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Today Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership. We're transferring ownership of key assets to a new, European not-for-profit entity, ensuring our mission remains true to a decentralised social web, not corporate control. #MastodonNonProfit
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The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.Mastodon Blog
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Eugen's vision for Mastodon was centered on user choice, community, and freedom. Now, we're formalizing that commitment with the formation of a new European non-profit entity. Eugen will transition to an alternative role in the team, with a new CEO to be announced very soon. Stay tuned for updates on these changes.
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Our core mission remains the same: create tools and spaces for authentic online communities. No changes to your user experience, just a stronger commitment to transparency and community-driven governance. Join us on this journey!
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We're not just building a social network, we're building a community. Communities thrive when everyone contributes. We're growing our operating budget to invest in our contribution to the Fediverse as a whole, including our commitment to trust and safety, and user experience. Donate to support this vision!
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Donate or become a sponsor and help us build the social web for everyone!joinmastodon.org
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Transparency is a key part of our transition to non-profit ownership. Follow us to stay informed about our progress, priorities, and the move to community-driven governance. Together, we're building a safer, more open Fediverse. Join us ๐
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The people should own the town square
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.Mastodon Blog
*unless you happen to condemn the genocide of Gaza or the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
Is this something you would/could consider? Resp. what you were looking for?
Any chance of taking donations via Open Collective? I'm already set up to make donations there, including to the mstdn.social instance I use.
Raise and spend money with full transparency.
Open Collective is a legal and financial toolbox for groups. Itโs a fundraising + legal status + money management platform for your community. What do you want to do?opencollective.com
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Hallo, zwei Fragen:
- Gibt es eine Mรถglichkeit, Mastodon auch direkt via Kreditkarte zu spenden? Ich mรถchte im Grunde keine weiteren Zwischenhรคndler und deren Plattformen mehr benutzen, wรผrde aber gerne spenden.
- Habe kรผrzlich in einem Beitrag gelesen, dass sรคmtliche Instanzen im Fediverse Threads/Meta bereits blockieren.
Mastodon Social ist demnach offenbar noch nicht dabei.
Ist dieser wichtige Schritt bereits angedacht bzw. wann wird er umgesetzt?
Grรผsse, Monty
Why not connect with #bsky ? They write: "Why not use ActivityPub? ActivityPub is a federated social networking technology popularized by Mastodon. Account portability is a major reason why we chose to build a separate protocol."
atproto.com/guides/faq
Anybody thinking of building bridges between those two protocols?
These posts feel important, who exactly is posting them?
They are very corporate sounding, let's be people here.
I just want to say that I deeply appreciate that you take the time to answer these kind of questions and make these kind of posts so we can know what you are working at at Mastodon @andypiper
I respect and enjoy transparency, thanks.
Questions for Mastodon:
Will there be a trademark license from the Mastodon non-profit to Mastodon GmbH?
If so, what will be the terms of the license?
Why are you not assigning the domain names to the non-profit entity?
Why will there still be a for-profit company?
Who will be the officers and Board members of the two entities?
Honestly, I'd love to see Mastodon as a viable Twitter alternative, but by now I think it never will be. It's a completely different experience. When I open Mastodon, I see a maze of text, 3rd degree replies to I don't know what, and a star button that essentially nobody but me uses, because it does (almost) nothing.
I understand that some people like this type of experience, but me (and a lot of other ex twitter users who went to bluesky instead) would've preferred something else.
@David
That's nice if you liked it here, but me and all the other people ending up on bluesky wanted exactly the same but didn't get it here.
I use the star button like that too, but somehow almost nobody else does. When I check my feed, I see usually 0 stars, even for posts that have hundreds of reposts. For me this is just a gasping unused space.
Yeah, that's probably just the favourites not reaching your server. Favourites are mainly intended to just let the author know someone liked their post, and they do all reach the author.
In any case, "clout" isn't really valued on here as much as on other social networks so it's not worth looking at numbers but what people actually post.
@elexia
Well okay for a reference: check the above Mastodon posts. 400+ reposts and 5 stars? I don't think this button is much used...
Also: I don't follow the right people? I think that's the problem. If I get a bad experience so easily on this platform, and it's my fault if I don't improve it, this will keep people from using it. I understand that active Mastodon users like this, that's why they're (still) here. But there are many more people who don't, and these are on bsky now.
