Updates to the world page
tl;dr — you can now find remote categories and see your tracked/watched categories in /world.
A new alpha version of NodeBB was tagged today: v4.3.0-alpha.3. The biggest change is to the /world route, which up until now showed a list of topics from outside of the local NodeBB instance.
New to this alpha release:
- A quick search widget was added, allowing you to directly search for remote categories. There is no need to navigate to to the search page to discover new categories.
- Your list of tracked and watched categories will show at the top of the page.
- "Tracking" and "Watching" categories—both local and remote—is how content discovery happens in NodeBB. Tracked categories will have new content show up in the "unread" page, while watched categories take that a step further and notify you when new content is posted.
- Tracking and watching a category will tell NodeBB to subscribe to that remote community for updates
At this time we're continuing to look for stability issues with the remote category integration. We'll be working on QoL fixes as we move into the beta phase this/next week.
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Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
Donald Trump says he is ‘very angry’ with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine
US president says his Russian counterpart’s questioning of Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s credibility could delay ceasefireDan Sabbagh (The Guardian)
Donald Trump [...] threatened to levy tariffs on Moscow
again tariffs? he really thinks that they solve everything, huh? Russia don't care about sanctions, that negatively affects russian citizens, would they care about tariffs, that's a tax 100% paid by american citizens??
Bruxelles tentenna: per ora è impossibile rinunciare al combustibile siberiano
Da Bruxelles i soliti grandi proclami, ma nei fatti importeremo ancora a lungo il gas russo | Strumenti Politici
Mentre Washington normalizza le relazioni con Mosca - e si parla addirittura di riaprire il Nord Stream - Bruxelles non vuole il gas russo.Vincenzo Ferrara (Strumenti Politici)
DeepSeek sorpassa ChatGPT: ora ha più visite mensili
DeepSeek sorpassa ChatGPT: ora ha più visite mensili
525 milioni di visite a febbraio 2025, DeepSeek mette la freccia e sorpassa ChatGPT: ecco i numeri di un successo travolgente.Marco Ponteprino (ilsoftware.it)
Shopify CEO tells teams to consider using AI before growing headcount
Shopify CEO tells teams to consider using AI before growing headcount | TechCrunch
In a company memo, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke said that teams must consider using AI before requesting more resources or headcount.Lauren Forristal (TechCrunch)
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‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual giftsShanti Das (The Guardian)
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Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (1977)
Exodus è un album del 1977 della band reggae giamaicana Bob Marley and the Wailers, pubblicato per la prima volta nel giugno 1977 tramite Island Records, dopo Rastaman Vibration (1976). La produzione dell'album è stata caratterizzata come rilassata con bassi pulsanti e un'enfasi su pianoforte, tromba e chitarra...
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Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus (1977)
Exodus è un album del 1977 della band reggae giamaicana Bob Marley and the Wailers, pubblicato per la prima volta nel giugno 1977 tramite Island Records, dopo Rastaman Vibration (1976). La produzione dell'album è stata caratterizzata come rilassata con bassi pulsanti e un'enfasi su pianoforte, tromba e chitarra. A differenza dei precedenti album della band, Exodus si allontana tematicamente dalla narrazione criptica; invece ruota attorno a temi di cambiamento, politica religiosa e sessualità. L'album è diviso in due metà: la prima metà ruota attorno alla politica religiosa, mentre la seconda metà è incentrata su temi di fare l'amore e mantenere la fede. Il 3 dicembre 1976, Bob Marley fu vittima di un attentato al petto, in cui gli fu ferito di striscio e il braccio fu colpito da un proiettile, ma sopravvisse. Dopo il tentativo di assassinio, Marley lasciò la Giamaica e fu esiliato a Londra, dove Exodus fu registrato. L'album fu un successo sia di critica che commerciale; ha ricevuto certificazioni d'oro negli Stati Uniti, nel Regno Unito e in Canada, ed è stato l'album che ha spinto Marley verso la celebrità internazionale. Nel 2017, Exodus è stato rimasterizzato e ripubblicato per il suo 40° anniversario. Exodus ha più tracce nella compilation dei più grandi successi di Marley Legend rispetto a qualsiasi altro suo disco. Exodus è stato il suo decimo album dall'album di debutto The Wailing Wailers del 1965, incluso l'album live Live! (1975). Invia commenti
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The episode that made us realize thats cartoons could hurt.
We tuned in expecting jokes and space hijinks.
