@tante@tldr.nettime.orgAny social internet worth thinking about needs to be built on the idea of care.
- care for the wellbeing of the people on the network (moderation)
- care for those doing extra work (like moderation)
- care for each other (add alt-texts to images, thinking about inclusivity etc)
- care to make running infrastructure sustainable (in all respects)
The social Internet needs to be a web of human care.
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
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@grumpybozo@toad.socialIn honor of this post, I am refraining from correcting the guy who repeatedly used the phrase "plate teutonics." (without reference to anything even vaguely Prussian)
https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/115429525095825425
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.ioThank you all for 3,000 followers on here! Here’s a photo of Danny to celebrate the occasion ☺️
3 years into being part of Mastodon, I continue to be impressed with how wonderful the people here are and how much this social network actually FEELS social. People replying to one another, having conversations, learning things, sharing moments of joy, making friends.
Mastodon brought my business clients, helped me gain confidence in my own voice, freed me from dependence on big tech and algorithms, rekindled my interests, introduced me to incredible people and projects, and served as a source of hope in humanity in the times when cynicism and nihilism felt all but inevitable.
I love our little corner of the internet, and am so glad that it’s still here despite everyone who professed it was doomed to fade into irrelevance.
Thank you to everyone reading these words for being here on the Fedi. The world is a little better thanks to your choice to support an independent web.
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaDisappointing to see that even Electric Sheep has a slop angle now https://electricsheep.org/
@anildash@me.dmOne of the top stories on Hacker News today was a post arguing that Mozilla shouldn't accommodate any usage of AI in Firefox because (understandably) people were mad at Big AI companies for all the horrible things they've done to users and the internet and society. But I think people are ignoring the reality that *hundreds of millions of users* are using LLMs today, and they need to have tools from platforms that will look out for their interests.
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialSince the last Android release @… allows using a custom server from which to download map files.
This decreases reliance on CoMaps-run infrastructure but is also great for people who live in places with limited internet connectivity, as you can now serve maps from local networks.
To make it easier, I wrote a small CLI tool over the weekend that downloads maps of interest & then serves them locally. A first alpha release for testing is on Codeberg:
#OpenStreetMap
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.socialEvery European (and Canadian, and Australian, and so on) should read @… 's latest.
A snippet:
"It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from upda…
@pre@boing.worldPanel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialI heard the tech Billionaire who invented Mastodon sold out and is now a tech Trillionaire and... just kidding! I'm happy that I've been a user (and supporter!) of Mastodon for three years now. The coolest fucking people on the Internet are on the Fediverse.
@hippyjo@c.imI remember people describing the rise of the Internet as the "Information Age".
Now we live in the Age of Lies.
The age of lies is a tragic time, where our attention is manipulated, stolen, and exploited for the gain of greedy monsters who only care about squeezing every nickel out of you that they can.
All we get in return is distracted, abused, and poorer, in every sense of the word.
@cdarwin@c.imThe joy and promise of the Internet is that marginal and marginalized people can find each other
and form communities.
If you're the only goth klezmer fan in Toad Suck, Arkansas, you can find others.
If you're het up about a neglected social issue, you can find others.
The trouble is a lot of communities used to be marginalized for extremely good reasons,
and it probably would have been better if they stayed that way.
Dumb pipes can't tel…
@kubikpixel@chaos.social»TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga:
TikTok has signed a deal to divest its U.S. entity to a joint venture controlled by American investors, per an internal memo seen by Axios«
When will the children & young people (all people) finally realize that dss Internet is decentralized and not about a few power-hungry corporations?
(A rhetorical question in my dream of freedom)
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@lpryszcz@genomic.socialToday in Focus: ‘Enshittification’: how we got the internet no one asked for
Episode webpage: https://www.theguardian.com/news/series/todayinfocus
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@yaxu@post.lurk.orgI really want to be interested in this "dark forest theory of the internet" but just listened to their podcast about the economics of it and they just went on and on about using substack and discord as if that was somehow revelatory? I couldn't get the point of what they were saying at all. Then they talked about how charging for membership of their closed group didn't really make money but helped weed people out, with no consideration that some people don't have spare …
@zudn@theres.lifeThe perfect form for the internet and people's ever decreasing attention spans.
#blogging
@grumpybozo@toad.socialThis is only true for some flavors of "big accounts."
A number of the people I follow with thousands of followers are ONLY on the #Fediverse and most of the rest are only here and on Bluesky. I routinely block people here and on Bluesky (and across the bridge) who pull in the sewage from X and dump it in either place.
I'm not really interested in following people that wa…
@villavelius@mastodon.onlineOn (generative) AI:
"So it's sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease."
https://framapiaf.org/@bbbhltz/115646412773089943
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Block VPN users from Wisconsin" means blocking all VPNs, becuase … VPN.
"Websites subject to this proposed law are left with this choice: either cease operation in Wisconsin, or block all #VPN users, everywhere, just to avoid legal liability in the state. One state's terrible law is attempting to break VPN access for the entire internet, and the unintended consequences of …
@philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.comWhen you’re talking to someone with shared context, phrases like “The Bay Area” or “The Twin Cities” might be a totally reasonable way to refer to a place.
When you’re posting something on *the internet* for all the world to see, do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
Specifics people! Come on!
@pre@boing.worldWouter constant is talking about permissionlessness. Nostr is a protocol that doesn't need some central server to authenticate your requests. Which is good. But this means that, say, children can use it without parents permission.
Online safety act and others are closing down the internet to protect them kids. So can nostr have accounts that do need permission? Can it be made kid safe? Of only to satisfy crazy governments under parent pressure.
Weboftrustfoundation exists to try and build kidstr, some kind of nostr for children.
Mostly just asking questions so far. How can it work? How can it avoid labelling vulnerable people to exploit?
#nostr #permissionlessness #nostrshire
@yaya@jorts.horseALLEGEDLY THE INTERNET PEOPLE ARE GOING TO RETURN BEARING INTERNET FOR ME TODAY.
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzGood points well made by @…:
"It's well past time for a post-American internet. Every device and every service should be designed so that the people who use them have the final say over how they work. Manufacturers' back doors and digital locks that prevent us from updating our devices with software of our choosing were never a good idea. Today, they're a catastrophe. ...
"For the rest of the world to escape dictators' demands, they will have to accelerate their independence from American tech – not just Russian gas. A post-American internet starts with abandoning the laws that give US companies – and therefore Trump – a veto over how your technology works."
#tech #privacy #law #USPol #Apple #Google
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaProtip: do not allow people on the Internet to learn your True Name, for they may thereby gain Power over you, and would surely use it to do you harm (as has been recorded in the Legends)
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