apparently Meta/Facebook had an agreement with Netflix to let Netflix read Facebook users' private messages / DMs:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

(via @packetcat)

Can someone please tell me why we are allowing this kind of company to dominate the Fediverse? What is going on? Have admins lost leave of their senses? Why run a Fedi server if you're okay helping Meta?

#Threads #Meta #Fediverse

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

^{Ars Technica}

Facebook “gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages.”

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/netflix-ad-spend-led-to-facebook-dm-access-end-of-facebook-streaming-biz-lawsuit/

But, yes, please, do federate with them mastodon.social. Because senpai noticed you.

#meta #facebook #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #mastodonSocial #mastodon #usefulIdiots

Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

^{Ars Technica}

If you want to check whether your server federates with Threads, you can use this tool:

➡️ https://fedipact.veganism.social

If you want to avoid Meta/Facebook/Threads, there's a list of nice well-run servers which have blocked Threads here:

➡️ https://fedi.garden

If you need help moving your account to a new server, there are step-by-step instructions here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server

This guide also answers lots of common questions.

#FediTips #DefederateThreads #Threads #Meta #Facebook

Fedi.Garden

Highlighting nice servers on Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.garden