I'd like to clear the air re: #WSocial and my opposition to it.
I got a lot of messages on my Mastodon account (several over private DM) trying to dissuade me from speaking up about it and urging me to work on improving the fediverse instead.
I hear you.
But I disagree.
I experienced the same thing last year, when I mentioned I had incendiary evidence about the lack of content moderation on Substack. I had many examples of posts and replies inciting racism, homophobia, fatphobia and xenophobia and spreading dangerous health misinformation. I had taken screenshots and reported them. When I checked back months later, none of my reports had been acted upon. I am talking about seriously heinous messages that are still on there. When I mentioned this on the fediverse, I got many responses urging me "not to waste my time" and "to stay positive" and to "focus instead on helping the fediverse." I did that. Meanwhile Substack is still incredibly popular and most people - even those using it - have no idea of the heinous speech that is allowed on it... and sometimes even monetized. I honestly regret not speaking up. It may not have made a difference, I know (I'm not a megalomaniac) but it makes my skin crawl to think some of the heinous comments are still on there and a young person could come across them and think they are ok. I should have spoken up.
Now, W Social where do I start? Sure, my criticism of it is from a completely different angle. All I want to do is write ONE blog post about its problematic aspects and then I will move on. What is so objectionable about it?
Years ago I wrote a blog post citing all the problems about Dove and its Real Beauty Campaign. It may not have been much, but it was over 10 years ago and the post is still getting hits today. You can see it for yourselves if you look up "The Problem with Dove" and "The Illusionists."
I'm very very lucky to have a little bit of influence on here - I'm immensely grateful for it - and even if I'm preaching to the choir as they say, maybe my advocacy can make a little bit of difference.
My hunch is: staying silent and wishing W Social away is not the way to go. They had a very rushed, botched announcement with no existing product or users. Major security flaws in their setup (I have plenty of evidence). I'd like to write something that you could reference and share... since so far no journalists did any research and simply rehashed the press release of W Social. That's irresponsible reporting – P.R. masked as journalism and it needs to be rectified. That's all I want to do: a blog post about "The Problems with W Social" that hopefully with a sprinkle of SEO magic people can easily find. What's so bad about it? 4 hours of my time and then I'll move on.
@Daojoan of course they would have reacted much less calm, if this happened under a Democratic president to a nationalist gun owner. But they are not supporting the killing (yet) mastodon.social/@carnage4life@…
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The fricking NRA is now the voice of reason. That’s how far off the deep end the U.S. government and conservative enablers of Trump have gone.
Cioè mi state dicendo che l'autoproclamato faro di civiltà, l'esempio mondiale di libertà, l'esportatore di democrazia (a mano armata) sta ammazzando persone colpevoli di usare uno smartphone? Chi l'avrebbe mai detto!
Considerando come vanno le cose, tre consigli di lettura prima che cancel culture & affini facciano ciò per cui sono state ideate (e che questi libri scompaiano dagli scaffali italiani, essendo l'Italia una colonia anglo-statunitense): 1. _1984_ di Orwell - no, non è un libro di fantasia. Non più 2. _Fahrenheit 451_ di Bradbury - vedi 1. 3. _Il mondo nuovo_ di Huxley - per cercare di salvare il salvabile
Here's my first Mastodon post! My mission out here? To understand and promote Mastodon, the only large European social media platform (to my knowledge). How can we make more Europeans come to the Fediverse?
The Fediverse is global, but Europe has a lot of instances and users. The EU institutions should have own instances and „all“ of the Parliament an account.
@karlos there is an instance by the European Commission, but not by the European Parliament, so you make a fair point. A project for the future could be to get all EU institutions onto one EU Instance... Inspiring comment, and thank you!
@karlos Today I discovered that the Court of Justice has been here for a long time @Curia and @Curia_fr and they have their own instance on the corporate server
@karlos Maybe it's a better point to have the European Parliament on an own instance like how the commission, the CJEU, the parliament and other EU institutions also have their own web sites under the europa.eu domain.
@gelbphoenix @karlos would be cool if the European Parliament created a Mastodon Instance, and offered all MEPs (Members of the Parliament) the ability to create an account on their instance. I know some social media savvy MEPs would appreciate that... It's a good idea you have there!
@EUPetitionBot @nachtet Merde ;) I just had the same idea to make a bot, using IFTTT and a WebHook by URLooker. But a WebHook only works with a payed IFTTT, which I don't have. So @hpod16 , may be you can tell the ECI to explore the Fediverse or at last provide an RSS feed, to present their Mail-Newsletter at last.
This is the typical "non Fediverse" they have: (Yes, they are on BlueSky, but the Link to the Fediverse does not work mostly)
@karlos @EUPetitionBot @nachtet Ahh this is an independent organisation that monitors the ECI, separate from the EU Institutions. Sorry, I don't know anyone there
@seindal I think there's more and more people who think like that, given recent geopolitical tensions... One hopes that based on this we'll see a bigger movement to Mastodon. The European Commission has been here for quite a few years... But follower numbers have always been limited by limited numbers on Mastodon itself.
Your big challenge is going to be understanding and then explaining why Mastodon and other fediverse services are a much better way for Europe to free itself from American (and Chinese) platforms than the Eurosky project!
Thanks for the warm welcome, @tomstoneham! I'm getting a lot of good tips and resources here 😀 Hoping to be up to speed ASAP and in a position to motivate others to join
@midzer Imagine I'm preparing a workshop for people who want to understand and join Mastodon. What could you tell people to make Mastodon look like a fun place to be?
About the federation aspect: "Life is awesome and full of choices. Choosing an instance for your account is fun, too. We did this for e-mail in the past. You have the freedom, you decide."
@midzer i usually do a small comparison on how different platforms work in normal use case vs. in extreme use case.
ppl "usually" understand how to use mastodon in a normal way (as if it's similar to twitter or whatever)
the extreme use case as being when bad things happen to a walled-garden platform. its users "may" realize they actually don't have the freedom to choose a different instance without losing communication to their connections (followers & following)
@Tony_Meredith I suppose one could say that values can make you join a new platform, but the fun is needed to keep one coming back?
I tend to sign up for all the new platforms (I'm a social media manager, so I want to stay on top of it all) but only the ones that really engage me keep me coming back.
Oh, an active community, that's important. Impressed with reactions here so far!
talk about loud about Mastodon as an alternative as well as other digital tools replacing Big Techs. I don't read anything about activities like #digitalindependanceday or others. And that Denmark has an app to avoid or replace US goods is remarkable too. EU should talk about, even DT might get angry
We need more press coverage of the fediverse and stuff like "share on fedi" next to "share on Facebook" and the like. It should be normalized for media and business to be on fedi as well.
So from your standpoint you could fight for public press releases of the EU to include links to official fedi accounts for example.
Thanks for the comment, @der_schrank! I can tell you there are people working on this. Mastodon was recently included under the "share more" option, but I'll admit it could be even more prominent. It's a first step, more steps to come.
Awesome! Should probably move right to the top of the sharing options. 😅
Maybe it would make sense to migrate to using the term "fediverse" as well. Away from the product Mastodon, because there are also other products available and competing with their commercial counterparts like Friendica (alternative to Facebook), Pixelfed (alternative to Instagram) and Loops (alternative to TikTok).