What we got… was Seymour.
This wasn’t just a cartoon episode. It was a punch to the soul.
No dialogue. No manipulation. Just one dog… waiting.
Futurama showed us that animated stories could hit harder than real life.
Some of us still aren't over it.
#JurassicBark #FuturamaFeels #SeymourForever #SignalPost
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Ecco delle buone ragioni per non vedere l'Odissea woke di Nolan - InsideOver
Ecco delle buone ragioni per non vedere l'Odissea woke di Nolan
Ma come? Non si è sempre detto che un film si giudica e valuta dopo averlo visto? Vero: e lo confermiamo. Quello che state per leggere non ha alcuna pretesa di essere un giudizio su di un film che non è nemmeno uscito.Amedeo Maddaluno (InsideOver)
Email provider
Hi there Lemmy community I am looking to switch email providers from Gmail and an old Hotmail account (typical for us old millennials). I have seen Tuta and Proton (from Switzerland) as possible options.
Please provide your recommendations.
I have an iPhone and I run Ubuntu on an old Lenovo laptop.
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Been using Posteo for years and it’s great. No issues. Focus on privacy and security. Helpful support when needed. Hosted in Germany. 1 euro a month.
Email green, secure, simple and ad-free - posteo.de -
Posteo is an innovative email provider that is concerned with sustainability and privacy and is completely ad-free. Our email accounts, calendars and address books can be synchronised - we use comprehensive encryption.www.posteo.de
Developing a self-hosted alternative to Google Keep
Hi! I'm a software developer working on a suite of collaborative self-hostable apps to replace proprietary services I couldn't find a good replacement for.
I am writing this post to seek opinions and ideas now that I am still in the early prototyping phase, before it's too late to change track.
My idea is to develop a collection of simple single-purpose apps that do one and only one thing. The first app will be called Simple Notes (mirror), a replacement for Google Keep. Every operation is encrypted locally on the client, and the server never sees plaintext data. I am investigating federations models to let users connect to other instances and work collaboratively, much like Lemmy.
So, my goals in order of priority are:
- No compromises on privacy and security
- Completely FOSS
- Real-time collaboration between users
- Asynchronous collaboration (work offline, sync when back online)
- One account to operate on all apps in this suite
- Web UI / desktop UI / mobile UI
- Minimal interface which my grandma can use, no feature-bloat
- No anti-features such as advertisements, tracking, etc...
- Self-hosting
- Federation
After Simple Notes, I plan to keep developing other simple apps, some ideas on my list:
- Simple Notes - Replacement for Google Keep
- Simple Split - Replacement for SplitWise
- Simple Chat - Replacement for WhatsApp/Slack/Meet/Teams
- Simple Docs - Replacement for Google Docs
- Simple Draw - Collaborative drawing app
- Simple Calendar - Replacement for Google Calendar
Initially I started writing my own protocol (mirror), operating quite differently from Lemmy's, but then I realized that someone else already has developed a protocol for this purpose: Matrix. It is (optionally) E2EE, it's FOSS, and it's federated. So yeah, it sounds like the perfect choice to me. Also, if I pick Matrix, Simple Chat will just be a reskin of Element, so development cost is almost zero.
So, a questions for the developers on the Lemmy Selfhosted community: do you think piggybacking the Matrix protocol would be a good choice? Do you know any alternative that might be more suited for this purpose?
And a question for all Lemmy Selfhosted users: is there a simple app that you would like me to add to the list?
Bonus question: do you know of any Lemmy community where I could repost?
Thank you very much for the time you spent reading my post!
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Link to source code on my server and GitHub mirror.
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I've started looking for a open source alternative to Keep recently as well, following are few features I'm looking for in random order, maybe you could look into implementing some of these. Once I get some free time I can try to contribute to the code as well.
- Cross platform with sync - iOS, Android, Web, Windows, Linux (Sync should not need to rely on 3rd party servers, should be able to use free syncing solutions)
- Free
- Open Source
- Easy to export all my notes / data in a open format like markdown etc.
- Hackable - can make automations that connect to other apps like Obsidian, TickTick, maybe using some API?
- Good notes search functionality, with search inside a note option
- Notes organization, via tags and folders
- Notes linking like Obsidian ?
- Google Keep like virtual pinboard of notes display, AKA masonry layout ?
- Markdown support for lists, links etc
- Runs in the background (system tray) in Windows / Linux and can be brought up and a new note added quickly using keyboard shortcuts like TickTick.
