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@prologic I will share later my GoToSocial 10 lines (or less)
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config.yaml, and 4 lines Caddyfile, and you will see how easy it is.
@bender@twtxt.net Pleroma’s got an interactive wizard, it can hardly be beaten :P
Social media ban: A guide for Australian parents
What you need to know, and what you can do. ⌘ Read more
What the social media ban means for rural boarding school students
Regional and remote students are being encouraged to learn old-school ways to stay in contact as social media bans for those under 16 come into effect over the summer holidays. ⌘ Read more
European Lawmakers Seek EU-Wide Minimum Age To Access AI Chatbots, Social Media
The European Parliament has passed a non-binding resolution urging an EU-wide minimum age of 16 to access social media, video-sharing platforms, and AI chatbots, with parental consent allowed for ages 13-16 and a hard ban for anyone under 13. “It also proposes additional measures, including a ban on addictive design f … ⌘ Read more
https://fokus.cool/2025/11/25/i-dont-care-how-well-your-ai-works.html
AI systems being egregiously resource intensive is not a side effect — it’s the point.
And someone commented on that with:
I’m fascinated by the take about the resource usage being an advantage to the AI bros.
They’ve created software that cannot (practically) be replicated as open source software / free software, because there is no community of people with sufficient hardware / data sets. It will inherently always be a centralized technology.
Fascinating and scary.
Social media ban for under-16s challenged in High Court
Australia’s social media age ban is being challenged in the High Court on the grounds it restricts young teens’ implied right to freedom of political communication. ⌘ Read more
Amanda’s husband seemed able to read her mind. Then she learnt why
Amanda’s husband always seemed to just know things. When fiddling around with her social media settings, she discovered how he had been using technology to gaslight her. ⌘ Read more
‘Being famous isn’t cool anymore’: Lurker explores fandom and obsession
In a world where celebrities are accessible on social media in a way they never were before, has fame lost its shine? A new film explores the parasitic relationship between stars and their fans. ⌘ Read more
FBI set to interview Democrats who urged US military to ignore illegal orders
It comes after the six US politicians appeared in a social media video which Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth described as “seditious”. ⌘ Read more
Google Denies ‘Misleading’ Reports of Gmail Using Your Emails To Train AI
An anonymous reader shares a report: Google is pushing back on viral social media posts and articles like this one by Malwarebytes, claiming Google has changed its policy to use your Gmail messages and attachments to train AI models, and the only way to opt out is by disabling “smart features” like spell checking.
But Google spok … ⌘ Read more
New Research Finds America’s Top Social Media Sites: YouTube (84%) Facebook (71%), Instagram (50%)
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them
“do you ever use” YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results?
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 2 … ⌘ Read more
Lembrete: o limiar da pobreza em Portugal, em 2024, foi de 632€. No final de 2024, metade dos pensionistas da Segurança Social recebia até €500 por mês, o que os coloca abaixo do limiar de pobreza. 70% destes pensionistas são mulheres.
Não aumentar as pensões mais baixas é aumentar a pobreza e a desigualdade. Assim se votou.
Adobe Bolsters AI Marketing Tools With $1.9 Billion Semrush Buy
Adobe is buying Semrush for $1.9 billion in a move to supercharge its AI-driven marketing stack. Reuters reports: Semrush designs and develops AI software that helps companies with search engine optimization, social media and digital advertising. The acquisition, expected to close in the first half of next year, would allow Adobe to help marketers better … ⌘ Read more
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@arne@uplegger.eu @lukas@lukasthiel.de In fact, Yarn.social’s yarnd client implementation actually uses (or did, still kinda does today) PicoCSS 🤟 It was/is a good CSS library! 👍
NetChoice Sues Virginia To Block Its One-Hour Social Media Limit For Kids
NetChoice is suing Virginia to block a new law that limits kids under 16 to one hour of daily social media use unless parents approve more time, arguing the rule violates the First Amendment and introduces serious privacy risks through mandatory age-verification. The Verge reports: In addition to restricting access to legal speech … ⌘ Read more
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New beginnings, new horizons. New pod logo 🤟 Media
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@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org @bender@twtxt.net that’s also what Yarn.social’s logo is, and just happens to be the yarnd default. Hmmm figured times for a change? 🤔
LOL 😂 I think mastodon.social is broken 😞 
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Anyone run a Mastodon serve rI can have an account on to help test the Twtxt <-> Activity Pub bridge? 🙏
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@prologic@twtxt.net just create an account on mastodon.social, wouldn’t that work?
