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…Not least of all because the same company that runs the largest Mastodon instance runs more than one instance (why?)
But also the moderation policy that allows for the deletion of people’s posts. (Not even limiting the account or suspending it and asking the person who wrote the post to delete it but moderators outright deleting other people’s posts themselves. That sets a very dangerous precedent.)
#mastodon #fediverse #federation #censorship #mastodonOnline #mastodonSocial #mastodonGmbH
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“I suggest everyone try this out. Pretty eye opening https:// sinceyouarrived.world/taken # privacy # openweb # foss # opensource # surveillance”
https://mstdn.games/@64bithero/116539681388423723
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Re: https://better.boston/users/athorn/statuses/116539002124892696
This is good news. ShotSpotter doesn't work, and functions to launder racism. Somehow the spotters are always installed in, and the "shots" are alwa...”
https://buc.ci/abucci/p/1778246411.861704
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Big news! Following last week's Public Safety meeting on # ShotSpotter , Cambridge City Council will be meeting on Monday May 11th to vote on a policy order to end the City’s use of ShotSpotter microphones and remove t...”
https://better.boston/@athorn/116539002124892696
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“"The # AirPods Pro will have built-in cameras that will feed visual information about the wearer's surroundings to # Siri ." # Privacy # Surveillance # Apple # AI https://www. macrumors.com/2026/05...”
https://mastodon.me.uk/@PoliceStateUK/116538454972562007
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“https://www. europesays.com/people/62055/ Mamdani’s out to leverage anger at ICE to undermine the NYPD — with Israel next # BDS # editorial # ICE # IllegalImmigrants # Israel # NYPD # opinion #...”
https://pubeurope.com/@people/116537732981490299
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“You chose the smart vacuum. You didn't choose the smart lock on your front door. One you can unplug. The other? You're forced to use it. You can't swap it for a dumb deadbolt. You can't opt out. It's in the lease. Your...”
https://mastodon.social/@ImpracticalPrivacy/116536845492281547
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📜 Scrolls 40 is out! This is a special one this week, featuring awesome content *exclusively* from women creators across the #indieweb and #fediverse!
https://shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2026-05-08
A big thank you to all the awesome women who’s work is featured in this week’s edition 🧡
@MsHearthWitch @Louisa @sophie @theresmiling @latte @frills @sulitelma @anarodrigues @eclecticpassions @manipulatedstars @EmilyMoranBarwick @Soblow @immarisabel @mahryekuh @rachsmith @tracy @gelbphoenix @imanijoy @moonsea@omg.sayitditto.net @arielmt
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“For anyone interested in a more complete update on the # Somerville # bodycameras deliberations, one of my collaborators put together this document summarizing ways to support our organizing: https:// docs.googl...”
https://better.boston/@athorn/116535874242611227
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“A small walkable area where you are expected to use cars or electric trikes with parcels delivered by robot, are surrounded by even more CCTV than you would get in Britain feeding Woven City AI Vision Engine, and no-one ...”
https://mstdn.social/@jonpsp/116535492901514703
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“https://www. europesays.com/videos/22623/ Five hantavirus cases confirmed on ship as it heads for Canary Islands # alert # antarctica # authorities # Channel4 # Channel4News # Channel4 # cruise ...”
https://pubeurope.com/@videos/116534980336762301
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RE: https://veganism.social/@Geri/116537676967800066
Folks, just a quick warning: If you’re against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, avoid mastodon.online.
They deleted two of Geri’s posts.
Geri is a wonderful activist and an inspiration from the UK who has braved arrest to shine a light on Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people.
Do give her a follow on her new account as she lost quite a few followers during the migration.
Also, to our friends in Gaza, please don’t create accounts on this server.
#mastodon #fediverse #moderation #censorship #mastodonOnline #israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #Gaza #GazaVerified #StopIsrael #FreePalestine
@aral @david_chisnall mastodon.online - they were criticisms of the the media not mentioning the Muslim being stabbed at that event and thereby framing it exclusively as antisemitism. But hey ho.
