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Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I'm flattered. Who would've thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We're just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we're staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could've ignored us. Instead, by blocki
Dear Mark, I hope this finds you well. I noticed something interesting today - it seems Instagram is blocking links to my little open-source project. You know, the one that lets people share photos without harvesting their personal data or forcing algorithmic feeds on them. I have to admit, I'm flattered. Who would've thought a small team of volunteers could build something that would catch your attention? We're just trying to give people a choice in how they share their memories online. No VCs, no surveillance capitalism, just code and community. Remember when Facebook started? It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics. Our project might be tiny compared to Instagram, but we're staying true to that original spirit of social media - giving people control over their online presence without turning them into products. You could've ignored us. Instead, by blocking our links, you've given us the best endorsement we could ask for. You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation. Every time you block a link to our platform, you remind people why we built it in the first place. Your action tells them there are alternatives worth exploring, ones that respect their privacy and agency. So thank you, Mark. You've turned our little project into a symbol of resistance against digital monopolies.
You should look up a picture of that dweeb sometime, or listen to any of the bitchly things he says. It'll cure you of that notion in about a third of a second.
But it was for getting their PII. Like photos, location, relationship status, and phone number. Helped a lot of college kids get laid, myself included.
Does threads finally support reading responses from the fediverse? Or seeing posts from the fediverse? Because if it does, trying to get pixelfed and other alternatives trending might be a way to get some attention.
When you think about it, too, you realize these people have nothing good inside them. They seek power because externally people covet power. Normal people covet power because they want control of their own lives but mark has control and doesn't fucking get it. He thinks power is inherently good so he steals it all away for himself but no matter how hard he trys he can't look inward and find anything that means something more than that. It's truly sad and grotesque. My mind could be set on 100 different paths that would fill me with so much satisfaction that nothing else would matter and mark can't find one for himself.
I mean zuckerberg stole the whole idea of Facebook from the winkleboss twins in the first place. Bought Instagram because he doesn’t gave the ability to create new good products. Then he copied Snapchat’s short form video into Instagram. So I’ve zero sympathy for him or Meta as they just copy shit and all their own ideas are shit (ex. now introducing legs). But if it were my project I’d make sure its different enough so won’t lose it if it’s sued for that
It started so he could creep on girls on their campus. Nerds had hard time to socialize, so they made a digital social network to help them with the cause. Dunno if it did. But his early interviews are creepy af, lol
i guess i just raised an eyebrow as the author of the letter was like "its just code and community" whilst absolutely copying their design down to the order of the items on the popup menu for posts
You might want to do a bit more research, as it seems settled that Adrian Dittman is an actual real person and not Muskrat's sockpuppet. Maybe be less of a dick about it too.
Yeah also facebook started as an evolution of men rating women on his campus. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_… It should be no surprise that zuck has recently started proclaiming that he wants a more masculine corporate identity, it's been that way from the beginning
"The Kirkland Facebook (referring to the Kirkland House intranet) is open on my computer desktop, and some of these people have pretty horrendous Facebook pictures. I almost want to put some of these faces next to pictures of farm animals and have people vote on which is more attractive." - Zuck, 2003
The only Meta product I'm kinda forced to have is Whatsapp, as my work and my family use that to communicate, and I have tried to explain Signal to my mom, but to no avail.
Sure, I'll be out of the loop regarding work related news and I'll just text all my coworkers individually. That's just not feasible!
I've tried several times over the course of a few years (every time Meta or Facebook or Whatsapp was negatively in the news) to move people away from that platform.
I've resigned to the fact that people are stubborn and don't want to move. I have a Signal account in case someone does move.
I just got set up on Simple X Chat. From my cursory research it seems to have the best security going in a chat app right now. I find the UI really slick too. It has all the features I use in a chat app anyway. The only thing to be aware of is that all the messages are saved locally, so backup/recovery needs to be handled by you. There's a couple videos an YouTube that go over the app.
All that being said, I still have WhatsApp on my phone. There's still the same problem of getting everyone in your life to download another app.