The November 15 edition
Teenagers test-drive the social media ban: ‘idk what to do’ | Anthony Hopkins on life epiphanies | Why many are fleeing NYC | Forest bathing’s deepening appeal ⌘ Read more
Where Have All the TV Cameras Gone?
TV manufacturers are abandoning their attempts to turn TVs into interactive social devices through smart cameras. Sky announced this month that it will discontinue Sky Live, a camera accessory for its Sky Glass televisions that brought video calls, body-tracked workouts, and motion games to the living room. The device will stop working at the beginning of December. Sky will brick the cameras and … ⌘ Read more
Hyundai Data Breach May Have Leaked Drivers’ Personal Information
According to Car and Driver, Hyundai has suffered a data breach that leaked the personal data of up to 2.7 million customers. The leak reportedly took place in February from Hyundai AutoEver, the company’s IT affiliate. It includes customer names, driver’s license numbers, and social security numbers. Longtime Slashdot reader sinij writes: Thanks … ⌘ Read more
Netflix’s New Era of TV Games Starts Now
Netflix is launching a new slate of TV-streamed party games that are all playable using your phone as the controller. The Verge reports: To start, Netflix is offering Boggle Party, Party Crasher: Fool Your Friends, Lego Party, Pictionary: Game Night, and Tetris Time Warp. A social deduction game based on the Knives Out series, Dead Man’s Party: A Knives Out Game, is also part of this new slate … ⌘ Read more
Jack Dorsey Funds diVine, a Vine Reboot That Includes Vine’s Video Archive
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: As generative AI content starts to fill our social apps, a project to bring back Vine’s six-second looping videos is launching with Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey’s backing. On Thursday, a new app called diVine will give access to more than 100,000 archived Vine videos, restor … ⌘ Read more
Plans to axe disability watchdogs ‘incredibly dangerous’, critics warn
The government’s plan to introduce a super-regulator to oversee social services will put some of Victoria’s most vulnerable at risk, say advocacy groups. ⌘ Read more
At 14, Brett gave his sister a note and hid in the bathroom. Then she knocked on the door
Brett Duncan and his sister, Jess Colgan run a vegan cake business in Melbourne. Brett, a qualified pastry chef, is deaf; Jess is a social-enterprise CEO. ⌘ Read more
‘We’re not asking for sympathy’: Scammers pose as family businesses on Perth social media noticeboards
Community noticeboards for suburbs across Perth have received an uptick in the number of posts from the “family businesses”, which all claim to be doing it tough and make emotional pleas for work. ⌘ Read more
Researchers Surprised That With AI, Toxicity is Harder To Fake Than Intelligence
Researchers from four universities have released a study revealing that AI models remain easily detectable in social media conversations despite optimization attempts. The team tested nine language models across Twitter/X, Bluesky and Reddit, developing classifiers that identified AI-generated replies at 70 to 80% ac … ⌘ Read more
Denmark to ban social media for children under 15 – DW ⌘ Read more
Está por trás duma paywall e só sei desta notícia as gordas, mas é de aplaudir que a queixa seja feita - e de lamentar que ela tenha de ser feita.
Já me tinha queixado disto por aqui: quem é a comunicação social para decidir quem são ou não os candidatos presidenciais? A Lei é quem define estas coisas, não uma mão pouco cheia de cadeias televisivas. Que eles tenham escolhido fazer debates antes de haver candidatos é uma decisão que eles tomaram, e que não pode ser usada como desculpa para apontar dedos e decidir quem são os candidatos de primeira e de segunda. Até haver candidatos, há propostas de candidatura - e elas são bem mais que oito - todas iguais perante a lei, e perante os cidadãos.
“Ah, mas estes são quem tem mais probabilidade de chegar a algum lado” dirão, mas o perigo está exactamente aí - é ao retratar estes oito como “os candidatos” (no discurso utilizado nem referem que há outros!) que a comunicação social interfere, e faz levar os eleitores a estes em detrimento de outros.
Já levaram a extrema direita ao colo, não aprenderam nada.
