breakfastmtn

@ breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca

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He/Him
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
Also at breakfastmtm@fedia.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social

2y ago

!fediversenews@piefed.social is replacing @fediversenews@venera.social, which will be retired in a month
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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago
Yep, I follow a couple Lemmy communities from Friendica.

2y ago

Read Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker’s full State of the State address – NBC Chicago

Really powerful speech. Good to to see some anti-fascist, won't-bend-the-knee energy from someone. Hopefully it's contagious!

2y ago

Two more staffers quit John Fetterman's office as the senator carves his own lane with Trump

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I'm just referencing the time period when everyone loved him, but..

This sure seems different.

Denouncing Trump as a fascist to saying that Trump's fascism is no different from Biden seems like at least a bit of a journey.

2y ago

Two more staffers quit John Fetterman's office as the senator carves his own lane with Trump

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I miss Fettermania. What happened to you, bud?

2y ago

[edited] We are excited to announce pixelfed.ca, a new Pixelfed instance run by Canadians and hosted in Canada

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Stories, not Reels. Stories are photos that disappear after 24 hours.

2y ago

You can see who upvoted and downvoted a post by viewing it in friendica.

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Raccoon for Friendica is great if you're on Android.

2y ago

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

For real. Who could ever understand why Dan banned them? It's a mystery..

2y ago

Permanently Deleted

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Loops was developed years ago as a component of Pixelfed and then shelved before being recently developed as a separate service. It is not 5 years old.

2y ago

The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

As the person asking people to fact check the claims of weird conspiracy theorists, I'm gonna have to ask for your sources on that one.

Edit: For anyone wondering, MBFC is transparent about their funding sources.

Edit2: an MBFC conspiracy theorist just making shit up??? I'm shocked...

2y ago

The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I'm awarding you three demerits for a reply that doesn't make sense. Govern yourself accordingly.

2y ago

The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

I think that very few of these arguments are being made in good faith. For some people, any bias monitor is a barrier to sharing propaganda as news. Others just don't understand how to use the site properly. Or use it in a really stupid way anyway. Like this:

Look at the ratings.
If something strikes you as odd, run around screaming like your hair's on fire.

Instead of:

Look at the ratings.
If something strikes you as odd, read the part of the report that explains the rating.
Decide how important those things are to you and whether it's a deal-breaker.

Others are like, 'it's telling me what to think, man!' who don't seem to understand that those pages contain a wealth of information that you can include in your decision-making (or not). They've convinced themselves that it's presented as the one and only source of absolute truth, which is really just something they made up to be angry about. No one but them is making that claim.

There also isn't another free source that has that info in one place. There's no better place to quickly find news org ownership info, the country they're operating in (with links to info about press freedom in that country), and their history of factual reporting. But those people don't care -- they're just viscerally reacting to the ratings, not reading the reports.

2y ago

The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

EDIT2: Commenters have some valid criticisms of MBFC.

Here's another in my "making friends" series of posts.

Commenters DO NOT have valid criticisms of MBFC. They are universally wrong, have no idea how MBFC works, and are too lazy to look it up. The misinfo ghouls among them are happy to repeat lies over and over until people start to accept them.

Some of these people can be pretty convincing but I urge you to actually fact check their arguments. Most of these people are just parroting bullshit they saw someone else say. The "best" of these are basically artisanal, hand-crafted AI hallucinations: high-confidence, syntactically-correct nonsense. Don't put that glue on your pizza. If someone posts an MBFC link as evidence, click it and read it. Nearly every single time, the link they posted contradicts them and they just haven't read it.

And ask yourself why no one ever posts peer-reviewed research backing up their claims. It's a simple reason: it doesn't exist. Every single piece of academic research on MBFC says they're wrong. The MBFC conspiracy theorists can't just ignore that body of research because it's inconvenient -- they need a compelling reason why all research to date is wrong. For their claims to be true, it would require a massive conspiracy between academics, journalists, and media bias organizations because they are all in consensus about what makes good and bad news organizations. It's loopy, tinfoil hat bullshit.

2y ago

The Tesseract Lemmy app shows a news source ranking from MBFC

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

That's really cool. Looks great too.

2y ago

You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

The headline is just riffing on the headline of the article it's replying to.

The original article said that there is no value beyond a false sense of accomplishment in posting to social media. He is saying that there's some value but also inherent value in creating alternatives to corporate (and in many cases fascist) media spaces.

2y ago

You Can Post Your Way Out of Fascism if You Own the Means of Posting

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Both of those people are SO FUCKING THIRSTY for constant approval.

2y ago

Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

That's literally what they're doing:

For starters, Mastodon says it will allow users to control whether their posts can be quoted at all. This would protect people from being the recipient of unwanted attention or hateful replies to some extent. (Though, arguably, people could still screenshot someone’s post to circulate it more broadly if they intended to troll the user.)

In addition, users will be notified if someone quotes them, and they’ll be able to withdraw their post from the quoted context at any time. This latter option could help in the case that someone’s quote post goes viral, and the original poster starts to receive too much attention or even abuse, forcing them to reconsider whether they want their post to be quotable at all.

2y ago

Reddit will lock some content behind a paywall this year, CEO says

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

Amazing! Keep stepping on rakes, Reddit.

2y ago

Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 2y ago

They're really doing this right:

As explained above, the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused. Many people simply do not want their content to be reframed by others; or they may find that if it is reposted, they receive unwelcome attention.

In order to mitigate these issues, we plan to include several features in our implementation:

You will be able to choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.You will be notified when someone quotes you.You will be able to withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time.