Yeah, the blue birds are evil!
That's why I never joined that cesspool of a platform to begin with!
#CyberSix #AdrianSeidelman #LucasArmato #Anime #Animation #Cartoon #Comic #BlueBirds #Twitter #mood #vibes #Twitter #Shitter #Xitter #X #Muskification #Enshittification
EFF is Leaving X
> After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. The math hasn’t worked out for a while now.
eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-…
by @eff
#eff #x #twitter #nazism #socialMedia
I'm super happy to see this. It'll be a great day when #ElonMusk is the only active account on #Twitter and he spends his days screaming into the void and no one answers back.
EFF is finally leaving X and here is a blog post about why: eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-…EFF is Leaving X
After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Welp, he was wrong about Mastodon fizzling out in two weeks, but the one thing he wasn't wrong about was Mastodon growing stagnant. Mastodon's sat at the same active user counts for a while and it's plateau'd. The platform hasn't seen any significant growth since the 2022 Twitter exodus, and though growth obviously isn't everything, Mastodon remains relatively niche.
Still, funny reading about this dude just having a massive skill-issue with using Mastodon.
Someone please explain this to me like I am a 10-year old:
Why does #Bluesky exist when there is the #Fediverse? What is its value proposition and business model?
If #FaceBook & #Twitter were liked walled gardens, locking in users ( "I can't leave. All my friends and family are here!" ), and the Fediverse is like an open pasture, then Bluesky is like a corral with three walls. Why would any horses go into it, when they could run across the pasture and graze freely?
Wat doet onze #overheid op #Twitter/#x?
En dan te bedenken dat zij al een platform hebben waar ze zelf aan het stuur staan! Social.overheid.nl
Game changer: als de #NOS niet tweets meer gaat embedden in artikelen en überhaupt eens begint met embeds vanaf #mastodon of met screenshots en bron.
Maar laat nou net social.omroep.nl alweer gestopt zijn, want publieke taak niet al te serieus nemen als er ook een racisme-facisme-kinder-uitkleed platform is…
youtu.be/u4hHHL8q_lQ?is=16ckjd…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.LUBACH (YouTube)
Overigens, er zijn al twee #ministers op #Mastodon:
- @MinisterVRO
- @MinisterBZK
en twee #staatssecretarissen:
- @stasdigi
- @staatssecretarisbzk
En zie voor meer #politici:
#Lubach #kabinet #X #eXit #PoL #Twitter
Overzicht van Nederlandse politici en partijen op Mastodon.www.politici-op-mastodon.nl
@arjenlubach Als bestuurslid van de stichting ActivityClub (je weet wel, die zorgen dat mastodon.nl geen Dolfinarium wordt) dank ik je hartelijk voor je Deep Dive Donderdag.Alle Nederlandse politici zijn van harte welkom op mastodon.nl
Wat doet onze overheid nog op #X?
X, het voormalige #Twitter: het was ooit best een leuk platform, toen werd het steeds kutter. X is niet meer wat het geweest is, sinds #Musk er de baas is.
Is het wel slim dat de #Nederlandse #regering op X zit? Moet het bestuur van ons land meewerken aan dit zieke verdienmodel van een #Amerikaanse techmiljardair?
Tijd voor Diep Duik Donderdag!
Via @arjenlubach
youtube.com/watch?v=u4hHHL8q_l…
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.LUBACH (YouTube)
Il y a là, il me semble, plusieurs conneries potentielles.
#Memestodon #Twitter #X #Meme #Louvre
There we go!
I feel like i keep reposting this every week or so..
Bit by bit #Bsky is sliding towards just another clone of #Twitter and #Facebook
Actions speak louder then words
The #Fediverse remains the only true open source, self-hosted world wide community driven by the people
Going #AI (#LLM) is a CHOICE, they again chose wrong
How About Some AI With Your Bluesky?A tale of two social networks.
Last week some enterprising Mastodon account was discovered to be scraping posts to feed to an AI for the purpose of helping people navigate the Fediverse. The response was swift. The alarm went out. The account was widely blocked and shunned.
Yesterday to great fanfare #Bluesky announced, as a new corporate feature, all posts would be scraped and an AI would now help users navigate the ATmosphere.
techcrunch.com/2026/03/28/blue…
Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds | TechCrunch
Bluesky’s new app Attie uses AI to help people build custom feeds the open social networking protocol atproto.Sarah Perez (TechCrunch)
The verdict from a #jury in San Francisco federal #court came in a closely watched civil trial where #Musk, the world's richest person, was accused of falsely claiming on #SocialMedia that #Twitter underreported how many fake & spam accounts, known as bots, were on its platform.
