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.
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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 )
Pixelfed, a decentralized alternative to Instagram, has launched its official mobile apps. The service today runs on the same ActivityPub protocol that
BTW, work boot color is absolutely regulated depending on context. For example here in Germany, if you work in sterile or food-related industries then shoes are to be issued and used with a color that cannot inherently hide stains by the material you're working with, to prevent accidentally carrying contaminations into other clean zones.
So yes, you would stop the construction crew for using the wrong color work boots.
With iOS accessibility features for the display, you can enlarge your text, make it bold, increase contrast, apply color filters, use Smart Invert, control auto-brightness, and more.
LOL XD Jokes aside it’s interesting how the dark mode thing becomes more of a symbol than anything in certain communities. Obviously the science shows pros and cons both ways, but there’s an implicit in group/out group about it. I might compare it to turning off your autocaps on Tumblr.
Pick up an opthalmology book, find it yourself & ask your opthalmology specialist Those are my sources & here's a website too (do you have the guts to touch grass ?)
I already mentioned it, it's the same reason why we use blue-light filters & why we use anti-glare screen protectors
But apparently a single "google-search" is enough for you
You really should read pages you want to link. And I say this as a die-hard dark mode user. It's worrying that you so aggressively attack people get cannot even read the page you link far enough to notice that what you are saying about it is nonsense (like how it has "the same reason", which of course it doesn't, as made clear in the article).
Or you know, at least don't be such a dick. That's also help a lot!
People who say light-mode is not a hazard are the real dicks
Darker (& warmer) colours do not strain your eyes, why are we debating on this ?? This is well-known
You think I did not read the article ? There are more articles that I can link, but will you read it ? (Also try using your intelligence & realize why I said "same reason") This is one of the most laymen one I could find. Again it doesn't really disprove my other point of light-mode being harmful.
Look, someone reported this as misinformation. Too bad me, the active mod here, gets pain in the eyes, sometimes flickering vision, and sometimes what I would describe as sea sickness from staring onto bright white screens. When I have no other choice because work, I invert all screen colors but sometimes correct colors are important.
So yeah, no proper dark mode means it's a crap app.
It's common knowledge that dark-mode hurts your eyes less So yeah, these people who reported are people who think their opinions & google-searches are superior to common knowledge
There are other vision conditions where people cannot see letters in dark mode that well. Apps and websites should just follow whatever the OS setting is, no matter the motivation of the user. Even if it's just a matter of taste and not some form of eye sight condition, it's just as valid.
Hold on, are you confusing something being hurting (as in, causing pain and/or pathological damage) with something being exhausting (as in, strains your eyes) with something being annoying?
Because if the three words are used interchangeably in your vocabulary that'd explain a lot of your seemingly random posts in the comments here. They're not the same (at all) to most people and especially not on a medical level (like that article you yourself provided, there is no medical evidence for non-extreme light sources making a difference in eye health).
There are tons of apps which don't have a dark mode and you are writing off fediverse app just because it doesn't have it. Fediverse apps should be supported instead being judged harshly.
And I don't use them, either. I'm a contributor to multiple Fediverse projects, including Lemmy-based apps and full identity management with ActivityPub. We do not deserve to get held to lower standards if we want the Fediverse to grow, especially when it comes to features that are about things like eye comfort, which can be a mild accessibility issue for some.
Dark mode is a basic necessity in apps today. It's not a convenience, but a necessity for adoption. There are many people who are going to open the app, then never use it again because of something that's bog-standard in the libraries and should only take a few hours to work in, which should have been done before an announcement.
So yes, I speak up, because I want this to succeed.
Edit: And yes, I'm very excited to see the growth achieved in the other post. Fantastic news.
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, @'ing you so I'm not responding in two places 😉 I appreciate the work of the team, but it do
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And I don't use them, either. I'm a contributor to multiple Fediverse projects, including Lemmy-based apps and full identity management with ActivityPub. We do not deserve to get held to lower standards if we want the Fediverse to grow, especially when it comes to features that are about things like eye comfort, which can be a mild accessibility issue for some.