(Not to mention various smaller projects and forks or alternatives to Mastodon as well)
@der_schrank you may have to explain to me this difference between Mastodon and fediverse. It's one of these things I don't fully understand yet (be kind, I'm new)
@der_schrank as you're learning about Mastodon and Fediverse, I *highly* suggest checking out some of the resources that @FediTips has released. They're how I learned most of what I know about fedi.
There are also lots more guides on the front page at fedi.tips and feel free to ask if you want help with anything specific. I am trying to provide unofficial tech support on here 🙂
A lot tech savvy people I know, simply say it is still too complicated and either don’t sign up, or when signed up struggle to find content and let their accounts go stale.
It took some work but with hashtags and starter packs I found all I need. Some people are even missing algorithms even though mobile clients mimic them 🤷♂️
@dalcacer I'm loving my first day on Mastodon! Did not expect this much reaction and now feeling a little shy.
I'm here because we need more people who understand Mastodon / the Fediverse. I know noting, but I'm keen to learn. And quite frankly, we owe it to Europeans to promote European tech solutions.
@dalcacer I have to admit this is my second attempt at Mastodon. Or third. The first two times I found it too discouraging and gave up. I think these days we expect things online to come to us very easily, and we are equally as easily discouraged
@dalcacer Mastodon is a higher barrier for me to clear currently, I need to either write a client myself or start using something that is light and either runs outside of a web browser or is compatible with more than just a few browsers. Sadly, Mastodon upstream not only requires JS, it's also using features that greatly restrict the amount of browsers one can use.
(Now a good thing here are the open specifications, meaning that like IRC, USENET and e-mail, one's not tied to some client, my usual example of this is pointing Microsoft Comic Chat, I think that client illustrates the idea of a significantly different interface built on top of an open protocol. I do like this aspect, but it might be less relevant to attract more users globally;... but it should be quite relevant and important for elected officials and EU institutions, of course, just like you'd not publish official documents only in proprietary formats.)
The thing is: the content makes it worth it. So even if it's currently more difficult, I try to have a look at Mastodon, in spite of that.
In another account I follow a bunch of hashtags and I end up having a lot of interesting content (sadly, sometimes overwhelming, I'm eagerly waiting for the ability to put hashtags in lists).
Personally, I talk about the Fediverse and why it is important a lot and there are many opportunities, even when just doing small talk. Most people are not happy with being manipulated by big tech, ad-driven social media. For many, I'm the first person to even tell them about the Fediverse. Of course, the vast majority won't join right away, but every impulse helps. I like focusing on positive aspects and advantages, and try to reach the person where they're at right now. And depending on the circumstances it might not be more than namedropping, but I still think it's very important to do. And I do look out for other opportunities to promote it.
I'm enjoying Mastodon so far because it reminds me of a different time on social media. There was a time I was to taken with social media, I loved it enough to make it my whole career. It's been 10 years since I started working with social media, and I've seen a lot of... change, much of it for the worse. Still believe that social media can be harnessed for good though.
start a campaign localised to each country asking politicians of all shades to move into the #fediverse point out that they can add a #mastodon or fediverse channel to their existing content distributer de. Or use @bufferapp or something similar to post to multiple channels. Give them an idiots guide to connecting to their local or preferred server. @Ciarancuffe
"channels" of practical information. My city has Fediverse announcements of power and water outages (planned or emergencies), wastewater disease tracking, other stuff it's just handy to see. More time-sensitive than a webpage, less time-sensitive than emergencies or transit outages (I get those over SMS).
Ideally useful info, not just press releases; and really ideally someplace a citizen can report trouble
"social" is less obviously something for a government to Do, but I bet a government could help translate popular client software into all the national languages, or sponsor "how to host a small instance" the same way there are community classes in gardening or any adult pursuit.
One of my hobbyhorses is that "hosting" is TWO important jobs, the computer side and the human side -- in English it's the same kind of "host" that might run a regular salon, or a friendly bar, etc.
it's usually called "moderation" online, but IMO it's like parties!
You welcome new people, you have a sense of both the agreed beliefs and the issues that are going to be touchy for your group, you do ongoing organization so people can find the good stuff...
and sometimes you have to throw somebody out though in a good system that's RARE and it always involves some people feeling it was too early and some people feeling it wasn't early enough.
(that's the human side. There's a whole computer side that's technical, and then complicated stuff when human and technical decisions affect each other. But these don't have to be done by the same people, though they have to be able to talk to each other)
@ngi Welcome! Please promote the idea of decentralization. Empower communities to have their own instances. There is this analogy with email. For better or worse, because there is always the danger of centralization, even though the underlying technology is decentralized. Just as it happened with email. Government institutions should also decentralize across all administrative units to make this idea clear. It is not enough to support the decentralized gathering of civil society in the Fediverse by funding the technical infrastructure. Software development must also continue to be funded, as has been done for years by the Next Generation Internet initiative.
@milesizdead @nihkeys thanks for the warm welcome! I’m getting good vibes from this side of the internet so far. It’s kind of reminding me of my early days on tumblr in 2010. 💜
welcome 👋 tell your friends. If you still have X account don’t delete but rather go change your username to your full Mastodon handle and link to bio. Add your Mastodon handle everywhere so that people notice and become curious.
1. There ARE plenty of active Europeans on here, in all EU languages, you can really turn it into a nice little anglo-free oasis with the right filters and still have plenty of content. 2. We're not all techies. I still don't know wtf is a Linux, it's fine. If you just want to shitpost and share cat pictures or share stitching patterns or soup recipes, you'll find your people by following hashtags. 3. Show them #FinnCleo
welcome ! Don't try to explain mastodon, just use it. People had to learn what a tweet, a follower or hashtag was when they started using twitter. It has never been a blocker. Promote good accounts to follow, open up few mastodon instances (1 per EU country or even region) so people starts in an environment speaking their mother tongue and spread the word.
Sure! You can follow hashtags! If there’s a topic you enjoy, you can follow that instead of individual users. We're big on alt-text here, so please add it to images you include in your posts. YOU are the algorithm. If you see something cool or interesting, boosting that post is what gives it legs. You can follow or share from other Fedi services here on Mastodon. EVERYONE's posts are an RSS feed, meaning you can literally subscribe to a Mastodon user & see their posts in your RSS reader.
I forgot to mention in the tips that you can edit your posts after sending them. That's a godsend. Anyhow, it's great to 'meet' you and welcome to the party. Hope the rest of your day is fantastic.
And you (the commission) should invite researcher @carl to tell you about Masto and the Fediverse. You have the power to make a difference with your presence. carlheath.se/aboutme/
I am Carl Heath. I am a senior researcher and focus leader in the area of digital resilience at RISE. I am also a doctoral student at the Department of Applied…
Imagine how powerful it would be if von der Leyen, Costa and Kallas made their statements first on a EUROPEAN open, free, non-algorithmically distorted social media network. 🇪🇺✌️
And then later with a 60 minute delay on the account-registration-requiring, data-collecting, algorithmically-distorted US networks? #digitalsovereignty#goEuropean#EUpol
Territorial integrity and sovereignty are fundamental principles of international law. They are essential for Europe and for the international community as a whole. Joint statement by President von der Leyen and President Costa on Greenland: ec.europa.eu/commission/pressc…
@phf 💜 thanks for sharing your views! I have to admit this is also not my first attempt at the fediverse... That said this time I think I'll stay. 😀 Also: I say Europeans because I work for the EU - so that's my personal focus. I want our EU institutions to reach EU citizens, be it here or elsewhere. But of course the fediverse is and should be global.
