Posts by utopify_org@veganism.social
(DIR) Post #AWumscPDdtu8cuqZQ8 by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-06-19T23:40:58Z
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#meta could be a threat for the #fediverseWith the codename #project92 or #barcelona , #meta launches a new project soon and nobody could care less than people who already freed themselves from big corps, but rumors exist that it might use the #activitypub protocol, which would make it a part of the fediverse.Over night, one of the biggest data collectors on this planet, will own the biggest fediverse instance and will have access to a lot of data, which wasn't collected before, because not many people used the fediverse. But after Elon Musk showed his real face after taking over #twitter and the many problems on #reddit , a lot of people are leaving conventional platforms of multi-(m/b)illion-dollar companies and use tools from the fediverse. This is new, because in general, people would just go to another big corp and nothing changes. This time the people are going to a place, which is controlled by the people. There are instances and every instance has it's own code of conduct. A place where no multi-(m/b)illion-dollar company can make money (yet) or is in control of anything.History showed, that big corps could harm or destroy #foss (free and open source software), where the maintainers had ethical values, like Firefox trying to be privacy friendly. Since #google (#alphabet) made huge donations to #mozilla the browser is privacy invasive and it took years until a fork was able to remove all of it to make it a privacy friendly browser again.In the 1990s, Microsoft had a strategy called "embrace, extend and exterminate" (#doctorwho reference not intended) to destroy competitors.It could look like this:- Embrace: Develop software compatible with the fediverse- Extend: Add features to the world biggest instance which is not supported by other instances (e.g. closed source, pay wall)- Exterminate: All other instances are worthless if federation doesn't work anymore with the biggest instance after an updateThe code of #mastodon and other fediverse tools could be changed, so that smaller or even all other instances could be excluded, it couldn't be solved by a single fork this time, because we would need a fediverse 2.0 so all the forks can communicate with each other again, after removing shitty code hindering federation.Another problem might be to convince people to leave the "invected fediverse 1.0" (which became a centralized platform) and come to "fediverse 2.0" (which is like the fediverse once was), because it's already hard enough to tell them to leave #whatsapp (or similar software) for a better alternative. Imagine they already left the bad thing, but then we tell them to leave the current system, too. I am not a pessimist, but at this point the big corp might win.We could be strong and ban metas instance on any free instance, which is still able to make their own decisions. This could trigger the third huge wave of people willing to use something new (and free, like in free speech) or we could act like it's a friendly act of a big corp, which doesn't have financial interest at all and it's just cool to be connected with more people and everything will be fine. No offense, but this sounds really naive, because the wet dream of big corps is a totalitarian system, where they are in control of everything, watching every step of every person and not living in a free and democratic world where the people are in control of their own lives.Big corps influence elections, the party you are voting and whole countries. Don't underestimate them and don't think their actions are good.We should hope that the maintainers of mastodon and other fediverse tools (or activitiypub in general) are not capitalists, who throw away their values, and the reason why they started those projects, over board for money. But there is a lot of money to make, so the pile of money will be huge and it will be hard to say no.The #fedipact isn't strict enough imho. The fediverse is like emails. If you want your emails not be scanned/slaughtered and your data sold to shady people/companies, you better not write important stuff to people who own a #gmail #hotmail #outlook #gmx #yahoo etc. address. With the fediverse it's a little bit different. Even the instances which aren't owned by meta could be a threat, because there is an access to the federated data. Instances that do not block meta should be blocked, too.If you think I am polemic, please think about why a multi-(m/b)illion-dollar company wants to join the fediverse? Are they afraid of something, if yes, we shouldn't come closer, because powerful predators will attack if they are afraid. If the big corp is not afraid, the only other way is that they might slaughter the fediverse to get control and get richer.In short: We build something very fragile like a sand castle and meta will be the bully destroying it.The solution: Block meta as soon as their domains are known.Addition: There are even rumors that admins of huge instances are getting paid to not block, but even advertise metas instance and they had to sign an #nda#fediblock #blockmeta #metablock #facebook #p92 #barcelonaproject #fedipact #fediblockmeta #threads
(DIR) Post #AWxBoLeyq7OjU697cO by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-06-22T14:24:53Z
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@cidney We already got #Twitter and #Reddit within a few months, now we get #Discord. Not bad!
(DIR) Post #AXA0HYH2peKwfXGLNg by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-06-28T19:52:16Z
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@stuxC: Block before they go online, because they only need a short time to get all the data from us and process them.Do we really want to make rich people richer?
(DIR) Post #AXBchWFgxjdrLNOntQ by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-06-29T14:37:11Z
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@EU_Commission It produces less greenhouse gases, if I keep all the different cables and old devices.
(DIR) Post #AXRll5WRtZNb0kiCVE by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-07T09:34:22Z
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@inspirationgrid What is the bunny watching?
(DIR) Post #AXS1HD64lcST5B9RAW by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-07T12:28:15Z
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@inspirationgrid Maybe he saw a documentary of rabbits eating carrots in the wild and he was like "WTF! Those barbaric people don't eat pizza?"
