I'm not sure I want to see #mozilla (and therefore #firefox and #thunderbird ) move in the #direction of #socialmedia - especially as they are clearly looking at #leftwing #options https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozi..
So how about that #hunterbiden #laptop that surfaced around the #us 2020 #election and was #conveniently #banned from #socialmedia and #dismissed by the #mainstream #media ? https://www.zerohedge.com/political/supp.. Oh yeah, it turns out to not be #russian #misinformation , but in fact #verified . I'm sure this had nothing to do with the " #bigman ". I'm sure this is also not a #political move to prevent #biden running again...
The #hunterbiden #laptop that was originally said to be #russian #misinformation turns out to be *real* https://www.zerohedge.com/political/nyt-.. This is after *all* the #mainstream #media and #socialmedia said it was " #factchecked " and said it was #false ! And now we see the real problem of #censorship ...
#joerogan has now #joined the #gettr #socialmedia #platform due to growing #censorship on #twitter and #youtube https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/joe-ro.. Problem is, it just feels like the next #parler ... You still have no #rss - you still need to create an #account in order to #consume #content - it's still #centralised and will be wiped off the #internet ... It's not the #solution to the problem.
Interesting #article and #website #dedicated to running your own #socialmedia https://runyourown.social/ It reminds me that I still need to write my #coffeespace #article about the #design for the #deadsocial #successor !
I have been hearing about large #protests in the #eu - although the #news is not making its way onto #socialmedia or into #mainstream #media https://youtube.com/watch?v=qj24QWrYxhE They have renewed #covid #lockdowns and I hear a lot more about #vaccine #passports (something I am also quite annoyed with). #vaccinations are not *compulsory* - insanity.
#trump 's new #socialmedia #platform appears to be based on #mastodon - and #leftwing #software people are already #upset and #threatening #legal action: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/.. Bare in mind, the new #website went live *accidentally* - it was only supposed to be #available to a #handful of #internal #users - not to the entire #web ! These people are mad, this is why I don't run their crap. I should at some point add a #permissive #license to #deadsocial ...
Interesting, #trump is #launching a new #socialmedia #platform https://www.lotuseaters.com/trump-to-lau..
I really hope #pritipatel doesn't remove (or even #propose to remove) #anonymous #socialmedia - even if it causes #abuse of #mp #elected #officials https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po.. The #uk #mp #sir #davidamess would *not* have wanted this in his name - he was a #conservative #liberal - a #freedom believing man.
I've seen this for a while now - the entirety of #twitch 's #sourcecode has been #leaked in a #confirmed #hack https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news.. A 125GB #torrent was posted to 4chan... Big ouch! #socialmedia is *not* having a great time right now!
Well, this is super #scary https://www.zerohedge.com/political/uk-m.. So apparently the #uk 's #mod has a #secret #unit (77th #brigade ) that browses #socialmedia to gauge #public #perception and #influence it. Apparently they are now tasked with #eliminating anti- #vaccine and anti- #lockdown #dissent ... All the while, nobody can find *any* information on these people. What actual fuck.
I am really concerned with the #approach by #socialmedia and large #tech #companies to introduce #censorship measures... https://timcast.com/news/youtube-bans-al.. #youtube is now #banning anti- #vaccine #videos from their #platform ... Pretty much any #opposition or #freespeech is now being #squashed in the name of #covid and #factcheckers ...
This could be quite a #compelling #socialmedia #alternative https://www.manyver.se/ As others have pointed out, a #offline mode is a good indication of proper #decentralization ... #scuttlebutt seems like a pretty cool system, although its reliance on #blockchain means that it is doomed to be a #storage nightmare. More #comments on #hackernews here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=286..
When you have people at the #washingtontimes complaining that they as a #journalist are being personally #censored by #facebook and big #socialmedia - you have a problem: https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2021/.. #censorship is getting worse and worse, #covid and the #pandemic were only used as an excuse to ramp up what was already written on the wall.
Nice custom #socialmedia #implementation named #honk built in #go https://honk.tedunangst.com/ It's of course #opensource https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk I will of course also push #deadsocial - although it is much less complete it is a million times more #lightweight https://github.com/danielbarry/d3ad-soci.. Slowly but surely!
I've also seen a massive anti- #conservative pro- #labour movement on #socialmedia in the #uk https://www.lotuseaters.com/new-polling-.. People hate #taxes and seem to be under the impression that #kierstarmer can somehow make #debt go away and #money grow on trees...