#bigsocial — Public Fediverse posts

Hamish Campbell has: A fluff view of current tech we need to compost. https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/ #WSocial #CorporateSocial #BigSocial
More on the bullshit that is W Social.

Hamish Campbell has: A fluff view of current tech we need to compost. https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/ #WSocial #CorporateSocial #BigSocial
More on the bullshit that is W Social.

Hamish Campbell has: A fluff view of current tech we need to compost. https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/ #WSocial #CorporateSocial #BigSocial
More on the bullshit that is W Social.

Hamish Campbell has: A fluff view of current tech we need to compost. https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/ #WSocial #CorporateSocial #BigSocial
More on the bullshit that is W Social.

Hamish Campbell has: A fluff view of current tech we need to compost. https://hamishcampbell.com/a-fluff-view-of-current-tech-we-need-to-compost/ #WSocial #CorporateSocial #BigSocial
More on the bullshit that is W Social.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116382351108049249

Watch this like a hawk. The result of this battle is going to be massively telling. Not just about Reddit (I personally don’t trust/use it), but about how this fascist regime reacts to resistance from big tech in general. And it will have a far-reaching impact.

#BigTech #Fascism #Reddit #Privacy #ICE #SocialMedia #BigSocial

Not a fan of X/Twitter but I do find it funny how some people were telling us it’s gospel that X was going to collapse. It’s been a couple of years now and it’s still running fine (unfortunately) #x #twitter #bigsocial

If anyone knows of people/groups that actually care about people, getting people off of #BigSocial, advancing the Open Social Web and making the spaces more accessible, safe and user-friendly let me know. Just without the weird ideology, religion and protocol wars. #Fedi #fediverse #opensocialweb #activitypub #atproto #nostr

You’d think people would want to work together to get people off of #BigSocial yet people want to be weird & engage in protocol wars. That lets me know it’s not truly about the public benefit #atproto #activitypub #opensocialweb

Big Social media feeds are a monetized on-demand disassociative for the masses.

#JoanMastodon #TTJ #BigSocial

I really like to avoid bad faith actors, but this one I will engage. I have seen this account and other advocate for admins to run their instance as they see fit especially when it came to defederating Threads. The people that wanted to connect to Threads users were told they could easily migrate their accounts. Now, here comes this account against admins making decisions since its a situation they’re against. How is the Threads situation any different? Admins are the ones spending the time and money thus they get to make the decisions, those that don’t like it can migrate to another instance and or become admins of their own instance. Users can block the bridgy fed account and block domains. Truly sick of the alarmist inflammatory crap on this space. There’s plenty of spaces and opportunity to ask questions & get proper answers before making an attention-seeking post. Crap like this shows Mastodon and the Fediverse isn’t about quality, quality social content requires actual EQ. The amount of crap, nastiness, lies, etc I see posted in the space shows a significant lack of EQ. Let’s start living up to the “quality” and be a higher standard than what is on #BigSocial I would’ve liked to had a quiet personal conversation about this but seeing as you didn’t attempt to with those involved and got some sick glee out of putting targets on people backs, it was only fair I did this publicly.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/114713995078797282

It's amazing how many spam or fake accounts there are on major platforms. 🤯

But when regular (business) users want to make small changes to existing accounts they have to jump through so many hoops: from verification txts - even when 2FA or passkeys have been set up - to verification videos. 🫣🤦‍♂️

#SocialMedia #Facebook #Google #BigSocial

When we look back at #Meta, #Xitter, #Bytedance, #Google and #Tencent twenty years from now, we'll think of them as we think of #ImperialBrands, #BritishAmerican and #PhilipMorris today.

The social and societal consequences of the dopamine predators won't be forgotten and it won't be forgiven.

We managed to bring #BigTobacco to their knees -- let's do the same to #BigSocial.

We need to ban targeted advertising and behavioral tracking. Put the predators in jail.

#enshittification #fediPower

Einige kritisieren #Fediverse-Dienste wie #Mastodon dafür, dass sie zu kompliziert seien, oder die User Experience (#UX) nicht an das Erlebnis bei #BigSocial wie X, BlueSky, Threads etc. herankäme.