Just noticed your occupation... well, if we could make the EU bosses understand that the fediverse and mastodon is a truly democratic and free social media, that would be awesome 😊 It has no single company profiting from it. Everyone can host their own server, if they want to. Or join what server they want to. There's no need for a "W" copy of X.
@leanderlindahl they did but admittedly I haven’t looked into them yet. It’s way past my bedtime. 🥱 So that sounds like a Monday endeavour to me. 💜 Thanks for the reco!
Hi @hpod16 and welcome, I don't see mastodon being a #platform. Mastodon.social is but one server. As is eupolicy.social. Among many. Among many non-mastodons. There is no such thing as 'one platform'. No kings. No landlords. One social web. P.S.: Greetings to #fosdem and #offdem.
That's a fair question, and I'm not sure of the answer.
On the one hand, it's a bit technical for me: I know that sometimes, I can't see custom emojis from other instances, but sometimes I can; and I don't know why!
otoh, they're a bit 'fun,' so are they necessary for a 'serious' instance? (If yes, maybe as a lower priority!?)
Possibly @FediTips has some guidance on this topic?
@clickhere @Trojaner @mastodonie @alex_p_roe Ok but let me understand this: I can only really see those icons, if I'm on that Irish instance? Or if my instance supports those? Wondering if it's worth going down the rabbit hole of figuring out how to make these / use these for our official EU Commission instance...
@Trojaner Haha, this is amazing. (I was going to jump in with some info about emojis, etc., but I think it's mostly been covered.)
Yes, having custom emojis for your server/community is very important. The admins of @mastodonie - an Irish instance - added icons for a pint of stout, Tayto crisps (the national potato chip), Brennan's bread (an indispensable loaf), and (most important of all) a mug of tea. 🙂
@Trojaner You can find out which emojos, as they are known, are supported on your server here: emojos.in/ 🙂 It works, I now have one after my mastodon name on my profile page and here.
As for your mission, It's my belief that explaining exactly what ActivityPub (and not just Mastodon) actually would be a great first step. ActivityPub is the protocol that every Fediverse service uses to dialogue with other services.
I also believe that @_elena and her (I hope this is the right pronoun Elena, if not just make me know and I'll edit) videos explaining the Fediverse would help a lot
@Hannah Grace Hi Hannah, welcome to the Fedi! Nice to see there's some actual interest in federated platforms from someone working for the EU. (Nice to see quite some new folks here in the last days, actually.) I'll be glad to share any tips you may need about it! I'm a cellist BTW 👋 (no lilac cello, just a boring old classical one 😂)
@FediTips And look into something called a translation API - it’ll enable users to translate posts into their own language. I can get virtually everything translated into English.
@FediTips Not sure. And I access Mastodon via the paid version of the Mona app. Have attached a screenshot with translation icon highlighted in yellow - you may have to view the image full size to see it.
@alex_p_roe @FediTips Thanks for the screenshot! Something else to look into 😀 Europeans are proud of our many languages, but I have to say not every community manager in the EU social teams can speak all 24 EU languages. 😉 Machine translation like this can come in real handy. 💜
@FediTips No worries. It is a little unreasonable to expect people to know 24 different languages! Machine translation - especially LLM based - is now very effective and useful.
@alex_p_roe @FediTips Yeah. We use machine translation to help us understand what people are commenting. But we never publish anything written or translated by AI. We do have colleagues in every EU Member State who can communicated in the respective languages
@FediTips Well, as those of us in Europe are beginning to understand, Europe would be wise to rely on European tech - both hard and software. I’ve been trying to reduce my use of US tech and have a little but it’s not easy.
@FediTips The trick with AI, and all translation really, is to have a native speaker approve the translation before making it public. AI saves time and the LLMs (not technically AI) can do context sensitive translations, reduce or increase formality levels, or even make texts more persuasive. Very clever stuff 🙂 PS I used to some translation work but it has dried up!
Well, everything I did over at Twitter: sharing news, writing about my day, my thoughts, my hobbies, posting photos, linking blog articles from my blog and maintaining loose contact to other friendly people here. So nothing special 😊
@Bastianoso gosh, Twitter back in the day was such a cool place to be! I joined in 2011 and fell in love. (enough so that I made social media my career for the past 10 years)
@Bastianoso There are quite a lot of places and protocols on the internet that can lead to cool places happening.
I guess in the end it's not so much about Mastodon or the fediverse being good, but just about getting elected officials, institutions and companies to start using it. They shouldn't need to replace what they're already using, they can just complement it (although if they're using TSNFKAT, one might come up with questions regarding the kind of content provided by their bot as a service, and in that case, leaving one of the previously used services could be quite positive...).
Somebody could even come up with something not-quite-mastodon for such use cases, and it could still be integrated in the fediverse and allow a lot of interactions, I guess it doesn't even need to be Mastodon for they to get connected.
And that visibility is probably key to wider adoption. It doesn't help that there are elected officials or public entities which choose to only use commercial, proprietary services to interact with users/voters/..., but adopting something on the fediverse will also add to the visibility of the fediverse, besides increasing their own reachability.
We're even in an age where having a readable web page with a news section or a contact e-mail address is getting less common.
I think it depends on your instance. In mine we are offered to use LibreTranslate.
I didn't know DeepL, but it's a good looking option. Nevertheless, it's not free software, so you can find some day they deleted the free plan, or started forcing customers to give them any personal data they want.
On the other hand, you can self-host your own LibreTranslate instance (it doesn't need as much resources as you could think for personal usage).
@teclado @alex_p_roe @FediTips You're right, DeepL isn't free. Actually the EU does provide free machine translation services, but you need an account and it's just for: 🟣 public administrations 🟣small businesses 🟣academia 🟣non-governmental organisations 🟣Digital Europe programme projects 🟣candidates for EU posts translation.ec.europa.eu/tools…
It does depend on your instance, your admin will choose a translation system if they have one, usually LibreTranslate or DeepL.
Some instances may not have translation at all because the admin doesn't have the resources to pay for it. If you ask your admin to add translation, it might be a good idea to also offer a donation at the same time.
Just to be clear, the translation services on here are not "AI" in the sense of ChatGPT etc. They aren't large language models.
LibreTranslate and DeepL use a different technology and were founded years before ChatGPT etc.
The term "AI" has been used a bit too freely by the media to the point where people assume it means awful unreliable stuff like ChatGPT and other LLMs.
@FediTips @alex_p_roe I think "AI" gets a bad name too easily these days, because everyone treats it as synonymous with LLMs like Chat GPT. You can be skeptical of LLMs and generative AI, but still appreciate many technologies that rely on machine learning that have done great things for humanity, like discover new medicines, or make translation better. But that's a topic for a whole new thread...
@FediTips @alex_p_roe It's quite important to differentiate, since e.g. DeepL is protecting your privacy and personal data by only using personal data within the scope of legal regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") and the German Federal Data Protection Act ("BDSG"). This is also the reason why using DeepL is allowed in German public authorities, but ChatGPT absolutely is not.
