Sarah Perez
11:39 AM PST · January 8, 2025
we fucking said this would happen and this dumb asshole refused to defederate on the flagship instance anyway
Call me psychic. And he really is an asshole
Meta moderation was a dumpster fire before this, I can only imagine how bad it’s going to get.
Currently they have blatant misinformation everywhere posted as real news, people read the stuff and believe it fully. It should be illegal - people are just too stupid to know Facebook is just a modern tabloid magazine.
Years ago I reported the same account for bullying the same person, every time FB came back saying “no issues found”. The site is fucked, and blatantly has been so for years. But it was recently pointed out to me it has been since the start. He’s not a nice guy.
Tabloid magazine? … it’s more like scribbled pieces of paper written by random strangers on the sidewalk … people keep reading the crap and walk away happy that their worst beliefs have just been confirmed by 100 random strangers with scribbled pieces of paper who told them so.
Corporate fediverse isnt true fediverse
Yeah, when my Lemmy server goes down I don’t want it to be because of a large scale cyber attack, I want it to be because some dude’s dog got the zoomies in the basement and tripped on a cable.
Damn! If only someone could’ve predicted that Meta would eventually do something stupid like this! If only we had defederated from them from the start /s
But nobody could have seen that coming! /s
That’s my secret, Captain, I’m always defederated from corporate social media.
How can a decentralized platform have a CEO?
Who wants to be CEO of lemmy btw? You’ll have no power over anything, but we can call you that from now on as a joke.
Sup
You recognize that Mastodon, the software, is developed by a non-profit called Mastodon gGmbH?
Actually I was not aware of that, thank you for telling me.
Mastodon gHmbH? What happened there? Was he naming the company and somehow fell on the keyboard?
Cat on the keyboard. Been there…
gGmbH = gemeinnützige Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung = limited liability company serving the public benefit
God damn the German language sure uses the entire alphabet in every word…How do they fit names onto their street signs???
the longest street name in Germany is “Bischöflich-Geistlicher-Rat-Josef-Zinnbauer-Straße”, which I don’t think is that different from something like “St Martin-in-the-Fields Church Path” in the UK.
(I’m purposefully ignoring Wales, because they’re just fucking with us at this point)
Well thank goodness they have that ß character to help keep their street names so efficient.
Do you have a problem with the language that’s half l and y?
The can keep their l’s and y’s, my issue is that I don’t trust their language after their longest town name was arbitrarily made so to reap in unsuspecting tourists
Are the Welsh fucking anything other than their flock?
wat
Replace ss with ß.
Is the first g the “for public benefit” part? Because isn’t GmbH an evil company?
Also, isn’t the norm that if you’re doing good, you don’t name the leader a CEO but a Director or something?
yes, gemeinnützig = serving the public benefit (literally approximately: gemein = common, nützig = useful, i.e. useful to the common good)
GmbH is just the (almost literal) translation of LLC.
When I was a kid I always pictured a goomba when I saw GmbH.
Thats a good association.
And we’re on Lemmy, so any LLC is inherently evil. /s
If your goal is profit, then yes.
/not s
Close, it’s German. Basically an LLC.
No it’s not. It’s a gGmbH. Notice the leading “g”. It’s a nonprofit company.
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemeinnützige_GmbH
Unfortunately there is no English translation of that page on Wikipedia.
Let’s just call it a nonprofit.
@Lost_My_Mind @TheTechnician27 A gGmbH is roughly comparable to a PBLLC.
Lmfao, no clue why you’re being downvoted so much. It’s absolutely true that the camel-case here looks like a clusterfuck, even when it’s easily explained.
Because there’s a company that makes the software used to run a Mastodon instance. Same way Mozilla has a CEO even though they’re not in charge of the internet.
His name is John Mastodon.
Thank goodness Boint Boint is here to explain.
Nice. I wonder if he also plays drums for Mastodon.
His full name is John Mastodon Pterodactyl Triceratops Sabre-tooh Tiger Tyrannosaurus but he just goes by John Mastodon for short.
