When I started on Mastodon, people would advise me to “only Boost posts.” Since there’s no algorithm that places a value on Favorites, “only Boosts have value.”

I disagree completely.

When people Favorite my posts, they unwittingly introduce themselves to me. I have discovered some very interesting people that I may not have if they didn’t Favorite my posts.

Keep ‘em coming. It’s nice to meet you.

#feditips #mastodon #favorite

Blushing ... This might of added a bit of weight to my shopping ... Giggles ... They were on special ... They will last me a couple of weeks, well let's hope ... Giggles

Hugz & xXx

Amazon to pay $5.8M penalty for spying with Ring devices.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/31/amazon-ring-ftc-settlement-lax-security/

Also, Amazon makes more than $49M per hour:

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/01/how-much-revenue-tech-giants-like-amazon-and-apple-make-per-minute.html

Bet that $5.8M “penalty" is gonna hurt for a lot less time than the 7 minutes it's gonna take them to pay for it…

"Today, a heavily armed Atlanta Police Department SWAT team raided a house in Atlanta and arrested three of its residents. Their crime? Organizing legal support and bail funds for protesters and activists who have faced indiscriminate arrest and overreaching charges in the struggle to stop the construction of a vast police training facility — dubbed Cop City — atop a forest in Atlanta.

The arrests are an unprecedented attack on bail funds and legal support organizations, a long-standing facet of social justice movements, according to Lauren Regan, executive director of the Civil Liberties Defense Center.

“This is the first bail fund to be attacked in this way,” Regan, whose organization has worked to ensure legal support for people resisting Cop City, told me. “And there is absolutely not a scintilla of fact or evidence that anything illegal has ever transpired with regard to Atlanta fundraising for bail support.”

https://theintercept.com/2023/05/31/cop-city-bail-fund-protest-raid-atlanta/

"Twitter pulls out of EU’s voluntary Code of Practice against disinformation"

"European Commissioner Thierry Breton said the company still had "obligations" to honor."

Europe will not wait for Elon if he is fined and doesn't pay, they will seize a factory, and keep it.

I dont know how to calculate what this might cost Elon

"…ignoring the DSA could turn expensive Elon. The legislation allows EU officials to hand out penalties of up to 10% of global annual turnover"

https://www.engadget.com/twitter-pulls-out-of-eus-voluntary-code-of-practice-against-disinformation-183726045.html