@jill @FediTips After a little scrolling and quite a bit of reading, I found mention of the fact that DeepL is a company in Europe. No idea where in Europe! I guess I'll just look for a Wikipedia entry or ask an LLM 🙂
@jill @FediTips Well, the info was there - just not where I expected to find it. I tend to look at the bottom of the home page or the About Us and then the contact us pages…and then go to Wikipedia 🙂
@FediTips @alex_p_roe My usual view of this is to think of the different topics covered in e.g. Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, or in university courses labelled "AI".
Even LLMs can be good tools, if properly trained and used. But no, what we get from the same marketing trends that call it "AI" is using it as a generic global solution for everythingTM, which I'd argue is using it wrong.
When I'm trying to refer to it unambiguously, I also tend to use "Generative AI", or perhaps the shorter "GenAI".
(There's also "Generative Autocomplete", and I tend to also think of "GIGO". And now it seems Satya Nadella of Microsoft is boosting the use of "slop".)
@ptvirgo I'm a social media manager at the European Commission. We didn't have enough Mastodon experts on the team (we do have some) so I decided to join Mastodon myself to learn more about what works here, etc. I went for eupolicy.social after a brief search, looks like it was made for people in the EU bubble, which I very much am. (despite the fact that I have purple hair and interesting hobbies) 💜
@ptvirgo not a rude mistake at all! Just making sure I don't overstep or look like I'm promising anything here 😀 I'm very much here in my *personal* capacity, so I can't talk about anything we may or may not be planning. I'm here for learning and inspiration 💜 And also to play around and create content. I'm having a great time so far, and kind of being reminded of why I fell in love with social media in the first place.
@ptvirgo that is indeed a topic for a fresh thread. And perhaps a fresh day. It's 11PM over here, time to get off the screen, switch over to one of my favourite #DnD Podcasts and drift off to sleep. But thanks for asking! 💜
I saw that! It seems like social media was a really valuable way to stay connected with "home" and find a sense of identity and belonging when you were young, and maybe the algorithms and changes in the USA tech culture have been off-putting.
If I'd follow you, I'd get all your posts in my feed. Unlike other platforms, no algorithm filters for "relevance". So, if I can't handle 30 toots per day from just one person, I can't follow you, in which case I get 0.
In other words, too many toots will decrease your visibility. A paradox probably unique to the Fediverse.
Hashtags can solve the issue. People can follow the tag, and you decide the subset of toots they will see.
@tizianomattei @Richerpacker If I use quiet public to respond, will it not appear in people's feeds then? Because yeah, I am responding to a lot of comments right now
That's a good question. Frankly speaking, I'm not sure. The fedi tips make a statement on "hashtag followers" but not on "followers". I get a lot of feeds where people I follow answer somebody else. But I'm not sure about their settings. It might not solve the issue, but "quiet public" is good practice, anyway.
I think a program that would provide funding to support some types of organizations setting up their own fedi instances could be a good idea for getting more of them on board. That could get all sorts of local information streams people naturally want to subscribe to over here.
Also, looking at for example the Forkiverse you see how effective that can be in getting people to at least try fedi when there's a natural community around something.
@ikuturso > a program that would provide funding to support some types of organizations setting up their own fedi instances
Yes! There is so much low-hanging fruit here. Take newsrooms, for example. They don't necessarily need anything as resource-heavy as a Mastodon server. Most of them already publish RSS, showing them how to use existing tools to also publish an AP feed would make much more quality content followable.
Stage 2 could be showing them tools for collecting and browsing any replies to posts published by their RSS>AP bot. Tools that allow them to selectively publish comments, a la the newspaper convention of 'letters to the editor'.
Stage 3 could be a consortium of newsrooms sharing a server to create official accounts for their staff, using their employer's domain name. Using Takahē, or other AP software where a single server can host accounts under more than one domain.
Get politicians to move here. Journalists will follow. Mainstream folks won't come here before we have companies, brands and influencers and even in that case, it's probably through something like Threads. They're hooked on ads and outrage algorithms.
@ammdias I think it depends how you want to define influencer. Some prefer the term content creator. People automatically think of vapid beauty influencers making money with random brands (although, good for them, I ain't here to throw shade). But really isn't anyone who posts online a content creator? And if you do so successfully and become a thought-leader in your niche, are you not an influencer?
@ammdias Since most of the "paid influencing"-business is so closely tied to advertising, I think the road to "promoted content" in Fediverse is very long and complicated.
As you point out, we already have plenty of "content creator"-influencers, even people who make money out of it (selling their own services) but I don't think the advertising ecosystem can ever exist in fediverse the same way it does in VC-driven social media. And that puts some constraints on fedi audience.
@phillycodehound @iolaire looks cool! Reminds me a lot of what Tweetdeck used to be, which I used religiously back in 2017. Thanks for building this! 💜
Have more people talk about the Fediverse. Encourage (and teach) members of parliament(s) to move their social media from proprietary (and toxic) platforms to Mastodon or other Fediverse applications. Stop promoting X, facebook etc. on the EC website, or at least don't prioritise them (see image). Make a conscious push in the right direction. You have agency, use it instead of staying passive and claiming "but that's where the users are".
@JonasJRichter thanks for the feedback. It’s good people are paying attention to the order of icons on our websites. 💜 can’t say much more about that right now, except keep checking this
I'm a relatively recent joiner, and put it off for several years, because I didn't know how to pick a server. Or what was involved really in picking a server.
I don't know what a solution to that might be. But anything that can be done which eases the transition from: "oh, mastodon, what's that?", to being three days in to having an account, is something that should be done.
I wonder how many people thought it sounded interesting, clicked on a link or two, then clicked away when they saw they'd to figure something out before starting.
Questa volta abbiamo scelto di mettere il VIDEO che fa capire come agiscano questi luridi assassini protetti da un farabutto al quale qualche leccapiedi vorrebbe dare anche il Nobel per la pace
Ancora sangue nelle strade di Minneapolis: per la terza volta dall’inizio di gennaio, agenti dell’ICE hanno aperto il fuoco contro un civile, che è rimasto ucciso.
È difficile persino reagire e commentare. Quando arriva il due, e ormai è chiaro con che facilità possono tirare fuori la pistola dopo averti buttato per terra in sei, l'impressione è che è finita. Sono impuniti, protetti, possono fare quello che vogliono. A questo punto veramente la guerra civile si inizia a non temerla più, la si invoca. mas.to/@markwyner/115952177478…
@Tiziano :friendica: Stiamo purtroppo andando verso tempi pericolosi e bui,se non cambia qualcosa,soprattutto internamente agli USA,la vedo veramente male
#Hero - The man fatally shot by federal officers Saturday morning in south Minneapolis has been identified as Alex Jeffrey Pretti, 37, a legal Minneapolis / US citizen. He was executed for filming 'officers' and protecting a woman from being attacked by ICE.
26-year-old Iranian violin teacher Sanam Pourbabaei was shot and killed during protests in Lahijan on January 8, 2026. This article remembers her life and music.