(DIR) Post #AXeXGBI2ZzqRvNYw8e by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-13T13:22:52Z
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@gnulinux Als ich das gelesen habe, habe ich mir gedacht, dass es wirklich sehr leicht ist eine Tier-Liste zu erstellen:- Hund- Katze- MausTada! Eine Tier-Liste!Bis ich den Beitrag gelesen habe, dachte ich wirklich, es geht um Tiere und nicht um Ränge.
(DIR) Post #AY3eNuFiR0On60POG8 by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-25T16:10:27Z
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@gnulinux Boah... das ist eine Menge! Sieht fast so aus als ob man sich Inkscape nochmal neu aneignen muss. 😕
(DIR) Post #AY7YlSgqjwh1TCmy2q by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-27T13:26:23Z
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@gnulinux Ich verstehe nicht ganz das Konzept und würde mich über Aufklärung freuen 🙂 Ihr habt da ein Formular, wo man einen frisch geschriebenen Blogartikel einreichen kann. Das Schreiben nimmt sehr viele Ressourcen in Anspruch, doch es ist nicht wirklich klar über was man alles schreiben darf (die Mitmachen-Seite sagt eher: Schreib was du willst und ein paar Sachen, die nicht enthalten sein dürfen) oder ob es überhaupt angenommen wird oder ob es Revisionen geben wird. Gibt es keinen Austausch über das Thema und über was der Artikel handeln soll im Vorfeld? Gibt es so etwas wie eine Redaktion?Es kommt eher so rüber wie: "Hier ein Formular, mal schauen ob was rein kommt und wenn, dann schauen wir ob wirs haben wollen"Es gibt heutzutage viele Plattformen auf denen man seine Artikel veröffentlichen kann, sogar attraktive, wo die Leser an den Autor etwas direkt spenden können und viele Autoren haben auch ihren eigenen Blog. Aus welchen Gründen sollten diese Autoren bei euch etwas veröffentlichen?
(DIR) Post #AY7u7ZFP8f9TDQKkPQ by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-27T17:18:05Z
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@gnulinux Vielen Dank für die ausführliche Antwort. Das hört sich sehr vielversprechend an.Habe auch schon einige Beiträge gelesen und drüber nachgedacht, welche Beiträge einen Mehrwert geben könnten, da ich glaube, dass es eher informierend und unterhaltend sein soll, anstatt etwas super nerdy zu erklären.Vielleicht fällt mir noch etwas tolles ein und ich setze mal ein Lesezeichen zu eurem Post, damit es nicht unter geht.
(DIR) Post #AY9pOx0fL9jVpt27m4 by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-07-28T15:41:24Z
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@vovanium Wow, this is pretty cool!
(DIR) Post #AYZLxjYqAEkMWy0pf6 by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-08-09T23:12:41Z
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@JordiGH It could be really dangerous, if people don't get news from serious sources anymore.Nowadays many people are already so distracted by fakenews, they can't even recognize whats true or false.Imagine those people will only consume fakenews, because alternatives are gone. How will the society will look like in a few years in Canada?
(DIR) Post #Aa5oPIJU5nnrRS6bpY by utopify_org@veganism.social
2023-09-23T22:49:47Z
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@alisa That's a really cool idea, but there are some days missing.Will you fill those holes or do you just skip?
(DIR) Post #AjcAjHe3aGbpcqZtdA by utopify_org@veganism.social
2024-07-05T08:26:17Z
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@davidrevoy Just beautiful ❤️
(DIR) Post #AxdrdmeSrJ93TeVnns by utopify_org@veganism.social
2025-08-28T22:11:00Z
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@davidrevoy What a sad story, because that's how she got killed: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/05/ex-nsa-chief-we-kill-people-based-on-metadataOr she will survive in an epic battle against a drone fleet. I really want to see the last one 🤔
(DIR) Post #B1mizUh2jI9QBfhQiO by utopify_org@veganism.social
2025-12-30T20:14:44Z
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@davidrevoy I love WIP (Work In Progress) videos. It's the only way to see that an artist is actually an artist *yet*
(DIR) Post #B1uxocDzRNbywA3npQ by utopify_org@veganism.social
2026-01-03T19:39:06Z
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@tildetown After Trump attacked Venezuela my first thought was, that the US cut the connection to the EU after I couldn't connect to tilde.town.I hope it isn't worse than an outage.
(DIR) Post #B21dopUAB3Nw8oU9NQ by utopify_org@veganism.social
2026-01-07T00:57:24Z
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@aral It feels like LibreOffice is the only open source software, which doesn't do enshittification.*looking at you Mozilla*
(DIR) Post #B2G2uP7yJ2jpCLIcvQ by utopify_org@veganism.social
2026-01-13T23:45:05Z
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@neauoire @rek They look really good. Good job 💪
(DIR) Post #B2YMhJptt0eegeiIvA by utopify_org@veganism.social
2026-01-22T19:51:16Z
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@davidrevoy Current LLMs remind me on the picture generating ais, which always generated 6 fingers.They will fix it in a few months 😃