Ich denke, die Feststellung ist so erst mal richtig, aber wir sollten sie ein wenig einordnen, um auf diesen Einwand mit Argumenten und evtl. auch mit Maßnahmen einzugehen. Ein Thread (1/10)

People had to die for freedom & to legally be seen as equal & as humans. If you think living in digital silos & blocking out everything you disagree with will make the world a better place, I have a planet to sell you. I find the #fediverse to be harmful to progress as people are encouraged to make homes in these siloed echo chambers. It’s also a space that discourages global search, full text search and quote posts : tools that are actively used by Black & Brown folks and activists. These spaces have long been harmful to Black and Brown folks yet the lot of you talk about how much “better, ethical and enjoyable it is. That often tells me a lot about who you all are. Many people in their first hour here have had worse experiences than in a decade plus on #BigSocial If you want this space to be some left-leaning white utopia then fine, but stop advertising it as a space for all and stop attacking spaces like #Bluesky that makes it easier for Black and Brown folks to have a digital experience they are comfortable with. #fediverse #Blackfedi #BlackTwitter #fedi #Twittermigration

Can we please stop acting as if federation is a silver bullet. There’s plenty of issues it in fact makes worse and is ill-equipped for. Humans are very dynamic. Federation is not suited for government at least in the US. The country is already divided, in no world would I ever want blue states and red states to be able to defederate each other. There’s also complex dynamics such as family. You don’t want to be on an instance where your family and friends are blocked from communicating with you. It’s also not a perfect solution to host a family & friend instance as a family member or friend can get your instance defederated and you lose connections. For the masses it would be better if it was a centralised service owned by a nonprofit that got popular. This isn’t to say federation is terrible, it’s just not the magical solution I’ve seen it sold as. PS. Stop telling the lie that users “own” their connections. You no more own it here than on Facebook especially considering on Facebook users are likely to know each other in real life. If someone moves to a server they’re unaware is blocked by a server that the majority of their friends are on, those connections are gone. So much for “ownership” #OpenSocialWeb #Fediverse #NewSocial #BigSocial #BigTech

How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/22/how-to-delete-facebook-instagram-and-threads/

#bigsocial #facebook #instagram #threads #decentralized

#Meta is force-logging-out, resetting passwords, and locking out users in a broad trawl. They're making it look like the usual retaliatory kick-offs they perform a few times per month but this time is different. If one waits long enough for this image to load, nothing happens. There's no way to validate or reauthenticate. My account status when this happened showed no punishments in effect.
#facebook #userCull #retribution #retaliation #bigSocial #publicInformationUtility #publicRegulation #social #news

There were several severe miscalculations. People believed we could continue to empower #BigSocial & legacy media without any negative repercussions. People didn’t factor that the country never wants a woman president especially not a Brown one. People miscalculated that women especially white women cared more about women’s right than being told they’re being erased by trans women & that trans girls are ruining their daughters sports. Trump campaign spent millions on anti-trans ads & what was the lefts counter? It was crickets. How often were the left asked what’s a woman? Or it was said by the right that Dems don’t know what a woman is without any pushback. We all miscalculated the human element. Being a r*pist, fascist, bigot etc isn’t harmful anymore, the media & big business have made it so. #Trump appeals to people’s demons to flow freely. Ppl love othering & that’s why minorities could look past the comments as they didn’t see themselves at the end of the threats nor racist comments. Globally conservatism is on the rise the left barely won many of the major elections this year and lost handily in the #USelection people do not care about progressive politics broadly. #uspol

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/world-bank-advertising-elon-musk-x-racism-pro-nazi-accounts/

#x #news #press #socialmedia #bigsocial

Catsuka provides ways to opt-out/object to #BigSocial scraping #Artist s work - News | Catsuka
(There is an Eng translation in the middle of the page.)

https://www.catsuka.com/news/2024-06-02/cara-reseau-social-dedie-aux-artistes-sans-ai-et-conseils-pour-decliner-l-ai-de-meta-sur-vos-donnees-personnelles
#AlgoArt #NoAI #Art

Catsuka provides ways to opt-out/object to #BigSocial scraping #Artist s work - News | Catsuka
(There is an Eng translation in the middle of the page.)

https://www.catsuka.com/news/2024-06-02/cara-reseau-social-dedie-aux-artistes-sans-ai-et-conseils-pour-decliner-l-ai-de-meta-sur-vos-donnees-personnelles
#AlgoArt #NoAI #Art

For a place that’s supposedly “better” than #BigSocial I’ve blocked significantly more people here in my short time than in many years on the larger platforms. You’d think filters and a lot of blocking would stop this place from being a bad experience but that hasn’t been the case.

@thendrix the so-called left that push identity politics and divisive rhetoric are not left. They are aligned with big tech and the most brutal and fascistic industrialists, and have been for a long time now.