With #meta blocking stories about the protests and strike in #Minnessota, it is a reminder of why platforms like the fediverse are important. This is a video of the clergy protest at the MSP airport today, passed along by a colleague, at which 97 clergy were arrested.
La #destra cambia il disegno di legge sulla #violenza sessuale: non è stupro se non hai esplicitato chiaramente il tuo dissenso tramite invio di una PEC al tuo aggressore con il ministero dell'interno in copia.
e il dissenso deve essere espresso anche a gesti perché l'aggressore potrebbe essere sordo o indossare cuffie con musica ad alto volume se l'aggressore non conosce la lingua dei segni il dissenso non è valido in questi casi è opportuno dotarsi di fogli scritti in tutte le lingue in cui è spiegato, anche con disegni, che c'è dissenso si consideri che in tempi antichi c'era lo ius primae noctis, e che essere conquistati da orde mongole portava al letto del khan e figli ora sono rose
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo I progetti della Casa Bianca sono attenti al valore immobiliare e non alla realtà di Gaza e alla fine dell'occupazione israeliana L'articolo La “Nuova Gaza” di Trump e Kushnerhttps://pagineesteri.it/2026/01/23/medioriente/la-nuova-gaza-di-trump-e-kushner-e-pura-ingegneria-coloniale/
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2026/01/nobel-a… Mentre da Minneapolys arrivavano nuove immagini di rastrellamenti e violenze da parte della polizia privata di Donald Trump – una autentica gestapo del nostro tempo – la presidente del consiglio del mio, del nostro paese, auspica
Bell'articolo. Il successo di Wikipedia, (così come quello di GNU/Linux fin dai tempi di Raymond, Torvalds e Stallman) dimostra come la gente comune quando si mette insieme, anche in modo apparentemente disorganizzato, può creare GRANDI COSE. Dimostra inoltre che tossicità e ignoranza dominanti in certi contesti non dipendono dall'intrinseca incapacità dell'uomo di dominare i propri più bassi istinti, ma da come certe altre piattaforme vengono COSCIENTEMENTE progettate.
A 25 anni dalla nascita l’enciclopedia online è in difficoltà. I politici conservatori l’accusano di essere di parte e i lettori diminuiscono, attirati dall’intelligenza artificiale.
Non è la rete tutta ad essere "tossica", così come non sono le persone comuni ad essere necessariamente "una massa di ignoranti" (qui mi viene da criticare Eco). Queste idee portano a volte a implicazioni pericolose, come quella che la democrazia sarebbe nei fatti irrealizzabile ("basta guardare cosa succede su Facebook, Instagram e TikTok", dicono). Pensiamo invece a che differenza passi tra TikTok e Wikipedia, e riflettiamo su quello.
Detto questo, l'IA (di cui parla anche l'articolo) ha rotto i c*******. Avete mai confrontato un articolo lungo con un riassunto di una IA? Ma per favore, dai. Stamattina in macchina mi sono ascoltato un paio di conferenze, una di Carlo Galli e una di Cacciari. Arrivato a destinazione mi sono segnato un paio di appunti su Joplin sui temi trattati, quando avrò tempo approfondirò oltre. Su libri e articoli, non certo sull'IA. Che è uno strumento utile, ma SOLO come tale deve essere trattato.
Passare da libro e quaderno a libro e IA per uno studente è come passare dalla sega alla motosega per un boscaiolo. E' certo più veloce, più efficiente, ma la testa deve sempre essere ben piantata sul collo, o si corre il rischio di farsi male seriamente.
Wikipedia è proprio come internet dovrebbe essere! Ha i suoi difetti, chiaramente, ma è un grande risultato di collaborazione (e direi anche di affidabilità). A volte sento delle critiche su quanto possa essere fallace, manipolabile, ecc. (ctiche giuste, anche se implementata dei meccanismi per evitare questi problemi) da chi si fida al 100% dell'ai
Concordo, la perfezione non è di questo mondo, a me sembra che Wikipedia gestisca la propria imperfezione in modo più che egregio. Non posso dire la stessa cosa dell'IA, a tal riguardo ho postato qualche mese fa degli screen con ChatGPT (li trovi qui sotto, nella mia pagina pixelfed), che ho interrogato su filosofia non proprio spiccia, ma nemmeno troppo astrusa, e ne sono uscite di ogni.
la mia opinione su Wikipedia è cambiata in peggio da quanto fu cancellata la pagina di Alessandro Orsini senza possibilità di ripristinarla. Lì mi resi conto che come quella pagina, anche altre potevano e certo sono state modificate, da persone che hanno interessi a manipolare le voci contrarie. Basta cambiare a volte qualche parola, omettere qualche frase, per far apparite una cosa sotto un'altra sfumatura. Chi controlla i media mainstream, non si lascia certo sfuggire una ...
@lazzarone ma dai. Mi era sfuggita questa cosa. Sul serio hanno cancellato la pagina di Orsini? Io baso le mie considerazioni su miei interessi che, nella maggior parte dei casi, esulano dalla stretta attualità: storia della filosofia, cinema d'autore, musica, matematica (ormai poca, mi sono arrugginito) e devo dire che tutte le pagine sono fatte molto bene. Purtroppo lo tsunami di tossicità che arriva da tv e social commerciali finisce per avvelenare anche la parte sana di internet. Peccato.
anch'io la uso ma con la consapevolezza che su certi temi si possono correre certi rischi. Detto questo, non ho ancora mai usato, almeno che io sappia, lo strumento dell' AI e non ne sento il bisogno
@lazzarone "Attenzione: questa pagina è stata oscurata e protetta a scopo cautelativo a causa di una possibile controversia legale. Verrà eventualmente ripristinata alla fine della vicenda che la riguarda." Pazzesco. La pagina in inglese c'è. Sai che a ripensarci non è la prima volta che mi trovo pagine di studiosi italiani in inglese ma non in italiano? Non mi ricordo i casi specifici, ma è successo, sì.
ottima analisi, concordo in pieno, aggiungo anche che wikipedia ha una sua struttura di moderatori con regole ben rodate per evitare abusi, un po' come su mastodon, regole certe e moderazione affidabile, ma credo che sia proprio il concetto di lavvorare per un ideale che eleva le persone. Invece stare su un social competitivo dove tutti si scannano per qualche like in più riduce l'ambiente a una giungla dove vince il più scaltro o chi la spara più grossa
This bizarre, hurried cut-and-paste Bluesky clone called "W" (wsocial.eu) says it will fill this huge gap in Europe where no social media platforms exist.
A curated selection of well-moderated Open Social providers that are are open for registration and serving specific countries, regions or cities.
[[https://jaz.co.uk/projects/mastodon-near-me/|Project Home/Message me]]
[[https://jaz.co.
Let's see what's trending on the EU-focused social media platform.
Delroy Lindo - British actor, so thanks for having us back, good to be European again. Davos Forum - no comment Trump's Board of Peace - even less comment Mets Trade - Ah yes, the Malmo Mets. Love 'em. Swerve Strickland - almost Swedish. AEW Dynamite - EU sure is - ahem - "wrestling" with digital sovereignty
To be clear, I'm all for any and all platforms pushing for digital sovereignty, but this feels like a brash attempt to undercut Eurosky and get something, anything, on the board for Davos. There appears to be funding.
Governments can't fund what they don't know about.
