Ghazi @curiousmind@social.cleverlibre.org

I'd like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Mastodon, is in fact the federated universe or as I've recently taken to calling it, the Fediverse. Mastodon is not a social network unto itself, but rather another component of a fully functional federated network made useful many other instances, such as Misskey, Pleroma, Akkoma and Peertube compromising a full federated social network as defined by the ActivityPub protocol.

Many computer users run a modified version of a Fediverse instance every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the type of Fediverse instance which is widely used today is often called "Mastodon", and many its users are not aware that it is basically part the Fediverse, developed by many other projects.

There really is a Mastodon, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Mastodon is only a single type of Fediverse instance: a program in the network that operates as a single node that interoperates with all the other types of nodes that you interact with. Mastodon is an essential part of the Fediverse, but useless by itself; it can only be functional in the context of a fully federated universe. Mastodon is normally used in combination with many other instances: the whole system is basically the federated universe with Mastodon added, or the Fediverse. All the so-called "Mastodon" distributions are really distributions of platforms that interoperate with the ActivityPub protocol.

Person who blocks everyone that disagrees with them: Everyone I see online agrees with me. Clearly I have the best opinions.

A great win for privacy: Google Analytics has been declared illegal in Europe! 🎉😀
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/is-google-analytics-illegal/

Israeli settle violence has been normalized. This is hideous and appalling. Those who commit such violence should be held accountable https://www.972mag.com/diyar-omari-shooting-sandala/ #Nakba75 #Palestine #IsraeliCrimes #Israelioccupation #humanrights

So ... I've been in IT for 20+ years, most of that time working directly in databases.

That whole thing about Twitter, FB, Reddit, Google, whoever ... "deleting" your data after you jump thru the right hoops.

That's all bullshit.

I mean, even apart from the whole "market, monetize, sell and spy on our userbase" thing.

DBAs, people who actually work with databases, we almost never *actually* delete stuff in a database.

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Twitter succumbs to Erdoğan’s pressure, silences key voices in Turkey on election eve.

https://www.turkishminute.com/2023/05/13/twitter-succumbs-to-erdogan-pressure-silences-key-voices-in-turkey-on-election-eve/amp/

The younger generation of Palestinian refugees in Gaza carry memories of their original villages, even though they've never been to them. 75 years after the Nakba, they still dream of return.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/gaza-refugees-dream-of-a-paradise-lost-during-the-nakba/?utm_content=buffer9e81e&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by the same Israeli bullets directed against her fellow Palestinians. Those bullets have continued to fly, and the Israeli war machine has taken the lives of nearly 300 Palestinians in the past year. Shireen's was one of them.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/shireen-abu-aklehs-killing-made-clear-that-israels-war-on-palestinian-journalists-is-part-of-its-war-on-palestine/?utm_content=buffer24a8a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

I just got access to Google’s new MusicLM and…

Wow.

No exaggeration when I say this will change the music industry. Thanks https://twitter.com/zackhargett/status/1656812761324875776 for the HT.

If you ask me how I feel a year after Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination, I would tell you that I feel angry because both Shireen and I died under the tree that day. Shireen awaits justice from heaven, while I wait for it down here on earth.

https://mondoweiss.net/2023/05/how-are-you-a-year-later/?utm_content=bufferd826f&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=buffer

#Palestine #Israel

#Gaza bombings

#IsraelΑpartheid has killed 27 & wounded 70 Palestinians in 3 days of bombing Gaza

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/5/11/israel-palestine-live-news-gaza-rocket-unit-commander-killed

One year after Al Jazeera journalist was killed, rights advocates say Biden administration is shielding Israeli abuses.
Shireen Abu Akleh killing: Advocates decry ‘abhorrent’ US stance

Microsoft, one of the world’s most profitable companies - a story in two parts.

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Are Passkeys a Big Tech Tracking Nightmare? Let's Take a Look! https://neat.tube/videos/watch/0fc71036-b3f1-4140-92c7-598df7fe64c9

Well now....