cass.forest @cityboundforest@computerfairi.es

"Threads is a mobile-only experience at the moment and users can only make posts, write comments and follow people on the platform's mobile app."

You lost me at "mobile-only" 🙃

Artists supporting artists.

Listeners supporting artists.

Listeners supporting listeners.

Artists supporting listeners.

Fedizens supporting fedizens!

We've said it before but here it is again. It is truly amazing seeing and hearing of all kinds of mutual love and support organically traveling out there from you all.

1/4

El termómetro felino funciona a la perfección #caturday #catsofmastodon #cats

It's probably obvious to move of you, but a big difference between the commercial social media platforms and the fediverse is that as those commercial platform grow, they get additional revenue from ads, from selling personal information, and otherwise monetizing their users. While that is turning out to not actually pay the bills for them, in the fediverse, just about every instance is run by volunteers and funded by donations or out of the volunteers' pockets. It's a labor of love and a hope for a better future. When traffic grows, we need to expand our capacity.

That is why I am asking, if you are able, please consider donating to the instance you on to help keep the fediverse ecosystem going. Typically the /about web page will have details on how to donate.

Note: I am well aware that many of you are not in a financial position to donate - and that is OK. We are here to serve you as well. Donations are completely optional.

You should become a patron! It gets you early access to all of my machinations and polls to vote in. And it gets me money to afford living. It turns out, giving away stuff for free doesn't pay well :<

#TTRPG #DnD
https://www.patreon.com/dArtagnanDnD/?src=Mastodon

I checked out Threads. I left a review.

Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Our billionaire is better than your billionaire.

Mastodon: You actually don't need a billionaire at all.

Threads, Twitter, and Bluesky: Hold on, we have to ask our billionaire if that's true.

@thomasfuchs honestly, I’m this fucking close to registering officialmastodonsignup.com and putting together a friendly needs-assessment wizard with blurple gradients and cute stick figure illustrations that ends at the signup page of a suitable instance with the fields already filled out

"Twitter is threatening legal action against Meta over its new text-based “Twitter killer” platform, accusing the social media giant of poaching former employees to create a “copycat” application."

#twitter #threads #meta #lawsuit #tech #news

https://www.semafor.com/article/07/06/2023/twitter-is-threatening-to-sue-meta-over-threads

Google updates its privacy policy to say the company may use "publicly available information" to train its AI models and build products like Translate and Bard (Thomas Germain/Gizmodo)

https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486
http://www.techmeme.com/230704/p1#a230704p1

Kodak launched two instant film cameras in 1976, along with an instant film pack containing 10 exposures. Kodak’s new instant film was similar in some respects to Polaroid’s SX-70 film.

Kodak instant cameras and film proved popular. However, Polaroid filed a lawsuit against Kodak in 1976 for patent infringement, and Kodak eventually lost the case. In January 1986 an injunction was issued to prevent Kodak selling their instant cameras and film.

https://obsoletemedia.org/kodak-instant-film/

Twitter silently removes login requirement for viewing tweets

#news #technology #tech #Internet #socialmedia #Twitter

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/05/twitter-silently-removes-login-requirement-for-viewing-tweets/

Lots of people jumping to install Threads. I hope you are taking a second to consider things like this. Why do they want this sort of data. Afraid even when it finally launches in Europe this will be one I will not be opening an account on even for looking at PostyBirb integration. Not with these data requirements.

#TIL about #ActivityPods:

"With ActivityPods, you have only one profile, one outbox, one inbox and one list of followers - all in a single place. Applications connect to your Pod to post activities, read the inbox and fetch data. And of course they can connect to any existing fediverse application!"

https://activitypods.org/

I think our data portability problem may have been solved for us!

#fediverse #ActivityPub #Solid #LinkedData

“It’s better in the app”

Well the fix your fucking website. Don’t make it my problem.

Shot, chaser.