- Reminders / Alerts For Notes
- Pin Notes
- Notes Can Contain Rich Links, Images, Sound, Video
P.S I think notes collaboration might be a anti feature, it takes away from the simplicity of it and I don't think most people take notes to share with others, I think for most people notes are personal, so I don't know how many would want this feature.
Exclusive: US admiral at NATO fired in expanding national security purge
The information was not immediately confirmed by the Pentagon. However, the sources told Reuters that allies had been notified that Chatfield had been removed from her job.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-admiral-nato-fired-expanding-national-security-purge-2025-04-07/
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Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button
Exclusive: Google says all upcoming Google TV remotes will have a 'Free TV' button - Android Authority
Google has confirmed that, starting this month, new Google TV remotes will have a dedicated "Free TV" button to launch Freeplay.Mishaal Rahman (Android Authority)
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To be fair that would help out a ton for the less technical users that aren't too familiar with needing to browse and click through a ton of different menus just to get to something they can watch for free. This kind of stuff gets challenging for the older non-computing crowd.
And honestly if these remotes are going to have a default "Netflix", etc. button they may as well have a button for the default Google free channels.
You can add self-driving to non-Teslas via comma.ai's "openpilot": an open-source, LiDAR-based dashcam module
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/openpilo…
openpilot (stylized all lowercase) is a direct competitor to Tesla's autopilot and can apply cross-brand to almost all vehicles that have LiDAR (so, 2016+, including many Toyotas, etc.)—which incidentally bypasses Tesla's vision issue due to using only cameras. They have a list of compatible cars on the website.
The module used to cost $3k pre-pandemic and is now less than half that. It skirts around governmental add'l requirements for driverless cars by being open-source and saying the users choose to install their own software, so it can avoid legal issues—but as a result it requires some technical know-how to set up. It plugs into that port to the bottom-left of the steering wheel, I think.
I thought of buying one years ago since YouTube videos of it look incredible, but I just don't currently drive far-enough distances to merit having one (10-minute commute), even at its current rock-bottom price. Still, I figured, since people liked my AdNauseam notice, that I'd give more open-source exposure to the Chaotic Good denizens here.
Tesla Falls for 'Wile E. Coyote-Style' Fake Road Wall
Engineering Youtuber Mark Rober carried out a series of tests on a Tesla's automatic driving feature, with varying success.Theo Burman (Newsweek)
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It's actually just camera based. There is no LiDAR.
I actually have one and I like it pretty well. They're a bit more honest than Tesla about its capabilities and don't actually call it self-driving. They're very clear that it's adaptive cruise control + lane keeping that is better than most stock systems. You should be aware though that it's not really suitable for average users who expect a plug and play experience. Comma doesn't offer any software support at all, and there have been a lot of recent complaints about them not being very responsive to hardware warranty issues.
Schatz expands holds to more than 300 Trump nominees
Summary:
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) is expanding his holds on President Trump's nominees to include an additional 50 names — along with a batch of bipartisan foreign affairs bills, Axios has learned.
Why it matters:
That brings the total number of Trump nominees Schatz has now ground to a halt to more than 300, intensifying his protest of what he calls the White House's "lawlessness."
- The fresh holds include former Rep. Anthony D'Esposito (R-N.Y.), Trump's pick to be Labor Department inspector general, and Scott Kupor, tapped to lead the Office of Personnel Management.
- The new holds span nominees at more than a dozen Trump administration agencies and departments. Schatz has already placed holds on all State Department nominees.
- Schatz also is blocking nine bipartisan bills that recently cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in protest of what he characterized as the committee's lax oversight of the Trump administration.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/schatz-holds-more-than-300-trump-nominees
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Gaza paramedics shot in upper body ‘with intent to kill’, Red Crescent says
PRCS calls for international investigation after postmortem results add to evidence contradicting Israel’s account
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Justice Department seeks to restrict testimony of fired pardon attorney
The Justice Department is attempting to use executive privilege to prevent its fired pardon attorney from telling Congress about the circumstances of her departure, and dispatched armed deputy U.S. marshals to her home to deliver restrictions on her testimony
Court overturns Trump’s firings of two independent agency board members
An appeals court has paved the way for a likely showdown in the US supreme court over presidential power after reinstating two federal agency heads fired from their posts in Donald Trump’s all-out assault on the government bureaucracy.
