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Another week, another increase for @heiseonline
#Mastodon keeps growing (the last time, we got this much #traffic, was at the beginning of the year), #Bluesky, too. No big jumps, but we'll see, where it leads.
#Threads still brings very little, #Twitter stays weak.
As always, this is the traffic to heise.de via the different social media platforms.
Edit: In the graph, Mastodon, Bluesky and Threads are stacked together (as they are they biggest Twitter-alternatives).
2nd Edit: Graph added.
@jdp23 @dalias @Gargron According to @MostFollowed by @stefan, the top 3 most followed #Fediverse accounts by #Mastodon users are:
🥇 @Mastodon
🥈 @espn (on #Flipboard!)
🥉 @mosseri (on #Threads)
👉🏾 Mastodon Most Followed: https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/
I find it interesting that beta testing accounts on Flipboard & Threads are in the top three.
Top 10,000 Mastodon Accounts
Most followed accounts acrosss the Fediverse as tracked by @mostFollowed@mastodon.socialmost-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com
meta's public policy director for threads.net and other platforms is one of the authors of project 2025
Ahh, a former "fellow for cybersecurity, intelligence, and emerging technologies at The Heritage Foundation" (which is behind "Project 2025" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025) is now working at Meta.
- https://www.heritage.org/staff/dustin-carmack
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/dustin-carmack-ab159a27
- https://defeatproject2025.org/author-bios/dustin-carmack/
via https://438punk.house/@xyhhx/112870547446779902
Dustin Carmack - Defeat Project 2025!
According to Carmack's bio in the Mandate for Leadership, “he served in the Intelligence Community as Chief of Staff to the Director of National Intelligence.Defeat Project 2025 (Defeat Project 2025!)
Threads is opening up for the fediverse, and @zuck is already in place. Welcome!
Although, so far it's only possible for Threads-accounts in USA, Canada or Japan: https://help.instagram.com/760878905943039
@socialmedianews @fediversenews #socialmedia #threads #markzuckerberg
Don't be too hasty! That would be unfair. Let's see how well it integrates first. ☝️😌
#activitypub #threads #meta 🤢 #fediverse
Mich nervt die ganze Diskussion um Threads.
ActivityPub ist ein offenes Protokoll und jeder kann mitmachen.
Dann sollen die Admins der jeweiligen Instanzen bitte auch die diversen Mailanbieter für die Registrierung neuer Accounts sperren. Ist im Prinzip das gleiche. Große Konzerne die fragwürdig mit den Daten umgehen. Macht aber NIEMAND! Selbst wenn man eigene Mailserver betreibt, käme niemand auf die Idee Gmail zu sperren.....
Gmail
Outlook.com
Yahoo Mail
GMX
WEB.DE
Mail.de
Freenetmail
Telekom Mail
AOL Mail
Dear @Gargron,
A fediverse server called Threads is violating mastodon.social’s second server rule:
“2. No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia…
Transphobic behavior such as intentional misgendering and deadnaming is strictly prohibited.”
Can you please defederate from this server to protect the trans people on mastodon.social?
Thank you.
PS. It’s run by these guys: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/
#mastodonSocial #fediblock #threads #meta #mastodon #transphobia
Report – Unsafe: Meta Fails to Moderate Extreme Anti-trans Hate Across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads | GLAAD
GLAAD’s Social Media Safety Program reported the following anti-trans hate content across Instagram, Facebook, and Threads; Meta deemed all of it non-violative or did not take action on it.GLAAD
The Fediverse: "Anyone who uses or supports a Meta product like #Threads is a Nazi sympathizer and is enabling Nazi hate!"
The Nazi Sympathizers on Threads, I Guess:
Mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads is like an independent shop inviting a supermarket to set up next door.
But what’s done is done. And I’ve wasted enough words on this whole sorry affair over the last year.
So this is the last you’ll hear about it from me. When, eventually, you’re writing your “what went wrong?” articles, feel free to look up what I’d written on the issue back when.
