Notices by Mike McCue (mike@flipboard.social), page 7

@damon @Flipboard @J12t thank you! I think this Fediforum is going to be super interesting.

@ASP @uriel hah! Good point. Mea culpa.

@uriel Buying everything through amazon's website centralizes the web. It's important for small merchants to be able to sell directly to customers on their own web sites. You're right though that either way big tech is involved.

@uriel Hah. Fair point!

I'm really referring to Amazon's dominance of all online commerce here. While Apple and Google pay certainly are from big tech, these payment capabilities enable small merchants to do more effective online commerce which is critical to decentralizing commerce on the web again.

@Craktok @jaredwhite I agree that user data and privacy is a big part of the concern driving this bill but all that data is sucked up and sold already by domestic companies. It is also subject to Chinese hackers. I detest TikTok but I think this bill is likely to make things a lot worse here by giving us a false sense of data security while magnifying all the misinformation and toxicity issues.

I'm surprised at how few retail websites have implemented Apple Pay for checkout. It's a pleasure to use a site that implements this and when they do I'm happy to buy directly from them instead of through Amazon. Sites that make you manually enter all your shipping and credit card information while navigating thru last minute check out popups is a big reason why it's so much more convenient to buy the same thing thru amazon.

There are a lot of things we can do to improve the web and make it more resilient to big tech. Optimizing web sites for rapid checkout with modern Apple and Google pay mechanics is one of them.

@Craktok @jaredwhite Unfortunately the US govt has no idea how to regulate the networks that are domestically owned. I think having someone like Steve Mnuchin or Elon owning TikTok is more likely to make it a far more problematic source of propaganda, misinformation, scams and hate speech than it is today. And that’s under a sane administration. I shudder to think what trump could do as president with both TikTok and Twitter owned by crazy billionaires who support him and his agenda.

@aulia yes. It will be super interesting to see how this is adopted.

@aulia so I'm told. I just discovered it tonight.

@jon Hah. I did not know that.

@jaredwhite totally. The fear mongering is at an all time high right now.

This is what happens when you tap on your Threads user name right now. Interesting times ahead.

Tonight over dinner my teenage girls asked me what I thought about banning TikTok. I told them I thought it was a stupid idea, would solve nothing and would put the US on the same censorship path as China.

I instantly became the hero of the evening and then they told me I should run for president.

@mike@thecanadian.social @J12t Totally. A fantastic marketer and brand strategist tole me recently that "Advertising is disruptive. Marketing is a service."

Brands who are respectful and have something genuinely interesting to say to potential customers will thrive in the fediverse. All others will not.

@J12t Excited to get our podcast episode out there! Sorry it took a bit longer than expected to publish… we switched to a new editor who needed some time to ramp up.

Thanks again for taking the time to talk with me. Can’t wait for FediForum! Looking forward to seeing you and the rest of the crew next week.

Next week is FediForum week and I’m excited. There’s a lot on tap in the coming months so I’m sure there will be no shortage of interesting demos and discussions.

To get warmed up here’s a helpful conversation with @J12t , co-founder of FediForum, on the latest episode of Dot Social. We discuss the hot topics that are likely to come up and Johannes goes deep on some of the most important things needed to help the #Fediverse “cross the chasm”.

Enjoy and hope to see you at #FediForum on the 19th!

https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/johannes-ernst

Folks this #LexisNexis risk assessment product that vacuums up all automotive data and uses it to raise your insurance rates is none other than the offspring of #RELX, parent of #Elsevier. Far from being an isolated product unrelated to scholarly publishing, year after year in their promotional material they boast how these are integrated systems at both a technical and operational level - your prestige publications fund this, and your professional metrics sold via SciVal are part of the same pool of data.

Who wants to bet that funders wont blink at an "aggregated funding risk score that draws from our proprietary analytics data for a whole-researcher productivity profile." We're beyond surveillance conspiracy theories, these products are here today, and every prestige publication makes us complicit and digs the grave for our own profession.

https://mastodon.social/@kashhill/112083090485396217

@AmyIsCoolz Hi Amy, I just realized I had not replied to this. There are over 1,000 magazines now and many more on the way so it's hard to just make a single list. One good way to discover these is to search for "flipboard.com" and look at the profiles tab to see accounts and magazines that have been federated.

@cdevroe @morehubbub Thanks for reporting this Colin! I'm ccing @FlipboardCS and @greg.

@AlexGizis @thomasfuchs I tried that too and found it was even worse because all the weight is then on your face instead of being partly supported by the headband.