The Washington DC court of appeals ordered that Cathy Harris and Gwynne Wilcox be restored to the positions with the Merit Systems Protection Board and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) respectively. The ruling overturned a previous verdict by a three-judge panel which had ruled that their dismissals – which had been earlier overturned under legal challenge – were indeed legal.
Court overturns Trump’s firings of two independent agency board members
Cathy Harris and Gwynne Wilcox ordered to be reinstated again in legal saga likely to go to US supreme courtRobert Tait (The Guardian)
RFK Jr praises anti-vaxxer hours after funeral of 8-year-old who died from measles
Nearly 500 people have been sickened in the West Texas measles outbreak. Of those, fewer than 10 were fully vaccinated
Trump White House holds Hamas ‘entirely responsible’ for Israeli execution of Palestinian medics
The US is still backing Israel over the executions even after a shocking video showed the Israeli was lying about the massacre of rescue workers
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr is taking a hard line against broadcast TV stations accused of bias against Republicans and President Trump.
To pressure broadcasters, Carr is invoking the rarely enforced news distortion policy that was developed starting in the late 1960s and says the FCC should consider revoking broadcast licenses.
Although CBS appears to have a strong defense, Carr can make life difficult for broadcasters simply by opening investigations. As experts have previously told Ars, the FCC can use its rules to harass licensees and hold up applications related to business deals. Carr said in November that the news distortion complaint over the 60 Minutes interview would factor into the FCC's review of CBS owner Paramount's transfer of TV broadcast station licenses to Skydance.
The speech police: Chairman Brendan Carr and the FCC’s news distortion policy
FCC invokes 1960s-era policy to punish media after decades of minimal enforcement.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Immigrants aren’t the only people at risk. With Trump pursuing “retribution” against his political enemies, Clearview offers a range of frightening applications. “It creates a really disturbingly powerful tool for police that can identify nearly every person at a protest or a reproductive health facility or a house of worship with just photos of those people’s faces,” says Cahn.
No federal laws regulate facial recognition, and many federal agencies have deployed Clearview for years with little accountability. Consider that the FBI—now run by Kash Patel, who has claimed FBI agents incited January 6, pledged to target journalists, and penned a book containing the names of officials he planned to settle scores with—is another major federal customer. Patel’s new deputy director, Dan Bongino, is a conspiratorial right-wing influencer who has used violent rhetoric about liberals and called for jailing Democrats. (The FBI declined to comment on its use of Clearview or on Bongino’s extremist views.)
Records obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and shared with Mother Jones indicate that ICE has mainly used Clearview in its Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) division, which traditionally conducts criminal probes into human trafficking and drug smuggling. But during Trump’s first term, HSI agents were deeply involved in deportation actions alongside ERO teams, participating in aggressive raids in sanctuary cities and sometimes arresting hundreds of undocumented workers in a day. Now, the units are teaming up again to round up immigrants.
Hundreds, if not thousands, of local law enforcement departments have also embraced Clearview with even looser oversight. Clearview’s user code of conduct states that its search results are “not intended nor permitted to be used as admissible evidence in a court of law or any court filing.” But cops have used the search results, and nothing else, to secure warrants, rather than as leads to support further investigation. This practice has led to wrongful arrests and risks putting every American, not just every immigrant, in a permanent police lineup.
Revealed: The shocking far-right agenda behind the surveillance tech used by ICE and the FBI
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.Mother Jones
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/32280023
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
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‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
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‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual giftsShanti Das (The Guardian)
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/32280023
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
[...]
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
[...]
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual giftsShanti Das (The Guardian)
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/32280023
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
[...]
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
[...]
‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual giftsShanti Das (The Guardian)
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‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Three young children huddle in front of a camera, cross-legged and cupping their hands. “Please support me. We are very poor,” says a boy, staring down the lens.
They appear to be in a mud-brick hut in Afghanistan, living in extreme poverty. But their live stream is reaching viewers in the UK and worldwide – via TikTok Live.
For hours, they beg for virtual “gifts” that can later be exchanged for money. When they get one, they clap politely. On another live stream, a girl jumps up and shouts: “Thank you, we love you!” after receiving a digital rose from a woman in the US, who bought it from TikTok for about 1p. By the time it’s cashed out it could be worth less than a third of a penny.
TikTok says it bans child begging and other forms of begging it considers exploitative, and says it has strict policies on users who go live.