If European digital sovereignty is important to you, start writing some emails to the people you think might be funding this.
Maybe it's a nod to the power of the fediverse: all these instances (even m.s) are so small they disappear once you zoom out enough on the map with very little power concentration compared to the logos listed 🙂
Oggi segnalo e applaudo un’iniziativa che profuma di #Fediverso vero, quello fatto di persone, competenze e server che non chiedono permesso ai soliti quattro. @victorvandort sta mettendo in piedi una piattaforma di servizi online, perlopiù gratuiti e cerca beta tester. Non è la solita “startup che rivoluziona tutto”, è molto meglio. È qualcuno che dice, io lo so fare, ho le risorse, mi prendo lo sbattimento e lo metto a disposizione. Ed è esattamente questo lo spirito giusto. Tante istanze e servizi piccoli o medi, diversi tra loro, distribuiti, resilienti. Meno dipendenza dai grandi hub, più libertà di scegliere, più comunità locali, più autonomia. Se un nodo cade non crolla il mondo, se un’idea funziona si replica altrove, se non funziona si impara e si migliora. Quindi sì, speriamo che in tanti ne usufruiscano e che in tanti diano una mano con test seri e feedback utili. Perché il Fediverso non si “consuma”, si costruisce, un pezzo alla volta, con gente che ci mette testa e tempo. Se vi interessa provare, scrivetegli in privato e fate la vostra parte.🙏
Buon pomeriggio popolo di Mastodon e dintorni. Sto lanciando una piattaforma di servizi online (quasi tutti gratuiti) e mi servono dei beta tester. Non si vince niente e non si guadagna niente salvo la mia gratitudine. Se c'è qualche pazzo a cui interessa mi scriva in privato
Tutto è pronto, la sala c'è, è ora. Non vedo l'ora di partire con Fortuitus, laboratorio per il recupero di canzoni popolari antiche, molto antiche, vorrei risalire almeno fino al Rinascimento. Avendo fretta, ho posto la prima data di ritrovo molto vicina
Tutto è pronto, la sala c’è, è ora.
Non vedo l’ora di partire con Fortuitus, laboratorio per il recupero di canzoni popolari antiche, molto antiche, vorrei risalire almeno fino al Rinascimento.
Avendo fretta, ho posto la prima data di ritrovo molto vicina, il 30 gennaio, ma non dispero, come spiego nella pagina dedicata, la frequenza è liberissima, è un’attività che deve apportare piacere e non stress.
Quindi per sette incontri, da fine gennaio a fine maggio, proporrò studio ed esecuzione (senza partiture!) di canzoni, che sto recuperando con un personale studio, che probabilmente erano cantate non da professionisti dello spettacolo ma dalle persone in contesti quotidiani.
Non si fa polifonia, se non improvvisata.
Per cui, se hai voglia di sentire come suonava questa musica, e cantarla, vieni e sperimentati. Non ci sono limiti, non ci sono impedimenti – la sala è a Villa Monga, Verona, quartiere Pindemonte. Orari serali.
Una delle principali cose che ho imparato qui sul Fediverso è stato quello di manifestare l'apprezzamento ricondividendo post.
Uso ancora FB per pubblicizzare cose che faccio, rimandando sempre al mio sito o all'account qui. Oggi ho scritto questo:
(io ringrazio moltissimo dei like su Facebook, ma al di là del rinforzo al mio narcisismo non fanno poi molto - se ti piace una cosa, ricondividila, è anche gratis)
Dopo pochi minuti ho ricevuto un like. Non ce la si può fare.
Amazing. W (I kid you not): A bunch of VC-funded European Big Tech assholes attempting to rewrite history by erasing the federated European alternatives that already exist to create their own centralised, surveillance-ridden X clone.
Same shit, different flag.
And I’m sure the usual fools will flock to it the moment it’s ready.
eh, in reality, most of the federated platforms came in responses or alternatives to closed ones, for example, you can compare when was Mastodon born & when was Twitter but yeah, they are becoming worse & worse each day, I am using fb since 2008 and if you compare what I remember with the current state, you'll seriously question why all Tunisians are there, well, most of them anyway
@dcoderlt A good millionaire is a mythical, imaginary creature that only populate deams and fantasy books. Isn't more real than pink unicorns or dragons. @normjess @aral
these guys spin the faults of US big tech into some sort of nationalist, "patriotic" tale about how europe is inherently superior. it's annoying because it's never been a matter of that.
it’s surreal how these folks would throw any new corporate crap at us while ignoring the literal elephant in the room - that ActivityPub has already proved its point and they just need to run their instances.
–EDIT–
Oh, a closer look points to something interesting:
Anonymous accounts and automated bots are not allowed, according to the project’s backers
So how do you prevent anonymous accounts and bots?
Simple, with online identity verification!
That’s why they ignore ActivityPub 🙂
They’re trying to sell us the solution for an existential problem that they have created themselves around an emergency that doesn’t exist.
At this point any Trojan horse that can get EU citizens to swallow online identity verification can work. And if they can edulcolorate with a “but it’s a European sovereign social network!” (even if the ID verification mechanisms still rely on Google’s and Apple’s operating systems) then why not give it a try? 😄
(Also, I guess that “no bots” implies “no public APIs” too. The war of walled gardens).
W Launches as a Verified Alternative to X in Europe European users, institutions, and tech firms face a new social media option built around mandatory identity checks and EU regulation.
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No, we want European infrastructure to be controlled by ordinary Europeans, not multinational corporations.
VC startups are only set up to be sold out to the highest bidder, which is usually outside Europe. VCs don't care what happens to their startup, they just want to sell out and get the money.
Other problems with W are: -They're using fascist phrases and clothing -They're erasing Mastodon from history -They're centralised with all the problems that brings (list of them at fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse… ).
@FediThing @fedi I hear you, the reason the US is so successful in building that infrastructure that we're all now so hooked on and deeply embedded within though is because of VC startups - I don't think governments and institutions have the risk appetite for stuff like this. Besides, do you think W creators would have instead worked on infrastructure if not for this? I don't think so personally. We can have both!
@FediThing @fedi I don't disagree with that. I just don't see how that means we have to discourage EU VC funded or even bootstrapped startups. I think we can and should encourage both.
@davidt @fedi The incentives for VCs are all wrong on social media and internet services, the ownership structure inevitably leads to "enshittification" as @pluralistic has documented in great detail.
They provide a wonderful service to hook people in, then once people are locked in they degrade the service to the point where it's much worse and more expensive than the original alternatives.
We don't need VCs to be controlling things, they misuse that control.
@FediThing @fedi @pluralistic if you want adoption unfortunately I think it needs some level of centralisation just based on how humans interact to be honest - if you want full decentralisation then we have it in the fediverse, but we just won't get the adoption. Not sure there's a perfect solution to be honest.
The telephone network is decentralised, as is the email network and the postal network. When it existed, the telegraph networks were also decentralised. You don't need one corporation controlling everything for global networks to connect together.
Even Facebook and Google used to use a decentralised messaging standard called XMPP, but they decided to abandon this for commercial reasons. Goverments could have easily forced them to continue.
@davidt @FediThing @fedi When it comes to social media we don't want just another people farming operation, which VC-funded social media inevitably turns into because they have to pay the piper. We're literally having this conversation on a better model.
