Gregory's Server
If you're thinking of using Facebook/Instagram's Twitter clone, here's a reminder of just how invasive it will be of your privacy:
h/t @nelson
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Right now -- today -- would be a great day for some socially responsible philanthropy to support the migration from Twitter to the fediverse of all the organizations, such as the weather service, that realize they can no longer remotely rely on it to connect to the public. ChatGPT is now refusing to provide links to articles it says I wrote. This makes sense since I didn't write four of the five it cited, and the fifth is a book title, not an article. It is simply astonishing that companies are embedding technology into search engines that makes them vastly, vastly worse at finding accurate information. After Reddit's beyond-arrogant CEO dismissed the subreddit blackout as just posturing, moderators of discussions extended the blackout. This is the only sensible response to the company's contempt. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/13/23759674/reddit-mods-blackout-protest-extended-indefinitely Please stay the course. For my part, I'm canceling my Reddit account and looking at decentralized alternatives.
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@dangillmor the message is on the medium is the message is on the medium is the message is on the medium is the message is on the medium is the message @dangillmor I just hit 14 years on Reddit, but it's clear that yet another great project is being lost to corporate greed. I don't plan on going back, although I have a huge sense of disconnect. Elon Musk is a Trump-level deadbeat -- and it's part of his business plan. Reminder: Only the ultra-wealthy are allowed to get away with this kind of thing. There is only one correct response when an organization like @gutenberg_org joins the fediverse (Mastodon in this case): "Welcome!"  Dear developers: I don't want to use your app on my phone. I want a mobile web version, and you can do that. Thanks kindly.
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@dangillmor for people who don't want to use a browser, postd.io and notd.io use progressive web apps, which are basically a dedicated instance of the browser you choose. There is no data collection and no ads. When tech/media writers eventually write about those networks, they will no doubt complain about the lack of "real" apps, without realizing it's better for users.  @dangillmor imagine being a dev on the mobile web site team and some product person makes you add an "our stuff is way better in the app, the mobile site is bad, actually" banner to the very mobile site you've been working on for 40 hours a week Mozilla's Firefox is walling off each site's cookies from other sites, which is helpful for privacy. I block ALL third-party cookies and use add-ons that further protect me from the increasingly evil ad-tech industry's relentless spying.
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 @dangillmor Before the web, ads in newspapers, on TV and radio, they all worked. Advertising was a big business.  @dangillmor Though given the marketshare of #Firefox compared to chromium browsers it arguably does make fingerprinting easier.  @dangillmor not addon fan. edge strong filter @charles_ex smart @aloa5 @Ginger149 @stefanieschulte When you refer to Musk's site, you should call it "Saudi-funded Twitter" just for the sake of consistency. Bonus: You'd be 5x more accurate than his claim that NPR, which gets about 1% of its money from taxpayers (well, their grandchildren), is "government funded". Meanwhile, NPR continues to show its fundamental cowardice by remaining on Saudi-funded Twitter despite Musk's visible contempt for it, and for all journalism other than right-wing mockery of the press. Mega-hypocrites at Musk site go on bended knee to India's increasingly dictatorial regime, which is on the attack against free speech the government doesn't like. https://restofworld.org/2023/twitter-blocked-access-punjab-amritpal-singh-sandhu/ Pre-Musk Twitter fought back against these attacks, on principle -- a quality the current management profoundly lacks.   @dangillmor Modi's journey to a fascist dictatorship isn't got much farther to go. He put someone in jail because he claimed the guy "defamed India". This is brilliant data-infused journalism: Washington Post correlates terrible credit scores in the U.S. South with the refusal of state governments to expand federally funded Medicaid, creating vast amounts of medical debt and bankruptcies. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/02/17/bad-southern-credit-scores/ Republican ideologues have made their states even poorer, and their citizens far worse off in all kinds of ways. This is one of them. Of course, they're proud of it.
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 @dangillmor the conservative mind sees prosperity as civilizational ruin and they have since 71. They've poured hundreds of millions each year acting on that belief
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A genuine breakthrough in Mastodon/fediverse: @buffer -- a tool for managing social media accounts -- now supports this place. https://buffer.com/mastodon I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/
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@dangillmor uggg it will be extremely difficult for people to move... Normal users are addicted to chatter that never stops and things being pushed to them, other accounts like journalists are addicted to exposure they get, the likes, the engagement... It's a mount everest type uphill climb. I still hope twitter gets replaced by federated social media but just don't see it yet how It's too late to delete your Twitter DMs. Even if the pre-Musk Twitter didn't save copies anyway -- even after you deleted them -- you can be certain that Musk has done so. If it's true that he gave Weiss, an ideologue, direct access to internal systems, then you should assume the very worst from a privacy perspective. Hello, FTC??? @dangillmor Agreed. This act should cause every governing commission to shut it. Do you know if the released content is international or restricted to the US.  @dangillmor How many civil suits is Musk already facing? I've seen lots of press and Musk-bashing and coverage of his stunts, but precious little actual reporting of what legal liabilities his various "enterprises" are facing. That's where the rubber meets the road - in court, not in the press. |
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This late-arriving (July 4 am) is instructive:
"App privacy details on the App Store
The App Store now helps users better understand an app’s privacy practices before they download the app on any Apple platform. On each app’s product page, users can learn about some of the data types the app may collect, and whether that data is linked to them or used to track them."
https://developer.apple.com/app-store/app-privacy-details/
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@dangillmor @nelson It’s surprising it isn’t stealing underwear…
@dangillmor @nelson not only theirs but everyone elses, as they'll scrape everything!