How do I find out if my Mastodon server is federated with Threads?
Even if your Mastodon instance is federated with Threads, you can still block the whole domain from your account. Explanation / walkthrough here: https://mastodon.social/@_elena/113797840274825233
https://fedipact.veganism.social/ has a search feature.
Nice. Pretty happy that most of the fediverse, and most lemmy instances, are blocking threads.
This is old, it still has the (now defunct) feddit.de instead of feddit.org
RIF feddit.de 😔
At least on mine, there’s an “About” link on the bottom left side on the web interface, click that and scroll to the bottom where you’ll get a list of blocked servers, then just uncollapse that and ctrl+f for “threads.net”.
Also if you search “@threads.net” in your mastodon client and you find users from that server, then your server should be connected
“Who saw that comi… who saw where that came from!”
Removed by mod
Who is the gentile here, and in what way is that relevant?
And all the goyim say I’m pretty fly for a rabbi!
Let big corpo tell you whats true and whats not goyim
Alright uncle Cletus, it’s time for your nap. Don’t forget your antipsychotic cyanide pills 🥰
Does the Mastodon CEO prefer content curated by the “former” CIA & Mossad agents working at Facebook? Is Mastodon censoring content?
The fact that mastodon actually has a CEO is alarming.
Why though? Most non profits have a CEO, the power the CEO has can differ a lot, just like presidents globally.
Most nonprofits do NOT have a CEO. That’s why this is alarming.
The head of a nonprofit is usually the Executive Director.
CEOs and EDs do the same jobs. Just different names. In the U.S. there’s been a push by many non profits to change the title to CEO. Only because it sounds sexier.
Average lemmy NPC comment
Excuse me, are you calling me a bot, pal?
lemmyworld user, opinion discarded.
smd mlite
cant talk .mler
Oh, no It’s not like Mastodon instances have fact checkers or even sufficient moderation staff
Many instances are fairly well-moderated I would argue
Back in my day we were perfectly capable of checking our own facts. A rare skill these days.
I have an idea. Make it so every time you create a social media account, you have to check “agree” to a giant banner that says “if you take anything you see on here seriously, you are an idiot.”. That’s how we used to automatically treat things on the Internet at first glance.
That’s what I don’t get about people getting mad at the removal of “fact checkers”. Zuck was right in that they were uneducated and highly biased. Their “context” a lot of time was downright misleading. I never trusted them anyway because I don’t get my news from random people on the internet.
Bullshit. Where would you get these facts? From sources curated by government censors and Cold War propagandists.
I watched a damn Doris Day movie last month that had imperialist propaganda shoved in it. No living person predates propaganda, and your overconfidence that you were able to sort it out with even less information sources available is ridiculous.
That’s the idea, overwhelm people with massive amounts of information and misinformation, and people start tuning out and not caring anymore. One thing I did learn from those “propaganda” sources of days past was that the Holocaust was real, a fuckton of minorities were brutally murdered, and Nazis are fucksticks who need to be stamped out at every opportunity.
That is something I’ve actually seen actively changing in the past 20 years. When I was a kid/teen, we never fucking questioned it. Now the Internet is full of Holocaust deniers. Just spreading that shit from person to person like a virus.
We didn’t blindly trust other sources either. Filtering and research is a skill you learn to use on any source of info you’re given. Public schools used to teach us how to do this. Do they not anymore?
You’re looking at it with rose colored glasses. There have been Holocaust deniers ever since the Holocaust.
And now we have an ongoing genocide being live-streamed by the very people committing it, and they’re still denying genocide.
Yes. But they didn’t have a megaphone to reach millions with one post. They were rightfully looked at as crazy assholes and mostly stayed in the dark.
No, you’re either misremembering or intentionally misstating to advocate for censorship. Holocaust denial has been prevalent in media and among the powerful as well.
The entire reason it was allowed to happen was because of denial by the media and the powerful. Not some working class assholes with a printing press. And we see it playing out exactly the same way now with the genocide in Palestine.
