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Otter

@ otter @lemmy.ca

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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • Bumble cuts ~350 employees as dating apps face a reckoning

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  • Huh, so people DO get tired with apps nickel and diming every interaction

    Want to filter by more than 2 things? Pay up. Want to send a message? Pay up. Want some privacy measures? Pay up. Also the features are scattered across multiple paid plans, with separate per-item costs for roses/likes/super-likes etc.

    This isn't limited to Bumble either

  • Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp

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  • I met one person a few months ago who also used signal primarily. It did feel weird adding someone normally. Usually when I add someone it's their first time with signal

  • Signal and Threema want nothing to do with WhatsApp

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  • You could try and run both

    Keep whatsapp, and slowly switch contacts to Signal (it might just be close friends and family). That's what people around me are doing

  • The White House wants to 'cryptographically verify' videos of Joe Biden so viewers don't mistake them for AI deepfakes

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  • Would someone have a high level overview or ELI5 of what this would look like, especially for the average user. Would we need special apps to verify it? How would it work for stuff posted to social media

    linking an article is also ok :)

  • FediForum, an online unconference for discussing the future of the Fediverse, 19-20 March

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  • Interesting

    What does the money go towards, since it's all online?

  • Help encourage more reddit subs to move to Lemmy! Message the moderators of the subs you'd like to see on Lemmy. Here's an example script.

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  • People are people

    I don't think the problems on Reddit are because of the people on it, but the structure of the platform itself

  • Help encourage more reddit subs to move to Lemmy! Message the moderators of the subs you'd like to see on Lemmy. Here's an example script.

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  • I'm working with a few subreddits and their Lemmy equivalents, and I'd strongly recommend against this approach. As people have said, it sounds spammy and it would make the mods more suspicious of the Fediverse when someone comes along to actually try and work on stuff with them

    It's better to have this happen organically, but if you want to plan it out, what I'd recommend is work with one or two subreddit(s) you're familiar with. Also know that you might have to take on the majority of the setup and moderation initially. When reaching out, be specific about the needs of the subreddit and why the Lemmy community might help the community, and be cool with them saying no.

    Different ways it might look:

    • copy in the subreddit rules (when it makes sense) and add mods from the sub, then let them run with it
    • copy in the rules and have it be an official relationship between the communities where each just recommends the other

    There's no script because each time I reached out the situation was different. I can write up more on what's worked well for me but that's the gist of it

  • The 4 best Reddit alternatives: Top picks to replace your subreddits - Lemmy is listed first!

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  • I think both things are valid points, but it's worded in a weird way

    A more explicit pro/con would have been better

    No big corporation that controls everything

    • Pro:
    • Con:

  • Scientists Unveil Radical Plan to Drill Into a Volcano For Near-Unlimited Energy

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  • Honorary Cats

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  • I thought this might make for a fun poster, and this looks pretty good. I might even watch it...

  • Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake

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  • I remember seeing that they did have a fediverse account? This seems related to that

    Yup see here:

    https://lemmy.ca/post/3167523

    It's also in the article linked above:

    Luckily, the creators of the NERV App, Gehirn Inc, have created an app-based alternative for users to get information in real-time, as well as running a Mastodon account.

  • 41% of fediverse instances have blocked threads so far!!!

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  • What I hate to see, even in this thread, is people turning on each other in this "us vs. them", "you're either a part of the pact or you're against us" nonsense

    Let's all remember why WE ALL CHOSE to get on the fediverse and build it. The strength of the fediverse comes from the freedom for each instance to choose how to run things. My understanding is that no one in an instance is harmed if some other instance chooses to federate or defederate from Threads.

    I hate Meta. I also know that Meta doesn't need to do anything to take down the fediverse if we do it ourselves.

  • Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

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  • I don't want to use their platform, but I get why some people might choose to stay federated so that there is incentive to pull people to mastodon and educate people about the issues

    There's enough nuance there that I'm not dead set on either side, and I think we still have the chance to defederate later if there's an increase in spam and harmful content / disinformation.

  • Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

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  • That one is actually public record, with

    • Facebook using their influence to set up in the country in a way that made it the dominant form of internet access for the country, enough that a large number of people considered Facebook=internet
    • Facebook getting multiple reputable warnings about what was happening on the platform, what their advertising policies and algorithms were encouraging, and they chose to not act on them and instead continued to profit from it
    • They finally did act after a whole lot of harm was done

  • Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

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  • I don't think that's what they're saying.

    They're saying that some users and admins might choose to wait and see

  • Dear server admins, please defederate threads.net. Dear users, ask your server admin to defederate threads.net.

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  • Great thing about the fediverse

    People get to decide what they want from their platform

  • Signal Facing Collapse After CIA Cuts Funding

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  • The other comment by @Pfosten@feddit.de focuses on the contents of the article, which are more important. I took a peek at the author, Kit Klarenberg.

    The author also writes for The Grayzone (thegrayzone.com/author/kit-klarenberg/), which gets posted on Lemmy occasionally. Among other questionable and misleading pieces, The Grayzone and Kit put out articles 'calling out' Bellingcat and TOR...

    For the stuff below, if you have doubts in the source, please follow up on the linked sources each one contains. To be clear, we do need to hold these tools and services accountable. Spreading misleading content does not help with that. Even worse if it's intentional disinformation

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grayzone

    an American fringe,[7] far-left[19] news website and blog,[23] founded and edited by American journalist Max Blumenthal

    The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project,[24] was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018.[4] It is known for its critical coverage of the US and its foreign policy,[1] misleading reporting,[25][26] and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes.[4][21][27][28] The Grayzone has downplayed or denied the Chinese government's human rights abuses against Uyghurs,[32] published conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria, and other regions,[33][34] and published pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

    https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-grayzone/

    Overall, we rate The Grayzone Far-Left Biased and Questionable based on the promotion of propaganda, conspiracy theories, and consistent one-sided reporting.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Horse

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  • I mean if he paid for it...

  • CEO Jack Dorsey tells workers he’s making it easier to fire them — There are reportedly no more performance improvement plans at Block

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  • The articles keep going "CEO Dorsey says", probably because no one knows what Block is.

    On that note, what is Block? They own a bunch of small companies like Square and Cashapp? If so, does this apply to those employees?