Look, it's all my favourite streaming services on one platform!

Public Social Media

The choice is clear.

Mastodon

Owned by: No one and everyone

Structure: Public non-profit

Number of distributed nodes: Thousands

Post length: 500 characters and more

Can edit? Yes

Bluesky

Owned by: Venture capitalists

Structure: Corporate for profit

Number of "distributed" nodes: One

Post length: 300 characters

Can edit? No

#PublicSocialMedia

After a lot of work, we're happy to announce the #PeerTube Android application is available on #fdroid 🎉

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.framasoft.peertube/

https://distrowatch.com/weekly-mobile.php?issue=current#sitenews

Facebook has decided Linux is malware lol

State solo scaricando a miliardi un'app AI cinese low cost nel telefono dove tenete carte, home banking e fotocazzo.

Cosa può mai andare storto?

Anyone here witnessed/seen hour+ unskippable ads on #YouTube? Yes, you read that right. Supposedly, Google is only showing this to some users it suspects of using an adblocker.

We all know how #Google has become increasingly hostile towards adblocking technologies in the last couple years… but if this is true - and not some sort of bug - geez… doesn’t help they neither confirm or deny it in the news sources I’ve seen.

https://bgr.com/tech/hour-long-unskippable-ads-are-showing-up-on-youtube/

Su #Facebook si sta verificando una situazione alquanto singolare.

Per motivi sconosciuti, molti gruppi e contenuti a tema #Linux sono stati bloccati senza un apparente motivo. Sul sito viene spiegato come, da alcuni giorni diversi utenti non riescono a pubblicare post riguardanti il sistema operativo, con tanto di rimozione dei post e chiusura di alcuni gruppi.

I termini che riguardano Linux vengono etichettati come violazioni degli standard della community. 🤦‍♂️

https://www.ilsoftware.it/mistero-facebook-canali-e-gruppi-a-tema-linux-bloccati-senza-motivo/

They just blocked new registrations to DeepSeek unless you have a Chinese telephone number because they know the benchmarks they published were BS and that DeepSeek hallucinates like a psychotic person. They want you to believe the hype because if you actually use it, it's clearly around 2022 GPT-3 level.

"Il Garante per la protezione dei dati personali ha inviato una richiesta di informazioni a Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence e a Beijing DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence, le società che forniscono il servizio di chatbot DeepSeek, sia su piattaforma web che su App. Lo si apprende da una nota del Garante della Privacy."

https://www.rainews.it/articoli/2025/01/garante-privacy-si-muove-su-deepseek-a-rischio-dati-di-milioni-di-italiani-ccd9c46f-61fc-435b-a0b0-1a388730bf54.html

#Meme #Programming #Anime

Peertube: https://videos.gianmarco.gg/w/494umSkGBA8a8S9yELcMMR
Odysee: https://odysee.com/@gianmarcogg03:e/gadminafter1993:2
YouTube: https://youtu.be/saCTa4MC1iY

OpenAI upset that an AI company would train on someone else's data without consent is laughable and hypocritical.

https://www.404media.co/openai-furious-deepseek-might-have-stolen-all-the-data-openai-stole-from-us/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Super Mario grocery store wins trademark battle with Nintendo https://www.polygon.com/news/516748/super-mario-grocery-nintendo-trademark-costa-rica-grocery-store-supermarket

What did Lenovo debut at CES?



- Monitor that spies on you

- Wristwatch that spies on you

- Bodycam that spies on your friends

- Box labeled 'AI STORAGE' as though that's different than REGULAR STORAGE

- AI STORAGE box is beveled on top so it's inconvenient to put anything on it



Good work everybody

Documenti riservati rivelano i legami tra l’esercito israeliano e Microsoft



@news

Dal 7 ottobre, l'esercito israeliano si è ampiamente affidato ai servizi cloud e AI di Microsoft e del suo partner OpenAI.

L'articolo https://pagineesteri.it/2025/01/31/medioriente/documenti-riservati-rivelano-i-legami-tra-lesercito-israeliano-e-microsoft/

Let's make every day #GlobalSwitchDay! Free yourself from proprietary abusive platforms, we have alternatives.

Picture taken from this post: https://koelle4future.de/blog/2025/01/30/komm-ins-fediverse/.

#X #Twitter #Mastodon #Instagram #Pixelfed #WhatsApp #Signal #Facebook #Friendica #YouTube #Peertube #TikTok #Loops #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #Privacy #BigTech #OpenSource

Some feel like Matrix is a better alternative to WhatsApp due to its being decentralized.

X to Mastodon, Instagram to Pixelfed, WhatsApp to Matrix, Facebook to Friendica, YouTube to PeerTube, TikTok to Loops

Here is a revised graphic:

#GlobalSwitchDay #PublicSocialMedia

Happy Global Switch Day everyone.



To celibate I created yet another graphic (as others already have created them; To help people move across to the Fediverse. Along with wrote an article about it.



Go check it out at: https://articles.vex.blue/global-switch-day/



#GlobalSwitchDay #SwitchDay #Switch #Fediverse #FediverseSoftware #JoinTheFediverse

This is a public service announcement to never ever use Oracle