Notices by @BjornW@mastodon.social (bjornw@mastodon.social)

Sometime ago somebody shared a screenshot of a service with a cookie message along the lines of:
"We take your privacy seriously" while there also was a list of 600+ vendors with whom data would be shared. Does anyone have this screenshot & the source? I think this was by Microsoft MS365?

#Privacy #Cookies #Tech #TechPolicy #OpenSource #Data #GDPR #bigtech #Security #CyberSecurity

I've just shared my story on why I've left other social media for the Fediverse at the Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/tell-us-have-you-migrated-between-social-media-platforms-recently

Perhaps more people could tell them about this place? Maybe some of it will be published allowing more people to discover the Fediverse.

#TheGuardian #SocialMedia #Fediverse #Mastodon #OpenSource #Tech #TechPolicy #Internet #Media #Journalism

Playing with @MakerTube.

Testing the automagically importing from YouTube option. I still had a channel on #YouTube with #music & #sound tinkering which I wanted to move to PeerTube for quite some time.

#Makertube seemed like a nice site, so I decided to apply for an account to play with @peertube without having to clean up my vps or create another one 😉

Got my account approved, donated some money for the hosting & now my YouTube footage is moving towards the #Fediverse. Pretty cool 🤓 😎

Europa & Nederland moeten écht stappen nemen om los te komen van de bigtech multinationals.

Zie ook deze oproep aan NL regering van @publicspaces @waag @commonsnetwork

https://publicspaces.net/2024/11/06/in-onze-brief-aan-de-commissie-digitale-zaken-zetten-we-digitale-autonomie-op-de-agenda/

De NL overheid is vrijwel geheel afhankelijk van bigtech uit de VS. En de trend neigt naar nog meer afhankelijkheid, zoals @bert_hubert hier beschrijft:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/de-totale-keuze-voor-microsoft

Dit moeten we stoppen, voor het echt helemaal te laat is.

#OpenSource #TechPolicy #Politiek #DOSA #EU #Digital #Tech

@photomatt I get the impression you need help. Please talk with people you trust, are lifelong friends speaking freely & no yes people. Take some time off, go offline, reflect & reconsider your current course of action. Do not use .org & community as your weapons. They are not yours nor anyone else's to wield.

Your current actions are unnecessarily destroying 20+ years of trust & goodwill.
Please, at least temporarily, step back from WordPress.org & WordPress Foundation. Take care.

Had a great conversation on public organisations & fediverse @fediforum. Been listening a lot to the other conversations as well. Good vibes & interesting topics discussed. Need to chew a bit more on this, so to speak.

#Fediverse #Fediforum

Alexandra van Huffelen (outgoing) Minister for Digitalisation in The Netherlands decided to leave #Twitter / X.

She participated in the Dutch talkshow 'Op1' & eloquently explained her motives (dutch, start 11:28 https://npo.nl/start/serie/op1/seizoen-5/op1_421/afspelen).

More importantly she also appealed to others to follow her example & use #Mastodon instead.

AFAIK this is a first: a high-ranking politician advocating for Mastodon / #Fediverse in a mainstream talkshow on national television.

Interesting developments.

Most #bigtech social media platforms allow personalisation: like a profile picture or a header image for example.

What if we'd use these to advertise the #fediverse? Help those unaware of the existence of the fediverse to explore it & experience the Internet as intended.

Use those in-active Twitter/X, Facebook, Instagram etc accounts for some good!

What do you think? Could we organize something like this?

@publicspaces @toon @dansup @Gargron @fediversereport @laurenshof
@smallcircles