Posts by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #APOPEHZi3JTlc3GAqG by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2022-11-08T10:31:03Z
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@ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates The German Data Commissioner is advocating that all public bodies should leave Facebook (and presumably Twitter) and use open platforms instead.Various German bodies and authorities have already created their own Mastodon servers, as have many EU agencies and the Commission.https://mstdn.social/@TheEuropeanNetwork/109307607062425853
(DIR) Post #APOomS6JvAyuxTu4kS by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2022-11-08T16:27:20Z
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@zleap @ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates I believe the plan for Dorsey/BlueSky and Musk/Twitter is not to compete but to collaborate. https://davetroy.medium.com/no-elon-and-jack-are-not-competitors-theyre-collaborating-3e88cde5267dThat would probably mean competition between Twitter-BlueSky and Mastodon (or any other ActivityPub service).#Twitter #BlueSky
(DIR) Post #APOpum4HfRzL9kU0tU by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2022-11-08T16:40:03Z
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@zleap @ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates Agreed. Also, nobody so far (perhaps Reddit to some extent) has been able to solve the moderation problem. That is a largely an economic problem as you need heaps and heaps of staff to keep a platform attractive but no business model so far has made that affordable. I believe FB spends about 90% of its mod resources on English so in Burmese or Amhari people can run amok to genocidal levels.
(DIR) Post #APOqpy0fwO4ahQ4CZs by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2022-11-08T16:41:28Z
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@zleap @ejoftheweb @jburnmurdoch @t0nyyates Perhaps this decentralised model to moderation (which is sort of what Reddit has) that Mastodon and friends have turns out to be solution.
(DIR) Post #AU1ElWPikol8RUCVWa by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2023-03-26T16:13:04Z
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@Penthesilea @Npars01 @mmasnick Agreed. There may be people who don’t care that much to have to recognise billions of losses on the Twitter acquisition. I very much doubt the banks are among them.There were stories a couple of months ago that the banks were trying to sell the debt on but couldn’t find any takers.
(DIR) Post #AaUnnjiZArCQRPmgk4 by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2023-10-06T14:17:40Z
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@quinta That’s an interesting question.I’ve always wondered what the upper limit of the use of snippets was (do news aggregators require permission? You are actually talking about almost the opposite, shortening the snippet so it hides the source but still displaying the image, now without attribution. Right?Perhaps @neil has some ideas about this.
(DIR) Post #AaV17JmGczz9BVBOuO by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2023-10-06T16:00:30Z
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@neil @quinta I wonder whether it makes a difference that this information is often provided via OpenGraph specifically for the creation of snippets on social media.If a publisher includes OG tags, one could argue that they have deliberately published/distributed the material (photos in this case) for sharing on third party platforms. That it comes with attribution is expected but perhaps not required.
(DIR) Post #AcX4PNkihR1aEig436 by lennardvanotterloo@mastodon.social
2023-12-06T12:10:31Z
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@VModifiedMind @neil I feel that one problem many FOSS projects have is that they only offer donations whereas a donation can be quite hard to account for in a company’s books.If, however, a FOSS project offers something (and it can be really minor) that can be sold with an invoice then it’s suddenly just a purchase for a company. With a subscription you run the risk of regular cost-cutting reviews, a one-off purchase is easier to justify.