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In mid-October, people began to notice that if one’s Instagram bio said “Palestinian” in English alongside the Palestinian flag emoji and “Praise be to god” in Arabic, the app translated the text to “Terrorist.” Meta released a public apology.

Holy shit, Zuck!

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Nazis verpiss dich!

As an abolitionist, I look forward to ponderous think pieces about the horrors of the prison industrial complex starting to appear in right-wing publications.

Congratulations!

I was going to joke that he probably got it from the police he trained in the United States, but the inclusion of an Israeli flag takes this from fascist shit to peak fascist shit.

I think this explanation would be more coherent if it was given by one of SpaceX's competent and underpaid engineers. They clearly did a good job of dumbing it down to Elon's level of comprehension, so that he could sluggishly regurgitate it to the general public and appear to understand rocket science.

I think you're right. I looked up the podcast, and it was coined by Brady Haran. I think I conflated conversations about the role of bootlegging compared to copyright infringement and the development of the term freebooting to mean re-hosting content. It sounds like referencing bootleg recording wasn't part of the original intended nuance of the term.

I think you're also correct that TomSka's use of the term to include claiming ownership is still a semantic shift.

I love TomSka and this video.

One quibble I have is his use of "freebooting" to mean uploading something and passing it off as your own. Freebooting to me has always meant sharing a work without directly compensating the copyright owners of the work, without the connotation of falsely taking credit for it. The term was invented and popularized by file-sharers whose copyright indifference was frequently termed "stealing" - when it has little in common with theft of a physical object.

Before file-sharing was popular, bootleg copies of live performances were a normal part of band fan culture, and bands would countenance or even encourage it. Bootleg recordings were never intentionally falsely attributed. Likewise, freebooting compares what file-sharers are doing with the bootleg recording industry; one that is nominally illicit, but complements the artists' reputation and status.

I think we start by eliminating FPTP.

You've correctly identified the tone of the article as hyperbole, but the solutions you're proposing are somehow more unrealistic than the actions suggested by the article. If you could merely vote away the problem, countries that have implemented FPTP voting would have already solved it.

Building an alternative power base implacable to capital is the only way out of this crisis. Your votes have no effect on policy.

The periods when countries had "good" government were also the periods where capitalists felt threatened. We've had bad government for so long, the only realistic solutions left are radical ones.

Fediverse links to current communities:

• !piefed_meta@piefed.social
• !piefed_help@piefed.social

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Maybe share this: How Wolves change Rivers.

Yes, I've had several posts that humanize Palestinians removed near the start of the conflict on Lemmy.World, though things have improved there. I've never seen censorship of Gaza reporting here at BeeHaw; I have a lot of admiration for @alyaza@beehaw.org who has beaten me to the post several times.

I'm really happy for Eugen's success, and am grateful for his essential contribution to widespread adoption of the ActivityPub protocol, even though I don't agree with him on a lot of things.

I think it was honest for him to acknowledge Google's role in sidelining the XMPP protocol, and while I don't want to quibble about the other mitigating factors, I do take issue with him comparing the trajectory of ActivityPub with SMTP with the visible adoption and mutually assured destruction of major corporations in maintaining email's nominal interoperability.

If people haven't read it yet, they should check out (already Fedi-famous for his article on Enshittification) Cory Doctorow's article Dead Letters -- about how it is impossible for even a well-known public figure with access to the best server infrastructure and technical know-how to run a small private email server hosting completely legal content serving nothing resembling spam in the age of Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft Outlook. There are several ways that federating with Meta can kill this movement, and ActivityPub becoming the new email is one of them.

Basically, if we allow Meta, BlueSky, and Twitter to federate, the very network effects Eugen mentions make it more valuable for them to federate with each other than any smaller server. Predictably they will underfund moderation staff who make errors or their faulty algorithms automatically de-federate smaller servers due to false-flagging spam. Small operators will have to work harder and harder until it is basically impossible for them to overcome the error or fix the problem and re-federate. Eventually small groups that aren't directly sponsored by one of the giants will be weeded out, as their users migrate to more reliable services. Even if the disconnections and undelivered messages are not the fault of the sysops, they will be scapegoated, and eventually more and more will throw up their hands and leave the rigged game.

While having a protocol you championed become the defacto web standard may feel like a great accomplishment, the Fediverse will never be a "Social Web" until the tools we use to communicate are incapable of being taken from us by corporations. Eugen's vision of a social media ecosystem where any small developer can write a platform and have access to the entire ActivityPub network is at odds with his enthusiasm for the emailification of ActivityPub.

There are social obstacles to building the "Social Web" and as good as the Activity Pub protocol is, the true technical solution is Solidarity.

I'm really happy for Eugen's success, and am grateful for his essential contribution to widespread adoption of the ActivityPub protocol, even though I don't agree with him on a lot of things.

I think it was honest for him to acknowledge Google's role in sidelining the XMPP protocol, and while I don't want to quibble about the other mitigating factors, I do take issue with him comparing the trajectory of ActivityPub with SMTP with the visible adoption and mutually assured destruction of major corporations in maintaining email's nominal interoperability.

If people haven't read it yet, they should check out (already Fedi-famous for his article on Enshittification) Cory Doctorow's article Dead Letters -- about how it is impossible for even a well-known public figure with access to the best server infrastructure and technical know-how to run a small private email server hosting completely legal content serving nothing resembling spam in the age of Gmail, Yahoo, and Microsoft Outlook. There are several ways that federating with Meta can kill this movement, and ActivityPub becoming the new email is one of them.

Basically, if we allow Meta, BlueSky, and Twitter to federate, the very network effects Eugen mentions make it more valuable for them to federate with each other than any smaller server. Predictably they will underfund moderation staff who make errors or their faulty algorithms automatically de-federate smaller servers due to false-flagging spam. Small operators will have to work harder and harder until it is basically impossible for them to overcome the error or fix the problem and re-federate. Eventually small groups that aren't directly sponsored by one of the giants will be weeded out, as their users migrate to more reliable services. Even if the disconnections and undelivered messages are not the fault of the sysops, they will be scapegoated, and eventually more and more will throw up their hands and leave the rigged game.

While having a protocol you championed become the defacto web standard may feel like a great accomplishment, the Fediverse will never be a "Social Web" until the tools we use to communicate are incapable of being taken from us by corporations. Eugen's vision of a social media ecosystem where any small developer can write a platform and have access to the entire ActivityPub network is at odds with his enthusiasm for the emailification of ActivityPub.

There are social obstacles to building the "Social Web" and as good as the Activity Pub protocol is, the true technical solution is Solidarity.

It's crazy how hard Disney has fought to keep Steamboat Willie, an animation based on Steamboat Bill, out of the public domain. Mickey is no longer the exclusive property of The Walt Disney Company.