Seriously. There is no need to be patient with moms or anyone not „understanding“ Signal. It’s the same thing as WhatsApp just with a different coat of paint when it comes to using it.
I did exactly what you did. And lo and behold my mom is now using Signal to message me.
He thinking about why he isn't king just like the rest of them. Increasingly we are wondering the same thing. Why is he not like almost almost all past kings. In the past.
Until it's over and their costly empires collapse, would not be the first who ends up broke. Fortune is not like rock, although they try to make it like that, they try to cement their throne ... whel empires rise and kings fall. The fall usually starts with decadence and arrogance. He already bought his watch...and for the paradise pd fans "higher hair" 🤭
Please, for the love of god, think more tactically. This is a brilliant move on Daniel's part, and a fantastic example for the fediverse more broadly to follow.
Maybe it was 2008 instead of 06? Seemed like it came out very early, I'd only had an account for a year or so I think, shortly after it was opened up outside EDU domains.
This letter reads like if Zuck was an ideologically driven tech-anarchist that wanted to connect people that became old and fell for the money but that's not really true lol
Zuck sucks but this open letter is embarrassing. Dial back the smarm and self-righteousness a couple notches. I get it's marketing and not really an open letter but still, cringe
If app A has an icon that when touched does a specific thing, and app B has the exact same icon that does the exact same thing there is nothing new to learn. The learning curve is flat.
If you are arguing about the ethical and legal aspect of one app using the exact same UI as another that is a different conversation and a good one to have.
While I really wish for PixelFed to take off, like Mastodon and Lenmy did, the current situation, IMHO, is just confusing to say the least.
So, here are two pixelfed mobile apps, an older one which is just a wrapper of the web version, and a newer polished one.
I've the new "polished" one installed for a few months now, and it seemes as if it's development has stalled. The app just feels unfinished at this point.
Now, I get it, it's a volunteer project, and there are probably just a handful of people working on it. And this is totally fine, I'm not expecting them to deliver an Instagram clone anytime soon.
However, a few months ago, they announced "Loops", with pre-signups and some marketing yada yada... All this, while there's still an unfinished app for their core product. But, I went ahead and signed up, just to find out, it was just crickets for a few months.
Then, recently I logged in again (on the web), and saw an they have an App for Loops which seems to be in the works, and upon testing it, I came to the same conclusion, it's just an
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While I really wish for PixelFed to take off, like Mastodon and Lenmy did, the current situation, IMHO, is just confusing to say the least.
So, here are two pixelfed mobile apps, an older one which is just a wrapper of the web version, and a newer polished one.
I've the new "polished" one installed for a few months now, and it seemes as if it's development has stalled. The app just feels unfinished at this point.
Now, I get it, it's a volunteer project, and there are probably just a handful of people working on it. And this is totally fine, I'm not expecting them to deliver an Instagram clone anytime soon.
However, a few months ago, they announced "Loops", with pre-signups and some marketing yada yada... All this, while there's still an unfinished app for their core product. But, I went ahead and signed up, just to find out, it was just crickets for a few months.
Then, recently I logged in again (on the web), and saw an they have an App for Loops which seems to be in the works, and upon testing it, I came to the same conclusion, it's just an unfinished barebones TikTok.
Again, I'm not ranting about PixelFed, but IMHO, if they want to get serious, they should focus on one thing, until time and resources allow them to explore other things.
I guess I am talking ethics. I guess I have a vague sense of hypocrisy with the 'open letter' taking a vague moral/ethical high ground while it's author has ripped off the design of a different piece of software (at least the UI) pixel for pixel
Cringy, inaccurate, and reeks of arrogance. 200k users. I bet it got blocked because some bot started spamming the platform.
At the end of the day, the critical mass of users will be based on 2 things. Ease of use or engagement and content. Content creators won't go to platforms that don't bring in money or get yelled at for trying to make money.