But an Observer investigation has found the practice widespread. Begging live streams are actively promoted by the algorithm and TikTok profits from the content, taking fees and commission of up to 70%.
Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, called the trend a “shocking development” and accused TikTok and middlemen of “profiting from people’s misery”. “Taking a cut of people’s suffering is nothing short of digital predation. I urge TikTok to take immediate action and enforce its own policies on exploitative begging and seriously question the ‘commission’ it is taking from the world’s most vulnerable people,” he said.
Jeffrey DeMarco, digital harm expert at Save the Children, said: “The documented practices represent significant abuses and immediate action must be taken to ensure platforms no longer allow, or benefit directly or indirectly, from content such as this.”
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‘Profiting from misery’: how TikTok makes money from child begging livestreams
Exploitation fears as people in extreme poverty perform stunts and beg for virtual giftsShanti Das (The Guardian)
Trump asks Supreme Court to block order requiring US bring back man mistakenly deported to El Salvador
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This is INSANE! Trump is asking the Supreme Court to bless his administration screwing up TO THE POINT THEY CEEDED CUSTODY OF A PERSON THEY DIDN’T HAVE LEGAL CUSTODY OVER and not require them to fix it?If SCOTUS backs Trump here, literally all is lost. Due process will have NO MEANING if this isn’t fixed ASAP.
Remember, if they did it to this guy the only thing stopping them from doing it to you or me is dumb luck.
https://www.kmbc.com/article/supreme-court-mistaken-deportation-case/64408087
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Just my thoughts on Lemmy, I have various issues with it not federating well to various site at times. I mention this only if you encounter testing issues with Lemmy, more likely the issue is their side.
It has some good features but its frustrating as the instance I use appears to have bugs!
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@nutomic@lemmy.ml Mostly what I've observed is significant instances of timing out when trying to find communities on new instances from non-Lemmy-based websites, something that hasn't been notable from Lemmy-to-Lemmy first encounters. From the outside, it points to y'all doing some kind of compensation for possible AP issues.
I know I said "Lemmy is rough around the edges", but I really meant "ActivityPub is rough around the edges". Lemmy's just the hegemon in the AP categorized content space.
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@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is have you tried navigating directly to the url without the preceding
@? It isn't required (for NodeBB).In cases where the category is currently a user, you'll have to put the whole handle into the search box and execute the search, the category will then be migrated from the user.
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I'm seeing issues with loading remote categories. I can't load the NodeBB bug reports category at all, and for the ActivityPub category, I can find it in my world category search, but I get a 404 when trying to load it. Also can't load
general-discussion@community.nodebb.orgfor example.It seems the NodeBB development board is the only one really federating for me. Any way I can solve this?
I am running beta2 of 4.3.0.
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@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is hmm... could be a bug in the user migration code path.
Can you run your forum in dev mode (
./nodebb dev) and try to load some of the categories here in your forum, and let me know if you see any errors in the console?projectmoon
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NODE_ENVtodevelopmentand got verbose logs. Only thing that shows up is:projectmoon
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So, this URL does work: forum.agnos.is/category/nodebb…
Maybe it has something to do with the activitypub category being a sub-category of nodebb development?
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@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is no, that didn't matter. There is no concept of nested categories in ActivityPub yet.
But the issue seems legitimate, I can't access the ActivityPub category from a test Mastodon server either.
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@julian@community.nodebb.org I was able to access it from a Lemmy instance. So it is federating, at least partly. But interesting to know that Mastodon has issues with it...
One thing that might be helpful is that NodeBB gives an invalid ID error when trying to follow the category via the sync function in admin settings. Stack trace shows it's the error being thrown when trying to follow (activitypub.js line 43).
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@julian@community.nodebb.org Cool, I can now load it. Another question: I have a bunch of lemmy communities (and also a few "null" entries) stuck on "pending" in the category synchronization settings. Pressing remote/delete doesn't do anything. Is there an easy way to get rid of them by editing the database?
Also, are there plans to merge the federation synchronization and new remote category following stuff together into one cohesive set of functionality?
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@projectmoon@forum.agnos.is said in Updates to the world page:
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> Also, are there plans to merge the federation synchronization and new remote category following stuff together into one cohesive set of functionality?
Yes... the remote category functionality supercedes the category sync functionality in some ways, but there is still a use case for it.
Most likely I will need to develop proper support for cross-posting (at least locally), and that would work well with the remote category functionality, so that topics are cross-posted to the synchronized category, instead of moved.
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