#Musk found liable to #Twitter shareholders in #fraud lawsuit over $44 billion takeover
A #US federal #jury found #ElonMusk liable on Friday for claims he defrauded Twitter shareholders by trying to drive down the #SocialMedia company's #stock price so he could renegotiate or back out of a $44 billion takeover in 2022.
X concedes on initial EU demands
The social media platform X has submitted its first proposals to the EU Commission on how it intends to rectify violations of the Digital Services Act.
heise.de/en/news/X-concedes-on…
#DigitalServicesAct #ElonMusk #Netzpolitik #Regulierung #SocialMedia #Twitter #X #news
#bluesky is going the way of #twitter
with new leadership due to financial pressure, they are going to cave and ruin some aspect of it
my unfounded speculation is some #crypto tie-in shit, since it's owned and run by #cryptobros
also as @mastodonmigration noted, it's interesting timing with the #midterms coming up
enjoy bluesky folks!
but its days are numbered
I have an internet friend who was Left behind on twitter because he wasn't ready to move (WTF why)
I've been congratulating him on important anniversaries of his, through the internet for years like an Atomic Clock
It's the 4th or the 5th Year that I couldn't do it, because I refuse to re-open my Twitter accounts to see the battlefield, the horrific nukes of War, the destruction that Elon and his cohorts created.
I miss talking to him
He's a good man, a successful Bounty Hunter by Day, a great pappa at Night
polymaths.social/@rl_dane/stat…
#Social #Media #Twitter #account #technology #walled #Gardens #Elon #Musk #friend #left #behind #Nostalgia #FediVerse #OpenSource
@fwtl yes, I'm quite positively surprised at all the good social experiences people have.
> An algo is a tool that can be used for good and the lack of one is really big problem for normies
I don't think that is necessarily the case, more so than that we are dealing with different social networking paradigms. And when people do not realize that, their expectations are off. I call this paradigm #PersonalSocialNetworking..
coding.social/blog/reimagine-s…
Hopping from #twitter to #mastodon is not just switching to another microblogging platform, that happens to be decentralized. The lack of algorithm gives an opportunity as well as a responsibility in order to get the most out of the fediverse: you are in control and should curate your own feed. By choosing who you follow, you shape your own village, and over time you may nurture it into a bustling city you are part of.
Algo's may help, but it is more Starter packs and app websites that can do a better introduction to fediverse social media.
We find novel ways to collaborate and create value together.Social coding commons
A few weeks of X’s algorithm can make you more right-wing – and it doesn’t wear off quickly
X’s algorithms are an editorial force, shaping what people know, whom they pay attention to, who the outgroup is and what “we” should do about or to them, and what people come to believe.
theconversation.com/a-few-week…
#media #toxic #twitter #socialmedia
Elon Musk’s social media platform is boosting conservative content – and it’s having long-lasting effects on how users see the world.The Conversation
Ah yes, and here it is: Woody Allen was on Pedo Island.
Oh what did I have fights about him being a fucking pedophile with his rancid bunch of fans on #Twitter. And here it is, the proof.
Ω🪬Ω
#TheCryptocalypseChronicles: Maybe The Russian Bots Were Jeffrey Epstein The Whole Time
A portrait of a man and his social media influence operations.
I have been patiently waiting for someone to report on the fact that among the #Epstein documents released in November is incontrovertible proof that Epstein was working with hackers in #Dubai to monitor and/or influence the progress of the 2016 American election on social media. Alas so far I have been disappointed, and so it has fallen to me to point this out.
tl;dr Epstein was receiving regular reports about social media vibes w/r/t #HillaryClinton and #Trump from a seller of "offensive cybersecurity services" who was partnered up with a young woman from #Uzbekistan.
* Substack: cryptadamus.substack.com/p/may…
* DocumentCloud: documentcloud.org/documents/26…
#EpsteinFiles #ZubairKhan #uspol #uspolitics #JeffreyEpstein #Russia #putin #bots #socialmedia #twitter #2016election #cybersecurity #infosec #Tranchulas
NPR: State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office. “The State Department is removing all posts on its public accounts on the social media platform X made before P…ResearchBuzz: Firehose
Just pay everyone to pretend you're not the 'Pedo Guy'
You've got the money, you sad little man....
