Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/technology/tim-berners-lee-privacy-internet.html
(submitted by IvanSologub)
@Fenix Something big is happening, I think we are starting to see people starting to really fight back against what has happened. Can't come soon enough.
@hntooter Interesting and thanks for sharing .
Stealing Your Private YouTube Videos, One Frame at a Time
https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2021/01/11/stealing-your-private-videos-one-frame-at-a-time/
(submitted by gbrown_)
BBC Bitesize to be free for BT and EE customers
The Twitter purge is continuing. Even left wing media is being purged now. We all knew this day would come.
It's time we spread the word and make the fediverse rise up.
https://snoozey.io/welcome-to-the-fediverse/
@StampedingLonghorn It appears to reactionary to avoid upsetting one side but surely we need to
Oddly some of the media have been pretty much demanding social media faces more control / regulation, they can't have it both ways
But yes we need to promote the fediverse and importantly get more people hosting their ow
@hntooter IIRC @noisytoot likes Haskell.
I think another idea could be using the platform for teaching, try and help people understand deeper about the fediverse and privacy respecting tools and free software.
But also support education in general.
@lig I don;t use facebook but something like facebook market place for Mastodon and other federated services.
Pixelfed uk supports a link to Liberapay but having added the link not sure if it has worked as I can't find the link on my profile.
@lig Is there anything to stop us doing this anyway ? I
Another idea for a federated service. Shopping network. Each account is a possible seller and/or buyer. Each instance is a shop. Anybody can search for goods on any instance. Buyers can follow sellers for goods updates. Buyers could follow other buyers for goods reviews.
Announcements are made in this #SocialHub topic:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/building-a-policy-special-interest-group/1261
Meeting is at 6pm CET Friday January 15
I think the vidcall will use Jitsi at the following URL (runs in browser, no install + pwd required):
https://meet.jit.si/ScatteredConsequencesActRegardless
Along with that there'll voting + chat in the following IRC channel:
http://irc.w3.org/?channels=social
And finally a signup to #SocialCG is recommended (covers copyright infringement). More info:
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/upcoming-socialcg-meetings/1257/3
@info_activism Some good points rasied here.
Everything pundits are getting wrong about this current moment in content moderation: An ongoing list https://jilliancyork.com/2021/01/10/everything-pundits-are-getting-wrong-about-this-moment-in-platform-regulation-an-ongoing-list/
@YourAnonRiots Not removing him sends the clear message you can do this as Present and get away with it, regardless of when you do it and how long your term in office has left to run.
@publicvoit Pretty powerful stuff that eh.
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