@elexia
My point here is that most people prefer less chaotic feeds and a more accessible interface and bsky managed this well while still giving *You* control over what you see. Mastodon could've done that too which would've made it eternally better, but they didn't.
Which seems to be fine for people who like to take the Mastodon deep dive, but terribly inconvenient for average Joe users like me.
Well it is here on my feed, it's my Mastodon experience. Do You want to deny my experience? Do you suggest my brain is "not made" for Mastodon? Sorry, but this sounds like intense gatekeeping. I shared my experience, I get that it's not the experience of people who are happy here, but it's the experience of people who tried it here but moved to bsky. If Mastodon is not interested in those people, that's fine. Then ppl will go to bluesky.
@urbanfoxe
Well, I don't think I can capture it in one image. I think the weird thing is that my feed is usually overflowing with very few very active users, and I get EVERYTHING these few active users do, be it original posts or comments to comments to comments. I like more original posts and more diversity in the posts I see.
In bsky, I have this neatly ordered due to feeds. If I want science, i get a science feed. If I want social, i check my friends feed. No suggestive algorithm. No chaos
@chiraag @DirkGutlin @urbanfoxe
I use lists a LOT.
But they are not intuitive to use, to build, to follow.
Mastodon has a lot of good features, but they are not easy to find.
I think the developers should put this on their wall, as a reminder:
IG? yes, it's the same with FB.
but there is a button to disable it. somewhere.๐
@DirkGutlin @urbanfoxe
yes, there is a problem for what i call the "passive users" (which btw most of the new users are by nature): people who posts rarely.
They don't have many followers, so their posts are not seen, but also their boosts are not seen and their likes are meaningless for visibility purposes.
Moreover at the beginning you naturally start to follow the people who post content that you like, but, what it is not said enough, is that you have to choose people not only for their content but also for their posting habits, otherwise your home will soon be filled with a lot of "noise" from compulsive posters/boosters
I tell you: I've been here since 2 years, I have 1400 follows, Eugen is here since the beginning and he has only 574: he knows how to select his sources
Likes count as interactions, and the algorithm pushes that content more (but less than shares).
Great to see the continued commitment to open, decentralised technologies in the EU specifically.
We have known for a long time, but it feels more prevalent than ever, that social media can not be controlled by the US. Looking forward to it!
And yes come to me with "communist" jokes here but that is how it should be.
Under what comes next, you are still promoting the "Fediscovery" project.
Despite it being described as supporting multiple "discovery providers", the text says ยปThis will specify how an instance will โfeedโ content to a discovery provider to index. And how a discovery provider can be queried to actually search and discover content.ยซ
Nothing is being said about why there would ever be a need for a more than a few big providers, once it is established that the big ones "work". As usual, centralization is looming here, by a few corps "generously" offering high-speed "discovery" for "free".
Also, nothing is said about providers sharing results of the indexing, to enable true fediverse-wide search - instead, the proposal almost inevitably points to a set of a few providers that everybody needs to feed if they want posts to be found.
"Hope" will not change that hence just saying ยปWe want to specify how a discovery provider works and interfaces with a Fediverse server instance. We hope to inspire several competing implementations of the specification.ยซ does not make much sense.
Nothing is said about who outside of the Fediverse gets to query a provider, or to process the data that has been extracted from a fediverse server feed - and for which purposes. It's even expressly mentioned that ยปThese โprovidersโ might serve other purposes than just search and discoveryยซ
ยปThe protocols and implementations will respect user privacyยซ, but the text only offers "shoulds":
- ยปOur reference implementation will respect this setting and only ingest content from creators who opted in to discovery in the first place.ยซ (note the telling words "respect" and "ingest" here, it does not even seem consensus that providers are "fed" by Fediverse servers).
- ยปAll other information a discovery provider gathers should be anonymous.ยซ Should?
- ยปFediverse Discovery Providers should only ever index content clearly marked as โpublicโ.ยซ Should?
- ยปFediverse Discovery Providers should honor these settings and only index user data and content from users who have opted-into that.ยซ Should?
Another red flag: ยปThis means we might not always be able to incorporate all the feedback we get into the very first draft of everything we publish. But rest assured that we are committed to continue working on this even after this first project has ended, so we will be able to make adjustments later on.ยซ
More privacy after the first implementation is out? And no: With Mastodon being the driver of this, and with the current wording, we can not "rest assured".