I emphasised the abhorrent nature of AS in my post but concluded how further posts may be viewed
Yesterday, we attended the Barclays Annual General Meeting and made a nuisance of ourselves
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“A little break from " # TheranasAI " court coverage... You know that thing where you just want to read an article and instead spend 4 minutes clicking motorcycles for Google? Wrote about why that's not a bug, it's the ...”
https://ppb.social/@ppb1701/116534790959237009
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“New by me: Chrome’s Silent Gemini Nano Download Has a Consent Problem https://www. kylereddoch.me/blog/chromes-si lent-gemini-nano-download-has-a-consent-problem/ # Cybersecurity # InfoSec # Privacy # G...”
https://infosec.exchange/@cyberseckyle/116534321885961705
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“it genuinely reminds me of a pre-2022 time period when russian oligarchs & spies were allowed to operate & spy of whom they need without much of a resistance and only until they screwed up (while chunk of population down...”
https://mstdn.social/@DM_Ronin/116534097485616467
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“bahn.de thinks my browser is a bot. Bot(h) Firefox and LibreWolf don't work, but Firefox Focus on my phone does work. Great stuff. # bahn # surveillance”
https://floss.social/@fkooman/116532881683651233
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Some useful videos to help new people getting started on Mastodon and the wider Fediverse:
Mastodon in 180 seconds - https://tilvids.com/w/wx2iLhD3pTipbKFJKLyx5t
What is Mastodon? - https://fedi.video/w/cbQE3NRw76FayQCSdb14TU
Introducing the Fediverse - https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN
The Crafter's Guide to the Fediverse - https://makertube.net/w/e0482fe7-2143-443e-9db4-68ae52ac34a7
What is the Fediverse? - https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277
Quick Start Guide to the Fediverse - https://tilvids.com/w/7ec57164-aef3-4861-a33b-61dd7629faac
How to use Mastodon - https://tilvids.com/w/82a27416-c154-49e8-8130-2a30c25da1c8
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Why France’s Senate approved a bill targeting Islamist infiltration and what it could mean for the country https://www. byteseu.com/1997380/ # bill # France # France ’sSenate # Institutions # IslamistI...”
https://pubeurope.com/@byteseu/116530965685064654
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Dynamic pricing seems to ask: “What are the conditions right now?” Surveillance pricing asks: “Who are you, and how much can we extract from you?” https:// thetyee.ca/Analysis/2026/05/05 /Browsing-History-Grocery-B...”
https://zeroes.ca/@datum/116529210680029749
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“# AIEngineering # objectrecognition # surveillance # dataprivacy https://www. pcmag.com/explainers/the-creep y-reality-behind-the-license-plate-cameras-in-your-town”
https://mastodon.social/@the_aicoder/116528996734115298
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If you weren't able to make it to Hamburg, or to catch the livestream, for #2MR don't worry! All the sessions have been uploaded online 📹️
This includes the Hamburg Declaration, an introduction to a set of shared principles to grow European social media sovereignty across protocols.
You can see @bjoernsta and our own @michael introduce the manifesto below 👇
https://watch.2mr.social/w/mSkBvuNN2RBitaK74GnEvM
#SocialWeb #Europe #Fediverse #Protocols #Tech #DigitalSovereignty
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Alternatives (Fedi, GAFAM, Free Software, etc.), gloomy [SENSITIVE CONTENT]
Well, I used to really want to preach alternatives. In fact, I still do — but I find it harder and harder to convince myself that there's any point.
Firstly, people don't want changes. And I perfectly understand that, because I'm so tired myself. And if it weren't for a kind of stubbornness, combined with a sense of responsibility and lack of a better way to live, I would love to kill it all with fire and move to Gobi.
People are used to living in a cesspit and they're good. They don't want to go out into the clean air — at the best, if their cesspit starts stinking too much, they want to move into a neighboring swamp, the one with perfume in it. Perhaps they'll move from #Twitter to #BlueSky, from #Windows to #macOS, from #Android to #iPhone. Some will try the #Fediverse, or #Linux, and they'll stay. Others will decide they're not for them, and perhaps become even more convinced that alternatives suck and mainstream's the only way.
Secondly, the world can hardly be described otherwise than a cesspit-in-a-cesspit. You can try convincing people to use more secure services, apps, and so on — but they'll still be using browsers and operating systems that invent even more imaginative ways of spying on them. The goalpost is moving away fast.
