Notices by Bernie The Wordsmith (berniethewordsmith@mastodon.online)

@ErickaSimone Hey, don't be afraid to ask

Heyyyy so if you are planning to renew your #Duolingo subscription you may want to dig into the recent news about them firing almost all of their translators in order to replace them with AI

https://mstdn.science/@lana/111661614729798975

Sooo I defended the federation with #Threads as a way to attract more people to the Fediverse.

During the last weeks I saw Andrew Tate, Libs of TikTok and a bunch of racist weirdos get prioritized in its algorithm.

Then I read Adam Mosseri in an old article mentioning how his team lose "some" sleep about the Myanmar Genocide.

Kill Threads. With fire.

#Meta

#Twitter #X is getting better at deterring users from posting on their website 👍

Twitter: "Pay us to deliver nazis to your screen"

Mastodon: "Here is a lot of cool people and technology you didn't know about"

@tchambers @dansup The speed of this guy implementing. Never seen something like this ✌️

I know that Mastodon nowadays feels cozy. And I know federating with Meta may, in a sense, lose some of that coziness. In my opinion, it may be worth it as long as we can make the most of it and get people out of Meta progressively.

But please people, remember to be nice and kind to each other. Those who want to block Meta, will do so. Those who want to follow people from meta, will do so. This is a feature from Fedi, not a bug.

#fediverse #meta #threads

@dansup Do you see the firehose coming? I cannot seem to be able to follow anyone from threads in Mastodon yet

@joeo10 @phf @pluralistic If Google pulls out financially speaking, then it will be our turn to help. I would rather give my money to Mozilla. People's money brought Firefox to the New York Times before

@joeo10 @phf @pluralistic There is an important difference in the way Mozilla handles V3 https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/17/23559234/firefox-manifest-v3-content-ad-blocker

Si todavía estás usando Google #Chrome, que sepas que la compañía que lo desarrolla trabaja activamente contra tí y va a limitar las extensiones que te protegen, como los bloqueadores de publicidad. Pásate a #Firefox para que tu navegador siga siendo tuyo.

https://www.engadget.com/inside-the-arms-race-between-youtube-and-ad-blockers-140031824.html?_fsig=49gdw4DnMMDBCP3QkptZlA--%7EA

If you still use #Chrome, you may want to know that #Google is limiting its extension capabilities because they do not like ad blocking. Google makes your browser to work against you by twiddling the buttons, as @pluralistic said. Work against this by using #Firefox a browser that will always be yours.

https://www.engadget.com/inside-the-arms-race-between-youtube-and-ad-blockers-140031824.html?_fsig=49gdw4DnMMDBCP3QkptZlA--%7EA

People of the #fediverse, what #RSS reader can you recommend that is #freesoftware (as in free speech, it's okay if not as in free beer)?

"It is truly astounding how quickly, holistically, and voluntarily Ronald DeSantis transformer-ed himself from the seemingly-inevitable President Damien (what up, Omen III fans) of democratic nightmares to Principal Puddingfingers, smearing his shitty evil custard all over the educational system and uncontrollably red-faced screaming at random kids for wearing outfits he doesn’t like"

That Omen III reference sent me. I almost spilled my water, @Catvalente

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-smart-fascist

"It's as if a stock exchange was owned by a brokerage that was also an underwriter, and also owned several of the largest companies on its exchange, and was free to deploy all kinds of contractual restrictions and dirty tricks to force everyone doing business to use all of its services."

Just your friendly neighbor @pluralistic raining fire on #Google and #Meta choke point ad market

https://euobserver.com/opinion/157187

@jkerrison @feditips So, Unlisted means everybody CAN see it but it will not pop in the general timeline. A case scenario is when you write a very long thread. You put the first post as public and the rest as unlisted. That way you may not spam the general timeline a lot