#threads #mastodon #mastodonSocial #zuckerberg #facebook #meta #fediverse
How to block Threads on Mastodon -- with screenshots! (UPDATED AGAIN)
https://privacy.thenexus.today/how-to-block-threads-on-mastodon/
Now with two options and a discussion of privacy tradeoffs!
Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! If you're one of the fediverse influencers who sees Threads arrival it as "historic" and "a glimpse of the future" ... well, you might want to skip this post.
But if you're one of the many many people on the fediverse who doesn't want to deal with Threads, read on!
I created an account on the Fediverse
*because* it is not Facebook,
*because* it is different,
*because* it is better,
*because* it doesn’t have ads,
*because* it is more respectful of its users,
*because* it doesn’t have an algorithm deciding what I see,
and *because* is has much better ethics and moderation.
I really hope it stays that way
We want to clarify some recent allegations regarding Threads hiding posts containing "pixelfed"
Several users pointed out they were unable to reproduce this, leading us to believe it was a glitch.
We're happy to see Threads open up federation, and look forward to working together to build a better fediverse.
Stop Using Threads consumes a list of users and tells you which of those users interact with Threads. You can use it to remove Threads participants from your timeline.
You can find out the tool's opinion on you by entering your own name, or you can just Submit with default settings to find out about Gargron.
https://stop-using-threads.net/
Data practices, anti-abuse and opt-in/out are behind the link. If you didn't opt into search, you're not visible here either.
Stop Using Threads
Tool to figure out whether users you know are following users on Threadsstop-using-threads.net
Threads is preparing to venture deeper into the fediverse.
That comes courtesy of Alessandro Paluzzi, who frequently reverse engineers and reveals Threads and Instagram features.Wes Davis (The Verge)
"... the website loads in a special browser built into the app, rather than your phone’s default browser. In 2022, privacy researcher Felix Krause found that Meta injects special “keylogging” JavaScript onto the website you’re visiting that allows the company to monitor everything you type and tap on, including passwords. Other apps including TikTok do the same thing."
What the hell?? This is so creepy.
#Meta #JavaScript #Privacy #web #SocialMedia #News #Threads
https://gizmodo.com/meet-link-history-facebook-s-new-way-to-track-the-we-1851134018
Meet ‘Link History,’ Facebook’s New Way to Track the Websites You Visit
Facebook introduces a confusing new setting as the walls close in on Zuckerberg’s data machine.Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)
Honestly, the way #Threads is evolving right now, I can absolutely understand why so many Mastodon instances are already blocking Threads before it becomes part of the #Fediverse.
For over a year now, I've known how social media can be and how social it really could be. In less than two weeks Threads has managed to become a brown swamp of anger and hate speech.
If this hits the Fediverse, then all the moderators' work over the last few years will have been for nothing.
Threads is simply turning into a racist, trans-hostile, homophobic swamp due to a lack of moderation.
As a moderator of my Mastodon instance, I was one of the few who was against blocking threads directly without having seen anything of it. Now I would very much vote in favour. (And I'm glad we voted for the block already together with the community)
A lot really needs to happen for Threads to earn a place in the Fediverse. If it will ever happen. (Doubt)
Looks like the #threadiverse has been widely used by the #Lemmy and #Kbin communities for years, but now it's slowly being co-opted (including by #Meta staff) to refer to the #federation of #Threads.
I predict a complete takeover of the #hashtag, and term in general, before the end of 2024.
#Mastodon #ActivityPub #fediverse #socialweb #hashtags #predictions
this is why many people who're so adamantly against federating with threads are so goddamn ANGRY
we're so fucking tired tired of having our safe spaces -- our refuges against queerphobia -- ripped away from us
queer people, outcasts, weirdos, etc. -- we built this fucking this network. we laid the groundwork for its very existence and now you're trying to tell us we don't matter, that we should just give it all up in the face of some evil megacorp. well fuck that
we're not going down without a fight
Threads needs to be blocked at server level.
Leaving it up to individual choice puts people in physical danger. Here's how:
1. Meta/Facebook/Threads allows accounts that incite hatred against vulnerable groups
2. Some follow these hateful accounts and believe their lies
3. Innocent people are physically attacked in real life
This actually happens:
#Meta won't stop it:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/18/17587080/mark-zuckerberg-holocaust-denial-kara-swisher-interview
Please block #Threads.
