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in reply to pixelfed • • •Hirad
in reply to pixelfed • • •He had the chance to show Meta is the one acting like a child, but instead he made himself sound like one. And that's sad.
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Max Riethmuller
in reply to Hirad • •Sally Strange
in reply to Hirad • • •tootbrute
in reply to Hirad • • •oh noes....he doesn't give one jort my man. we ain't not VCs to get on our knees for.
fediverse free!
Jens Becker
in reply to Hirad • • •@pixelfed
Barry Schwartz 🫖
in reply to Jens Becker • • •@masteralf @hirad One key point to keep in mind is that Meta software is really, really bad. Links are blocked basically at random, because they use the misnamed "AI" and this is really naive pattern matchers and random number generators. People go around attributing purpose to the actions of Meta's algorithms when really they ought to know better.
Anyway, Mark Zuckerberg is a big dope who could not possibly understand an open letter and so it looks silly even to address one.
Barry Schwartz 🫖
in reply to Barry Schwartz 🫖 • • •Barry Schwartz 🫖
in reply to Barry Schwartz 🫖 • • •@masteralf @hirad Aside: I sense in here the myth of "enshittification", which is the notion that Zuckerberg provided something idealistic and then "enshittified" it. This myth depends on the assumption that Zuckerberg always intended to give away something out of the pureness of his heart, rather than to make money.
He simply did what you are supposed to do as a profit-making business: get people deeply interested, and THEN charge them a profitable amount for it.
Gilbert Pilz
in reply to Barry Schwartz 🫖 • • •Barry Schwartz 🫖
in reply to Gilbert Pilz • • •@gpilz @masteralf @hirad AND THAT YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY EXTRA FOR to keep that enjoyment. And that didn't wall itself off so it could make money off of people. Etc.
It's like if someone handed out a gadget on the street and gave free access, then made it so you had to trek to a store, pay money, and subscribe to the service. A lot of people would stop enjoying it. So what? THE COMPANY IS NOT A CHARITY.
Gilbert Pilz
in reply to Barry Schwartz 🫖 • • •Spinner
in reply to Gilbert Pilz • • •I believe the modern term is entwittification.
endeavorance 🕊️
in reply to pixelfed • • •it may help to shorten the letter
Dear Zuck,
Get bent, loser
Signed,
All of us
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Jules 🍺
in reply to pixelfed • • •Paul Shryock
in reply to pixelfed • • •"Remember when Facebook started? It was about rating women."
Fixed it for you.
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gameRevolt
in reply to pixelfed • • •Herr Voeglein
in reply to pixelfed • • •xs4me2
in reply to pixelfed • • •Mudlark
in reply to pixelfed • • •this reads like somebody with maturity issues wrote it. Also at least export the thing into a pdf first, the squiggly lines and text cursor are still visible
More importantly, Zuckerberg didn’t build Facebook because he believed in anything, at least not anything good - initially the project was to rate college girls on their appearances
extra
in reply to pixelfed • • •Abazigal
in reply to pixelfed • • •This must be read in the same tone Kain used when addressing the elder god at the end of “Defiance”.
“Your words are heartening. For you would not fear us unless we could truly do you harm. False god. This is the end. The final turn of your wheel.”
Sally Strange
in reply to pixelfed • • •Lazou
in reply to pixelfed • • •Sofasophia
in reply to pixelfed • • •Deutsche Übersetzung:
»Lieber Mark,
Ich hoffe, es geht Ihnen gut. Mir ist heute etwas Interessantes aufgefallen - es scheint, dass Instagram Links zu meinem kleinen Open-Source-Projekt blockiert. Sie wissen schon, die, die es Menschen ermöglicht, Fotos zu teilen, ohne ihre persönlichen Daten zu sammeln oder algorithmische Feeds auf sie zu erzwingen.
Ich muss zugeben, ich fühle mich geschmeichelt. Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein kleines Team von Freiwilligen etwas aufbauen könnte, das Ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen würde? Wir versuchen nur, den Menschen die Wahl zu geben, wie sie ihre Erinnerungen online teilen. Keine VCs, kein Überwachungskapitalismus, nur Code und Gemeinschaft.
