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petri 1 year ago
LinkedIn is the new Twitter Humblebrags mixed with influencer posts and how-to threads with an occasional sprinkle of borrowed TikToks and Reels culminating in deep insights with AI-generated illustrated images.
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petri 1 year ago
”But the catch is that no one can see the posts. You can publish as many posts as you like. The app even lets you add photos to your posts as well. But you’re sending those posts into the void. Developer Pat Nakajima said on Threads that no post leaves your device and all likes are fake.”
TechCrunch
Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever | TechCrunch
When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friends, zero followers, zero likes. But as you start posting content, you might get more a...
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petri 1 year ago
”Facebook “secretly signed Whitelist and Data sharing agreements” with Netflix, along with “dozens” of other third-party app developers… …to access, among other things, Facebook users' “messaging app and non-app friends. …allowed Netflix programmatic access to Facebook’s users' private message inboxes, in exchange for which Netflix would “provide to FB a written report every two weeks that shows daily counts of recommendation sends and recipient clicks by interface, initiation surface, and/or implementation variant (e.g., Facebook vs. non-Facebook recommendation recipients).”
Ars Technica
Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit
Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.
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petri 1 year ago
”Bluesky is basically abstracting out each layer of a social media service and allowing anyone to provide alternatives at each layer… It creates a system that feels as simple and comprehensive as a centralized system, but which is actually decentralized, and enables anyone else to jump in and provide additional services and features at each layer.”
Techdirt
Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far
These days, everyone hates big tech, and that’s often for very good reasons. You shouldn’t trust giant centralized companies that have collecte...
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petri 1 year ago
”Bitkey, as a self-custodial solution, sits somewhere between a stand-alone Tapsigner and a fully-open, interoperable multisig wallet. It does better than the stand-alone Tapsigner in some areas (e.g. 2-of-3 security), while poorer in other areas (e.g. not interoperable; tightly coupled to Block as things stand).”
Nunchuk
Bitkey by Block: A Comprehensive Review
Block recently introduced a self-custodial solution for Bitcoin called Bitkey (https://bitkey.world). This review delves into Bitkey’s features, ...
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petri 1 year ago
”in 2016, the task force created new software that could "be installed on iOS and Android that intercept traffic for specific sub-domains, allowing us to read what would otherwise be encrypted traffic so we can measure in-app usage (i.e. specific actions that people are performing in the app, rather than just overall app visitation). This is a 'man-in-the-middle approach,'" the email said. These so-called "kits" created a path for Onavo to redirect and decrypt user traffic by effectively impersonating the servers of Snapchat, and later YouTube and Amazon, according to an unsealed letter to the court from the advertiser plaintiffs. Facebook did this through a process called secure sockets layer (SSL) bumping, the letter claimed.”
Business Insider
Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook execs to 'figure out' how to track encrypted usage on rival apps like Snap and YouTube, unsealed documents show
Emails from Mark Zuckerberg have just been unsealed in ongoing litigation accusing Meta of anticompetitive behavior in the social-media ads market.
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petri 1 year ago
”AT Protocol will be able to support other kinds of apps, and then users will be able to move between them with the same identity and relationships, and then that will just make it a lot easier for other people to build. And so that was part of our idea was just build an app, and then we get this positive feedback loop going of developers and users coming into the ecosystem.”
The Verge
Bluesky CEO Jay Graber on breaking free from Twitter and competing with Threads and Mastodon
Bluesky started inside Twitter. Now, it’s competing with X, Mastodon, and Threads to push a decentralized vision for social networking.
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petri 1 year ago
”Dataminr pays for privileged access to X through the company’s “firehose”: a direct, unfiltered feed of every single piece of user content ever shared publicly to the platform. Watching everything that happens on X in real time is key to Dataminr’s pitch to the government. The company essentially leases indirect access to this massive spray of information, with Dataminr acting as an intermediary between X’s servers and a multitude of police, intelligence, and military agencies.”
The Intercept
Elon Musk Fought Government Surveillance — While Profiting Off Government Surveillance
Elon Musk and X postured as defenders against government surveillance but sold user data to Dataminr, which facilitates such surveillance.
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petri 1 year ago
Looks a bit weird when it says there are replies but they are not shown nor indicated that they’re from Fediverse image View quoted note →
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petri 1 year ago
Mastodon users are the most active based on my posting responses. 10x less follwers than in X. The rest are relatively inert, listed in descending order: Nostr X Bluesky Threads
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petri 1 year ago
Kicking third-party devs out of the API, blocking outbound links & seeing content without logging in seem to have consequences image
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