@RichFelker

Here for the 🍿 as it burns. Come along to the 'don if you want more than popcorn from me.

hachyderm.io/@dalias
Joined March 2014
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If I've recently followed you here, it's probably because I saw & appreciated your tweets organically in the past via RT/QRT, and now that's gone. If you're on the 'don and I haven't yet followed you there, ping me.
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Very disappointed to get an email from @accountabletech trying to trick me into supporting KOSA, a ghoulishly anti-queer, anti-child bill that would invade minors' privacy and block their access to information and participation in public life.
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Looks like their parent org is a dark money laundering org, so someone is probably paying @accountabletech boatloads of cash to lobby for KOSA. influencewatch.org/non-profi…

Accountable Tech - Influence Watch

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Failing to address the antisemitic and Holocaust denial comments that appear under our posts commemorating the victims of Auschwitz would be a disservice to their memory. We've chosen to block users who promote denial and hatred. This decision stems from our deep dedication to our mission. We need a secure space to do this. Engaging in discussions with people and accounts that seek to abuse the memory of victims of Auschwitz is against the values we believe in. These individuals do not seek discourse; they aim to inflict pain. In this context, blocking is a necessary step to ensure that these harmful voices don't persist in their repetitive attacks on memory. In today's digital age, social media platforms shoulder significant moral responsibility. They should actively counter hate speech and halt its normalization. A platform that disregards the need to defend the memory of the victims demonstrates a disregard for creating a respectful and empathetic online environment. Blocking users isn't a mere action; it's a practical measure. Often, reporting accounts that spread hostility remains an unanswered call. Blocking provides a way to protect the memory of people who suffered and were murdered in Auschwitz.
Elon Musk
@elonmusk18 Aug 2023
Replying to @teslaownersSV
Block is going to be deleted as a “feature”, except for DMs
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Reminder before everyone gets really into “threads”: Meta actively HELPS law enforcement criminalize people seeking abortions in banned states
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Anecdotal update/data point on the fediverse/Mastodon. Checking numbers today, I have (built in 8 months) 50% of the followers I ever had on Twitter (8+ years), and something like 10% more follows than I ever had here. And they're all actual ppl, not algorithm-manipulation bots.
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As Twitter continues to burn, this is THE place that has no problem handling the load of new arrivals and no VCs ready to make the founders sell you out or manipulate you for their political machinations and batshit antivax stuff.
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If you've come over before and didn't stay, or if you come this time around and don't stay, that's okay. There'll still be a place to come back to when all the internet-of-enshittification has finished burning to the ground. But we'd love to have you sooner too.
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meow.social/@FluffyDeveloper…
Screenshot of toot from Fluffy Developer Fox @FluffyDeveloper@meow.social To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative AI models. BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images. It’s a built in “feature” and cannot be turned off. #ai #bluesky

ALT Screenshot of toot from Fluffy Developer Fox @[email protected] To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative AI models. BlueSky uses AI to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://thehive.ai. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative AI for both text and images. It’s a built in “feature” and cannot be turned off. #ai #bluesky

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Mastodon chest code: the more new folks rapidly flow in (around 5000/hr at the moment), the more you overload and exhaust the tiny brains of the retirement community HOA contingent, lessening the amount any individual has to hear from them & ultimately making them quit.
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They already seem to be pretty much done for this time around.
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hey did you know that if /reading/ tweets is rate-limited, then /writing/ tweets becomes a form of active sabotage
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i know we all love goofin' around on here, but i am once again absolutely fucking gutted by the imminent loss of an irreplaceable archive of first person accounts of little moments in history. losing the ability to search the online landfill for these artifacts is devastating.
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Friends still (not) enjoying this hellsite up til now, we'd still love to see you over on the fediverse. If you're having trouble picking an instance or even just figuring out where to start, here's an invite link (not needed but convenient) to hachyderm. hachyderm.io/invite/RW7gY3j9

Hachyderm.io

@dalias invites you to join this server of Mastodon! With an account, you will be able to follow people, post updates and exchange messages with users from any Mastodon server and more!

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Just dropped by to drop some numbers. In 4 months on 🦣, I have 38% of the follower count it took over 8.5 years to build here. And they're actually all real accounts not bots. 🙃
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NEW: While Twitter is breaking, Elon Musk is holding meetings to interrogate engineers about why his engagement is tanking. On Tuesday, he publicly fired one for showing that the lack of engagement isn’t a bug — he’s just less popular than he used to be: platformer.news/p/elon-musk-…

Elon Musk fires a top Twitter engineer over his declining view count

Inside Twitter 2.0, turmoil leaves employees stretched to the max

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7 February 1899 | A Dutch Jew, Marcus van Zanten was born in Rotterdam. He was a sales representative. He was deported to #Auschwitz in February 1943. He did not survive.
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7 February 1907 | A Polish Jew, Abraham Siegman, was born in Trzebinia. In #Auschwitz from 12 December 1941. No. 24347 He perished in the camp on 7 March 1942.
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PSA for folks who've heard otherwise about the 'don:
Mastodon post by Eniko Fox (screenshot): "Btw if mastodon makes you nervous cause there's a lot of etiquette that seems expected of you, don't worry. Just ignore the mastodon cops. I do and nobody complains, and if they did I'd just block em Post what you want when you want how you want. Make shitposts, post your terrible jokes, post 30 times a day about the project you're working on, post stream of consciousness or shower thoughts. If people don't like it they can unfollow or mute or block, but in my experience nobody cares and the mastodon cops are just buttmad that there's more people on here now and they can't control the tone of every conversation anymore"

ALT Mastodon post by Eniko Fox (screenshot): "Btw if mastodon makes you nervous cause there's a lot of etiquette that seems expected of you, don't worry. Just ignore the mastodon cops. I do and nobody complains, and if they did I'd just block em Post what you want when you want how you want. Make shitposts, post your terrible jokes, post 30 times a day about the project you're working on, post stream of consciousness or shower thoughts. If people don't like it they can unfollow or mute or block, but in my experience nobody cares and the mastodon cops are just buttmad that there's more people on here now and they can't control the tone of every conversation anymore"

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I'm seeing a real uptick in active usage from members of communities who'd previously joined 🦣 but gone quiet for a while.
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Heads up: mastodon.social/@fediversere…
Screenshot of toot by Fediverse Report: "For all non-developers: access to friend-finding tools cannot be assumed to last until the February 9th deadline. So use them while you still can. Tools that are currently still available that help you find your Twitter friends: https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ https://twitodon.com/ If you're looking for more context what this is all about, you can find that in my weekly newsletter: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-..."

ALT Screenshot of toot by Fediverse Report: "For all non-developers: access to friend-finding tools cannot be assumed to last until the February 9th deadline. So use them while you still can. Tools that are currently still available that help you find your Twitter friends: https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ https://twitodon.com/ If you're looking for more context what this is all about, you can find that in my weekly newsletter: https://fediversereport.com/last-week-..."

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