Weißt du noch, wann Facebook gestartet wurde? Es ging darum, Menschen zu verbinden, nicht um die Interaktionsmetriken zu maximieren. Unser Projekt mag im Vergleich zu Instagram winzig sein, aber wir bleiben dem ursprünglichen Geist der sozialen Medien treu - Menschen die Kontrolle über ihre Online-Präsenz zu geben, ohn
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»Lieber Mark,
Ich hoffe, es geht Ihnen gut. Mir ist heute etwas Interessantes aufgefallen - es scheint, dass Instagram Links zu meinem kleinen Open-Source-Projekt blockiert. Sie wissen schon, die, die es Menschen ermöglicht, Fotos zu teilen, ohne ihre persönlichen Daten zu sammeln oder algorithmische Feeds auf sie zu erzwingen.
Ich muss zugeben, ich fühle mich geschmeichelt. Wer hätte gedacht, dass ein kleines Team von Freiwilligen etwas aufbauen könnte, das Ihre Aufmerksamkeit auf sich ziehen würde? Wir versuchen nur, den Menschen die Wahl zu geben, wie sie ihre Erinnerungen online teilen. Keine VCs, kein Überwachungskapitalismus, nur Code und Gemeinschaft.
Weißt du noch, wann Facebook gestartet wurde? Es ging darum, Menschen zu verbinden, nicht um die Interaktionsmetriken zu maximieren. Unser Projekt mag im Vergleich zu Instagram winzig sein, aber wir bleiben dem ursprünglichen Geist der sozialen Medien treu - Menschen die Kontrolle über ihre Online-Präsenz zu geben, ohne sie in Produkte zu verwandeln.
Du hättest uns ignorieren können. Stattdessen haben Sie uns durch das Blockieren unserer Links die beste Unterstützung gegeben, die wir uns wünschen konnten. Sie haben bestätigt, was wir die ganze Zeit gesagt haben - dass Big Tech mehr daran interessiert ist, ihre ummauerten Gärten zu schützen, als echte Innovationen zu fördern.
Jedes Mal, wenn Sie einen Link zu unserer Plattform blockieren, erinnern Sie die Leute daran, warum wir ihn überhaupt erstellt haben. Ihr Handeln sagt ihnen, dass es Alternativen gibt, die es wert sind, untersucht zu werden, die ihre Privatsphäre und Handlungsfähigkeit respektieren. Also danke, Mark. Sie haben unser kleines Projekt in ein Symbol des Widerstands gegen digitale Monopole verwandelt.«
(Maschinell übersetzt)
Mieszko Ślusarczyk
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Make Socials Social Again
makesocialssocialagain.nlScarlett
in reply to pixelfed • • •Topio e.V. - space for privacy
in reply to pixelfed • • •@zuck
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TeflonTrout he/him
in reply to pixelfed • • •No surveillance capitalism*
*but it still owns everything that gets posted there in every way, shape, and form to use however Dan sees fit, forever.
Please work on that terms of service
The Creative Voice
in reply to pixelfed • • •Mia Hawkins
in reply to pixelfed • • •n x i z
in reply to pixelfed • • •John Mierau
in reply to pixelfed • • •@paul_e_cooley unfortunately, intentionally or accidentally. Dan is following Elon's 'move fast and break things' mentality.
He's doing great things for fediverse visibility... but being a one man show leads to getting your ego involved or missing things (like Loops' egregious rights over-reach in its TOS).
Dan's done a lot of good... I just hope he can avoid an Icarus-style crash and burn that could undo a lot of that good.
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in reply to pixelfed • • •Susan Ville
in reply to pixelfed • • •Amy Rodman
in reply to pixelfed • • •Waitwut
in reply to pixelfed • • •Cairo Braga [toot]
in reply to pixelfed • • •this "open letter" is embarassing... to Pixelfed.
"connecting people"? Facebook was created to predate on women and use their data without their consent!!! it was NEVER about connecting people, it was always about misogyny, ego and money.
Transcedental
in reply to pixelfed • • •Kate Nyhan is changing servers
in reply to pixelfed • • •Maybe someone should tell the lawyers who drafted the Loops TOS that :)
bajsicki.com/blog/loops-video-…
loops.video - phil@bajsicki:~$
bajsicki.comDausDD
in reply to pixelfed • • •TronNerd82
in reply to pixelfed • • •Just kidding, he deserves every bit of criticism imaginable.
pettter
in reply to pixelfed • • •seism0saurus
in reply to pixelfed • • •There is nothing you can expect from such an "inventor".
