Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Este viernes en Bogotá nos encontramos compas de Sutty, Hackbo y otros proyectos a charlar sobre la web distribuida, infraestructuras colectivas y sitios web resilientes, entre otras. Habrá tigres! Y un recorrido por el bosque del Hackbo. Pueden acercarse el 4 de Agosto, 2023 de 4 a 7 pm a Calle 44 # 8 - 50. Apto. 201. Bogotá, Colombia. https://hackbo.org/

The BBC's experiment with Mastodon is pathbreaking in English-language news -- a major organization setting up its own instance. They've really thought this through. Key language:

"We're using social.bbc as the domain, so you can be sure these accounts are genuinely from the BBC. And by linking to and from the BBC’s website, we have verified our identity on Mastodon."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-07-mastodon-distributed-decentralised-fediverse-activitypub

Welcome to:
@BBCRD
@BBC5Live @BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

I wonder if the whole #AI thing will finally convince artists that modern #copyright regime was never meant to protect *them*.

It was meant to protect the middlemen. The Amazons, the Spotifies, the Sonys, the Disneys. The film studios, the publishing houses.

Now the middlemen figured out they own basically all of art, and that they can just train a computer on that, to replace artists with a piece of software.

And then stop paying artists even the pittance they were being paid so far.

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Perhaps it was never about the money, it is about exerting the power, making others break, and inflicting pain.

As brilliant screenwriter, David Slack can make a simple image tell a clear story below.

#WritersStrike #ActorsStrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UnionStrong

I have Ruffle, a chrome extension installed, and on many sites flash content simply works and yes, newgrounds etc are still around. Newgrounds has it's own flash player even.

I see people question @pixelfed over @Mastodon, and that's fine (I ❤️ Mastodon, sent from Mastodon)

However I think it's important to note that Pixelfed has Stories, Collections, Portfolios and much more!

You can post pics on Twitter, but Flickr, 500px and Instagram still thrive!

Portfolios: https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/dansup

Collections: https://pixelfed.social/c/530360750719739665

Use whatever best fits you, and know that @pixelfed + @Mastodon work great together ✨

not to sound like a huge communist but I don’t think millions of us should have to die hungry and in debt so a couple dudes with really really really big boats can have really really really really big boats

This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

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If you're still using Chrome for performance reasons:
- Firefox is now faster than Chrome out-of-the-box
- Firefox uses less memory than Chrome
- Contrary to Chrome, Firefox does not restrict Ad blockers, which will make your browsing experience much faster (and safer).