@jae@mastodon.me.uk2025-10-26 12:59:05
The coolest part of the #Fediverse and #Mastodon (albeit all of the Fediverse) is that we are all running on separate instances and programs yet we are connected to eachother.
Genuinely shows you can do social media without a central authority.
@cark@social.tchncs.de2025-10-23 16:10:01
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] …
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza2025-11-22 23:09:32
#BookWyrmSocial is just painfully slow, can the #Fediverse recommend me a better instance?
Edit: I'm talking about https://bookwyrm.social
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-02 10:22:21
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
@yaya@jorts.horse2025-10-16 17:44:50
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!
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-09-30 09:38:20
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 @…
@eitch@mstdn.gsi.li2025-11-20 06:02:05
Wow, already 3 years on the #Fediverse, meaning I have been running my #Mastodon instance just as long... crazy how fast time flies by...
My instance here in Switzerland is still small, so if someone needs a home, you may join!
@Stomata@social.linux.pizza2025-12-19 09:49:05
I think i'll Move to @… (an akkoma instance). Guess I have finally decided to leave Mastodon as my no Github journey.
I'll spend some more time to get used to akkoma. Wish me luck
#fediverse
@cark@social.tchncs.de2025-12-18 16:07:15
In der neuen Ausgabe der @… geht es u.a. ausführlich ums #Fediverse. Da war aus meiner Sicht viel Gutes und Interessantes dabei, insbesondere ein Appell an öffentliche Akteure *auch* einen Fediverse-Account zu betreiben (also genau die 1-Stragegie von