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Please explain new Euro not-for-profit organization. Is this a trust that controls the mission?
"We will continue day-to-day operations through the Mastodon GmbH for-profit entity, which will become wholly owned by the new European not-for-profit entity. The Mastodon GmbH entity automatically became a for-profit as a result of its charitable status being stripped away in Germany. The existing US-based non-profit entity, the 501(c)(3), will continue to function as a fundraising hub."
This doesnโt distract us from the problematic relationship with Meta - that issue needs to be addressed upfront.
"The people should own the town square"
Who could say it any better? Social media has to be a part of our public infrastructure or else it is just a tool of public manipulation and oppression.
It is antithetical for social media to be owned by a corporation.
You should also consider changing hosting providers, outside the United States.
This is great.
What I find amazing and very frustrating is that even when opinion journalists address these issues seriously and thoughtfully they almost always fail to mention Mastodon -- as here:
"We need to support the creation of other platforms that are designed not to amplify lies and hate, or to just suck our personal data and sell us things, but to promote a better conversation."
theguardian.com/technology/202โฆ
Elon Musk and the new world order: the hijacking of the global conversation
How can we publicly debate policy in the face of the rising โ and polarising โ influence of the X owner and others whose only aim is to serve themselvesPeter Pomerantsev (The Guardian)
whew! this is good. this is really, really good. had no idea Germany stripped yโall of the non-profit status and thatโs why you had to incorporate in the US.
so this will ensure the USA has no jurisdiction over Mastodon the software company, the software, correct?
the only quibble would be the TLDs: .social and .online are controlled by USA providers. thereโs still vulnerability to abuse of power with the TLDs being under USA jurisdiction.
"Nous transfรฉrons la propriรฉtรฉ d'actifs clรฉs ร une nouvelle entitรฉ europรฉenne sans but lucratif,...."
Comme elle n'est JAMAIS nommรฉe, mon petit doigt me dit que รงa pue.
it's difficult to take these steps right, with all the legal and organizational implications they carry.
I wish you good luck.
Mastodon is the platform that deserves our presence and attention (to followers over the skies).
Mastodon will "transfer ownership of key Mastodon ecosystem and platform components [ ] to a new non-profit organization, affirming the intent that Mastodon should not be owned or controlled by a single individual."
"where people can build [] online communities free from ads, data exploitation, manipulative algorithms or corporate monopolies."
Un bug di Cloudflare Consente Di Tracciare la Posizione Con Una Immagine Su Signal, Discord o X
404 Media ha segnalato un problema con Cloudflare che ti consente di sapere quale data center aziendale viene utilizzato per memorizzare la cache di una particolare immagine. Di conseguenza, un utente malintenzionato puรฒ scoprire la posizione approssimativa degli utenti di Signal, Discord, X (Twitter) e altre applicazioni.
Come funziona il bug
Lโaggressore deve solo inviare al bersaglio unโimmagine qualsiasi e la vittima non deve nemmeno cliccare sullโimmagine affinchรฉ lโattacco funzioni. La pubblicazione sottolinea che in questo modo รจ possibile ottenere dati molto approssimativi sulla posizione: nei test 404 Media, lโattacco ha mostrato in quale cittร o stato si trovava la persona, ma non ha fornito informazioni piรน precise. Tuttavia, lโattacco rappresenta ancora una minaccia per gli utenti.
โMolto probabilmente si tratta di un bug nel funzionamento dellโapplicazione mobile e non di una vulnerabilitร nel codice stesso, ma penso comunque che debba essere risoltoโ, ha detto alla pubblicazione Daniel, ricercatore indipendente sulla sicurezza informatica, che ha scoperto il problema. Sottolinea che gli sviluppatori di Cloudflare hanno ora corretto il bug che sfruttava il suo strumento personalizzato.
Il problema era legato al CDN (Content Delivery Network) di Cloudflare, che memorizza nella cache i contenuti su piรน server distribuiti e quindi li consegna agli utenti in base alla loro posizione. Pertanto, se un utente si trova a San Francisco, la CDN di Cloudflare utilizza la parte della sua CDN piรน vicina allโutente per accelerare la consegna dei contenuti. Cloudflare afferma di avere data center in piรน di 330 cittร in 120 paesi e molte applicazioni utilizzano la CDN dellโazienda per fornire contenuti.