The people pushing identity politics should probably have a name, "identity left"???

they can't see past the cartoonish depictions of people that are pushed by mostly #bigsocial and corporate media. theyre not "left" ... but useful idiots.

#identityleft

I see people making judgments about those that still remain on #BigSocial those that use “ #AI “ , those that work for #governments those that don’t use #foss etc whatever purity tests you lot have. I don’t respect you people. You’re the same people that have nasty racist, sexist, homophobic family, friends and colleagues that you call “good people” some of you are also these kinds of people yourselves with. The majority of the people you are critical of happen to be marginalised folk. People that don’t have the means, resources, support, time etc to do these things thus “convenience” is a big part of how they survive.

My #Fediverse feed right now has a bunch of #WhitePeople remarking how much better and more pleasant the Fediverse is than #BigSocial, and a bunch of #BlackPeople shouting about how incredibly #racist the Fediverse is.

@petersuber Yet another reason to move away from Big Social wherever possible. They are all so toxic in so many ways.

#bigsocial

Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation.

It's a very bad idea to follow Elon Musk's lead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/25/political-conspiracies-facebook-youtube-elon-musk/

#bigtech #bigsocial #elonmusk #disinformation

@genecowan

:blobcatreeeeeee: :meowTableFlip:
https://archive.ph/IzMT1

#BigSocial #SocialMedia #Political #Misinformation #Disinformation

@Ciela I don't entirely agree - an algorithm tries to achieve what it was designed to do. For the #bigsocial sites, the goal is maximum user engagement which translates to (in theory) more impressions on ads, and therefore more revenue. They could just set their algorithms to achieve other goals, they just wouldn't be rewarded for doing so, and so they respond to that stimulus as an organisation. Algorithms aren't inherently bad - choose your own Algo would be interesting for the #fediverse

Make #search here universal and make every #hashtag work like a subreddit. Every post gets a reddit-style interface. #bigsocial wouldn't be able to compete with that. #kbin #lemmy #threadiverse

For all that is said about how #SocialMedia gave a voice to the maginalised, too many #queer people still weren't really welcome on #BigSocial even before Musk came long.

So they came to the #Fediverse, and built something new, something better. And it's thanks to them that, when the rest of us fled Twitter and Reddit, we found something that was already brilliant.

So this #PrideMonth, let's raise our beverage vessels to the queer people who made the #Fediverse what it is.

@persagen @carmwilson @reiver I am pleased to make your acquaintance & look forward to hearing more from you!
:success:

#Mastodon & the greater #Fediverse are SO special and a tool that we only thought we had with #BigSocial
:hearthands:

#TheResistanceWillBeFederated & #TransRightsAreHumanRights

#Security #Nerds and #Experts of #Mastodon, I have a #Question for you.
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I am attempting to de-#Google my digital life (as much as is possible at the moment). I got myself an #Android #MobilePhone that does not have Google services installed on it, and I am using #FDroid, #AuroraStore, #APKPure, etc. to get the apps, and using the #AppBrain #AdDetector and #DuckDuckGo's #App #Tracking #Protection (#Beta built into their mobile browser).
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I am doing my best to use #minimal apps, and only getting ones that are not security focused when necessary. I am not logging into Google, or any other #BigSocial/ #BigData services except when necessary.
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My question is, are there any #SMS / #Texting apps that allow you to login on the #Web and #sync messages to your phone (even if only on the same network), and a #keyboard that has #VoiceToText that does not use Google or #Microsoft? I am currently using #SwiftKey, but only until I figure out the #T9 app I am using with the KB (HYBRID phone running Android 11).

#Security #Nerds and #Experts of #Mastodon, I have a #Question for you.
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I am attempting to de-#Google my digital life (as much as is possible at the moment). I got myself an #Android #MobilePhone that does not have Google services installed on it, and I am using #FDroid, #AuroraStore, #APKPure, etc. to get the apps, and using the #AppBrain #AdDetector and #DuckDuckGo's #App #Tracking #Protection (#Beta built into their mobile browser).
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I am doing my best to use #minimal apps, and only getting ones that are not security focused when necessary. I am not logging into Google, or any other #BigSocial/ #BigData services except when necessary.
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My question is, are there any #SMS / #Texting apps that allow you to login on the #Web and #sync messages to your phone (even if only on the same network), and a #keyboard that has #VoiceToText that does not use Google or #Microsoft? I am currently using #SwiftKey, but only until I figure out the #T9 app I am using with the KB (HYBRID phone running Android 11).