#ElonMusk #Musk #EpsteinClass #EpsteinFiles #JeffreyEpstein #Twitter #SocialMedia #TechBros
We added our Vivaldi Social server to the Fediverse on November 15th 2022. We are still, I believe, the only browser company that is fully behind the Fediverse. It is something we are very proud of! The Fediverse is the natural alternative to Big Tech social media, just like, IMHO, Vivaldi is the natural alternative to Big Tech browsers.
#Vivaldi #Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #SocialMedia #AI #Meta #Facebook #Instagram
vivaldi.com/blog/news/vivaldi-…
Vivaldi Social, our Mastodon instance, is your gateway to reliable, big-tech-free social networkingJon von Tetzchner (Vivaldi Technologies)
Have you ever noticed #BigTech "shadow banning" open and free platforms like #mastodon? Billionaires and Oppressive Governments benefit from 3 rich dudes controlling the narrative. Corporate powers will never willingly move to the #fediverse.
If a single Mastodon instance had wide spread #CSAM and non-consensual #AI slop porn like the recent #twitter scandal #Apple and #Google would disable downloads instantly.
Fuck it! We'll do it live!
We are experiencing technical difficulties and we'd like you to experience those technical difficulties with us.Ian and Jay Space Out
Ja, aber die Reichweite?! – Wie wir einst von „Twitter“ ins „Fediverse“ wechselten und es nie bereuten
computertruhe.de/2026/02/01/ja…
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Twitter #X #SocialMedia #MicroBlogging #Reichweite #DIDAY #DID #DigitalIndependenceDay #DigitalerUnabhängigkeitstag #DUT
Politicians [in Cornwall] agree to stop using social media site
[X]bbc.com/news/articles/cdx47962…
> A town council in Cornwall has agreed to stop using a social media platform for official business.
> "Twitter just doesn't feel like a place where responsible organisations should be touting their wares or aligning their values with."
> Erewash Borough Council in Derbyshire also made the decision to stop using the "unsafe" social media platform in January.
👏 👏 👏
Marazion Town Council took the decision following concerns about X's AI tool Grok.Lee Trewhela (BBC News)
#X / #Twitter is so broken. Check out this caption for today's news: “Editor Urges Trump to Invoke Insurrection Act Amid Minneapolis Protests.”
Wait, an editor of a respected news outlet is urging this?! Because that'd newsworthy!
Of course not. You think Musk's X cares about real information? The “editor” is Joel Berry of the conservative Christian satire website “Babylon Bee.”
Do you think Musk's website would do the same if the editor of The Onion posted something?
From August: Features an ideal social network should have. (TLDR: Based on open standards; have moderation; be user friendly; chronological feeds as the default; and a sustainable business model.)
diversetechgeek.com/features-i…
#socialmedia #Twitter #TikTok #Meta #Mastodon #Bluesky
I give my thoughts on what criteria should make up an ideal social network, and why we might not see such anytime soon.Anthony Dean (Diverse Tech Geek)
Canada 🇨🇦 is considering a social media ban for people under the age of 14
mobilesyrup.com/2026/01/22/can…
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Le Canada 🇨🇦 considère une interdiction des réseaux sociaux à ceux âgés de moins de 14 ans
// Article en anglais //
#Canada #CANpoli #CDNpoli #SocialMedia #RéseauxSociaux #Meta #Twitter #TikTok #Facebook #Instagram #Threads
The Government of Canada is looking to ban social media services for kids under 14 as part of an upcoming 'online harms bill.'Dean Daley (MobileSyrup)
⚠️🚨 STOP Using Social Media Platform Hootsuite
👉 They Partnered with ICE 👈
"A Hootsuite employee mentioned geolocation, saying the company could drill down to street-level data."
Note: There are Four articles in this post including a Bypass Paywall to the Globe and Mail
"While Hootsuite is based in Canada, it has hundreds of employees globally, including CEO Irina Novoselsky who is based in N.Y City. The company serves major brands like Adobe and Ikea and more .."
h/t @tod
#Luxembourg #Talkwalker
#Canada #USA #Resist #SocialMedia
#Hootsuite #FB #TikTok #Threads #YouTube #Twitter #WhatsApp #Bluesky
#Pintrest #CyberSecurity #AI
theglobeandmail.com/business/a…
You will also want to read this link👇
rswebsols.com/news/canadian-ne…
Bypass paywall : Globe and Mail Article removepaywalls.com/theglobeand…
Link to Hootsuite website: hootsuite.com/platform/integra…
Discover how Luxembourg’s cutting-edge AI technology is revolutionizing social media monitoring to boost ICE operations and enhance security measures worldwide.RS Web Solutions
TD Barry Ward, who is also a barrister, has written a letter laying out very clearly why X/Grok could and should be prosecuted immediately under existing Irish law. I’m sharing it in full as it is the public interest. I’ll add my own opinion that the X premises should be raided as soon as possible before evidence can be destroyed.