RhesusPieces
in reply to pixelfed • • •katzenberger 🇺🇦
in reply to pixelfed • • •»You've confirmed what we've been saying all along - that big tech is more interested in protecting their walled gardens than fostering genuine innovation.«
All along? Here's what you said, last September:
»Meta approached the fediverse in the proper way
They didn't acquire Mastodon
Instead they worked with fedi projects big and small regarding interop
Meta isn't the enemy«
mastodon.social/@dansup/113202…
Bidouilleur
in reply to pixelfed • • •Badger AF (he/him) DEMOCRACY
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Dominique
in reply to pixelfed • • •Zip
in reply to pixelfed • • •this letter was small and unhelpful.
I would love to find a platform without a "front-man" with an inflated sense of self.
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Richie
in reply to pixelfed • • •Max Legroom ☕️
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Len 🍉
in reply to pixelfed • • •catflyhigh
in reply to pixelfed • • •That aside the open letter of course is nice.
WesDym
in reply to pixelfed • • •Marcus Adams
in reply to pixelfed • • •Lars ♾️🌱
in reply to pixelfed • • •Vincent
in reply to pixelfed • • •I love it... 😀
Giant Pink Robots!
in reply to pixelfed • • •LillyLyle/Count Melancholia
in reply to pixelfed • • •Zuck has always been a misogynistic arsehole.
Viss
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in reply to pixelfed • • •Geodad478
in reply to pixelfed • • •Kevin Russell
in reply to pixelfed • • •Honoured to participate in the community building human tools for humans. Great letter.
Keep building, we're going all the way.
#humans #freedom #fedi # Mastodon #pixelfed #humanTools #HumanCommunity #humanTools
Santiago
in reply to pixelfed • • •Maggie Maybe
in reply to pixelfed • • •I don’t know, I have never found it beneficial at all to write paragraphs to a man explaining how he hurt me.
You could probably edit half of this out and instead laugh at him for being so jealous of your little independent website that he’s terrified to let people see it.
ɹǝʇsbuɐɹd
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in reply to pixelfed • • •Sally Strange
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Karel Gillissen
in reply to pixelfed • • •Jorge Luiz
in reply to pixelfed • • •How unhappy happens when you must down the knees to your enemy ?
Play your game!
Do your best !
The Big Brother watches everything.He do not known do other thing.
Do not be romantic !
Be smart !
Hyde 📷 🖋
in reply to pixelfed • • •JWcph, Radicalized By Decency
in reply to pixelfed • • •AndyBrunette
in reply to pixelfed • • •s427
in reply to pixelfed • • •Stefan Fendt🌻🟩
in reply to pixelfed • • •"It was about connecting people, not maximizing engagement metrics."
No. It was exactly NOT about connecting people. It never was. It was about making money. Ever since.
Am I really one of the last people left on planet earth remembering Mark Z. having written "I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks." about facebook users? I cannot believe this...
Mark Burton
in reply to pixelfed • • •en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic…
media coverage of the shortcomings of Facebook's market dominance
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sally Strange
Unknown parent • • •Suburban Druid
in reply to pixelfed • • •Víctor A. Rodríguez
in reply to pixelfed • • •Please send to your Spanish-speaking friends this Spanish translation made with open source tools
rebel.ar/@internauta_de_antes/…
Internauta de Antes (@internauta_de_antes@rebel.ar)
rebel.arAkın Yıldız 🌈
in reply to pixelfed • • •But if I saw correctly the alt description is missing the last part of the letter.
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pixelfed
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in reply to pixelfed • • •author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x7
in reply to pixelfed • • •Now Instagram is blocking hashtag #democrats ? 🤔
cosocial.ca/@timbray/113864803…
Also: mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@chris/1…
Tim Bray
2025-01-21 05:57:03
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Mark Corbett Wilson
Unknown parent • • •Wise words from Cory Doctorow;
"From now on, I will put more weight on how easy it is to leave a service than on what I get from staying. A bad service that you can easily switch away from is incentivized to improve, and if the incentive fails, you can leave."
fuzzle @ cccfr
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