I’m a little lost. Pixelfed is already a decentralized photosharing service, and they already run Pixelfed.social. So what is Loops? An app?

Nothing else to say.

Flashes itself is based on Berlin developer Sebastian Vogelsang’s earlier app, Skeets, his initial foray into creating consumer-facing apps for the growing social network, Bluesky, which now tops 27.5 million users.

While Bluesky offers its own official mobile client, Skeets differentiated itself by focusing on the needs of iPad users as well as customized accessibility features for blind and low-vision users, as that’s one of Vogelsang’s areas of expertise.

Okay so this is coming from someone other than Bluesky the company, which is very promising for Bluesky’s ongoing decentralization.

a mark of a truly open platform. lol

Streisand effect. I never heard of this place and now I want ALL their merch. Lol

Fair point. Evidently I didn’t read 100% of the article.

sure, but what is 404 Media supposed to do about that? If they stopped sharing their stories on these services, they would have no way to reach new audiences, and so they would slowly start dying off. You could argue that a larger publication like NYT could certainly take a stand like this, but traditional media isn’t exactly in a strong position right now. Decentralized platforms are useless to these publications if nobody is using them.

tbh it’s where i get a lot of my memes. there are still a lot of good pages and groups run by funny people. generally i view it as bad for me in the same way it’s always been bad for me, too much easy dopamine or whatever. Misinformation is out there and censorship is out there, but that’s why i don’t rely on FB for news.

i mean, they are on Facebook too. If you are a journalist or a publication, you have to go to where the people are to spread the word about your articles, even if the people are on a platform you do not like. I’ve had mixed feelings about this lately with regards to X (a neo-nazi platform) and artists that continue to use that platform. But at the end of the day, unless you are a large organization with lots of influence, you need to be on social media to survive.

open stuff scares people. plus with messengers, we’re kind of bound to what our friends use. I’ve been slowly converting friends to Signal, and but people are very reluctant to change when the thing they have already works. Can’t imagine how much friction I would hit with something like matrix.

you’re absolutely right, i just like to take every chance I can to point out that our overlords are hypocrites and you shouldn’t trust a single word that they say.

I’m generally given to trust Malwarebytes regarding cybersecurity, but they don’t mention at all that E2E encryption is not the default messaging style on Telegram. That, plus the article being from 2021, makes me distrustful of that source.

Signal is still the only service I am aware of that does not store logs of user messages on servers. Messages only exist on the devices of individual users.

super cool! glad to hear Black Twitter gets to be a more formal thing now for black users, with moderation by the community for the community.

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Another perspective I’ve been hearing: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDX0EU9I3CQ/?igsh=MjA0bWxwM2dhM2hh

Tldw: based on everything we’ve seen of this dude so far, the details don’t really add up. It seems really unlikely that after everything he would get nabbed looking suspicious at a McDonald’s, with a written manifesto on his person. Could be wrong, it’s just speculation. But personally I’ll be expecting more news on this, unless nothing happens for like a week.

great context! thanks for pointing that out

what’s stopping leftists in your country from using an alternate platform? i mean, i’m not going to tell you what the left in your country should do, but twitter is now an explicitly pro-Donald Trump platform and likely contributed to him winning the US election. I think leftists elsewhere in the world care about whether the US descends into full-blown fascism, because that would be generally bad for the entire world? But I could be wrong about that, I could also see people feeling like that could be a good thing for them because it would mean the US meddles less in other nations’ affairs.

If you do think Trump winning the US election is a bad thing for your personal political aims, you should probably be looking for a way to get off twitter, because twitter is now a part of his machine.

Yeah that’s kind of where my mind is changing. However, I do think the conversation is different depending on whether it’s an unsigned indie artist vs. Billie Eilish. Billie is gonna sell her records and tickets whether she’s on X or not, and besides, she’s probably made enough by now to never need to work again.

It was not super clear at the outset that X was becoming a platform for fascists. We knew Musk was a shit heel capitalist, but this alone is not a reason to leave a platform. Most social media is run by selfish capitalists, it is simply the way of the world. It was becoming more apparent over the course of this year that Musk was playing with the algorithm to boost himself and people that paid him money, and we knew Musk was reinstating banned accounts in the name of “free speech”. But it wasn’t until election day (week?) when the platform explicitly endorsed Donald Trump that we knew the platform had been completely transformed into a pro-fascism platform. Remember that to most people, conservative and fascist don’t mean the same thing. My personal opinion is that the modern conservative movement has completely shifted into fascism, and anyone who says they are conservative is endorsing fascism. But this is not how the majority sees things.

I’ve been picking fights on reddit about this. My feeling is that X has become a neo-nazi platform, and anyone who stays on there is implicitly endorsing fascism. The popular sentiment seems to be that, even if you accept this as true, it doesn’t extend to music artists because they need to promote their music to make money. My personal feeling is that music artists do not get a pass. I don’t care if you are trying to make money. Preventing fascism is more important than making money. There are many non-fascist platforms that you could promote your music on.

Am I off base with this? I mean, I hate corporations and capitalism and view them as the main evils of our modern world, yet I work for an evil corporation at my day job. I think I get a pass because I need to make money to live. Am I a hypocrite?