Dark mode is a basic necessity in apps today. It's not a convenience, but a necessity for adoption. There are many people who are going to open the app, then never use it again because of something that's bog-standard in the libraries and should only take a few hours to work in, which should have been done before an announcement.
So yes, I speak up, because I want this to succeed.
Edit: And yes, I'm very excited to see the growth achieved in the other post. Fantastic news.
@corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca, @'ing you so I'm not responding in two places 😉 I appreciate the work of the team, but it doesnt change the fact that to many, this is a showstopper and I'm pretty surprised it wasn't considered as a basic UX requirement pre-launch (see other comments in response to you).
It's as a reaction to the news about TikTok possibly being sold and people jumping to "Red Book", the other Chinese platform. Maybe some people will read the TechCrunch article and consider Pixelfed.
did you know the singer for the offspring came up with that line when he was working in lab- he was making petri dishes and you make them hot and then cool them to a certain temperature.. so he was trying to wrap up and the petri dishes weren't cooling down quickly enough, so he moved them all apart to allow air to flow between them and kept saying "you gotta keep em seperated" in his head, and then used this one riff they had while they were working on the album with that line. come out and play was the last song they made for that album
Share your photography with a community that values creativity, authenticity, and privacy. Pixelfed is the ethical alternative to traditional social media platforms, putting you in control of your content and data.
No? Huh, I could have sworn I had downloaded an APK and just assumed it was the beta. Haven’t had an Android in a year, though, so I might just be misremembering or thinking of another app.
I wish we could have multiple photos in posts here. Yes, we can put other photos in the description, but it would be nice to view all of them without opening the post.
On that note, has anyone here gotten into the Surf (the Flipboard thing) beta? I got in, but the download link does not work, but from what I understand that's supposed to turn into a whole-federation browser starting with the microblogging sites (Mastodon + Bluesky + Threads), so I wonder whether they'll add support for Pixelfed et al in the future.
Absolutely NO sexuality explicit content. This includes, but not limited to, images/videos/chat around sexual acts. There are other places on the internet for this.
Seems fair. There are many places for erotic/porn content on the web. And for a federated network it is good to not force instance owners to manage avoiding the hosting of nudity by federating it.
Nudity isn't inherently sexual, and they pointedly have not mentioned it in the quoted text. It sounds like only explicit sexual content is forbidden, not nudity.
I do think even this is an overreach for a federated network, though, assuming Pixelfed is enforcing this on all instances (is that even possible?). It should be on the instance owners to make that decision. I couldn't find where the quoted text is sourced from, however.
It is compatible. You need to jump through the email confirmation hoop before it’ll actually work with the app though. So if your account is new, that’s probably the reason.
Besides that, it could just be the mass influx of new users that are fleeing Instagram.
I don't agree, this actually a good opportunity for #pixelfed to support #groups so people who want their post to reach a larger audience can choose a magazine/community to post.
I'm still trying to figure out why anybody uses ANY software of Chinese origin.
But all it needs to be is "fun" I guess. People literally don't think past that. Then they all do the surprised Pikachu face when something bad happens.
I've always hated TikTok, and avoided it like the plague. I'm not convinced it's a whole psyop or anything, but my trust of it is basically negative.
As for government meddling, I'm not sure yet how I feel about it in this case.
I just read all that along with the "dossier" they compiled and it seemed pretty weak in my view. Yeah, the guy sounds a little bit passive-aggressive, but I think "mental problems" is way too strong an evaluation. That dossier is almost exclusively one-sided too, as in, we only see his posts, and not the context of what he was responding to. Many many people could be made to look bad if only their responses were posted without context. This seems like the worse kind of Fedidrama. I wish I could have the time I spent reading that back.
I wish there was an easy way to know which servers are getting hammered more than others.
I can easily make a post to my server via the website, but the app was giving me trouble, as an example. That's why I wonder where the hiccup is/was. Both the website and app are just interfaces to get data to a server, so if one doesn't work I'd assume the other doesn't too. But I dunno.
Edit: After writing this I went back and tried posting from the app again. It finally worked! I guess things have settled down.