Gostava agora de saber se partidos como o @LIVRE@LIVRE vão apoiar queixas destas: também eles já tiveram neste papel de ostracizados pela comunicação social (lembram-se da petição pela justiça nos debates das Europeias?).
Tim Berners-Lee Says AI Will Not Destroy the Web
Tim Berners-Lee thinks AI will help the web, not destroy it. The inventor of the World Wide Web has spent years warning about platform concentration and social media’s corrosive effects, but he views AI differently. AI has accomplished what his Semantic Web project could not. The technology extracts structured data from websites regardless of how the information was formatted. … ⌘ Read more
Estes comentários de Montenegro sobre a Greve Geral é para galvanizar mais trabalhadores a fazer greve?
É que não perceber a convocação é não saber o que anda a fazer; dizer que os sindicatos com quem reúne em concertação social são braços da sua oposição partidária é descredibilizar a própria concertação social.
No fundo, o Governo está a dizer “vamos aprovar este pacote laboral e não há nada que possam fazer quanto a isso”, ao que os trabalhadores dizem “para começar, podemos entrar em greve geral”. Esta reacção de Montenegro só confirma a necessidade dessa decisão.
Allowing 16-year-olds in may be the toughest part of social media ban
Face scans aren’t accurate enough to tell 14 from 17, and most 16-year-olds don’t have government-issued photo ID. ⌘ Read more
French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who freely benefit from social security ⌘ Read more
Facebook Dating Is a Surprise Hit For the Social Network
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the New York Times: Facebook Dating, which debuted in 2019, has become a surprise hit for the company. It lets people create a dating profile free in the app, where they can swipe and match with other eligible singles. It has more than 21 million daily users, quietly making it one of the most popular online dating service … ⌘ Read more
Denmark’s Government Aims To Ban Access To Social Media For Children Under 15
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: Denmark’s government on Friday announced an agreement to ban access to social media for anyone under 15, ratcheting up pressure on Big Tech platforms as concerns grow that kids are getting too swept up in a digitized world of harmful content and commercial int … ⌘ Read more
Grand Theft Auto 6 Delayed Again Until November 2026
Rockstar Games has announced that Grand Theft Auto VI won’t launch in May of next year as planned. Kotaku: The highly anticipated sequel is now set to arrive in November 2026. On Thursday, Rockstar announced on social media that the long-awaited next entry in its open-world blockbuster franchise would need a bit more time, delaying the game an additional six months from … ⌘ Read more
Louvre heist suspect is social media star and former museum security guard, reports say ⌘ Read more
“This is not a Chinese bus problem. It is a problem for all types of vehicles and devices with Chinese electronics built in.”, says in the article.
Sorry but no. The truth is that “This is not an all types of vehicles and devices with Chinese electronics built in problem. It is a problem for all types of remotely accessible vehicles.”
I’m a father and IT worker. The social media ban won’t protect our kids – it will hurt them
The social media world is not some alternate reality our children “escape” into – it is the reality they live in. The sooner we accept that, the sooner we can help them thrive within it. ⌘ Read more
Australia’s teen social media ban has a gaming-sized loophole
The list of banned platforms requires mental gymnastics that the government has struggled to explain, and ignores where kids actually spend their time. ⌘ Read more
Scheduling the next Yarn.social Call for next month, a month in advance. Hope y’all can make the next one 🤞
Let’s do it! 🤟 https://meet.mills.io/call/Yarn.social
👋 Reminder that we’re starting up our social calls again (monthly), RSVP here 🤟 It starts in 13h27m 😅 Hope to see some/all of you there 👌
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Fevela.me – A newsreader-like client for the Nostr social network
I created Fevela, a fork of the great Jumble, because I wanted a Nostr social client that would give me back full control of my attention and time. So I designed an interface similar to that of old good newsreaders, which for me is perfect to encourage exploration of interesting content rather than doomscrolling. I then added some ad hoc filters that can help reduce noise and improve the signal.
Unlike traditional social media that’s designed to maximize your time on t … ⌘ Read more
‘Most of it is good’: Tim Berners-Lee on the state of the web now
The man who invented the web is aware of the many issues it faces, from problematic social media use to the rise of unfettered AI. He also has a plan to remedy the situation ⌘ Read more