Si basa tutto sulla posizione dei datacenter di CloudFlare
Come si รจ scoperto, grazie a ciรฒ, un estraneo ha potuto scoprire quale parte del CDN di Cloudflare รจ stata utilizzata durante la trasmissione dellโimmagine e, in base a ciรฒ, determinare la posizione del destinatario.
โCloudflare condivide la cache tra i data center, in modo che gli aggressori possano facilmente correlare la cache e triangolare la posizione degli utentiโ, spiega Daniel. โCiascuno dei data center di Cloudflare ha il proprio spazio di archiviazione della cache locale per unโelaborazione piรน rapida dei contenuti, quindi puoi controllare ciascun data center per vedere dove i contenuti sono stati memorizzati nella cache.โ
Per effettuare un simile attacco, Daniel ha inviato al bersaglio unโimmagine tramite messaggistica istantanea o unโaltra applicazione. Ha quindi utilizzato Burp Suite per intercettare lโURL dellโimmagine caricata. Ha quindi utilizzato il suo strumento personalizzato, chiamato Cloudflare Teleport, per inviare richieste a ciascun data center Cloudflare (per vedere quale stava memorizzando la richiesta nella cache).
Le query di Cloudflare Teleport hanno restituito risultati HIT o MISS. In caso di successo, il ricercatore ha scoperto in quale data center si trovava il suo obiettivo, il che ha permesso di determinare la posizione approssimativa della persona.
I giornalisti hanno chiesto a Daniel di dimostrare in pratica lโattacco e sono riusciti a scoprire la posizione di diversi utenti di Signal (con il loro consenso). Da notare che in alcuni casi lโattacco richiedeva lโapertura di una chat, ma in altri casi la notifica push poteva caricare unโimmagine senza che la vittima avesse nemmeno bisogno di avviare lโapplicazione stessa.
L'articolo Un bug di Cloudflare Consente Di Tracciare la Posizione Con Una Immagine Su Signal, Discord o X proviene da il blog della sicurezza informatica.
I contenuti generati dall'AI - definiti slop - stanno praticamente pervadendo il web e social, da Facebook a LinkedIn.
Studi mostrano che piรน della metร dei post lunghi su LinkedIn รจ generata da AI! Che su Facebook i feed sono invasi da contenuti AI, incluse immagini di Gesรน fatto di gamberi.
Questa tendenza fa parte di un fenomeno piรน grande, noto come enshittification dei servizi online. Si stanno progressivamente sommergendo i contenuti autentici creati dalle persone con una miriade di materiali artificiali.
Come spesso accade, le piattaforme sembrano piรน interessate ai guadagni che a risolvere questo problema.
theguardian.com/global/commentโฆ
AI-generated โslopโ is slowly killing the internet, so why is nobody trying to stop it?
Low-quality โslopโ generated by AI is crowding out genuine humans across the internet, but instead of regulating it, platforms such as Facebook are positively encouraging it. Where does this end, asks Arwa MahdawiArwa Mahdawi (The Guardian)
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LIBERARE IL MIO #SMARTPHONE PER LIBERARE ME STESSO, @kenobit , uno dei fondatori di livellosegreto.it ha pubblicato questo "Breve manuale di resistenza digitale" Si puรฒ scaricare da qui: kenobit.it/libri-e-fanzine/ sia in formato .pdf che in formato .epub ed รจ distribuito con licenza #CreativeCommons CC BY SA 4.0 prossimamente anche in versione cartacea. Un grosso grazie all'autore ๐ ๐ ๐ #ResistenzaDigitale
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L'immagine mostra un'inquadratura ravvicinata di uno schermo televisivo che presenta informazioni sulle famiglie di Donald Trump ed Elon Musk. Il titolo recita "Le famiglie 'non tradizionali' di Trump e Musk". Sotto, ci sono due sezioni: una dedicata a Donald Trump, che indica 5 figli avuti da 3 mogli, e un'altra dedicata a Elon Musk, che riporta 11 figli da 3 donne, di cui 2 nati tramite maternitร surrogata. Le informazioni sono presentate con immagini in miniatura dei due personaggi.
Fornito da @altbot, generato utilizzando Gemini
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Fa parte del modello patriarcale tradizionale che chi ha potere possa avere piรน donne ed avere figli da esse.
La monogamia รจ per il popolo.
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