Notices by Andrea Grandi 🦕 (andreagrandi@mastodon.social)

Has @gotosocial been removed from FediDB ? After reading about their project I wanted to check how many servers and users it has... but apparently it has been removed 🤔

Does anyone have more information?

@aral @ErickaSimone @broadwaybabyto illegal, at least in EU. Customers can't be charged different prices for the same thing.

@steamdeckhq this is on the edge of click bait folks... come on.

"Free to try" is basically a demo of the game, not a free game.

TIL: #Micro #blog platform now has a 1$/month plan which basically covers everything the old 5$ one had.

I already host my blog on GitHub Pages and build it with @gohugoio but at this price I may consider it for smaller posts.

Check them at https://micro.blog

#blogging #writing

Happy GNU Year 🎉

@dansup @andrewt and I think you (Dan) are doing a lot on this subject. If people at Meta had even 1/10 of your concerns and care, even their platform would be much better.

To be clear, I'm not against federation with them, but I strongly think they have a lot to learn from the fediverse about moderation, not the other way around.

@dansup if Meta is "too big" to handle moderation, maybe they should rethink the whole thing.

About your last point, I genuinely do not understand it (I may be missing some context or knowledge). Happy to answer if you can elaborate it a bit more. Thanks

@dansup I'm not comparing "apples" with "trees", I'm just saying that I do not trust nor like how Meta handle moderation.

I'm not even talking about proactive moderation (catching certain content before I see it) but the fact that even when you point them to something specific, they state that episodes of food challenges or clear doxing and offences do not violate their policy.

I've seen fediverse instances with almost zero resources to handle this content correctly.

@dansup are we talking about the same Meta who manages Instagram, to which I *daily report: harassment, doxing, offences, violent posts, unsafe food challenges etc... and which regularly reply with "We didn't remove the post you reported because it doesn't violate our rules". Are we really talking about the same company? They can definitely do better, yes. I don't care if they join Activity Pub, but let's not take them as a moderation example, please.

@Gargron hi, I added my website to the list (and clicked on Save button) but if I visit my profile and click on toots where I've linked something from my blog I don't see anything 🤔

@Gargron which one is it? I'm not sure I see the right option.

@dwineman @thomasfuchs @chris__martin and do you all realise how toxic and insulting is, telling people who spend their spare time to write blog posts for free what to do or not to do, telling them they insult their readers and judging their tastes?

In my life I did learn 1) not to judge a book by its cover (literally the "cover image" in this case) and 2) not to tell people what to do in their personal (web) space.

Some of the people judging don't even have a blog themselves 🙄

@thomasfuchs @chris__martin maybe some people know how to write, but they don’t know how to draw, nor they have the resources to buy stock photos since it’s a free blog and they are already using their time to write an article which is free for readers?

@joeo10 @artfulrobot @adorabilis @joe_vinegar interesting read, thanks! I was aware of many of these things unfortunately. My issue is that I can’t find anything better at the moment. If I did, I would unsubscribe immediately.

@adorabilis @joe_vinegar I've been using Kagi for a few months now. If you don't like AI and LLM, then stay away from them too because they have been integrating it for months now (not just in the separate Summariser or Chat bot, but also in the quick answers)

@artfulrobot @adorabilis @joe_vinegar yeah, the "funny" thing is that their slogan is "Kagi. Humanize the Web". I wonder how long before they drop it just like Google dropped the "Don't be evil" 😉

@Gargron Mastodon's Translate feature uses DeepL, which uses AI to provide the translation. Does it break the new rule or is it a special case?

@Gargron what about AI generated cover images from linked posts?

@pixelfed where can I find the download link for the iOS version of Pixelfed? The version I have will expire in 5 days and I can’t find the app anymore in the TestFlight, nor it’s available in the App Store. Thanks

@dansup I didn't specify the platform, sorry, I was talking about the iOS client