Notices by David Chartier (chartier@toot.cafe)

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Yes.

They literally have and continue to profit from the dismantling of society and malicious psychological manipulation at the scale of billions.

Twitter too. Arguably without the billions part.

Opinion | Do You Have a Moral Duty to Leave Facebook? https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/24/opinion/sunday/facebook-immoral.html

Public Transit Projects Cheaper Than Uber's $5.2 Billion Q2 Losses, Ranked https://jalopnik.com/public-transit-projects-cheaper-than-ubers-5-2-billion-1837080980

Please fund more transit for people instead of pernicious capitalist nightmares for rich sycophants.

“Even in [Stanford’s] famed computer science program, students are no longer sure they’d go to work for Facebook or Google.” https://slate.com/technology/2019/08/stanford-tech-students-backlash-google-facebook-palantir.html

Finally.

@maloki I _love_ this idea.

What are the societal benefits of distributing (and moderating?) content this way?

Does ActivityPub solve any of the inherent problems of the centralized, for-profit gate keepers, or would it further complicate matters?

How do we ensure marginalized groups get a safe space and a voice in a distributed ‘open’ network like this?

On a micro level, what are some effective talking points or methods of convincing regular folks to try ActivityPub/Masto/PixelFed/etc?

Facebook Messenger still scans all messages, even with end-to-end encryption. Scanning is done locally on the device before text messages are sent and after received messages are decrypted.

Facebook privacy lol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/26/the-encryption-debate-is-over-dead-at-the-hands-of-facebook/#3e1668c45362

@ryen @TheGibson

Since the topic of #censorship is going around again, it might be a good time to brush up on a PSA about how censorship and platforms work.

@ZeldAurore @maloki American Horror Story.

@glitterwitch @maloki At least one, and I think both of the Chicago ComicCons recently introduced a Quiet Room away from the event floor. The rule is strictly enforced. It's proved very popular way to get a break from the floor.

@maloki IMO: Telegram is more interesting and has more useful features, depending on what you want to do.

But IIRC you also have manually set each new conversation to be E2E; it isn't E2E by default.

As I understand it, Signal is 100% E2E.

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#Facebook #F8

Hey, everyone who uses #PixelFed. Did you know @dansup runs a Patreon to help fund development?

Please consider kicking in a $ or $$ to help make PixelFed even better: https://www.patreon.com/dansup/

I’ve been experimenting with #Hyperspektiv for iPhone on my bike rides into #Chicago’s downtown. I don’t have a strong grasp on its effects yet, but it is at least fun. #glitch #GlitchArt #GlitchPhotography #photography [3 photos] https://pixelfed.social/p/chartier/21625353835515904

Some #PixelFed accounts that I think are pixelriffic:

https://pixelfed.social/prinzpiuz

https://pixelfed.social/Apfelbaum

https://pixelfed.social/kch

https://pixelfed.social/dansup (a dev of PixelFed)

https://pixelfed.social/tsturm

https://pixelfed.social/TX4RLi

Who are yours? Looking for unique photography and art.

Smash Bros is an important video game.

Reasons to quit Twitter and Facebook and switch to Mastodon https://finertech.com/2019/03/21/reasons-to-quit-twitter-and-facebook-and-switch-to-mastodon/

These companies poison us and our communities. It’s time to go elsewhere.

Yo #Mastodon, I took a swing at a post about “reasons to quit Twitter/Facebook and switch to Mastodon.” Mind giving me any feedback? Did I miss anything important? Etc.

https://finertech.com/2019/03/21/reasons-to-quit-twitter-and-facebook-and-switch-to-mastodon/

PC Mag: How To Get Started on #Mastodon and Leave Twitter Behind https://www.pcmag.com/article/364850/how-to-ditch-twitter-and-join-mastodon

This is good content. Well done @maxeddy 👍🏻🙌🏻🥃

Turns out the customer didn’t have a concept of a right click because of this. They found the setting and tried my original instructions. A whole world of functionality just opened up to them.

Turns out a supposedly basic feature most of probably take for granted just wasn’t a thing for this customer, and it caused all kinds of confusion and surely frustration. I certainly didn’t know it was possible for right click to be disabled these days.

Good lesson in tech empathy and perspective.