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Good. They should abandon twitter and all other racist, misogynist, transphobic, xenophobic, homophobic bigoted platforms. I hope they have a bad time there.
Political parties should host their own mastodon instances, and give their members accounts. Companies should do the same. It removes all the problems of imitation because the organisation stands as guarantor that the account is the official one.
I’m not sure on the capabilities of Mastodon. But companies will never go for this if Mastodon doesn’t support saml or active directory (or other Auth systems). It needs to integrate with their enterprise tools.
But companies will never go for this if Mastodon doesn’t support saml or active directory (or other Auth systems). It needs to integrate with their enterprise tools.
I think you are confusing server-server protocol and client-server protocol.
I’m not sure how that applies here.
I am talking about enterprises being able to leverage their current infrastructure to manage their users in Mastodon from a central location, Like AD. Rather than have to manage local accounts.
I am not talking about activitypub in anyway.
I’m talking about that too. Mastodon should work just fine with SSO.
That’s actually a pretty good idea
I tend to feel the same but at the same time, the shadowy figures involved there would love it to see the ratio of extremist increase. An exodus of more sane members might play straight into their hands.
That said, I can’t understand why anyone without an official state role is still on that platform.
i followed it just fine on threads.
Is it possible to follow the Threads account from the Fediverse?
i don’t think right now as it doesn’t seem like they’ve enabled federation from threads on their account
That sucks, @potus account seems to have it enabled. @vp should do it as well.
yes, but it’s one-way: your content won’t be integrated back in, so you aren’t part of the conversation.
For now. They’re working on it.
As much as I don’t want Meta to be part of the fediverse, it’s still exciting seeing federation being considered by a major tech company.
Not technology.
I used to think “Elon Musk” was some type of fancy French perfume. I miss those days.
It still could be!
Viva la revolution?
If only the federal government could implement some sort of server that would allow them to self-host social media for officials and prominent candidates. I wish there were some well-known and tested service that other governments were using and they could just implement in the USA.
If only there was some
SovietUnion with their own mastodonSounds impossible! Does this technology even exist???
If they build it, will anyone come? Or does private social media only work because the user base is already scrolling endlessly there?
Newsies will go there for the announcements. That’s the wedge that keeps growing.
Not all growth strategies are just having the bandwagon.
@XeroxCool welcome to fediverse. I’m replying to you from mastodon.
Posted multiple times because replication was slow. Oops.
Also now I’m posting from lemm.ee
I’m using motion controls!
I’m using the Power Glove!
It’s so bad.
This kind of event is precisely what drives things like social media adoption. If Harris and the DNC organized an actual messaging campaign and took advantage of this energy to promote Twitter alternatives, a lot of people would join.
I mean, it wouldn’t stop them from continuing ti post to Xitter. They can do both!
if they build it, the press will go there and report on what’s posted there
Yeah wouldn’t be bad. Could be an official source to cite.
I don’t think legally the Federal Government is allowed to do that. Maybe if the service is available to everyone. Now that option would be pretty cool. I’m fine with nationalized federated social media hosts.
are you allowed to post on whitehouse.gov?
That sounds pretty shakey. Federal employees have their own email addresses, but you can’t just go ask for a .gov email address, you have to get a job with the government for one. The federal government has plenty of places that only some are allowed to post to. Now, if they were to say, only allow certain people to have accounts with no apperent rhyme or reason that would be grounds for a discrimination lawsuit, but they could simply say “any verified current or former federal elected official, federal department head, or state governor is allowed an account” and expand or shrink the scope as needed. The fediverse honestly makes that so much cleaner than something they host themselves with all of the nuances of what is and isn’t federated, the government could simply configure the federation to meet their legal and liability needs while users can stream in from any fediverse instance
If they’re using it for campaigning, I think it’d have to be written as “… or any party nominee” or “… or anyone running for elected office.”
But yeah, the fediverse would be perfect for it.
Why don’t they use mastodon also?
The EU has an instance
It’s not about the campaigns not using Mastodon, it is about the voters. They are on Twitter still so that is where the campaign wants to meet them.
