The VergeInstagram is reportedly trying to attract TikTok creators with large bonuses https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/21/24348510/instagram-tiktok-creators-bonuses
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I hear reports of people saying their #facebook and #instagram accounts are automatically following Trump and/or the GOP. Is that true? I don't see any fact checkers on it, and I don't use either Facebook or Instagram, so if someone could verify that for me, that would be great.
Everybody is pissed about #Meta's new political censorship in #instagram and #facebook, but censorship and groveling aside, let's not forget about how they are actively taking advantage of the #tiktok ban:
- #CapCut is still banned in the US. I doubt it will come back to be perfectly honest, there's far less attention on it. On a completely unrelated side note, Meta just announced Instagram Edits! (Source)[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/technology/instagram-video-app-tiktok-ban.html]
- Meta spent $7.6 million ~~bribing~~ lobbying the US government in favour of the ban. (Source)[https://finbold.com/meta-spends-8m-lobbying-as-congress-passes-tiktok-ban/]
- In the past 3 months, 8 politicians have completed 24 trades in Meta. Definitely not insider trading! (Source)[https://www.capitoltrades.com/issuers/431610?txDate=180d]
Zuckerberg, previously a champion of left-wing policies, now has gone full in with pandering to Trump. Sounds like he's just a champion for whoever it's most convenient to support. Go figure.
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Root MooseMy #Lenovo #tablet updated overnight and put it into a race condition with the "Smart Launcher".
Basically, the app that draws the screen with the buttons to launch apps when you open the tablet would start and crash over and over and make the tablet unusable.
The work around was to wait for it to put a dialog box on the screen where it complains that it crashes and go into the app settings from there and then delete all data related to the app. That gets the tablet half un-borked. Not usable, but can navigate around better between crashes. Then you have to go to Settings > Apps and using the ellipsis at the top right delete all app settings.
Of course, once this was done I barely recognized the home screen of my tablet. I had to go through and uninstall/disable all the scammy/spammy privacy invasive garbage that a #Google tablet delivers as part of the default experience.
Searching around the Internet apparently this has been part of the 'Lenovo Experience' campaign that has been rolling for several weeks. Well known issue that having your device customized at all will lead to this scenario.
I don't mind Lenovo's version of #Android. It's pretty close to vanilla Android compared to something that is a total horror show like the #Samsung delivered version of Android.
WE DESPERATELY NEED MAINSTREAM(-ish) #LINUX / #BSD #FOSS PHONES AND TABLETS!
QuinWith all the political news around, a personal positive note: I had some successful repairs at the #repaircafe yesterday!
An older Thinkpad on which the power button only worked some times was fixed with a small, several times folded piece of paper.
And a Macbook Air with water damage looked like only the USB-C's were damaged (and corroded). Some alcohol to clean and all was good again!
Jef Poskanzer@shiri @pluralistic @wgrav @piero Every time I see someone I know on Bluesky I send them the Bridgy Fed how-to and ask them to enable it. I think my success rate so far is Zero.
@alextecplayz Wait, that's already a thing? Good to know, I guess. Still should make a bridge for the shitpost though.
Honestly didn't expect Meta threads to do ActivityPub with Mastodon...
Hear me out: (but emphasis on the /hj) #Mastodon bridge with #Threads. (like #bridgyfed but worse)
And yeah, don't hear me out if I say we should bridge with X. (formerly Twitter)