@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2026-03-28 09:44:34
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de2026-03-28 09:44:34
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2026-05-25 15:33:26
Your reminder of what Mark Zuckerberg really is.
☑️ Zuckerberg Boasts He Exploited Staff For AI Training Before Firings
https://kotaku.com/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-training-firings-data-2000699185
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-21 15:16:06
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2026-05-24 08:55:19
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-03-18 21:01:37
Ding dong, VR is dead (again)
#Meta #VR #Quest
https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/meta-will-shut-down-vr-horizon-worlds-access-in-june-222028919.html
@vosje62@mastodon.nl2026-05-09 12:13:12
Opinion | Mark Zuckerberg Is Running Meta Into the Ground - The New York Times
#meta
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-19 15:01:05
"Meta 2030 nicht mehr existent?“ @… analysiert, warum Zuckerbergs Konzern im perfekten Sturm aus KI-Wahnsinn, Massentlassungen und regulatorischem Druck untergehen könnte. 600 Mrd. $ in Rechenzentren – für durchschnittliche KI-Ergebnisse. #Meta
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-03-15 19:17:49
Guess who's behind the sudden rush of age verification legislation?
In the US, #Meta is spending $26.3 Million to hire at least 86 Lobbyists from 40 lobbying firms, and lobbying in at least 45 states. It is confirmed that Meta wrote the Louisiana age verification bill.
In the EU, Meta is spending ten million euros annually on lobbying, retaining 18 lobbying firms.
Age verificat…
@danyork@mastodon.social2026-05-03 17:11:14
First time seeing a “NO META GLASSES” sign in the door of a shop! I’m not surprised… and I expect we might see more of these kind of things in the years ahead.
#Meta #MetaGlasses #AR
@bici@mastodon.social2026-05-18 01:53:33
@krispijn@social.sargasso.nl2026-04-06 11:15:03
‘It started with a tipoff’: how a Guardian investigation exposed child sex trafficking on Facebook and Instagram
#META https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/apr/06/investigation-exposed-child-sex-trafficking-on-facebook-and-instagram-meta?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-18 10:03:34
Das Metaverse ist tot, es lebe… die Smartphone-App. Meta stellt Horizon Worlds in VR ein – nach Milliardenverlusten und eher dünnem Besucherandrang. Offenbar wollten weniger Menschen in Parallelwelten leben als gedacht. Wer hätte das ahnen können. #Meta #Metaverse
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-05-06 05:43:20
RE: #meta
@bammerlaan@mastodon.nl2026-04-24 15:50:02
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-03-17 08:51:04
Meta investiert Milliarden in KI und prüft laut Reuters gleichzeitig einen Stellenabbau von über 20 %. Mark Zuckerberg erklärt das so: Früher brauchte man große Teams, heute reicht „eine sehr talentierte Person“. Trump-Sprech. Silicon-Valley-Übersetzung: Die KI wird eingestellt – der Mensch eher nicht.
#Meta #KI
@tinoeberl@mastodon.online2026-03-01 11:12:48
😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱 🤦♂️ 😱
Große Tech-Konzerne wie #Google, #Meta oder #Microsoft machen den Einsatz von künstlicher Intelligenz zur Pflicht.
KI-Kompetenz fließt in Bewerbungen, Leis…
@theprivacydad@social.linux.pizza2026-03-04 21:19:06
@digitalnaiv@mastodon.social2026-04-16 11:26:03
@burningbecks@social.tchncs.de2026-03-18 20:57:02
@teledyn@mstdn.ca2026-03-04 16:29:17
When you meet someone wearing #Meta Smart Glasses, do take a moment to wave a 'Hi' at the folks watching from Kenya 👋. It's only polite.
https://gizmodo.com/dear-meta-smart-glasses-wearers-youre-being-watched-too-2000728928
@tokensane@mastodon.me.uk2026-03-05 07:53:30
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-04-07 11:23:25
In the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment