Tag: meta
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Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta’s plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse
Join the discussion in the fediverse – and on Lemmy! It’s an exciting time in the interconnected web of decentralized social networks known as the “fediverse“: Threads (a new social network from Facebook’s parent company Meta) is starting to follow through on its plans for connecting to the fediverse. The initial steps are tiny. Today,…
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A clear victory for the free fediverse: Meta now says integrating with ActivityPub is “a long way out”
Join the discussion on Lemmy and infosec.exchange! When Meta launched their new Twitter competitor Threads on July 5, they said that it would be compatible with the ActivityPub protocol, Mastodon, and all the other decentralized social networks in the fediverse “soon” – and Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko welcomed it as a “clear victory for our cause.”…
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Why just blocking Meta’s Threads won’t be enough to protect your privacy once they join the fediverse
Originally published July 10, last updated July 12. See the update log below for details. Join the discussions on infosec.exchange and Hacker News. If you’re looking for more detailed analysis, check out the draft of Threat modeling Meta, the fediverse, and privacy “Today, Meta is launching its new microblogging platform called Threads. What is noteworthy…
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“A clear victory for our cause”? Opinions continue to differ about Meta and Threads in the fediverse!
Today, Meta is launching its new microblogging platform called Threads. What is noteworthy about this launch is that Threads intends to become part of the decentralized social web by using the same standard protocol as Mastodon, ActivityPub…. This is a clear victory for our cause, hopefully one of many to come. – Mastodon Poll…
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Threat modeling Meta, the fediverse, and privacy (DRAFT)
Last major update July 7. See the update log at the bottom for updates. Thanks everybody for feedback on earlier versions! One very important piece of feedback I haven’t yet incorporated is that it needs a summary … very true. In the current version, a combination of Today’s fediverse is prototyping at scale and…
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Should the Fediverse welcome its new surveillance-capitalism overlords? Opinions differ! (REMIX IN PROGRESS)
Originally published June 22, significantly revised July 7, remixed in December 2023 after Threads’ launch. See the update log at the bottom for a revision history. Exciting times in the fediverse “It’s been a wild week or so watching people who I thought hated centralized social networks because of the harm they do giddily celebrating…
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Power vectors and HTML in comments
I just made my first HTML comment here, at the end of the Lorelei experiment, pointing to its continuation with Leone (the theme not the director). w00t w00t! It’s not at all obvious but by default WordPress blogs are set up to allow HTML in comments. There’s no preview feature or WYSIWIG editor though so…
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New theme: Leone, by Andiz
“a lovely theme by Amsterdamn“. alas, it shares the “tiny font” weakness of Leone. it’s two-column layout is clean (and has a blogroll, unlike orchid) although Leone’s three-column layout has more useful information and navigation options on the screen. and it certainly responds to the points that Adam made in the Leone thread: black text…
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How to use categories and tags? (meta)
I’m thinking through how to use categories and tags on this blog … I know I won’t get it completely right the first time so it’s worth starting from the beginning tracking the different experiments I do. Usefully, WordPress allows multiple categories as well as multiple tags, so one way of thinking about this is…
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“Liminal states”
I’ve been looking around for the right title for the blog. The initial working title was “Transitions (for the time being)” — “Transitions” being the closest word I had come up with so far, and completely in sync with my mindset as I was setting things up here, but probably not the title I’d want…