Thirdly, over and over it turns out you can't really trust the alternatives. You convince someone to switch from X to Y and a month later it turns out Y became evil as well. Out of the frying pan and into the fire. How many times can they be expected to switch? How many times can we suggest another alternative? Can you trust anyone anymore?
#PixelFed turned out to be run by an asshole, who on top of that keeps bragging about buyout offers. #SimpleMobileTools were sold. Successive websites and applications are either becoming enshittified or abandoned. I'm literally scared that if I can convince someone to use Linux, then the distribution in question will one day start spying on people…
#GAFAM and nazis are on full offensive. They make you dependent, they buy, they corrupt, they destroy. They suck the energy and life out of creative people — and that is killing the alternatives.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“# FTC to ban # DataBroker # Kochava from selling Americans’ location data https://www. bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu rity/ftc-to-ban-data-broker-kochava-from-selling-americans-location-data/ # privacy ...”
https://mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenewoil/116528107007335376
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“What Could Possibly Go Wrong with Germany’s Pivot Toward Automated Surveillance
Germany's New bill would let police use AI tools to upload a photo and automatically find matches online Finish reading here:
➡️ medium.c...”
https://mastodon.social/@pivxcrypto/116528089061971978
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“do you understand what just happened to your computer.. # GoogleChrome secretly downloaded a 4GB # AI model onto your device. Without asking.. Without telling you.. It's called weights.bin. It lives deep in your ...”
https://zirk.us/@JazzyKindaFella/116527415710662539
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Pulitzer Prize winner: US companies enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China "The expansion of government surveillance efforts in China — and the role that U.S. tech firms played in it — was the foundatio...”
https://mas.to/@meganL/116526266038984416
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Funk hat es nicht einmal geschafft, auf Anfragen aus Wikipedia zu reagieren, um ein eigenes Werk vor der Löschung zu schützen. Halte ich daher nicht für seriös.
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[After having a post go "fedi-viral" (100+ boosts), I can better empathize with what @veronica and @TechConnectify have been complaining about WRT behavior on #fedi.
I've mostly gotten positive comments from people I already knew. One or two replies were a bit odd. One was seriously bonkers: bad enough to make me report, mute the entire instance, and block.
That's rare for me. I'm very much a live-and-let-live kind of guy (that's a privilege, I know), and I happily interact with people whom I disagree with sharply on some issues, and I have mutuals that honestly hate each others' guts. 😄
The #fediverse still has a moderation problem, and the fact that 99% of its users may not encounter it doesn't mean it's not there.
So thankful for the vigilant, too-often-thankless (or worse) work of instance admins and some of the more clever fedi clients in keeping the amount of craziness down.
I like the fact that @pachli has an option to warn or hide posts from new accounts. I think that should be a feature of all #fedi server software. I'd also like to see less of a trust-by-default model for federation. It would be neat to have some kind of a credit score for instances, and the ability to share those scores, such that a highly-rated instance rating another instance as being very poor would have a heavier weight than a new or poorly-rated instance giving that same instance a high rating.
All that is way beyond what #ActivityPub was intended to do initially, I'm sure. I'm hoping the fedi can grow towards being a safer place for all, and I'm certain that's what nearly everybody wants. It's just a question of how to do so. And that's not a five dollar question. ;)
Edit: updated Veronica's mention to her new account.
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Soft eyes, a crown of flowers, and a little quiet charm 🌸🐄 Twila the Floral Crowned Cow: https://1-lisas-baker.pixels.com/featured/twila-the-floral-crowned-cow-lisa-s-baker.html
#CowArt #FarmAnimalArt #FloralArt #FlowerCrown #RusticDecor #FarmhouseDecor #AnimalArt #CountryArt #WhimsicalArt #ColorfulArt #HomeDecor #WallArt #BuyIntoArt #cow #cows #mastoart #fediart #fediverse #creativeToots #artistsonmastodon
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A painterly portrait of a cow facing forward, wearing a colorful flower crown. The background is soft teal with textured brushstrokes, and the cow’s expression is calm and gentle with warm, blended tones.