Then allow users from one platform to use their ID on the other.
In fact, using fediverse social networks made me realize how much I could use a single point of identification for all the services. Like a fediverse passport or SSO.
That's interesting that you were able to post via the website but not the app. It's possible that you were lucky with the website being one of the requests that the server was able to handle, or perhaps the website and app use different pathways and the app pathway was more congested?
My guess, as a cloud developer, there may be a bottleneck at their authentication, or session management. Your web browser has probably been signed in for a while. I'm guessing your app hasn't been able to get past that point, and is stuck in the bottleneck
It looks like the recommended Pixelfed instance, pixelfed.social, is running an outdated version of the platform. Aka the instance most new users will login to, and the one I created my account on last year. I guess I could make an account elsewhere, but meh. Hopefully they get that sorted
I'm really interested in trying pixelfed, but the 15 character username limit is really restrictive. I don't want to sign up with a name that doesn't match the handle I already use on instagram and other related places. They have a github issue for it, but it there's no indication of when it might actually be changed.
The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.
VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.
(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)
While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.
What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.
AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.
I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as
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The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.
VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.
(edit: There's claims VLC is using a local LLM. It will use whisper.cpp, and not be using OpenAI's models. I don't know which models they will be using. I cannot find any reference to VLC using a LLM.)
While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.
What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.
AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.
I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.
So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.
It’s tricky because you’re certainly right about the amount of video with no captions, and the unfair inaccessibility of that. But translation AI is exactly the same tech as “generative” or “LLM”, it is statistical modeling. It is not different in any way, including errors and fuel and water demands. It’s like vehicle engines and tires: they do a tremendous amount of good every day, including for accessibility, but they also have terrible side effects that warrant complaints.
@Moss @v0idness @smallcircles there’s a subreddit, with the title and topic “Stallman was right”, that gathers lots of cases where a little bit of being a little bit more paranoid or cautious would have avoided lots of loss, pain and injustice, mostly derived from unjust software and hardware lockdown.
Sounds a good idea to me, the tool can take a video and create captions. Your comment about humans being more accurate is also good, as surely once those captions have been created, a human can go through them, and I would assuek captions are stored in a external file, if this can be edited then the human job would be to simply edit the file and correct any minor errors.
Any tools that can make life a little easier is surely welcome. Perhaps the importantj point though is also transparancy, if you have used a tool to transscribe this should be clearly stated, so people know how the captions have been generated.
@Moss @v0idness @smallcircles I knew about your center, took some very nice ideas from your recommendations! I don’t see much hope tbh, we still use big tech products and services post-Snowden…
Here’s one way this could have been avoided: don’t use Silicon Valley’s jargon to being with.
I wonder how many people would have complained if they’d simply called it “automated captions” or even “automated on-device captions” instead of announcing it like this.
Nothing has been as destructive for society, and thereby it's people (us), as the idea that everyone and everything can, and therefore should, have constant growth in almost all areas.
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This reminds me that there's actually an awful lot of criticism of capitalism. But hardly any discussions or pushes for _replacements_ to capitalism.
I see only one possible alternative - anarcho-communism - but I also know I'm in the minority. And that's why I think the discussion of replacements is avoided - it seems there is no consensus on alternatives.
So criticism of capitalism is everywhere, and calls for replacements are nowhere to be found.
#peertube peeps, the O:P 2024 wrap-up video is up, featuring (almost) all of the #puppets I built in the past year. Thank you for joining me in Staying Weird.
I’ve been talking myself in an out of buying a #SteamDeck in the past weeks. I still really like the idea of being able to play my Steam library in bed and on the go, but I’m not sure it’s worth hundreds of dollars.
"TV" gets streaming via WiFi. I've a pair of XR glasses though and also a Dock (generic brand). And since it's just a Linux I can do wtf I want with it as well 🤘
@bekopharm Damn, those glasses look fun! How is the performance when streaming over WiFi? I tried that with my PC and it’s always blocky. Might be the SteamLink app on our Chromecast, though.
The deep sea footage scientists filmed in 2024 is jaw-dropping - mashable.com/article/deep-sea-… "An age of discovery is upon us." let's not screw it up by trashing the seafloor...