The letter follows
–o–
To:
Detective Superintendent Pat Ryan
Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau
Dear Superintendent,
You will no doubt be aware of the social media company X and its Grok app, which utilises artificial intelligence to generate pictures and videos. I understand you are also aware that, among its capabilities is the generation, by artificial intelligence, of false images of real people either naked or in bikinis, etc. There has been a great deal of controversy recently about the use of this technology and its ability to target people without their knowledge or consent.
Whatever about the sharing of such images being contrary to the provisions of Coco’s Law (sections 2 and 3 of the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020), the Grok app is also capable of generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or child pornography as defined by section 2(1) of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as substituted by section 9(b) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017).
In the circumstances, it seems there are reasonable grounds that the corporate entity X, as owner of Grok, or indeed the corporate entity Grok itself, is acting in contravention of a number of provisions of the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 (as amended). Inter alia, it is my contention that the following offences are being committed by X, Grok, and/or its subsidiaries:
1. Possession of child pornography contrary to section 6(1) in that the material generated by the Grok app must be stored on servers owned and/or operated by X and with the company’s knowledge, in this jurisdiction or in the European Union [subsections 6(3) and (4) would not apply in this case];
2. Production of child pornography contrary to section 5(1)(a) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, in that material is being generated by the Grok app, which constitutes child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or child pornography as defined by section 2(1), since it constitutes a visual representation that shows person who is depicted as being a child “being engaged in real or simulated sexually explicit activity” (per paragraph (a)(i) of the definition of child pornography in section 2(1) as amended by section 9(b) of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017);
3. Distribution of chiid pornography contrary to section 5(1)(b) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, in that the said images that constitute child pornography are being distributed, transmitted, disseminated or published to the users of the Grok app by X or its subsidiaries;
4. Distribution of chiid pornography contrary to section 5(1)(c) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017, in that the Child pornography is being sold to the users of the Grok app by X or its subsidiaries, now that the app has been very publically put behind a pay wall;
5. Knowing possession any child pornography for the purpose of distributing, transmitting, disseminating, publishing, exporting, selling or showing same, contrary to section 5(1)(g) as substituted by section 12 of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Act 2017.
You will also be aware that, pursuant to section 9(1) of the 1998 Act, a body corporate is equally liable to be proceeded against and punished as if it were an individual.
Given the foregoing, as well as the public outcry against public decency, it is clear to me that X is flagrantly disregarding the laws of this country put in place by the Oireachtas to protect its citizens.
I am formally lodging this criminal complaint in the anticipation that you will investigate it fully and transmit a file to the Director of Public Prosecutions without delay; I would be grateful to hear from you in this regard.
Yours sincerely,
Barry Ward TD
Senior Counsel
#BarryWard #Garda #Grok #Twitter #X
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So there's that nasty bug on Sharkey that mangles hashtags in messages from Hubzilla and probably also Friendica, (streams) and Forte. They always look like this:
#[Hashtag](hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag…)
Basically, Sharkey receives fully standard Rich Text from Hubzilla. It manages to convert this Rich Text into its own Misskey-Flavored Markdown. But then its Markdown parser does not parse it and leaves the Markdown code visible to everyone. It simply doesn't expect there to be a hashtag character in front of an embedded link because, seriously, who'd ever do that and why?!
Friendica would. In fact, Friendica does. It puts the hashtag character in front of the tag, as in outside the tag, as opposed to at the beginning of the tag. It has been doing that since its beginnings in 2010 because it was designed from the get-go to also federate with StatusNet from 2008. And StatusNet does hashtags the same way on its few remaining servers. In fact, so did Identi.ca from 2008, from which StatusNet emerged.
Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte do it, too, because they have inherited it from Friendica.
On StatusNet, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte, a hashtag in a message looks like this:
Notice how the hashtag character has the same colour as the rest of the post text. And not the same colour as the rest of the hashtag. This means that the hashtag character is not part of the link. (To Mastodon users who don't know this: If something in a "toot" has a different colour from the rest of the "toot", it's a link. Even if it doesn't show a URL in plain sight.)
