Notices by Henry Fisher (henry@dindon.one)

A new wave of spam attacks has flooded Mastodon. Previously, unwanted messages could be managed with content filters, but now the situation is much more complicated: spam posts now only contain images without text, making them harder to filter. If an effective solution is not found, we risk soon being drowned in a flood of spam in the fediverse.

#Mastodon #Spam #Fediverse #Cybersecurity #OnlineSafety

We live in an amazing time—a Pakistani website specializing in publishing fake news created by AI to earn advertising revenue published an announcement of a non-existent Halloween parade in Dublin. The article was picked up by search algorithms and rose in Google's results. Journalists began spreading the news in their publications without even bothering to verify it. As a result, thousands of people came to the square, ready to participate in a parade that didn't exist. #FakeNews #AI #Media #Dublin #Halloween #Misinformation

What do you think could have happened between our year 2024 and the near 2122, in which the entire crew of the spaceship from the movie "Alien" uses only 8-bit computers like Atari or Commodore?

#Technology #Futurism #Movies #Alien #Computers

Yesterday, I posted a chart with Mastodon active users to discuss the problems of Mastodon. I also cross-posted it over 10 of my connected profiles. I got max 10 comments on that from all the profiles during the day. Today I posted a similar post on Reddit r/Mastodon and got more than 70 comments in 3 hours. It's much easier to discuss Mastodon on Reddit than on Mastodon itself. Lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/1g1g844/why_is_mastodon_struggling_to_survive/

#Mastodon #Reddit #SocialMedia #Discussion #Engagement