L'immagine mostra un'antica pittura egizia. Un dio dalla testa di sciacallo è rappresentato mentre aiuta una mummia avvolta in bende. Sopra e sotto l'immagine ci sono scritte in italiano: "QUANDO VUOI DORMIRE" e "MA IL CANE VUOLE USCIRE".
Burt Bacharach tribute by Hello Burt in front of the Vico Lake, Ronciglione (VT) - Italy on July 19th, 2024 Thanks Riva Fiorita restaurant for hosting us
consiglio. Trova il modo di chiudere la bottiglia (magari facendo un foro sul tappo per far passare solo il laccio). Perché con questo caldo la metà dell'acqua se ne va per evaporazione.
@Signor Amministratore dal menù del post, selezionando "lingue". Si tratta del post che si vede sopra alla finestra modale (che è un altro". Dalla web UI (poliverso.org). Il post (come l'altro) proviene da un server Mastodon.
@Signor Amministratore ma non capisco perché viene usata, dal momento che il payload JSON "dovrebbe" contenere l'indicazione della lingua in modo esplicito
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
@Signor Amministratore ha idea del perchè Friendica provi ad indovinare la lingua di questo post, tra l'altro sbagliando ? L'interfaccia web (da poliverso.org) dal menù lingue mi dice:
Lingue rilevate in questo messaggio: français, langue française (French - fr): 0.29807 español (Spanish - es): 0.29743 català (Catalan - ca): 0.29144 English (en): 0.00000
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
@elif posso consigliarti un account su un server #PeerTube su cui caricare il video, per non lasciarlo SOLO su YouTube (da cui è impossibile scaricarlo e difficile evitare le pubblicità ?). Puoi scegliere un server da joinpeertube.org/ - un server gestito in maniera amatoriale da italiani è peertube.it (vedi peertube.it/about/instance) - io li sto pubblicando su makertube.net (vedi makertube.net/about/instance) ma dove li metti li metti sono visibili da ovunque
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Finisce:Venerdì Luglio 19, 2024 @ 11:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Cena nella terrazza sul lago del ristorante Rivafiorita con accompagnamento musicale degli "Hello, Burt!".</p><p>I migliori brani di Burt Bacharach cantati e suonati con tromba, basso e tastiere.
Inizia:Venerdì Luglio 19, 2024 @ 9:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Finisce:Venerdì Luglio 19, 2024 @ 11:00 PM GMT+02:00 (Europe/Rome)
Cena nella terrazza sul lago del ristorante Rivafiorita con accompagnamento musicale degli "Hello, Burt!".</p><p>I migliori brani di Burt Bacharach cantati e suonati con tromba, basso e tastiere.
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
A journey only becomes one when it begins somewhere.
That's why we are grateful to @EDPS for having created and skillfully managed the EUVoice pilot instance.
Your vision has opened new horizons for us and European institutions.
Our new instance will only foster our engagement with this truly amazing community and be a reference for any institution interested in embracing the fediverse and open alternatives.
Hi @nick! Thank you for your questions! Our old instance was created, hosted and managed by @EDPS as part of a pilot project for a Mastodon server. As the pilot project was coming to an end, we decided to build on its success by setting a permanent instance, ensuring the continued and uninterrupted presence of our institution on Mastodon. The new instance is hosted and managed by the European Commission and has no expiry date.
Thank you and congratulations! It would be great if individual EU leaders would also start posting here, so you don't have to copy-paste screenshots from the deadbird site into Mastodon anymore.
Es ist paradox: Noch nie war es dank unzähliger Plattformen und Kanäle so einfach, seine Meinung zu äußern. Noch nie aber entschieden auch so wenige Menschen über die Regeln dieser Plattformen.
Great to hear this and also I hope you would do a lot more to promote Mastodon and do more to encourage people to move from closed surveillance platforms run by pro[to]fascist sociopaths to open privacy and freedom respecting platforms like this one.
Can you give us a more precise planning about the deployment of the different parts of the European administration on the #Fediverse ? Can you ensure us before the elections there shall be a real political commitment from the whole European administration to remain on the #Fediverse and to promote its effective use everywhere in the European institutions and beyond ?
Now it is quite confusing. Which instance was the old one, which is the new one, and are you just migrating? Or are both going to be around? Which one is the primary one, if there is such a thing, or if they are equal, how do they differ? Could you, please, clarify?
Hi @zegkljan! Thank you for your comment! The old instance referred to is ‘social.network.europa.eu’, a pilot project conducted by the EDPS. The new one is ‘ec.social-network.europa.eu’. As the EDPS phases out their pilot project, we are migrating our accounts to our own instance that we will continue to run for the Commission. (1/2)
Yes, also found out today that the EC launched a new Mastodon server. The one which they are shutting down was a pilot by the European Data Protection Supervisor, now they launched an official commission Mastodon service: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E… which I really can recommend to follow.
Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.
We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.
Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.
This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!
That is good to hear. 🎉 I wonder, is the ec.social-network.europa.eu-Instance then only for the commission and its departments and what happens to the other institutions, that were previously on social-network.europa.eu? Will there be ep.social-network.europa.eu etc.? And what about other institutions such as @Curia? Will the commission host these as well on ec.social-network.europa.eu or support them in hosting their own instances? CC @netzpolitik_feed @markusreuter @zarasophos
Hi, great to have you here on your own instance in the #fediverse! One remark: not all active profiles seem to be visible in your profiles directory (ec.social-network.europa.eu/di…). For example, I do miss @EC_DIGIT, @EC_NGI and @EC_OSPO. Could you make sure that all active profiles will be shown in the profiles directory? Thanks!
I kinda wish the EU would create a separate social media site and really throw a lot of resources at it.
I think to safeguard freedom of speech we should have private, public and decentralized social media. Something like Mastadon can never threaten Facebook or Twitter cause the moment it starts to do so those more centralized platforms will tear it apart.
In today's age of megacorps we need rival institutions from government agencies that can stand up to them.
The #fediverse could be the last, best hope of turning the internet back into a commons, instead of the platform-owned #monopoly rent paradise it currently is.
It is also the last best hope for #Europe’s own digital safety & security in a world where China & US prepare to fight tooth & nail over data supremacy.
We europeans should be prepared that at a moment’s notice, the US digital platforms we depend on can turn against us.
Although the European Union has a lot of negative aspects, I am happy to see this kind of initiatives by the Union. Also, best region in the world to live in still.
This is absolutely splendid. I'm hoping that more and more institutions and government bodies follow suit. I'm imagining some kind of playbook so that, say, the Spanish government, as an example, could set up an instance and all the health services, police departments and town halls could have their accounts and switch from commercial services like Twitter.
Gli abbonati a #Spotify possono godersi un po' di musica lounge #italiana. Una delle canzoni del nostro album - indovinate quale! (scritta da Luigi Tenco) - è appena entrata in questa playlist.
Ma che meraviglia poter usare i simboli #Unicode e vederli a colori nel browser web testuale ! Qui il sito rinnovato e visto con #Lynx in un terminale #Kitty Voi come lo vedete ?
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I won't be going for cara as I'm very hesitant to just join a site willy nilly these days. It'll be interesting to see where this place will be in a year, assuming they make it this far.
It's also nice to see someone provide their thoughts on it. Many people are jumping in from what I can see and while I wish them all the best, I haven't seen them talk about it.
I'm just gonna stick to the few places I'm at for the time being
SORTEZ VOUS LES DOIGTS DU CUL ET COMMENTEZ !!! ET METTEZ DES POUCES VERTS !!! ET PARTAGEZ !!! Episode Kaamelott : Codes et Strategies http://www.youtube.com/...
I made an account to be easily found. But I am tired of being on every social media/platform page possible. I wonder if it is not better to focus on your favorites and interact more there with people who truly appreciate your work.
Interesting read! This is actually my first time hearing of Cara.
I have a question about your point on Cara being a "Human made image stock": while this is definitely a good criticism of platforms like Cara, would it not also be easy for an AI company to create a Mastodon instance and scrape art via federation with other instances? Like if Facebook and Threads were to do this, for instance?
@constancies Thank you. Yes, I think making a bot and scraping the Fediverse (only by following art hashtags and collecting downloaded post) would be easy. But the user/bot would have to scrap only a relatively little batch; something that looks like a human reading a TL, or searching a topic. Because in case of an higher volume, the IP of the bot and its impact on the bandwith of small server would be noticed and probably blocklisted after a long period.
Huh, I never actually considered that. I guess when you put it that way, yeah it would be hard to just pull everything from a fediverse server.
My next thought would be that a company could still open a normal mastodon instance and simply keep archives of whatever is federated over by its users. But while imperfect, this is still probably a less dire situation than a single company hosting everything and being within power to sell it off to whatever AI company.
@constancies would you not just start your own instance - other instances would send you stuff like any other instance and you just extract what you want from there?
@aturff @constancies Yes, the Fediverse had a case recently of exactly that. But it was quickly spotted as a bad actor by other instances and block-listed in less than a couple of days from almost all the landscape afair. The main challenge of an instance like that would be to just look like a regular instance and have similar activities. Anything a bit different quickly become visible on the log of many servers.