Mastodon needs to be more widely known for that to be a realistic option.
:(
(Note, Nov ‘23)
Data source: WIkipedia??? Wikipedia is not a source ffs
You can argue the veracity of looking the user count of the platforms on wikipedia, but it is a source.
We’re not doing a research paper. We’re commenting on a internet post. Calm down.
But wikipedia has sources on the bottom of an article so you can verify things?
Yeah but because Wikipedia articles, to an extent, ephemeral it is good practise to use the sources at the bottom of the article as your source, rather than the Wikipedia article itself. It makes finding the origin of the information easier.
If it is something more permanent like a paper or a published article, then that doesn’t suffer from the same issues
Found my English teacher
It pisses me off how twitter went to fuck. People cried that we need something not owned by some rich cunt. We told everyone to join mastodon so that wouldn’t happen again. What did people do? Wait for another rich cunt (mark suckerberg) to start a clone and the original creator of twitter to make another one and join that…
People are dumb as shit… I’m sick of it.
Yeah, I don’t get it.
Kind of unrelated, but a parallel I experienced recently.
Yesterday I was annoyed by SplitWise. We had a small trip over the weekend and we’re adding expenses to it, and it turns out that there’s now a limit to how many entries you can put in per day. Even with ads. So we decided to find another platform, and a friend suggested another closed product which is probably gonna get as shitty as SplitWise soon. Anyway, I was able to convince them to use Spliit instead. If the hosted service goes to shit, at least I can self host it and keep all the data.
Glad you were able to convince them :) I love self hosting stuff. I like having control.
What I’m saying is that on twitter they could promote the mastodon account
Musk started removing links and even references to Mastodon from Twitter.
If a high profile politician (particularly one Elon disagrees with) promoted Mastodon, they’d have an account ban lickety split.
Makes me curious if you get more attention on mastodon though. Like if I pitched something on Lemmy there’s a good chance I get the same number of eye balls compared to Reddit, not counting ads. (Although if Kamala posted about Linux and/or Star Trek that’s front page, no ad money needed! Lol)
…but these people just use it as a way of talking to the media. As long as people of power and influence shift, so will the press, and then so will everyone else.
Home many times do you hear “Trump, on his platform truth.social, said…”? They’ve gone there because he’s gone there.
in november of 23, i had a client that let me schedule mastodon posts. this was not made by someone who uses mastodon.
Fuck Twitter for doing this shit. Musk should just jump in a hole with all his money as we bury him with it, Sunset Riders style.
do the entire world a favor and delete twitter already
wtf is this journalism??? one guy on twitter said that so now its confirmed. Just tried it and works fine. Do people just upvote this because they hate Elon Musk and want this to be true?
Weird right? You’d think they might check. Then they would be able to write something like this.
An initial search for KamalaHQ on The New Republic’s X account also found that the campaign account is limited. The campaign account showed up in repeated subsequent searches, seeming to suggest the issue is being resolved.
Over all I upvote posts if its something I would like to know about.
In this case its good to know that there was some limit issue that (as on the page say) is already resolved.
If it was intentionally done or not we will never know, but its good to know if it would happen again that there is some limit.
I upvote because:
- even if it was some wrongly implemented limit in this case, the shadow banning/hidding posts (or like in this case blocking follow) will happen in the future on all large platforms, it’s human nature to abuse it if you can get away with it
- I dont like big central platforms, I rather would like to have a transparent/open platform but I know it will never happen as servers costs money and people like “free” and convenient stuff so platforma will keep monetizing people activity
- if it could be even slightly true I rather have as many (affected) people know about it that there was an issue with follow and now it is resolved so they can retry to follow
Yeah, turns out it was an automated response to the account getting too many follows in a short time. There’s enough genuinely bad things about the platform that we don’t need to get mad at some speculation.
Sigh. Not surprised… given that Musk is a hypocrite on free speech completely. It’s getting wild. I use this place now because after years of no issues… suddenly I’m shadow banned on Reddit. Instead of getting mad I just left. Screw those who would stifle others but pretend to believe the opposite.