On 𝕏, Mastodon, Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, the various Forkeys and a whole lot of other Fediverse software, a hashtag in a message looks like this:
#[url=https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/search?tag=Hashtag]Hashtag[/url]
Notice how now the hashtag character has the same colour as the rest of the hashtag. This means that the hashtag character is part of the link.
But why did Identi.ca do hashtags differently from Twitter? Because Identi.ca did hashtags before Twitter. AFAIK, when Identi.ca was launched, it had support for hashtags right away. About one year before Twitter.
The hashtag itself had already been invented by the Twitter community. Chris Messina had already codified it in 2007. But it wasn't until 2009 that Twitter actually introduced a technological implementation to support it.
Again, Identi.ca must have had hashtags as early as 2008, and there was no way that Identi.ca creator Evan Prodromou could possibly predict what Twitter would do the following year. So he did what he thought was right and what actually made sense to him.
But nowadays, everybody "knows" that Twitter had the world's very first hashtag implementation ever because nobody, even in the Fediverse, has ever heard of Identi.ca. I mean, the majority of Fediverse users "know" that the Fediverse started with Mastodon.
You know, just like Officer James Barrett "knew" that there is no intelligent life outside Earth only a few minutes before he became Agent J of the Men In Black.
This is also why just about all Fediverse software that does hashtags the Twitter way expects everything to do hashtags the Twitter way. It does not expect hashtags to be done differently. And when a message comes in from Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) or Forte with hashtags in it, it fails at varying degrees of ungracefully.
Hashtags with the hashtag character outside the link are older than hashtags with the hashtag character inside that they're not only completely unexpected, that they cause software to malfunction, but the same software often can't even handle that malfunction. It's a miracle that the Friendica/Hubzilla family doesn't cause Fediverse servers to crash or even server databases to go corrupt by simply sending hashtags.
Mastodon used to be an exception of sorts, but only because, before version 4.0 from October, 2022, its HTML "sanitiser" actually ripped out any and all rich text code from incoming messages and left nothing but plain text behind. And then it didn't recognise hashtags in messages from outside Mastodon as hashtags at all.
When Mastodon 4.0 came and supported some rich text, including embedded links, it went haywire, of course. But then someone from Friendica and Hubzilla went in and complained about this malfunction and explained what happened, why it happened and why it was not Friendica and Hubzilla that did things wrong. Besides, if something utterly defaces "toots", then Mastodon developers do step in to stop it. After all, Mastodon has a few more of them at hand, paid, full-time professionals even. You have to give it that.
Which takes us back to Sharkey. Sharkey is developed by a small handful of individuals in their spare time. Granted, it's a soft fork of Misskey, so a lot of development work is done by the Misskey devs and taken over by the Sharkey devs, but they still have to weave the code changes coming from Misskey in and make them work with what's different on Sharkey.
So it turned out that (Link content warning: eye contact) this bug has already been filed to the Sharkey devs in October, 2024. All that has happened since then until today was that Hazelnoot added two labels. But the bug report came with no explanations. In fact, it misattributed one of my Hubzilla posts as a Friendica post.
And in fact, it turned out that this is actually (Link content warning: Microsoft GitHub link, eye contact) a Misskey bug which has been filed in January, 2024, two years ago. The bug report is a bit more elaborate, but the reporter still knew precious little about what's going on. So I wrote a comment in which I explained the bug from a Friendica/Hubzilla POV as well as what's going on on the technical side, and why the error has to be on Misskey's side.
I hope this will finally help get the bug fixed. Unfortunately, this fix would come too late for Iceshrimp. Iceshrimp-JS is a true Forkey, but in maintenance mode, so I guess only security patches and critical bugfixes will be merged from Misskey, if anything. And Iceshrimp.NET is a complete rewrite of a pre-this-fix Misskey fork, so the Iceshrimp devs probably don't know about this issue either. If it fails ungracefully upon receiving hashtags with the hashtag character outside, it will require its own bug report.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Hashtag #Hashtags #HashtagMeta #CWHashtagMeta #Twitter #𝕏 #Fediverse #Mastodon #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Sharkey #Iceshrimp #Iceshrimp-JS #Iceshrimp.NET #Identi.ca #Laconi.ca #StatusNet #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte
💡 Summary There seems to be a problem in conversion from whatever format Hubzilla is using (probably HTML) to Misskey's Markdown. I am seeing the hashtags as markdown links in source code (like #[h...temtemy (GitHub)