@RaccoonForFriendica do you want to try the new "Card" layout for posts? All you have to do is downloading version 0.4.0-beta02 and try it out! Using Compose Multiplatform, customizing UI is as easy as eating a piece of cake.
This version also contains a fix for the search text field which was not scrollable horizontally when its content exceeded the available width, plus some localization updates.
We're reaching towards the 0.4.0 milestone, just another feature (audio playback) and then it'll be ready to go!
Get a library card—even if you don’t plan to use it. Your registration helps secure funding for libraries, keeping them open and thriving for the entire community. Every card counts! #SaveLibraries
plus most libraries have digital services these days. You don’t have to go there to use them. I have listened quite a few audiobooks for free this way.
@nickapos In many countries you can also use your library card to watch free movies through services like Kanopy, ie like Netflix but using it helps secure free resources for other people.
You read that right. There is a kid - and the THREE CATS. Who the fuck describe their own family that way, mentioning cats in the same sentence with kids?!?!
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in reply to oce 🐆 • • •I dont think it was ranking, no.
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 pixelfed work for this too?
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I think it's a smart idea - they can always make changes to the UI in time as the platform gets more people.
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in reply to jagged_circle • • •Will it? I doubt CNN, Faux News, WaPo, or any big news org will even know Pixelfed exists, much less that the creator wrote a snarky message to Zucc.
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Unknown parent • • •That’s just it. Zuck could sell off and close shop and live large for the rest of his life. And yet he chooses to fuck around with people instead.
It’s weird.
There’s creating. And then there’s harvesting content and creations of others. The former is the only one that makes you interesting.
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Unknown parent • • •Which makes sense because they are just regular people who are, unsurprisingly, mostly idiots.
onlinepersona
in reply to jagged_circle • • •What's "media" to you?
Anti Commercial-AI license
Deed - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons
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in reply to HootinNHollerin • • •yeah that all makes sense.
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
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Unknown parent • • •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.
techcrunch.com/2025/01/05/bad-…
rollingstone.com/culture/cultu…
'Adrian Dittmann': X Users Believe Prominent Account Is Elon Musk
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Unknown parent • • •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
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in reply to PalmTreeIsBestTree • • •Multiprotocol apps helped keeping a variety of apps to communicate wherever we were.
Now it's WhatsApp in Europe and usa, telegram in Russian countries, Viber in Greece, wechat in China, line in Japan (?)
nonfuinoncuro
in reply to PalmTreeIsBestTree • • •مهما طال الليل
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in reply to DBosiers • • •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.
el_eh_chase
in reply to madjo • • •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.
gi1242
in reply to madjo • • •lol. so I told my mom im deleting Whatsapp. if she wants to keep in touch with me she can install signal, or pay for international texts and calls.
she installed signal 😃
brrt
in reply to gi1242 • • •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.
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in reply to Moineau • • •Oh no.
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.
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in reply to Ben Hur Horse Race • • •There's a theory that copyright can help artists make a living.
But copying a design from a corpo after they've already made oodles of money is more like liberating the design for use of everyone.
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in reply to gi1242 • • •307 Temporary Redirectwith some short URI and start publishing it for people to use instead.afox
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Unknown parent • • •I know folks hate reddit but I googled Adrian Dittman and holy fuck, dude is a complete fucking nutjob
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Just spends his days publicly tweeting at himself, I don't even know what to say to something that painfully pathetic
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in reply to Ben Hur Horse Race • • •Yes I do.
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.
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in reply to gi1242 • • •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
... show moreWhile 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 would love to see it succeed as an alternative.
Ben Hur Horse Race
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in reply to gi1242 • • •That is one kick ass last name!
We got
Ault
Nault
Renault
And Supernault!
LandedGentry
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in reply to gi1242 • • •Now I understand why I didn't care closing my Facebook account years ago: it was for cross posting this sort of information.
Even if my Facebook feed is a sad desert, I hope I can be censored by the guy who rejects fact checkers
IsThisAnAI
in reply to gi1242 • • •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.
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