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MadeInDex
MadeInDex
3 November at 17:03 on post I dont forget Nazis nor do I forgive them, though if they wish to renounce their hate and adhere to a...

@hannu_ikonen

As with any extremist #ideology I would like to separate #people who have acted on their beliefs from people who have thought / talked about them. Both fit the label, but with a dramatic difference in guilt.

I try to put myself in their shoes; if I grew up in an #extremist environment, would I really turn out different?

#extremism

3 November at 17:23 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
MadeInDex
3 November at 15:59 on post PSA: social.zvavybir.eu defederates mastodon.social

@zvavybir Your approach & the thought of switching instances somehow remind me of moving from #Whatsapp to #Signal and eventually having to have both 😅
(as the critical mass has not seemed to be reached yet)

#Mastodon currently seems to face a more immediate, more dramatic issue, though.

The active #users & #server count are continuously dropping:
mastodon-analytics.com/

#fediverse #mastodonggmbh #mastodongmbh

@zvavybir Your approach & the thought of switching instances somehow remind me of moving from #Whatsapp to #Signal and eventually having to have both 😅
(as the critical mass has not seemed to be reached yet)

#Mastodon currently seems to face a more immediate, more dramatic issue, though.

The active #users & #server count are continuously dropping:
mastodon-analytics.com/

3 November at 16:40 | Open on mastodon.social
zvavybir :palestina:🍉 :Green:

@madeindex Your old account is immediately, fully redirected to your new one, so there is no need to have both (in fact, you even can't use mastodon.social after a migration anymore (although you can cancel the migration and then use it normally again)).

3 November at 16:02 | Open on social.zvavybir.eu
zvavybir :palestina:🍉 :Green:

@madeindex The user and server drop is pretty much independent of this issue and needs to be addressed separately. (also I'm not completely convinced it's true give the data on the website, it seems pretty steady.)

3 November at 16:08 | Open on social.zvavybir.eu
MadeInDex
MadeInDex
3 November at 15:44 on post PSA: social.zvavybir.eu defederates mastodon.social

@zvavybir
You raise an important issue with the #decentral / #federation idea of the #fediverse.

The concentration of power might become an increasing issue looking into the future. If, e.g., #Mastodon gGmbH decided to threaten blocking #instances unless they remove certain users, content...

Thinking about switching there are concerns of losing: SEO-wise, reach, contacts/followers, character & poll limit (😜)...

PS
#Misskey seems to have a "fairer" signup process
misskey-hub.net/en/

@zvavybir
You raise an important issue with the #decentral / #federation idea of the #fediverse.

The concentration of power might become an increasing issue looking into the future. If, e.g., #Mastodon gGmbH decided to threaten blocking #instances unless they remove certain users, content...

Thinking about switching there are concerns of losing: SEO-wise, reach, contacts/followers, character & poll limit (😜)...

3 November at 16:38 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex

@zvavybir Your approach & the thought of switching instances somehow remind me of moving from #Whatsapp to #Signal and eventually having to have both 😅
(as the critical mass has not seemed to be reached yet)

#Mastodon currently seems to face a more immediate, more dramatic issue, though.

The active #users & #server count are continuously dropping:
mastodon-analytics.com/

#fediverse #mastodonggmbh #mastodongmbh

@zvavybir Your approach & the thought of switching instances somehow remind me of moving from #Whatsapp to #Signal and eventually having to have both 😅
(as the critical mass has not seemed to be reached yet)

#Mastodon currently seems to face a more immediate, more dramatic issue, though.

The active #users & #server count are continuously dropping:
mastodon-analytics.com/

3 November at 15:59 | Open on mastodon.social
zvavybir :palestina:🍉 :Green:

@madeindex But even without such direct abuses it is bad. For example I tried to block mastodon.social after they started their partnership with Facebook's Threads, but couldn't due to whom I would loose. So there is already a problem.

About your concerns: Contacts and followers will be automigrated (I did it already twice without problems) and you can first check what character and poll limit an instance has (although afaik mastodon.social is *very* unusually low, so this is not really something to worry about, even if you couldn't check it first). And about SEO: At least on DuckDuckGo your website is above your mastodon account, and even if someone where to stumble on your mastodon.social account after migration, they would see where you are now (for example my old account is under mastodon.social/@zvavybir and this immediately tells you where I am now).

And yes, Misskey is better…

@madeindex But even without such direct abuses it is bad. For example I tried to block mastodon.social after they started their partnership with Facebook's Threads, but couldn't due to whom I would loose. So there is already a problem.

About your concerns: Contacts and followers will be automigrated (I did it already twice without problems) and you can first check what character and poll limit an instance has (although afaik mastodon.social is *very* unusually low, so this is not really something...

