Seems insanely #expensive to run a #mastodon #server , being about $2000 per month for 34k users: https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/ma.. More needs to be done to make #social #media weigh less in internet traffic.
Very interesting #discussion that #russia 's #war in #ukraine will be the first to happen on #social #media and use #opensource #intelligence https://mikeelgan.substack.com/p/here-co.. There will be no controlling the #narrative here... Unless #china who controls #tiktok #censor on #putin 's behalf.
So, apparently #twofactor #authentication , not only has allowed #youtube #creators to be #hacked by #social #engineering their #phonenumber from #providers , not only has it #locked people out of their #accounts because they lost their #phone , but now it also allows people to be #tracked ! https://politictech.wordpress.com/2022/0.. And this isn't to mention the number of people who *don't* have a #smartphone !
A great #article by #lukesmith on using #rss to replace #social #media https://lukesmith.xyz/blog/a-guide-to-us.. I'm very much in favour of this.
Interesting how #ccdh (Center for Countering Digital Hate) found tonnes of #antisemetic content on #social #media - coming mostly from the #right and not #left https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/a.. Also bare in mind they only found 714 posts, I could find that many posts on any topic. Apparently the report believes the hashtag ' #rothschild ' is antisemetic ? Seems like this group shouldn't get paid for such a thin report.
#germany is surprisingly #based when it comes to #facebook #censorship https://www.techdirt.com/articles/202107.. I would perhaps go a little further and even have some fundamental right for #german #users to be able to use this #social network.
Yeah, the #us #government should not have any ability to directly #censor on #social #media https://www.zerohedge.com/political/whit.. Why on earth #biden and his team have this sort of power is beyond me. I also suspect that the #uk are doing something very similar, and have used the guise of #covid to do it. We really need to push back on this.