Notices by David Carroll (profcarroll@federate.social), page 2

@carl24k fwiw I am noticing that https://buttondown.email assures an easy migration off of substuck

Substack Cofounder Defends Commercial Relationships with Nazis https://www.techpolicy.press/substack-founder-defends-commercial-relationships-with-nazis/

substack: “Very Fine People on Both sides” As-a-Service

Wild. #TheGreatHack (2019) was watched for <checks notes> 900,000 hours globally in the first half of 2023 according to #Netflix’s recent #DataDump. #WhatWeWatched https://about.netflix.com/en/news/what-we-watched-a-netflix-engagement-report

Even though I know that Zuck knowingly lied to the whole world about when he knew about Cambridge Analytica, https://federate.social will not be preemptively blocking #threads, instead letting members continue to control their own instance blocks. #mastoadmin

@tchambers When they say you “can’t post to Threads” do you think they really mean that a Threads user would have to boost a Mastodon post into the Threads instance? So more just a misunderstanding of how federation works?

To support our instance at https://federate.social this #GivingTuesday consider a monthly contribution on https://ko-fi.com/profcarroll and keep :elmo_fire: billionaire-proof social media servers alive and :mastodondance: well federated.

Q: Where does the money go, Dave?

A: All donations on my ko-fi go straight to paying our masto.host subscription which will cross the threshold of $99/mo next year after originally launching with only $9/mo of capacity just over a year ago. #GivingTuesday

Q: How much does it cost per user per month to run your mastodon instance on masto.host?

A: We have a small group of around 100 consistently active members who generate significant interactions, a few with high follower counts. Next year, the budget is $1 per active user per month to run https://federate.social so presently a subset of generous members are supporting our local community and the #fediverse more broadly. #GivingTuesday

I think the idea of millions of servers with 100 members who pay $1 a month is a highly sustainable model of decentralized social media. It’s been really easy to manage my duties as an admin this past year and anyone who is thinking of running a server next year, I’m happy to chat. I think launching more smaller instances is the way to go and grow because the federation actually works when it works.

“In a second Trump presidency, the visas of foreign students who participated in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests would be canceled.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/politics/trump-2025-immigration-agenda.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9kw.WyRw.VZuR8zLgVpRT

A New Meta Whistleblower: Arturo Bejar returned to Facebook to help make Instagram safer for teens. When he discovered the disconnect between what the company thought it was doing and what teens actually experienced such as unwanted sexual contact, to no surprise the executives and managers didn’t want to hear it or do anything about it. (Sorry for the paywall. Breaking news exclusive to WSJ)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/instagram-facebook-teens-harassment-safety-5d991be1

“But Bejar’s efforts to share the Well-Being Team’s data and conclusions beyond the company’s executive ranks hit a snag. After Haugen’s airing of internal research, Meta had cracked down on the distribution of anything that would, if leaked, cause further reputational damage.” [continued]

“With executives privately asserting that the company’s research division harbored a fifth column of detractors, Meta was formalizing a raft of new rules for employees’ internal communication. Among the mandates for achieving “Narrative Excellence,” as the company called it, was to keep research data tight and never assert a moral or legal duty to fix a problem.”

If any newcomers are looking for a smaller screened instance to join, check out https://federate.social as we have available capacity and are well-federated to provide an excellent timeline for our members. #TwitterMigration #FediTips

Did you that know you can move to another #mastodon instance/server and take your follows and followers with you? (but not your posts) Here’s the official guide on how to do it. #FediTips #TwitterMigration
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

wow i'm using a single app for both mastodon and bsky to toot this (ivory on https://skybridge.fly.dev)

TFW your mastodon app works also works on bsky so you're switching between ActivityPub/Mastodon and AT/Bluesky servers in a single UI/UX on @ivory over Skybridge by @videah cc @activitypubblueskybridge

:drake_dislike: On one hand having to blast spammers is annoying.

:drake_like: On the other hand it does mean that a precious ad-free zone badly wants to be penetrated precisely because it is rare and valuable in this world and we own it. Let’s keep defending it. Thanks to members for issuing reports, thanks to admins for forwarding them to the attacked sources. Together we will defeat the pernicious pollution of #cryptospam

AOC mapped a #bsky account to her official house.gov domain.