3 November at 15:59 | Open on social.zvavybir.eu
MadeInDex
MadeInDex
3 November at 15:08 on post PSA: social.zvavybir.eu defederates mastodon.social

@zvavybir It feels to me like the power is already in their hands. #Mastodon gGmbH maintains the #GitHub project and joinmastodon.org.

Have you & the others who believe this tried to raise the issue with them?

A simple solution to increase signup on other #servers would be to remove the "Join mastodon.social" button on the official¹ #website and instead display a full list of servers.

¹ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon

3 November at 16:36 | Open on mastodon.social
zvavybir :palestina:🍉 :Green:

@madeindex This problem is well-known and raised often, but sadly no action by Eugen/the Mastodon gGmbH has been taken so far. While you are of course correct that being the official maintainers of a major software and the owners of the primary sign-up site is a lot of power, there is also a lot of power being an admin of a big instance, independent from the other things. The most pressing concern to me is that the large size means that I can't really defederate mastodon.social (I now have decided to do it anyway as the pains have become too high and I remembered ways to circumvent the worst of it (I can still subscribe to the RSS feed of the accounts I want to follow in my RSS reader and I have an old account that I can use to write to mastodon.social users if I need to)) without loosing a lot of people I care about (and losing people who want to hear from me – the list of accounts in the first post are all following me from mastodon.social), so one of the most important and potent moderation tools is effectively toothless for this one instance.

@madeindex This problem is well-known and raised often, but sadly no action by Eugen/the Mastodon gGmbH has been taken so far. While you are of course correct that being the official maintainers of a major software and the owners of the primary sign-up site is a lot of power, there is also a lot of power being an admin of a big instance, independent from the other things. The most pressing concern to me is that the large size means that I can't really defederate mastodon.social (I now have decided...

3 November at 15:16 | Open on social.zvavybir.eu
samiamsam

@madeindex @zvavybir

the reason i didn't use mastodon until fairly recently is the 'server' thing which is useless to me

i don't want multiple choices

i want one place to interact

glad i found mastodon social because i won't use a zuck, musk or dorsey product

3 November at 17:35 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
MadeInDex
31 October at 13:17 on post https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/31/shell-investments-in-renewable-energy-drop-spending-budget.

@rmblaber1956 "Mark van Baal, the founder of the activist shareholder group Follow This, said the focus on fossil fuels “jeopardises the future of the company”."

Let's hope he's right! Let's hope there is no future for #Shell 😂

31 October at 13:18 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
MadeInDex
31 October at 12:39 on post #Search engines will never be able to find the good sites if they don’t figure out how to identify and...

@hyakinthos So many AI-generated websites get displayed 🤖

Often it seems easier to ask AI for the information you want to know - maybe that's intentional? 

31 October at 12:45 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
MadeInDex

🇺🇸 1) Who do you WANT to win the US election?

⬇️ Make sure to vote in the 2nd #poll below!

Please boost to increase the sample :)

1/2

#US #USA #election #Trump #Harris #TrumpVance #HarrisWalz #DonaldTrump #Kamala #KamalaHarris #USPolitics #uspol #politics #vote #fediverse #greenparty #independent #libertarian #political #republican #democrat #democracy #democrats #republicans #political #politica #politik #jdvance #timwalz #walz #vance #unitedstates #america #americans #west #mastopoll

Anonymous poll

Poll

Kamala Harris / Tim Walz
173
81.2%
Donald Trump / JD Vance
5
2.3%
Independent, Libertarian or Green
20
9.4%
Other / No one
15
7%
213 people voted.
Voting ended 6 November at 13:12.
30 October at 13:12 | Open on mastodon.social
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Block de notas

@madeindex a Lot of run, it's seen to be a run to run. No is better less that somebody to stay the place. No move no intentions needs

2 November at 16:26 | Open on mastodon.social
Block de notas

@madeindex A day a n the Office, no anything else

2 November at 16:27 | Open on mastodon.social
マーティン・ステンツェル。 ケルン在住。
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25 October at 13:59 on post After a long time, I finally written an other blog post. It's about an important concept that has, as...

@zvavybir

Love the name.

I do think it highlights an issue with people's understanding of #immigration.
They often seem to mix up #asylum seekers & economic #migrants.

I propose working on a #world where nobody HAS TO feel like they HAVE TO leave their home, for whatever reason :)

25 October at 14:15 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
MadeInDex

Disney recently set a dangerous precedent by trying to apply Disney+ signup terms & conditions to an unrelated #Disney World case, highlighting a growing risk to consumers.

Fortunately, the attempt was halted, but it has proven that what consumer #rights advocates have long viewed as a nightmare scenario, is not just a dream but an actual threat.

"...seeking to bar its 150 million Disney+ subscribers from ever prosecuting a wrongful death case..."¹

1/2

#News #law #usa #humanrights #legal #us

23 October at 13:14 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex

2/2

The number of mega-corporations attempting this will only increase as they keep growing and branching out into all economic fields.

Somewhere, some time in the future, they might eventually succeed...

