Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

Mastodon said it saw 18,800 new users on mastodon.social alone over the last week

Mastodon is a decentralised social networking service. It does not collect user data to sell like Twitter does, and has released all of its code as open source and made it easy for anyone to start their own Mastodon instance

https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/internet/mastodon-cashing-in-on-twitters-failings/71999126

"With streaming services there's no reason to pira-"

Exclusive content

Content that can easily be removed by any contract changes

Region locking

Not being able to offically know which content is available before subscribing

Bad UI

DRM playback

Online only

Only on supported devices/OSs/browsers

A British Asian man who has been fortunate enough to have a good career in finance gives away 50-75% of his income to charities helping developing countries, and still has a good quality of life in the UK and is able to visit his extended family in India regularly..

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2019/nov/09/i-give-away-half-to-three-quarters-of-my-income-every-year

@freemo @Deepsealioness @OpusOfAli Am a Hindu and am ashamed of the verdict as I feel it is gross injustice to the Muslims.

#introduction #india
Engineer. Love photography, videography, Video editing.
I have presence on YouTube.

#photography #videography #creator #videoeditor #art #reading

Big boost of 72 users new users the last 24 hours (Usually its about 10 users a day here). Not sure how long it will last but I want to welcome you all. Feel free to message me anytime if you have questions or just want to chat.

For those of you curious of the source it is most likely coming from the drama regarding the Indian judge and Twitter. He was wrongfully banned there and made a public statement about moving to mastodon. Several people followed in his footsteps in protest.

I'd imagine most of us here probably left under similar circumstances, fear of abusive moderation.

#QOTO

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#Books
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#ML

A change for the better #HelloPeople

"Privacy isn't about hiding bad things, but about protecting what defines us as human beings, who we are. Our day-to-day behavior, our personality, our fears, our relationships, and our vulnerabilities."

-- The Tor Project

@ppmanik Superconductivity at room temperature is still on the experimental stage and is a long way from any practical contribution. Yes, thorium is radioactive but it is unlikely to be useful as the critical temperature is -112 C. The importance of this breakthrough is that humanity will have a better understanding of the physical parameters responsible for this phenomenon.

"...the false and misleading posts promoting Turkey appeared to get a boost from a coordinated network of Twitter accounts that amplified the content through trending hashtags and retweets."
https://apnews.com/7df659c706d04242ac9175645e40a265

This is part of coordinated mass manipulation. By the usage of centralized service, we have no power but to please those that do. ...and often they do have oposing interest to ours.

In federated services, we as communities have that power by ourself. Tell you comrades.

Started training a bot that tries to analyze and identify hate-speech on Twitter.

A few things became quite apparent after only a few days:

1. There are huge networks of (seemingly) fake accounts that like and retweet each other's posts. Someone is operating this at a _massive_ scale.

2. Reporting and banning fake accounts seems futile. You're fighting a hydra that spawns new accounts quicker than one can report them.

3. I'm feeling sick to my stomach just browsing through the logs.