Pete Johnson

Decentralized social media Is the only alternative to the Tech Oligarchy

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21.01.2025 18:02 — 👍 1129    🔁 285    💬 21    📌 31

Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect ...

Fed up with Meta? Avoiding Instagram or Facebook isn’t enough to stop Meta from harvesting and profiting from your private information. Here’s how to limit Meta’s ability to monetize your personal data.

17.01.2025 17:40 — 👍 18556    🔁 8711    💬 735    📌 707

All you luddites against meta having AI-generated queer minorities do charitable work need to back off. When I was a kid, if you wanted to see someone give to good will, they had to actually donate something. Now, thanks to progress, we can go straight to the seeing part. This is the future!

14.01.2025 13:02 — 👍 110    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0

Behind the scenes, the company was also quietly dismantling a system to prevent the spread of misinformation. When the company announced on Jan. 7 that it would end its fact-checking partnerships, the company also instructed teams responsible for ranking content in the company’s apps to stop penalizing misinformation, according to sources and an internal document obtained by Platformer. The result is that the sort of viral hoaxes that ran roughshod over the platform during the 2016 US presidential election — “Pope Francis endorses Trump,” Pizzagate, and all the rest — are now just as eligible for free amplification on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads as true stories.

NEW: Meta has quietly dismantled the system that prevented misinformation from spreading in the United States. Machine-learning classifiers that once identified viral hoaxes and limited their reach have now been switched off, Platformer has learned www.platformer.news/meta-ends-mi...

15.01.2025 00:51 — 👍 26164    🔁 9342    💬 1374    📌 970

Loved this weird little guy in the #Magritte show at #ArtGalleryofNSW

Image: René Magritte, L'ellipse (The ellipse), 1948

14.01.2025 10:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meta deletes trans and nonbinary Messenger themes

Amid a series of changes that allows users to target LGBTQ+ people, Meta has deleted product features it initially championed.

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10.01.2025 19:36 — 👍 945    🔁 297    💬 56    📌 45