Matt Panhans @mpanhans@librem.one

"The cash was flowing in, and companies around Silicon Valley and beyond adopted the same basic strategy: first, grow the user base as quickly as possible without worrying about revenue; second, collect as much data as possible about the users; third, monetize that information by performing big data analytics in order to show users advertising that is narrowly tailored to their demographics and revealed interests; fourth, profit."

- Dr #NathalieMaréchal, 2018.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwjden/targeted-advertising-is-ruining-the-internet-and-breaking-the-world

"The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free"

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/the-truth-is-paywalled-but-the-lies-are-free/

#DeleteFacebook Entry 3 #StopHateForProfit

Feel like there is no alternative to US cloud services? There is!

Your organization can keep data secure and private on your own servers, while gaining productivity and independence.

Take 1:20 to educate yourself and watch this video now.

When you're about to swipe away a notification on your phone, and just as you move your finger down, a new one pops up, everything slides down... and you've just dismissed a notification you haven't read yet.

Was it an important email? Which app did it come from? You'll never know.

Infuriating.

Two on-site job postings added today: https://puri.sm/jobs/ more (including remote work) will get posted in the future.

Pixelfed Loops is a Vine inspired experiment based around short looping videos, the beta launched in early 2019.

We have decided to retire this experiment and focus on an improved layout inspired by TikTok.

#pixelfed #pixeldev #loops #pixelfedLoops

#DeleteFacebook Entry 2 #NoHateForProfit

I am deleting my Facebook account on September 1.

I designed a special page on my website and a drip marketing campaign style series of posts for my friends on Facebook. I know this isn’t Facebook, but I will crosspost the content here.

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/delete-facebook/ #DeleteFacebook

SpaceBear is a managed hosting service that makes it easier to create your own PixelFed, Mastodon, PeerTube or HomeTown instance.

Managed hosting means SpaceBear takes care of the technical stuff, while you own and manage the instance.

You can follow SpaceBear at:

➡️ @support

Their website is at https://app.spacebear.ee

(HomeTown is a fork of Mastodon which includes support for non-federated posts.)

#SpaceBear #Mastodon #PeerTube #PixelFed #HomeTown #Hosting #Fediverse #ManagedHosting

Oh boy oh boy @thegibson and @c0debabe and @tek and @ryen and @drwho are talking about the #Fediverse at #HOPE2020 *right now*:
https://livestream.com/internetsociety3/hope2020

Yeah, Mastodon is certainly better than Twitter, but you know what would make it even better?

If Mastodon got end-to-end encryption for DMs before Twitter did.

A quick reminder that just after he founded Farcebook as "thefacebook", Mark Zuckerberg said its users were "dumb fucks". Why? Because they trusted him to protect their privacy:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/17/facebook-people-first-ever-mark-zuckerberg-harvard

#MarkZuckerberg

Interesting news. An excellent way for Microsoft to fend off accusations of anti-competition would be to embrace open standards like Matrix for interoperability, showing they're not trying to vendor-lock their users. Slack could also benefit from this ;)

Mobilizon is a free open federated events system for the Fediverse, designed to get people off Facebook Events. You can follow the project here:

@mobilizon

It's currently in beta testing, and is made by @Framasoft (the makers of PeerTube and many other free open projects).

Mobilizon's official site is at https://joinmobilizon.org/en/

#Mobilizon #Fediverse #Events #FacebookEvents #FOSS #FLOSS #Libre

Jaron Lanier interviewed on a UK news show about how the datafarming that corporate social media make their money from, harms people and damages societies (21mins):
https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=kc_Jq42Og7Q

#JaronLanier #interview

🍀 Newly added #ActivityPub tools 🍀

• Little Library: A digital give-a-book, take-a-book library for ebooks - github.com/Alamantus/little-li…
• Mastodon.py: Python wrapper for Mastodon API; feature complete and easy to get started with - github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
• atoot: Library providing an easy way to create Mastodon API applications - github.com/popura-network/atoo…

For all projects visit:
- fediverse.party/en/tools
- git.feneas.org/feneas/fedivers…

-l

The latest social media craze ... ;)
https://www.theonion.com/teens-flock-to-new-app-where-they-just-enter-own-person-1844339166

#SocialMedia

Open source technology is critical to internet freedom because it allows anyone to inspect the code, understand it, and discover any bugs or backdoors. For the community that OTF supports, the open source approach builds trust.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7gz4d/the-trump-administration-is-attacking-critical-internet-privacy-tools

Why Mastodon and the fediverse are “doomed to fail”

-> a small rant about how the profit lens distorts our understanding of success vs. failure:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-are-doomed-to-fail