So don't forget: mastodon.social/@madeindex/112

Sources:
¹ npr.org/2024/08/14/nx-s1-50748

#Evil #FckDisney #BoycottDisney #Parody #Corporation #WaltDisney #corrupt #News #ConsumerRights #Legal #Law #Court #Death #Wrongfuldeath

2/2

The number of mega-corporations attempting this will only increase as they keep growing and branching out into all economic fields.

Somewhere, some time in the future, they might eventually succeed...

So don't forget: mastodon.social/@madeindex/112

Sources:
¹ npr.org/2024/08/14/nx-s1-50748

23 October at 13:19 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
Ketata Mohamed

@madeindex @SheamusPatt indeed, it is gas but natural gas is odorless so they mixed it up with some chemicals to make it detectable & smelly like rotten eggs

17 October at 10:17 | Open on mastodon.tn
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Re: natural gas name is a joke
17 October at 10:51 | Open on ayom.media
Boyko Vatev

@madeindex Propaganda more like it. Jokes must be funny at some point. 😁

17 October at 14:48 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex
MadeInDex
13 October at 17:31

Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI!

Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass #surveillance.

They are:
✔ Preparing the legal framework
✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
✔ Exploring new use cases

More & Sources:
🇬🇧 madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-sur
🇩🇪 madeindex.org/de/ki-massenuebe

#Privacy #Chatcontrol #Sicherheitspaket #Parody

Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI!

Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass #surveillance.

They are:
✔ Preparing the legal framework
✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
✔ Exploring new use cases
15 October at 11:01 | Open on mastodon.social
AltTexter RU

🔍 Описание

Это мем. На чёрном фоне изображён скелет в розовом контуре, который стоит на фоне текста, написанного белым цветом. Скелет стоит в позе танца, с поднятой рукой. В правом верхнем углу и внизу изображения находятся три изображения камеры видеонаблюдения, с надписью "CCTV".

📝 Текст на картинке

GOV
FCK ME
BUT NOT
IN A
GOOD
WAY

CCTV
CCTV
CCTV
CCO Madeindex.org

🔍 Описание

Это мем. На чёрном фоне изображён скелет в розовом контуре, который стоит на фоне текста, написанного белым цветом. Скелет стоит в позе танца, с поднятой рукой. В правом верхнем углу и внизу изображения находятся три изображения камеры видеонаблюдения, с надписью "CCTV".

📝 Текст на картинке

13 October at 17:31 | Open on lor.sh
マーティン・ステンツェル。 ケルン在住。

@madeindex Whenever I am in a good mood and find myself in front of such a CCTV, I raise my hand and show my cute middle finger. Maybe someone from the "other end" takes notice...

13 October at 20:41 | Open on mastodon.xy-space.de
MadeInDex
Mr. Lance E Sloan (Personal)

@madeindex @LydiaConwell
Yes, you can. Microsoft doesn't seem to monitor or censor anything in GitHub.

26 October at 10:28 | Open on mastodon.social
MadeInDex

Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI!

Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass #surveillance.

They are:
✔ Preparing the legal framework
✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
✔ Exploring new use cases

More & Sources:
🇬🇧 madeindex.org/blog/ai-mass-sur
🇩🇪 madeindex.org/de/ki-massenuebe

#Privacy #Chatcontrol #Sicherheitspaket #Parody

Governments worldwide are training AI models to use them - on US. Cameras are found wherever we go, with growing amounts of footage evaluated not by humans, but #AI!

Under the cover of "fighting crime" this prepares the ground for widespread, automated mass #surveillance.

They are:
✔ Preparing the legal framework
✔ Expanding surveillance infrastructure
✔ Exploring new use cases
13 October at 17:31 | Open on mastodon.social
AltTexter RU

🔍 Описание

Это мем. На чёрном фоне изображён скелет в розовом контуре, который стоит на фоне текста, написанного белым цветом. Скелет стоит в позе танца, с поднятой рукой. В правом верхнем углу и внизу изображения находятся три изображения камеры видеонаблюдения, с надписью "CCTV".

📝 Текст на картинке

GOV
FCK ME
BUT NOT
IN A
GOOD
WAY

CCTV
CCTV
CCTV
CCO Madeindex.org

🔍 Описание

Это мем. На чёрном фоне изображён скелет в розовом контуре, который стоит на фоне текста, написанного белым цветом. Скелет стоит в позе танца, с поднятой рукой. В правом верхнем углу и внизу изображения находятся три изображения камеры видеонаблюдения, с надписью "CCTV".

📝 Текст на картинке

13 October at 17:31 | Open on lor.sh
マーティン・ステンツェル。 ケルン在住。

@madeindex Whenever I am in a good mood and find myself in front of such a CCTV, I raise my hand and show my cute middle finger. Maybe someone from the "other end" takes notice...

13 October at 20:41 | Open on mastodon.xy-space.de
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