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Let’s be honest about the state of the #Fediverse regarding large-scale adoption: for several important groups, it still doesn't work well enough.

Does it make sense for a small business to use the Fediverse as its main channel? [1]
What about civil society organisations involved in politics? […]

RE: https://sciences.social/@alfiekohn/115520371668548273

👇 #LeaveX

Stewart Lee: Using Grok is like believing what your farting uncle says at Christmas Elon Musk’s AI service is so drunkenly, transparently biased that it would be funny – if it weren’t a mortal threat to democracy

Use ChatGPT if you want, but do you really want your thinking done for you by a man who has been in Peter Thiel’s hot tub?"

Stewart Lee

https://www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-grok-elon-musk-misinformation-chatgbt-sam-altman-peter-thiel

Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.” […]

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Meta should be sued and regulated out of existence, and that pesky CEO along with it.

It bogs my mind how after seeing that Meta is actively allowing and endorsing the destruction of its users' lifes for even more profit, we still (as a society) accept to be captives to them.

Is like having to […]

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/115504203963331506

#DeleteFacebook #DeleteInstagram #LeaveMeta #LeaveX

Ian Dunt (@iandunt.bsky.social) Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design. https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#

Surprise, surprise!

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ap35rus77cg3lzju2v43jxn/post/3m4wzrcbpm22s

#LeaveX

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

Norway's mega wealth fund to reject Elon Musk's $1 trillion Tesla pay package Managers of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund said they are “concerned” about the proposed deal.

Norway sovereign wealth fund rejects Elon Musk's $1 trillion pay deal
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/04/norway-sovereign-wealth-fund-rejects-elon-musks-1-trillion-pay-deal.html

#Norway #Tesla #Musk #farright

It’s better to learn before it gets dead serious again.

#Germany #farright #history #education #racism #deutschland #rassismus #rechtsextremismus

People with alternative social media icons on their shirts running joyfully away, arms linked, from angry toxic media icons trying to grasp them from a device.

Launching http://xodus.online ! Building a movement away from toxic social media, towards alternative social media (open social web) - the why, the where-to and the how! Please support our launch ! https://xodus.online/2025/10/30/launching-xodus-online/ #MastodonMigration

The #europeanunion #eurobarometer survey on #socialmedia use makes for sobering reading.

The majority of European citizens now get their political news not via home grown channels but filtered and targeted by foreign adtech conglomerates. With all the implications of this for democracy […]

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Elon Musk said he wants to stop ‘corporate terrorists’ from wresting control of Tesla | CNN Business Elon Musk says he needs to build his stake in Tesla so much that he could become the world’s first trillionaire. But this week he said his aim wasn’t to increase his planet-leading wealth. Instead, Mu...

Back in March we were "domestic terrorists" for protesting at Elon's dealerships. Now we're "corporate terrorists" because we don't think Elon or anyone else should get a trillion-dollar bonus. Can't wait to see what kind of terrorists we'll be by January! #teslatakedown www.cnn.com/2025/10/23/b...

Elon Musk is having a very bad week.

The man who bought Twitter for $44 billion to secure unaccountable power over public discourse
is discovering what unaccountable power actually looks like when wielded by someone who understands dominance even better than he does.

Trump just stripped SpaceX […]

Musk on X: "We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data."

...and here it is, the clearest evidence yet of a fascist tech bro deciding the current corpus of human knowledge needs "correcting", and openly stating his intention to use his LLM to manipulate public understanding.

When I called current iterations of AI […]

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‘Sanctions hole’: how secretive routes supply Russia with western tech and consumer goods German exports of cars to Kyrgyzstan are up 5,100% since the start of the Ukraine war – with other routes channelling luxury goods and computer chips

Russian Secrets: Russia Exploits Sanctions Loopholes: Western Tech Fuels Nuclear Submarine Defense

www.theguardian.com/world/articl...

Video www.ardmediathek.de/film/russian...

More: tanks and more tanks www.msn.com/en-us/war-an...

#RussianSecrets #Russia #Geopolitics

Scientists predominantly use X and LinkedIn for professional scientific networking, but with Bluesky and Mastodon in recent years hoping to break through as alternatives.

https://mikeyoungacademy.dk/communities-of-scientists-are-emerging-on-bluesky/

cc: @davidchavalarias

#HelloQuitteX […]

@leavex Would be nice

We asked you if you'd go back to X if it had new ownership.

Of the 812 people who responded, 67% said no.

The future of social media IS the Open Social Web 🔒

#SocialMedia #SocialWeb #Fediverse #Mastodon #Poll #X #Twitter #Musk #LeaveX

News: The Pope urged news agencies to stand as a bulwark against lies, manipulation, and post-truths.

Fake news: As a first step, he announced that the Vatican will leave X, demonstrating their commitment to fighting pedophilia and child exploitation.

#LeaveX #Catolicism #Pope #pedophilia […]

Someone just shared an interesting Bluesky post. It's a quoted post about the importance of Wikipedia as a reliable source of information, suggesting that people donate.

https://bsky.app/profile/urocklive1.bsky.social/post/3m2xldynllc2d

In less than 24 hours, the post had been shared more than […]

Chatkontrolle stoppen! Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

#ChatKontrolle

@fingolas Ha! We cannot quote the post with a reference to our letter to European politicians.

An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter Protect Democracy

@fingolas An Open Letter to All European Politicians and Leaders to Abandon X/Twitter https://leavex.eu

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I wonder if anyone will discuss the transnational growth of the far-right movement (1) or Germany's change in vote on the Chat Control proposal at #Fediday today. (2)

The #Fediverse can be an important tool for discussing both topics. While most people still use big tech tools to spread […]

Wer immer noch meint, auf X Demokratie fördern zu können, wähnt sich als Goldfisch im Piranha-Becken.

Er rettet jedoch nichts, wird gefressen - und macht die Piranhas nur noch größer.

Kommentar: Nach Musks Aufruf zur Gewalt muss die Bundesregierung X verlassen Elon Musk hat am Samstag als Sprecher einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren,...

Elon Musk hat auf einer Großdemonstration zu Gewalt aufgerufen. Doch die Bundesregierung und viele Medien sind weiterhin auf seiner Plattform X. Was muss eigentlich noch passieren, bis sie diesem gewaltbereiten Rechtsradikalen den Rücken kehren? Ein Kommentar. netzpolitik.org/2025/komment...

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines/

That's very much related to Influencer Shakes Up Brazil With Video on Online Child Exploitation […]