Top Facebook Executive Defended Data Collection In 2016 Memo — And Warned That Facebook Could Get People Killed
Facebook Vice President Andrew “Boz” Bosworth said that “questionable contact importing practices,” “subtle language that helps people stay searchable,” and other growth techniques are justified by the company’s connecting of people.Ryan Mac (BuzzFeed)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse)
How to Kill a Decentralised Network (such as the Fediverse) écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.ploum.net
https://buttondown.email/bitladik/archive/portoldalban-bitladik-005-a-gombolyag-vege/ #threads
Portoldalban bitladik #005 / a gombolyag vége
EU-ba tette lábát a Threads, ennek kapcsán három gyors gondolat és világmegfejtés: Engagement is everything Threads-ben a repost behozatala és a Content...buttondown.email
#Streams is taking care of #DefederateMeta by raising walls against #Threads dev-side, and the main man behind it is giving advice on how to raise them further.
You don't see stuff like this happen in the #Fediverse often.
Streams shared this post with Y
Mike Macgirvin wrote the following post Wed, 30 Aug 2023 15:18:56 -0700 !Streams Fresh release from the streams repository. Available now. Includes some enhancements to our defenses against Meta/Threads after reviewing their updated ToS.unfediverse.com
'It's digital colonialism': how Facebook's free internet service has failed its users
Free Basics, built for developing markets, focuses on ‘western corporate content’ and violates net neutrality principles, researchers sayOlivia Solon (The Guardian)
Federating with a surveillance capitalist doesn’t make you a surveillance capitalist, it just means that surveillance capitalism isn’t a deal breaker for you.
#mastodon #meta #facebook #instagram #threads #mastodon #fediverse #adtech #peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism
A reminder that if you don't want to remain on a #Mastodon instance that federates with #Threads but also don't want to abandon your content, you can move it using #MastodonContentMover 👉 https://MastodonContentMover.github.io
(I need to update it to use the most recent version of the #BigBone library, but I don't want to try to rush that and mess something up, especially not right now, and the version that's there should still work fine. If you run into any problems with it please do let me know 🙏)
nobody i've seen trying to criticize fedipact in depth seems to actually like understand the point of it lmao
they think it's all about data scraping or opposition to meta on principle or just being gatekeepy or something
some of what they bring up are valid concerns, but far from my main one. my biggest concern here is entirely practical: allowing threads onto fedi will bring about a torrent of hate
the reason i started it was always "protecting queer people and other marginalized groups on here from harassment"
further reading: https://fedipact.online/why
like... why should we want anything to do with an instance that willingly allows GaysAgainstGroomers and LibsOfTikTok to exist on their platform? these are the kinds of hate speech accounts that get queer people killed every single goddamn day
that's basically like federating with fucking gab but with a few extra steps
i think the most annoying thing about this whole discourse is that people refuse to judge threads by the standard of any other fedi instance
like if a mastodon instance got set up and federated right now and it allowed the shit threads allowed it'd be widely defederated IMMEDIATELY
there are accounts literally CALLING FOR THE DEATH OF QUEER PEOPLE on there right fucking now
the only reason people are even willing to give them a chance is because it's a big corpo, but that should only be reason to give them less of one lmao. especially considering meta's history in particular
don't let them lower the bar for moderation standards here
Update: Auf den Mastodon-Instanzen von #Digitalcourage ist threads.net ab sofort limitiert. Was das bedeutet, steht hier: https://social.coop/@eloquence/111588877096843391
There's a common false dichotomy about #Threads: cut them off, or leave it to user choice.
I can't speak to other software, but Mastodon offers a third option: limiting Threads. This can be done for all users of a server.
- You can follow Threads accounts after clicking through a warning.
- People who don't follow those same people won't see their posts.
- You have to manually approve followers _from_ Threads.
Basically, it puts Threads in quarantine, without cutting off all connections.