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Une belle épine dans le pied de Zuckerberg :

Aux Pays-Bas, les algorithmes ne feront plus la loi sur Facebook ou Instagram

Meta doit proposer à ses utilisateurs aux Pays-Bas une option sans algorithme permettant aux utilisateurs de définir un fil d'actualité chronologique par défaut, a statué un tribunal d'Amsterdam jeudi

https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-radio/d-un-monde-a-l-autre/aux-pays-bas-les-algorithmes-ne-feront-plus-la-loi-sur-facebook-ou-instagram_7500808.html





Für all jene, die noch nicht bereit sind, die giergetriebenen "sozialen" Plattformen (komplett) zu verlassen:

Wir haben 4 Regeln formuliert, wie man diese halbwegs demokratiekompatibel nutzen kann. (Kurzzusammenfassung: Zusätzlich ein Angebot im Fediverse aufbauen... aber pssst!)

https://digitalcourage.de/blog/2025/digitaler-ablasshandel

Zugegeben: Mit diesem Post hier tragen wir Eulen nach Athen aber ihr kennt sicher alle jemanden, dem ihr das schicken könntet.

He eliminado mis cuentas de un montón de lugares: , / , todavía no termino de irme de para ya hay otros servicios que estoy utilizando.

Ahora con tengo el dilema que sigo a gente muy copada, muy buena que trata de usarla como herramienta de difusión y demás, una contra frente al uso nefasto de las red social.

Saliendo del debate de si es en vano o no que hagan eso, de si es óptimo o no, lo cierto es que sí me interesa seguir a esas personas y la solución que he encontrado es usar Instagram desde el navegador con todos los blockers que conozco y demás. Pero ahora estaba considerando la alternativa de y ese segundo espacio que dice aislar a las «redes del gran hermano».

¿Qué opinan? ¿Alguien usa …

@pluralistic

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"Buy from artists and creators you like online...and "get off of , and and join and/or ..."

said some stuff on his post "Wallet Voting" Sep 13 2025 that gave me the idea of a new, improved,
A lottery where most of the money ⭕doesn't go to the lottery company, or the State, etc.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices/

Two people putting a $100 bill into a lottery box Thanks to Pluralistic: Wallet voting (13 Sep 2025) Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/consumption-choices Just put in a Benjamin↵(have a photo of you and the serial number) and one winner gets the money at the end of the week Edited CC by @six_grandfathers_mountain@mastodon.social
"Buy from artists and creators you like online, join their crowdfunders and Patreons, get their music on Bandcamp – not because this will shatter the hegemony of the five giant publishers, four giant studios, three giant labels, two giant app companies and one giant ebook and audiobook store – but because it will help people whose art you love pay their rent and buy groceries" "Get off Facebook, Insta and Twitter and join Mastodon and/or Bluesky – not because you can disenshittify the internet by switching to federated social media, but because you, personally can have a less shitty time if you get away from the zuckermuskian rot economy"

A general warning to the community: There is a new type of active on , and I have reason to believe that they are active on as well.

These scammers pretend that they are famous authors, and claim that they want to "assist you on your writing journey". Which is odd - why would "famous authors" want to start a new account just to help other authors, instead of their own works?

No doubt this approach is intended to get you to spend lots of money on some "consulting service" which will get you "additional sales and reviews". So be aware, and be deeply suspicious of anyone contacting you out of the blue who pretends to be a famous author.


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A Facebook post with the following text: "New author scam (well, new to me). It's pretty obvious but they're bumping it up. I have gotten three emails recently, each one from a relatively famous author. Ruth Ware is the most recent one. It starts with a bit about the author, and a 'link to one of my favorites' and 'my full catalog on Amazon' (I didn't click either link) Then, 'I'd love to learn more about your book and writing journey. Feel free to share a link!' Not sure what those links will go to, but it's well-written, grammatically correct, and the email is the author's name, '.author@gmail.com' which doesn't seem outrageously spammy. A baby author might easily be flattered into thinking a more successful one might be interested in them."

As I have mentioned before, I believe that commercial platforms are a dire threat to the long-term survival of human civilization (see also: , ), and thus (barring any better alternatives) the needs to grow and replace them.

But there are a bunch of use cases for social media which aren't covered by assorted Fediverse applications yet. Here are the ones I could think of:

1. A "job networking" site, similar to . Most of us live in a situation where we have to work for a living, and hunting for prospective job opportunities and business connections is useful. This is where we can post our CVs and talk about our field of business.

2. A "Question and Answer" site, similar to . Having some way of people publicly asking questions that can be publicly …

The Fediverse logo, showing five colored circles connected by colored lines.

"Friendship books" were the of the 17th and 18th centuries (without the ads and data mining). Here's a fine example of one begun in 1795 by the aunt of the poet Felicia Dorothea Browne: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-friendship-book-of-anne-wagner-1795-1834

PSA: Meta (Facebook) is offering a new “feature” where it asks you if you want to opt into “cloud processing”. If you say yes, you’ll be giving it permission to upload your entire camera roll and use AI on them to make suggested posts.

I’m just spitballing here, but I’m pretty sure most of y’all would not want to give Facebook all of your photos to use with their AI.

https://appleinsider.com/articles/25/06/27/meta-wants-to-upload-every-photo-you-have-to-its-cloud-to-give-you-ai-suggestions

ORG's new report exposes Meta’s intrusive profiling of its users.

With the introduction of Generative AI to Meta’s ad tools, existing problems with opacity will get worse.

🗣️ Anna Dent, author of 'Profiling by Proxy'.

Read more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/profiling-by-proxy-how-metas-data-driven-ads-fuel-discrimination/

Quote from Anna Dent, author of 'Profiling by Proxy' report: "As Meta introduces more Al to its ad platform, the potential for hidden harms which no-one is accountable for just". Image: A social media profile icon with a shooting range crosshairs on the face in grey on a blue background.

I admin a local singles group on Facebook, and this is something I've learnt..

Maybe it's not that you're having trouble finding the right woman. Maybe you are the wrong man. For everyone.

For the love of everything good and holy, go the fuck to therapy.