Mastodawn

vivb Jul 25, 2023

just seen this over on the hellsite
https://t.co/iHJGbcpi0K

Stanford researchers find Mastodon has a massive child abuse material problem

Researchers at Stanford’s Internet Observatory found that child sexual abuse material (CSAM) has become widespread on the Twitter alternative Mastodon.

The Verge

vivb Jul 8, 2023

how do I find out if botsin.space is blocked in my instance?

vivb Jul 8, 2023

concerto for birds and orchestra - so evocative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUtf114hws

Einojuhani Rautavaara: Concerto for Birds and Orchestra “Cantus Arcticus”, Op. 61

YouTube

vivb Jul 6, 2023

kira :3 Jul 5, 2023

i like how "illegal in the EU" means it probably violated a human right and "illegal in florida" means it probably is a human right

vivb Jul 6, 2023

Dare Obasanjo Jul 5, 2023

I’ve never met a guy who called women “females” who didn’t say it like it was a slur.

vivb Jul 6, 2023

Ann 🧡 (she/her)Jul 5, 2023

Transport for All (a disabled people's org) have a massive campaign going against rail ticket office closures.

If you care about disabled people being able to use the railway, please join in and respond to the consultation. We need to do all we can to resist this attack on the railway.

https://www.transportforall.org.uk/campaign/ticket-office-closures/

#NotJustTheTicket #accessibility #disabled

Ticket Office Closures » Transport for All

Ticket Office closures #NotJustTheTicket IMPORTANT UPDATE Public consultations on rail ticket office closures across the country are live. After a year of lobbying, we now move onto the next phase of our campaign against them. And we need our whole community to speak out. Respond to the consultations using our template letter of objection or […]

Transport for All

vivb Jul 6, 2023

Jon Worth Jul 6, 2023

Good summary. @Gargron explaining the potential impact of Threads on Mastodon https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/

What to know about Threads

There’s been a lot of speculation around what Threads will be and what it means for Mastodon. We’ve put together some of the most common questions and our responses based on what was launched today.

Mastodon Blog

vivb Jul 5, 2023

Brendan Jones Jul 4, 2023

Not only will #Threads not be launching in the EU (presumably because it'll be sucking up so much personal data that they can't make it GDPR compliant), but now the The European Court of Justice has agreed with Germany’s anti-cartel watchdog that Meta can't share harvested personal data between Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. That ruling will also apply to Threads.

A great day for consumer protections.

https://www.thelocal.com/20230704/eu-court-deals-blow-to-meta-in-german-data-case/ #Meta

EU court deals blow to Meta in German data case

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp may need to overhaul how they collect the data of users in Europe after the top EU court ruled against parent company Meta on Tuesday.

The Local

vivb Jul 5, 2023

Sarah Brown Jul 5, 2023

My fediverse server is hosted in the EU (specifically, in my Ikea TV cabinet), and learning that Facebook’s new thing is so egregiously invasive that it can’t satisfy EU privacy regulations makes me confident that preemptively blocking it was not only sensible, but almost required.

vivb Jul 5, 2023

Jul 2, 2023

the old internet is dying, the new internet struggles to be born, now is the time of monsters