@woe2you @FediThing @fedi I agree! I do think centralisation is what helps adoption (just based on the evidence thus far). I am not convinced social media in any form (including this) is healthy for humans. We aren't designed for this level of inputs all the time. Our brains are always scanning for threats and social media is a constant influx of potential threats!
But they don't want a federated alternative owned by nobody, they want a government panopticon that they own and control themselves, not some decentralized un-owned un-controlable alternative.
@mastodonmigration The stock is worth €2500 approximately, which is the absolute lowest amount you need to go in with in order to get the approval to start a private company in Sweden lol
Ciao a tutti, sono appena arrivata e sono un po’ persa 😬 ma la sensazione di essere tornati nel 2005 é impagabile, grazie a chi lavora dietro a tutto questo! Come posso sostenere la comunità?
@ed Grazie! Allora sono Susanna e non avevo mai avuto social prima di settembre scorso (e per il mio esordio avevo decisamente scelto quello sbagliato). Grafica pentita, faccio fumetto, illustrazione e sto cercando una community che mi assomigli e cui posso portare qualcosa, spero di averla trovata 😀
se lo stile è quello del tuo avatar sono già preso benissimo, hai qualcosa da farci vedere? Non so quanto ti possa interessare, ma giusto settimana scorsa ho chiesto ad artist3 del Fediverso una commissione, se vuoi partecipare sei assolutamente benvenuta! (la trovi pinnata sul mio profilo)
Ti consiglio di aggiungere una breve descrizione alle immagini quando le posti, è una cosa molto apprezzata nel fediverso perché permette anche a chi ha problemi di vista a capire di che si sta parlando 😀
Trovi i gruppi tematici con un set di persone da seguire. Puoi scegliere il tema che ti interessa, là ci sono le/i più attive/i per argomento. Una volta che segui tutti e cominci a interagire, poi farai la tua scelta (magari qualcuno lo smetti di seguire ma ciascuno ti porta la sua rete dove puoi trovare altri interessanti).
benvenuta su Livello Segreto e sul fediverso in generale, che è il posto perfetto per chi come noi non si è mai filato i social in generale 😅
Per sostenere la comunità… parla di quello che ti piace e quando ti va; usa l'alt-text per le immagini, così che siano accessibili a chiunque e se fai dei thread lunghi cerca di mettere in "Pubblico silenzioso" le risposte al primo toot per non floodare il feed dell'istanza (sì, qui ci sono 3 feed distinte, ma vedrai tu stessa) ^^
⬅️ Poi vediamo, tieni presente che oltre alle persone qui puoi anche seguire gli hashtag, così se c'è qualcosa che ti interessa come, che so, #comics o #art seguendoli ti troverai la home popolata da post con quei tag.
Ah, se vuoi e puoi sostenere Livello Segreto, volendo c'è una raccolta fondi facoltativa su Liberapay: liberapay.com/livellosegreto/
(nel caso, tieni presente che per come funziona lp, se imposti una cifra ricorrente per più mesi verrà presa tutta in una volta 😅)
@caosorganizzato Grazie mille questo é un consiglio prezioso per me! Stasera ci guardo meglio, da mobile faccio un po’ fatica e devo ancora trovare un app con cui trovarmi bene. Grazie davvero 😀
Ciao @frascari non posso inserire il tuo profilo nella lista pubblica perche hai impostato una resitrizione alla visibilità pubblica se ti interessa essere inserita puoi cambiare le impostazioni su livellosegreto.it/settings/pri… ed avvisarmi. Intanto benvenuta!
sicura di aver fatto anche "salva"? Per ora mi dice che l'account non è configurato come rilevabile e mi rimanda a uesto link docs.joinmastodon.org/user/pro…
@ALFA ho visto infatti🥹 compito del weekend: studiarmi BENE come funzionano gli hashtag e orientarmi in questo posto incredibile. (Adesso ogni volta che scrivo mi sembra di fare dei post nuovi o di rispondere a persone/post sbagliati👀)
Un anno di Trump... visto da sé stesso In una disordinata conferenza stampa il presidente USA è saltato da un tema all’altro vantando i suoi successi economici, che gli americani però “non capiscono” – Immigrati attaccati e apertura a Machado in Venezuela rsi.ch/s/3441876
@ilsimoneviaggiatore sicuramente @filippodb potrebbe darti una spiegazione più articolata, ma Personalmente credo che sia stato premiato molto il fatto di avere creato una app ben funzionanti” è facile da usare. Aggiungici anche che Instagram non è più un app per pubblicare foto, ma è qualcosa di diverso e Pinterest non è mai riuscito a fare breccia presso il grande pubblico
@ilsimoneviaggiatore per quanto riguarda pixelfed, ma anche peertube, sono delle istanze pioniere in italia e sostanzialmente sono rimaste le uniche italiane consigliate nei rispettivi siti ufficiali.
@ilsimoneviaggiatore c'è da aggiungere che molti nuovi iscritti che gonfiano le statistiche sono link farm vietnamite che creano molti account al giorno e gonfiano a dismisura le statistiche degli utenti attivi. Sono tutte registrazioni manuali e quindi riescono ad aggirare i captcha.
@lgsp la crescita È sicuramente diminuita rispetto a qualche mese fa, Ma si mantiene comunque su ottimi livelli. Secondo me potrebbe mantenersi su ottimi livelli ma a condizione che il resto del fediverso mantenga un livello adeguato di interazioni che rendano più gratificante l'esperienza dell'utente che pubblica contenuti fotografici
'sta cosa di Pixelfed mi manda ai matti: è chiaramente qualcosa che la gente vorrebbe usare, ma ha un sacco di problematicità anche solo dal punto di vista pratico.
@filippodb rispetto a Mastodon come vi trovate lato strumenti di moderazione, documentazione sui vari problemi & co.?
@ed non sono un amante di di Pixelfed, anzi... 😅 però riconosco che l'esperienza d'uso è migliorata tantissimo, il sistema si è evoluto abbastanza e la creazione dell'app è stata determinante per il suo successo.
Il tool di moderazione poi, anche se non è pratico come quello di mastodon, è stato progettato bene ed è Addirittura è stato pensato per essere virtualmente portabile anche su altre piattaforme del Fediverso.
Signal è un’app di messaggistica open source, crittografata, centralizzata e privacy-friendly, che utilizza un protocollo aperto e una crittografia avanzata; è apprezzata da milioni di utenti in tutto il mondo per la sua elevata sicurezza e il rispetto degli utenti.
In questa pagina trovi le opzioni per installarla su tutti i principali sistemi operativi: Android, iOs (iPhone/iPad), MacOS, Windows, Linux.