Great post, but I have the issue that you suggested mastodon.art; the problem of that instance is that they defederate with too many instances for small reasons, and when the instances' admins and mods questions to reason they failed to provide evidences, and tend to assume bad faiths, even my second account's instance (tech.lgbt) got in the crossfire tho. Their moderation stances would not help any artist there, I am still baffled many people still recommend that instance
@natsume_shokogami It's indeed hard to recommend an instance for artist, and I understand if you had a bad experience that this line I suggest is problematic. I'll try to get more information about it and revise my copy if I get evidences the network lack of transparency about that.
I came to the same conclusion as you, but you explained it in a much more detailed way. Congratulations! i heard about "Cara" yesterday where posts appeared from established artists inviting people to follow them on this new platform. I must admit that, like you, I created an account on Cara for the famous FOMO. However, after thinking about it more, I decided that it's probably wiser to use what already exists and works well, like Pixelfed.
fab! I will reread it tomorrow morning with a fresh head
My main reason for not making an account on cara is their NSFW policy. To nobody's surprise, they don't allow it, and there's no detailed description of what is and isn't considered NSFW.
> "What we have here is a structure built on exactly the same rules at its core that guarantee a future enshitification: proprietary, closed and centralized. "
... aurait sans doute suffit, mais tout le reste du billet réussit à être intéressant quand même. Bien joué !
the div.grid {margin-right: -1rem;} css rule makes the post frustratingly slightly wider than my screen making scrolling (touchpad) a bit awkward could you fix that?
The biggest red flag for me was the "current unethical form" qualification in their"no AI" policy, which makes me wonder if what makes the next version ethical is how much they're getting paid to say it is, kinda like AdBlock Plus's "acceptable ads" policy.
That, and the condescending centrist attitude, like "were not like all those dummies writing off all AI," which makes me think they don't really understand (or care about) the full range of criticisms of "AI art."
Good write up. I think the most important part isn’t actually about AI though. It’s about ownership (or actually copyright).
I find it uncomfortable when sites want to own the (c) of what everyone posts. I find it unethical. Because ultimately that is why these AIs can be trained on this data after all.
If the artists’ copyright was respected and no unethical EULAs existed, then the AI discussion would be very different.
Ultimately it’s probably difficult to say that people can’t run AI on their own art after all. Stuff like games already do (upscaling, interpolating frames, etc). I just think it should be up to each individual.
I've definitely been suspicious about the future of Cara. While I appreciate that they are (for now) self-funded and don't seem to have any venture capital, I strongly agree with all the points here about what a social media platform should be, especially the one about being a non-profit.
I wonder how different things would be if mastodon.art did not kill so many artists experience with fediverse.
A friendly art focused server running pixelfed that allowed image migration and albums would probably have put us in a completely different place right now.
There are just too many of these art sites that come and go. With a pixelfed setup, artists can host their own site, like they used to host galleries before, and just have people follow from anywhere on fediverse. Or just use it as a gallery.
But it is seen as "too techy". Like back when they made their own site in HTML, it wasnt?
good overview and analysis! I feel like Cara is not the place for me, I'm just going to be disappointed when I can't make any headway there because I don't draw in the standard digital concept artist style, and also because it's only other artists there
(I also have a feeling it's yet another one of those apps that only really "works" properly on iOS, and I am an Android user 😝)
@elainemwill Oh yes I totally understand about the style. It's very "Artstation standards" in a way (and sometime unfortunately to a point that many popular artworks looks in fact like AI gen Art, because AI gen art took all from this norm).
About the App; they don't have a iOs/Android app: they just have a tutorial on how to use the webbrowser on phone to create a shortcut icon to the website. This is nice, because you can use the browser of your choice (and then, anti tracking ext)
I need to read the article when I can load the page (in a forest atm). It's weird how just now cara is talked about again, I heard of it a long while ago and been eyeing it for a while before setting up a gallery. Though my understanding: it's replacement for artstation, mainly a place for industry artists. And it's run by decent people with very good intentions, but that isn't to say they can't fuck up.
I've created an account as well and, of course, I've read their FAQ about NSFW content (I've had quite a painful experience about this on Mastodon), and as usual, the problem is the same : they don't define what they mean by "NSFW". Is it explicit porn, depicting genitals, or does it mean that even the slightest appearance of an innocent nipple would qualify as NSFW? This ambiguity doesn't help me to trust them, so far…
I'm pretty sure that in some cultures, letting a toe being seen qualifies as nudity. A concept that may lead to self-censorship and loss of freedom of expression deserves a precise and honnest definition. Cara, being all about art, and lots of art pieces quie commonly depicting nudity without being porn, should have made a little effort to be clearer on that subject.
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