You are definitely not alone. You are in good company here. Welcome aboard!
Welcome to Lemmy!
Thank you, much appreciated
Reddit is far-right garbage run by radicals. Some instances on Lemmy are far-left garbage run by radicals, but you can route around them.
Yeah, I have a problem too! No, wait. It’s because I don’t have an X/Twitter/whatever account.
Hm I deleted my twitter account last year. Maybe I’ll make a new one just to follow her
How much can this be abused before it is overdue to treat X as a common carrier?
I’m childish and downvote anyone who refers to twitter as “x”. It’s like you’re on your knees licking Elons bum, right after he told you to call it x, you did what you were told lol.
Also I never got on the twitter bandwagon as it just didn’t appeal to me. My social media addiction was reddit.
Twitter sucks. X is a letter. Or a variable in algebra.
Oh dear. If I were I wouldn’t be advocating for the government to effectively seize Twitter. I hated the nepo apartheid baby before it was cool.
Oh I’ll give you that, I’d love the gov to seize it and make it a public utility. First order of business is put the name back to twitter because duh. And bring back the little blue bird cuz it reminds me of birdie sanders.
Ain’t gonna happen though lol.
How much can you bullshit before you answer anyone’s questions?
why is this being downvoted?
Because people know who you are.
You had one downvote, presumably from the person who replied to you twice.
I hope she isn’t a Zionist also…
Rheeeeeeee
Twitter is not a utility. We really need to stop treating techbro services like utilities. If we feel they actually are utilities, the government can step in and make that claim and the appropriate changes.
The EU has declared Twitter and a few others to be gate-keepers and they will now be held to a higher standard. But I don’t think the EU is going to use this power to save US democracy.
If it’s a private company that con do what it wants, like blocking political opponents, it should not be under safe harbor protections.
That’s the point in yelling about this. If Elon wants a private forum for him and his mates, he should also be fully responsible when his mates posts child porn on his servers.
Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230 by Cory Doctorow
Holy Unholy, this is written by The Enshittification Guy!
Show a little repsect, “The Enshittification Guy” is Cory Doctorow a very well known author and activist.
Which safe harbor protections?
Section 230 of the CDA
And the EFF has a primer on Section 230, and several opinion pieces about why nerfing 230 would be a terrible idea:
I disagree. We should nationalize it.
You would be shocked to know how many people use TikTok as a search engine
I’m not on tiktok, but I’ll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.
That’s how I use Bing. 😻
I just ask chatGPT…
Why? All it’s going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words
You video guys work different.
I only find videos useful if I’m trying to figure out something that’s procedural. Seeing the procedures and steps done in front of me helps me grasp the concept much faster than text.
For just information though, text is golden and video is a waste of time.
I must be a dinosaur because for most things I am looking up I want concise textual information. I’ll look for videos to explain larger complicated concepts
Sure, video has it’s place. I was just wondering that some people get their info primarily from video. Guess it’s something with abstraction vs. imagination.
If it’s something like taking apart hardware, videos are great because there are a lot of little details that it’s hard to capture in even a picture.
i hate it, but i just cant find decent written resulta anymore outside of reddit and such
Depends on field. Some
methmath and programming stuff exists only in PDF. Try find videos on Bounding Interval Hierarchy. At least there are decent videos on BSP treesPDFs break my brain. It’s 2024. Unless you truly intend for something to be primarily and only read in print why use PDF? And I know everybody is able to host HTML because usually everyone is grabbing these PDFs from a webpage.
Unless you want to force readers into reading in browser, you should use PDF.
I liken using groogle for finding factual information to using the yellowpages for doing the same. YT isn’t much better but it suffers many of the conflicts of interest traditional media outlets also had, depending on the corporation. In this case the almighty algorithm is the conflict of interest, though there are clever content creators out there making some good stuff, they’ll always be beholden to the owners of the platform and the true customers - the advertisers. As an advertising platform which can direct punters to actual long form content directly supported by watchers via patreon or similar, I understand why it is used : the sheer numbers using it.