Why did the pixelfed creator have to fuck this up and treat his own community horribly? And such timing too. ( the pixelfed creator was acting horribly to the mastodon and other fediverse programmers and they came out and made a statement about how they don’t like being treated that way )
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DATE: January 18, 2025 at 08:00AM SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: Personalient individuals are happier due to smoother social relations
More “personalient” individuals—those with higher levels of the General Factor of Personality (GFP)—are generally happier, according to research published in Personality & Individual Differences.
The concept of the General Factor of Personality (GFP) has been likened to the general factor of intelligence (g), as both emerge from analyses of multiple measures within their respective domains. GFP reflects social effectiveness and emotional intelligence, traits that promote smoother interpersonal re
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DATE: January 18, 2025 at 08:00AM SOURCE: PSYPOST.ORG
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TITLE: Personalient individuals are happier due to smoother social relations
More “personalient” individuals—those with higher levels of the General Factor of Personality (GFP)—are generally happier, according to research published in Personality & Individual Differences.
The concept of the General Factor of Personality (GFP) has been likened to the general factor of intelligence (g), as both emerge from analyses of multiple measures within their respective domains. GFP reflects social effectiveness and emotional intelligence, traits that promote smoother interpersonal relationships.
Satoshi Kanazawa proposed that this smoother social interaction aligns with the evolutionary theory of happiness, which posits that human happiness is influenced by ancestral conditions. Individuals with higher GFP, or “personalient” traits, are predicted to experience greater happiness due to their ability to foster better social connections.
Previous studies have shown correlations between GFP and life satisfaction using smaller or geographically restricted samples. However, debates about the validity of GFP as a construct have been ongoing in personality psychology. Kanazawa aimed to provide robust evidence for the relationship between GFP and happiness.
The researcher utilized two large, longitudinal datasets from different populations. The first dataset, the National Child Development Study (NCDS), tracked over 17,000 individuals born in the United Kingdom in 1958. Participants were surveyed at multiple points throughout their lives, providing detailed information on various aspects of their personal and professional experiences.
At age 51, participants completed a personality assessment based on the Big Five personality traits, allowing researchers to calculate their GFP scores through factor analysis. Happiness was measured through self-reports of life satisfaction, which participants rated on a scale of 0 to 10 at several life stages, including ages 33, 42, 47, and 51. The study also included key control variables such as intelligence, education, income, and gender to isolate the effect of GFP on happiness.
The second dataset, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), followed over 20,000 American participants from adolescence into adulthood, beginning in 1994. In this study, GFP was derived at age 29 using a shorter personality inventory, while happiness was measured through a combination of self-reports on how often participants felt happy and their overall life satisfaction at different points in time. These measurements captured happiness and satisfaction across key developmental stages, including adolescence, young adulthood, and middle age.
Both datasets allowed for an examination of how GFP influenced happiness over time, accounting for prior levels of life satisfaction to test whether genetic predispositions or social interactions played a larger role.
The analyses of both datasets revealed a consistent and robust relationship between GFP and happiness. In the NCDS, individuals with higher GFP scores reported significantly greater life satisfaction at all surveyed life stages. Even after controlling for variables such as intelligence, income, education, and prior levels of happiness, GFP remained a strong predictor of happiness. A one-standard-deviation increase in GFP was associated with a 30–60% increase in the likelihood of being in a higher category of life satisfaction. Importantly, the effect of GFP appeared to grow stronger with age, suggesting that the influence of social and interpersonal effectiveness on happiness may accumulate over time.
Similar findings emerged from the Add Health study, where individuals with higher GFP scores reported greater happiness and life satisfaction across different stages of life. Here too, GFP was a stronger predictor of happiness compared to other variables like income or education. Notably, the relationship between GFP and happiness persisted even after accounting for earlier levels of happiness, providing evidence against a purely genetic explanation for the association. Instead, the findings suggested that smoother social and interpersonal interactions in everyday life, facilitated by higher GFP, were the primary drivers of increased happiness.
Together, these results highlighted the importance of GFP as a key factor in understanding individual differences in happiness and life satisfaction.
Of note is that the datasets focused on Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies, limiting generalizability of results.
The research, “More personalient people are happier,” was authored by Satoshi Kanazawa.
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