Per iniziare apri l’app, poi:
tocca Continua sulla prima schermata
accorda l’accesso ai contatti toccando Continua e poi Consenti nei due popup¹
accorda il permesso di gestire telefonate toccando Consenti nel popup¹
seleziona il Paese e inserisci il numero di telefono, poi tocca Avanti
inserisci il codice di verifica di 6 cifre che ricevi via SMS (dovrebbe in realtà compilarsi automaticamente)
inserisci i dati del profilo: nome (obbligatorio — è quello che vedranno i contatti) e foto (opzionale — potrebbe richiedere l’accesso alla fotocamera o alla galleria¹), poi tocca Avanti
crea e inserisci un PIN di recupero di almeno 4 cifre (memorizzalo)
Puoi aggiungere un nome utente aprendo il menu (tre puntini) in alto a destra, poi Impostazioni; tocca il tuo nome e poi Aggiungi nome utente. > Sotto Impostazioni > Privacy > Numero di telefono puoi eventualmente disabilitare la ricerca del tuo numero di telefono da parte di altri utenti.
Per aggiungermi come contatto, utilizza il link che ti invierò via email, oppure tocca il pulsante di composizione in basso a destra e cerca il mio numero di telefono. In questo modo puoi anche visualizzare direttamente tutti i contatti della tua rubrica che stanno già usando Signal e iniziare subito a chattare con loro.
Per invitare qualcuno, tocca il pulsante a forma di QR-code a fianco del nome nelle impostazioni:
se l’altra persona è con te, può inquadrare il codice QR con la fotocamera e iniziare subito a chattare (se non ha ancora Signal, sarà indirizzato ad installarla).
se siete a distanza, tocca Link e poi Condividi per inviare il link di invito.
Per collegare un dispositivo (desktop/iPad):
sul primo dispositivo, apri il menu (tre puntini) in alto a destra, poi Impostazioni
tocca Dispositivi collegati, poi Collega un nuovo dispositivo (e sblocca se richiesto)
apri l’app sul secondo dispositivo (quello da collegare)
inquadra con il primo dispositivo il codice QR comparso sul secondo dispositivo
Fatto! Puoi aggiungere quanti dispositivi desktop/iPad vuoi, ma puoi registrare lo stesso account Signal su un solo dispositivo mobile per volta².
Ti consiglio di sfogliare la pagina di supporto (in italiano) per avere una guida completa alle funzioni dell’app.
¹ Passaggio valido su sistema Android, potrebbe variare su altri sistemi operativi ² Questa limitazione si può aggirare utilizzando un’app alternativa per Android, chiamata Molly, che presenta praticamente la stessa interfaccia ma ha alcune migliorie. Visita il sito web di Molly per maggiori informazioni.
Delta Chat è un’app di messaggistica open source, crittografata, decentralizzata e libera, che usa per comunicare lo stesso protocollo dell’email, potenziato con crittografia e “ripetitori” dedicati ad alta velocità.
In questa pagina trovi le opzioni per installarla su tutti i principali sistemi operativi (clicca su “Opzioni di scaricamento per altre piattaforme” per vederle tutte): Android¹, iOs (iPhone/iPad), MacOS, Windows, Linux, Ubuntu Touch.
Per iniziare:
tocca Crea un nuovo profilo
inserisci il tuo nome (sarà quello che visualizzeranno i tuoi contatti)
carica un’immagine profilo (facoltativo)
tocca Accetto & creo profilo
il sistema² chiede se vuoi consentire all’app di inviarti notifiche: tocca su Accetto nel popup
infine, il sistema² chiede di consentire l’uso dell’app in secondo piano: tocca Continua e poi Consenti nei due popup
Per aggiungermi come contatto, utilizza il link che ti invierò via email.
Per invitare qualcuno, tocca il pulsante a forma di QR-code in alto a destra:
se l’altra persona è con te, può inquadrare il codice QR con la fotocamera e iniziare subito a chattare (se non ha ancora Delta Chat, sarà indirizzato ad installarla).
se siete a distanza, tocca Collegamento e poi Condividi per inviare il link di invito.
Per aggiungere un dispositivo:
sul primo dispositivo, apri il menu (tre puntini) in alto a destra, poi Impostazioni
tocca Aggiungi secondo dispositivo (e sblocca se richiesto)
apri l’app sul secondo dispositivo (quello da attivare)
tocca Ho già un profilo, poi Aggiungi come secondo dispositivo.
inquadra con il secondo dispositivo il codice QR comparso sul primo dispositivo
Fatto! Puoi aggiungere quanti dispositivi vuoi, mobili e desktop, e avere l’account sincronizzato su tutti.Puoi anche creare più profili e gestirli tutti dalla stessa app.
Ti consiglio di sfogliare la pagina delle FAQ (in italiano) per avere una guida completa alle funzioni dell’app, consultare le sue caratteristiche tecniche e trovare maggiori informazioni sul progetto.
¹ Esiste un’app alternativa per Android, chiamata ArcaneChat, che presenta praticamente la stessa interfaccia ma ha alcune migliorie. Visita il sito web di ArcaneChat per maggiori informazioni. ² Passaggio valido su sistema Android, potrebbe variare su altri sistemi operativi
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🎉 La Forge Primaire vous souhaite une année 2026 pleine d’étincelles, d’idées folles et de beaux projets ! Mais au fait… la Forge Primaire, c’est quoi déjà ? 🔍 Pas de panique, on vous fait un petit rappel en images ! ✨ Très belle année à toutes et à tous ! ✨
A significant fraction of people can’t handle lactose, like [HGModernism]. Rather than accept a cruel, ice cream free existence, she decided to do something you really shouldn’t try: biohacking her way to lactose tolerance.
The hack is very simple, and based on a peer reviewed study from the 1990s: consume lactose constantly, and suffer constantly, until… well, you can tolerate lactose. If you’re lactose intolerant, you’re probably horrified at the implications of the words “suffer constantly” in a way that those milk-digesting-weirdos could never understand. They probably think it is hyperbole; it is not. On the plus side, [HGModernism]’s symptoms began to decline after only one week.
The study dates back to the 1980s, and discusses a curious phenomenon where American powdered milk was cluelessly distributed during an African famine. Initially that did more harm than good, but after a few weeks mainlining the white stuff, the lactose-intolerant Africans stopped bellyaching about their bellyaches.
Humans all start out with a working lactase gene for the sake of breastfeeding, but in most it turns off naturally in childhood. It’s speculated that rather than some epigenetic change turning the gene for lactose tolerance back on — which probably is not possible outside actual genetic engineering — the gut biome of the affected individuals shifted to digest lactose painlessly on behalf of the human hosts. [HGModernism] found this worked but it took two weeks of chugging a slurry of powdered milk and electrolyte, formulated to avoid dehydration due to the obvious source of fluid loss. After the two weeks, lactose tolerance was achieved.
Should you try this? Almost certainly not. [HGModernism] doesn’t recommend it, and neither do we. Still, we respect the heck out any human willing to hack the way out of the limitations of their own genetics. Speaking of, at least one hacker did try genetically engineering themselves to skip the suffering involved in this process. Gene hacking isn’t just for ice-cream sundaes; when applied by real medical professionals, it can save lives.
Nelle opere d'arte, la rappresentazione e il principio ritmico-musicale vengono considerati dalle #neuroscienze come due aspetti che consentono l'identificazione psicofisica con l'altro. Di questo ci parla Nicola Vitale su #Mde #MaterialidiEsteticanell'articolo :
"Empatia e percezione estetica. Lo "spirito della musica" come principio unificatore"
The two aspects that constitute works of art: representation and the rhythmic-musical principle, have both been considered by neuroscience in reference to empathy, as mimetic forms that allow psychophysical identification with the other.
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