#Security #Nerds and #Experts of #Mastodon, I have a #Question for you.
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I am attempting to de-#Google my digital life (as much as is possible at the moment). I got myself an #Android #MobilePhone that does not have Google services installed on it, and I am using #FDroid, #AuroraStore, #APKPure, etc. to get the apps, and using the #AppBrain #AdDetector and #DuckDuckGo's #App #Tracking #Protection (#Beta built into their mobile browser).
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I am doing my best to use #minimal apps, and only getting ones that are not security focused when necessary. I am not logging into Google, or any other #BigSocial/ #BigData services except when necessary.
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My question is, are there any #SMS / #Texting apps that allow you to login on the #Web and #sync messages to your phone (even if only on the same network), and a #keyboard that has #VoiceToText that does not use Google or #Microsoft? I am currently using #SwiftKey, but only until I figure out the #T9 app I am using with the KB (HYBRID phone running Android 11).

#Security #Nerds and #Experts of #Mastodon, I have a #Question for you.
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I am attempting to de-#Google my digital life (as much as is possible at the moment). I got myself an #Android #MobilePhone that does not have Google services installed on it, and I am using #FDroid, #AuroraStore, #APKPure, etc. to get the apps, and using the #AppBrain #AdDetector and #DuckDuckGo's #App #Tracking #Protection (#Beta built into their mobile browser).
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I am doing my best to use #minimal apps, and only getting ones that are not security focused when necessary. I am not logging into Google, or any other #BigSocial/ #BigData services except when necessary.
.
My question is, are there any #SMS / #Texting apps that allow you to login on the #Web and #sync messages to your phone (even if only on the same network), and a #keyboard that has #VoiceToText that does not use Google or #Microsoft? I am currently using #SwiftKey, but only until I figure out the #T9 app I am using with the KB (HYBRID phone running Android 11).

#Security #Nerds and #Experts of #Mastodon, I have a #Question for you.
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I am attempting to de-#Google my digital life (as much as is possible at the moment). I got myself an #Android #MobilePhone that does not have Google services installed on it, and I am using #FDroid, #AuroraStore, #APKPure, etc. to get the apps, and using the #AppBrain #AdDetector and #DuckDuckGo's #App #Tracking #Protection (#Beta built into their mobile browser).
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I am doing my best to use #minimal apps, and only getting ones that are not security focused when necessary. I am not logging into Google, or any other #BigSocial/ #BigData services except when necessary.
.
My question is, are there any #SMS / #Texting apps that allow you to login on the #Web and #sync messages to your phone (even if only on the same network), and a #keyboard that has #VoiceToText that does not use Google or #Microsoft? I am currently using #SwiftKey, but only until I figure out the #T9 app I am using with the KB (HYBRID phone running Android 11).

New daily habit (I downloaded a backup first).

I use #Facebook for mostly utilitarian purposes now (it’s a lot harder to keep up with local goings on without it) so I figured I can delete old posts daily to reduce the emotional triggers from wanting to see good memories.

#BigSocial #BigTech #LongLiveTheFediverse

@voron @atomicpoet

This was not keyed to the #US but to all nations.

With a #SCOTUS hijacked by the ultraright, and without a #Supreme13 jurisprudence reform, I don't see this happening.
A minimal consensus *might* be the foreign, antagonistic threat, #TikTok, though...If #BigSocial isn't lobbying against it, as they could be next.

@atomicpoet,

The gut-response is always a #Twitter vs @Mastodon comparison. I fell for that initially, but quickly realized how Mastodon was a game-changer on a new level.

Link: https://medium.com/@kidehen/mastodon-a-viable-twitter-alternative-and-much-more-be09dc1279ca

Fundamentally, Twitter has destroyed the #Web20 model while Mastodon has unleashed the #Fediverse (a #Web30 paradigm collective).

#BigSocial and #BigTech (in general) have opened the eyes of many, moving the innovation pendulum back to the #Web 😀

#DataSpaces #WebWeWant #SocialMedia

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData

One sees many references to the conscious decision by @Gargron to not include in Mastodon any algorithm that selects which posts you'll see on your feed.

But Mastodon does have an algorithm that drives how your feed gets populated, however basic.

And I think it can be iterated.

Read my long post at
https://paper.wf/pierric/mastodons-algorithm and react in this thread!

potentially interesting to @productmanagement folks

#ProductManagement #Algorithm #Mastodon #BigSocial #SocialMedia #YourData