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#Symmetrical #Orchid #Art - #Reds by Kaye Menner #Photography #Throw #Pillows
#Symmetrical #Orchid #Art - #Blues and #Greens by Kaye Menner#Photography
Huge selection Throw Pillows at: https://buff.ly/6vggM8L Can resize all to fit.
#photodigitallyaltered #homedecor #mastoart #fediverse #fediart #fedigiftshop #giftideas #wallartforsale #Art #artforsale #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Artist #FineArtAmerica #PhotographyFeed #VisualArts #CreativeArts
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My photograph of a bouquet or orchids. I then used Photoshop to digitally transform this image into a symmetrical formation highlighted in white with a red textured background.
THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.
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My still life photograph of blue aqua orchids which I transformed into symmetrical art with Photoshop.
THE FINE ART AMERICA LOGO WILL NOT APPEAR ON PURCHASED PRINTS OR PRODUCTS.
🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“16% of Parents Help Their # Children Bypass Online Age Checks, Study Finds. One 15-Year-Old Just Uses a Fake Moustache
# ageverification # privacy # security # surveillance https:// news.slashdot.org...”
https://mas.to/@PrivacyDigest/116522831598156060
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Texas Observer: As License Plate Readers Expand in Texas, Privacy Advocates Are Fighting Back The Kyle City Council voted to apply for more state grant money for Flock Safety cameras despite a string of local-level con...”
https://m.ai6yr.org/@ai6yr/116522714106631822
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Associated Press global investigation into government surveillance efforts win Pulitzer Prize https:// apnews.com/article/pulitzers-a p-china-surveillance-investigation-916b0fa8d2eb022d7630da63be0c34d1 @ Associat...”
https://infosec.exchange/@AAKL/116522517422148737
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“RE: https:// mastodon.social/@noybeu/116520 675219511680 Sue them into extinction. # LinkedIn # GetFucked # Worthless # Surveillance”
https://mastodon.social/@kristen_d/116521886063769725
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you — The Police in Deuts...”
https://pandas.social/@panda/116521873323255200
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🛡️ #Cybersecurity news & tips across the #fediverse
“Surveillance is spreading like cancer all over the world alongside with rightwing fascist ideology – and that is why it is essential to adopt new unconventional methods for attacks against the state and its agents.
Ther...”
https://kolektiva.social/@KCKane137/116521700537018232
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I sincerely love you weirdos. <3
#Fediverse #Mastodon #GoToSocial #snac #snac2 #honk #meme #AVIF
Edit: added transparency to image. Scratch that, GtS seems to not like transparency in AVIF, so I restored the original and uploaded a black background variant as well
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"X all the Y" guy:
I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!!
Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background:
Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests
"X all the Y" guy's reply:
I'll take it!!!
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"X all the Y" guy:
I want an amazing community of noble-minded people to study ethics with and change the world!!
Pawn Stars with the faces of the fediverse logo, the mastodon logo, and the logos for snac2 GoToSocial, and Honk in the background:
Best we can do is a bunch of cool weirdos with similar nerdy interests
"X all the Y" guy's reply:
I'll take it!!!
(dark background)
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Experimenting a bit more with the Fediverse Invitation page based on lessons learned from https://communities.jointhefediverse.net.
Ideally, all the extra information would be included in the server metadata, but until then, maybe server admins interested in using this project can reach out and I can add it manually?
Eg, for mastodon.social: https://invite.jointhefediverse.net/?server=mastodon.social&apps=1,2,3,5
Data: https://github.com/stefanbohacek/fediverse-invite/blob/main/data/communities/mastodon.social.json
Later today, join a TechSoup Connect webinar with @michael for a session on our Apps for Change programme!
We'll be exploring how Apps for Change can provide an escape from Big Tech and unlock deeper connection to community.
RSVP now to ensure you get in: https://events.techsoup.org/events/details/techsoup-techsoup-connect-canada-chapter-presents-apps-for-change-building-community-owned-spaces-in-a-big-tech-world/
#TechForGood #SocialWeb #AppsForChange #Newsmast #Fediverse #TechSoup
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A graphic which reads: Newsmast Foundation. techsoup. Apps for Change. Building community-owned spaces in a Big Tech world. May 5th, 7-8pm BST.
There is an image of a man in a black hoodie, wearing glasses and smiling into the camera.