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#Sunak's so desperate to hang on to power he's trying scare tactics. If UK is in more dangerous times than for decades, it's the Tories fault. Corruption on a grand scale. Corruption in putting people in the HOL that shouldn't be there & appalling corruption of many MP's having truck with undesirable Foreign entities..
Send the #Tories to Rwanda.
#GeneralElection #UK #Politics #GTTO #Mastodon #Fediverse #ElectionCountdown #PR #LindaSgoluppiArt
Hey #Fediverse admins 👋
Are you seeing posts in Federated have no connection to anyone on your instance or anyone they follow?
It happened to me recently and the root cause turned out to be #Streams accounts that were following me. I wasn't following them or interacting with them, but they were somehow able to push irrelevant content to my instance, not just from Streams but all over the Fediverse.
When I suspended the Streams instances, all of the unexplained content stopped.
"In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. ... There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of the open web."
is this feeling... hope? https://activitypub.ghost.org/day-0/
![At various points we revisited our old idea for networked publishing in Ghost and tested a few prototypes, but we were never sure how to make it scale; nor how many other platforms would ultimately adopt it. For all its promise, ActivityPub (like many open standards) seemed to generate products with user experiences that were often confusing and convoluted. But something else happened in the intervening period between 2016 and 2024: People became increasingly fed up with the behavior of centralized platforms, and increasingly hungry for alternatives. The motivation for exploring and understanding new technologies, rough edges included, meaningfully increased. In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. In the past week alone, we've had conversations with Mastodon, Flipboard, The Verge, Buttondown, WriteFreely, and several co-authors of the ActivityPub spec. There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of [begin strikethrough] the linux desktop [end strikethrough] the open web.](/images/status/dde6e3f4-2d54-49a1-840e-554f16ca4211.png "At various points we revisited our old idea for networked publishing in Ghost and tested a few prototypes, but we were never sure how to make it scale; nor how many other platforms would ultimately adopt it. For all its promise, ActivityPub (like many open standards) seemed to generate products with user experiences that were often confusing and convoluted. But something else happened in the intervening period between 2016 and 2024: People became increasingly fed up with the behavior of centralized platforms, and increasingly hungry for alternatives. The motivation for exploring and understanding new technologies, rough edges included, meaningfully increased. In 2024, for the first time, it finally feels like we have a critical mass of people and platforms who are interested in rewilding the internet to bring back what we lost, and create something new. In the past week alone, we've had conversations with Mastodon, Flipboard, The Verge, Buttondown, WriteFreely, and several co-authors of the ActivityPub spec. There's a palpable feeling that this just might be the year of [begin strikethrough] the linux desktop [end strikethrough] the open web.")
I guess I'm really into posting on #Mastodon today 😆 lots of articles to share and posts to boost 😁 #Fediverse
👋🏻 notice me. hug back please 🥺🙏🏻
#Mastodon #Fediverse #kindnessmatters #toot #today #Boost #bekind
yeah, the future of online discussions has arrived in the #fediverse as well: found the replies of a guy regarding #nuclear energy to be a bit too suspiciously samey sounding, so I checked with an #ai detector. lo and behold!
(is there maybe a browser plugin to detect this stuff automatically?)
here's an interesting thing I found you can do with the #irc webportal The Lounge: you can easily add parameters to the link for it to drop someone nearly directly into a chat.
wanna have a quick discussion regarding the #fediverse? go to http://ereborbbs.duckdns.org:9000/?join=fediverse and you can connect to the chat.
the only limitation is that the chat already needs to exist.
Foreign Trolls and Bots are a problem on social media and the Fediverse is not immune so here are two links to help you identify them:
On of the links is interactive so you can test your skill.
#SocialMedia #Election #Fediverse #Mastodon #Bot #Troll
https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-how-do-i-spot-fake-social-media-accounts-bots-and-trolls/a-60313035
This one is interactive:
These unofficial Mastodon accounts of space agencies are bots that merely share news items the agencies publish elsewhere, yet the accounts have quite a lot of followers:
- NASA: @nasa 71K followers
- ESA: @esa 1.4K followers
There's an unfulfilled demand for public institutions to communicate on open and independent platforms.
This right here is the value of having an open API (and @bardi also makes the point of thanking the folks who help to build TootSDK, as something he built Tusks on top of). What a great app - I just bought myself a license. #MastodonAPI #Fediverse
Hah, I wanted to share this article from It's FOSS News on here but don't want to cause the issue they describe in it, so I won't link to it directly.
They only mention #Mastodon in this article, but would this not be a wider issue on most #fediverse platforms?
Here's the link broken up:
https:// news.itsfoss .com/mastodon-link-problem/
A quick summary of my Fediverse enabling activities in April. #fediverse #newyearsresolutions
I am looking for things, preferably free to cheap things, to do while I am in Vegas next week for a conference.
Suggestions would be great! BOOSTs would be appreciated to help spread across the #Fediverse.
Well that sucks.
> The EDPS pilot project of EU Voice and EU Video has proved that public bodies, like EUIs, can offer social media platforms that respect individuals’ fundamental rights
> Unfortunately, despite our efforts to find a new home for EU Voice and EU Video in other EUIs, we have been unable to secure new ownership to maintain the servers and sustain operations at the high standards that EUIs and our users deserve
Hello, #Fediverse friends! Just got some wonderful news and wanted to share it with someone, and who better than you all. A dear friend who has been ill for a while has overcome their illness. We'll reunite tomorrow to celebrate together, but I'm bursting with joy already. Life has a way of bringing good news just when we need it most. #GoodNews #Celebration #Grateful
