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Bisher hatte ich nicht auf dem Schirm, dass die Vorträge vom #fediday2025 aufgezeichnet wurden. 🙈
Die Suche nach dem Hashtag auf der #Peertube-Instanz der @… [1] …

I'm asking for help conceptualising & understanding and (on this rare occasion) I'll accept long/slightly mansplain-y answers:
As I currently understand it, #BlueSky is structured a bit like the FediVerse, but uses the #ATprotocol not ActivityPub.
Most people are on bsky.social, but you don't have to be. How are the non-bsky.social 'instances' run? Where are the Ts&Cs for federating? Is it possible to sidestep BlueSky Moderation policies by joining a different 'instance'? Is that partly what #BlackSky is?

@… Pages are offline again. Any prognosis?
#codeberg

hello my #fuckaas friends in my phone
you know about mastodon. you may have heard of lemmy, the fedi equivalent of reddit, or pixelfed, the fedi equivalent of Instagram, or bookwyrm, the Goodreads equivalent.
but did you know there's like 8 bajillion other things in the fediverse that you can check out and start using in place of corporate-captured platforms? it's true!

delightful-fediverse-experience
A curated list of server applications supported on the ActivityPub Fediverse and related standards.

Day 8 (a bit late): Timnit Gebru
Academic authors are authors too, and there are a bunch of people I deeply respect both in my fields and adjacent.
Gebru is someone I have huge respect for because she stood up for her (mild, completely reasonable) principles to the point of losing her job on Google's AI ethics team (since disbanded entirely), and then went ahead and founded an independent research institute to continue doing AI ethics research.
Why was she fired? Because she insisted on publishing her "Stochastic Parrots" paper after it passed Google internal review only to have extra nonstandard scrutiny applied at the last minute. Why did Google want to suppress her paper (which included an academic co-author)? Because it expressed valid criticisms of the large language models fad, and Google was planning to make money off that fad. Personally, I don't think I'd hire an "AI ethics" team only to then try to suppress their publications, and Google seems to now agree, having scrapped the team (during the initial furor, Timnit's boss also effectively quit to support her).
That "Stochastic Parrots" paper? Indeed, it predicts the core underlying problems with large language models that lead to so many of their user-side harms today. You can read it here: #20AuthorsNoMen

"What do you lose by using Facebook", asked a friend who is keen to keep his account there for some reason.
What made me leave was the manipulation. I mean: they started hiding your friends posts in order to show you adverts instead! Feeding you slop from their promoted posts and "viral" messages (that aren't actually boosted by anyone, just picked out by their megaphone to show to everyone).
If you let the algorithm determine what you see than you let it determine what you are, who you become.
Even if you think it's better at finding shiny things than you, even if you think it builds the parasocial relationships that you want, even if you think it's saving you time to let the robot manage your reading-list: if you are letting Facebook, or any algorithm written by advertisers, do your reading selection then you are letting Facebook decide who you are.
On behalf of the advertisers who bribe them the most.
This is why you gotta use RSS. You gotta use the chronological timelines not the "for you" feeds. You gotta build follow relationships that you choose and understand because otherwise, you are letting the corporation and it's systems determine these things. You are abdicating some control of your very self to the machine.
Not to mention that we have to stop feeding money to the evil multi-trillion dollar companies built to control and manipulate us through our relationships with our friends. They have enough money, they need less participation not more.
#fediverse #algorithm

There are a couple of anonymous cowards on Mastodon telling people that all Palestinians you see here are fake and that the Internet there doesn’t work at all and spamming the #fediblock hashtag to get my Mastodon instance defederated so they can silence me and the work we are doing with @…

Gaza Verified
We’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and we verify that their accounts are genuine. – Joy & Aral Balkan

Does anbyody know about an instance of @…, that is open for registration and federated? I would really like to try it out in the wider #Fediverse.
#Bonfire

Heute #Klimastreik z.B. in #Osnabrück. #OWL schwächelt leider diesmal.
#FridaysForFuture heute am …

I was recently messaged "I'm trying to figure out how to like your Blog post". (Fediverse #Wordpress plugin installed).
And I noticed: telling them to
- log into mastodon / fediverse
- searching for the blog's user (okay, added the "follow me block now)
- searching the according post
- and FINALLY like it
Isn't cool. - and I have no cl…