I've seen this on four social networks in the #Fediverse now in just over a week - #ActivityPub, #ZOT, #nostr, and #Movim/XMPP. These memes are going around, but what about those privacy disrespecting, deprecated legacy silos like #Faceplant, #Twitter, and #InstaSPAM or #Reddit - Why is it that we're preaching to the choir instead of to the sinners of the #SunnyVale_Syndrome?

Go forth, save those poor souls over on the silos, Tell them that they're pork bellies. Muahahaha!

#tallship

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@tychi
Call it #instaspam and things begin to make more sense. :)

@dansup

#InstaSPAM?

No one uses that shithole anymore.

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #Pixelfed

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@pixelfed @gotosocial

Least we forget how far we've come in just a short time and where the horizons might lie...

https://www.saashub.com/alternatives/post-news-ycombinator-2022-12-29-instagram-is-threatening-legal-action-against-pixelfed-1751003

Yes they're definitely not ignoring us lolz.

#tallship #Pixelfed #InstaSPAM #FOSS #Fediverse

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@PublicLewdness @RTP

Exactly how I feel about #social_media in general - I have more than enough to do throughout the #Fediverse (every aspect of the things in life occur here)... So why would I waste my otherwise free time on things like Twitter or #Faceplant or #InstaSPAM?

Thank you so much for your input and valuable insight! 👍

#tallship #FOSS #privacy

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Ich weiß ja nicht, ob "Hannelore" den richtigen Effekt bei einem solchen Account auslöst... 🤔
#instagram #spam #instaspam

...ich überlege gerade, ob ich die Single-Sportstudentinnen mit Kinderwunsch, die mir auf Instagram folgen, mal mit den alleinerziehenden Vätern zusammenbringe, die meine Frau die ganze Zeit auf Facebook anschreiben...
#SocialMedia
#spam
#Spamalot
#FacebookFail
#instaspam
#Instagram

@colinsmatt11 @shaman @Hyolobrika @gabriel

I recently saw a request from someone describing themselves as a prolific photographer in the #Fedilab #Matrix support room, asking if the devs could add a feature to use the EXIF data for the alt tags - they cited extremely non-trivial effort to do that manually.

It obviously issn't for everyone, with most folks preferring to fill out the alt data for the images they upload themselves, but it made a lot of sense for a #prolific_uploader of images in #Fediverse posts.

I'm glad you brought this up, because it's exactly what I was thinking when I became aware that stripping the EXIF data was the default on #Friendica, and disabling that feature is an "opt-out" option.

I don't even know if there's still such a site as #Foursquare, but about ten years ago it was a popular "check-in" site that integrated with #Faceplant.

You would basically do a check-in wherever you were and people could track you via lat/lon or physical address or the business name IIRC, and you could include pics too I think - that's one use case.

Another very good one, snapping a pic and then later uploading it as a Fediverse post in #Friendica (there's an OSM geolocation plugin), which I gather could generate a map based on the EXIF data in their photo.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen pics and wondered where the photos were taken. #Pixelfed should have such an option (does it?) w/OSM mapping toggle on upload.

I don't think any other Fediverse server platforms have that.

Extrapolating that EXIF data for the alt tags in photos uploaded as part of posts (with corresponding maps even) sounds like a great idea - but preferably not as a default setting lolz.

On another note, there's a shitload of really stupid dope farmers here in Humboldt county posting pics of their weed fields on #InstaSPAM, and then wondering why they're getting helicopter flyovers and "Abatement Letters" from the county, followed by the caravans that roll up the mountain, raid, and destroy their crops lolz.

That's what apps like #ImagePipe are for (stripping EXIF data before posting publicly). ImagePipe is available at F-Droid, BTW. 😜

@Laurien (pls pass on to Sir Spencer - he'll get a kick out of that!)

#tallship #FOSS #privacy #geolocation #EXIF #check_in

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Insta Spam

#Instagram #insta #instaspam #spam #block #report

Anyone else getting a ton of spam messages, tags and emails via Instagram lately? Or is it only lucky old me? #instaspam

@ethanz

And you should return the favor by never posting unsanitized Twitter links to the #Fediverse either 🙂

I recommend you do a search for "IndyWeb POSSE" program. Which explains the philosophy behind only posting Fediverse links into the deprecated legacy silos, and never posting unsanitized links from places there like twitter into the Fediverse.

Basically, you do a disservice posting links in the Fediverse that lead people to the very monolithic, privacy disrespecting silos that they've already left behind.

Instead, if you even bother to use those deprecated legacy silo systems, post links bringing the people there at places like twitter to content that exists here in the Fediverse, thereby providing incentives to create accounts on Fediverse platforms like #Friendica, #FunkWhale, #MicroPub, #Mitra, #PeerTube, #Pixelfed, #Pleroma, #Soapbox, #Quanta, Etc., Thereby joining the Fediverse 👍

If you find that you really must post a link leading to one of the deprecated silos, then please consider #sanitizing such links. i.e., in the case of Twitter, you can use the very popular #Nitter by just replacing the "twitter .com" with "nitter .net" in the URL.

If you're on #Android, #Fedilab does this "automagically" for you if you have safe posting enabled.

If you're on desktop, there's a whole list of similar sanitation tools you can use for #Reddit, for example, by changing the domain in the URL to #Teddit .net and similar tools for #InstaSPAM, #Quora, and many others too. For #YouTube, you can use #Invidious.

A long list of these privacy protecting utilities is provided at:

https://pussthecat.org/

And you can install Fedilab from F-Droid too:

https://Fedilab.App

You can also install the #UntrackMe app at F-Droid for generating safe links when not posting to the Fediverse - desks details are at three Fedilab website above.

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #POSSE #Indyweb_POSSE #privacy #fdroid

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@downey

Mastodon IS NOT the #Fediverse!

The #BDFL of that project saying it's is "vital" illustrates the branding philosophy and corporate, ego driven mindset behind so many PRs and requests that have repeatedly been rejected by an overwhelming amount of Fediverse users and developers - just look at how many 👎 "thumbs down" 👎 reactions his post received (that is rarely seen on GitHub).

His language and marketing have been largely successful, confusing newcomers during this Twitter egress (including media coverage) and conflating just what the Fediverse and mastodon are...

People are saying, "I just joined mastodon!" - NO, you did not. You just joined the "Fediverse", by creating an account on a mastodon server. Even newcomers creating accounts on #Friendica and #Pleroma servers are often seen saying this, and it needs to "STOP".

The Fediverse is the network they are joining, and mastodon is just one of a dozen or so viable platforms that people can use to do so.

Truth be told, mastodon is one of the least feature complete Fediverse server platforms, lacking in many of the most basic social networking tools and features that most other popular server platforms introduced ages ago.

It doesn't even render Markdown, have have quotable boosting, only introduced editing of posts a couple of weeks back, and has a hard coded limit of a paltry 500 characters for each post, forcing users to create those confusingly chronologically backward hellthreads that are interspersed and broken up in everyone's feeds, and there's many more deficiencies to list here.

This is why there are so many different forks.

When you create a #PeerTube account, you haven't joined the PeerTube network - you've joined the Fediverse!

When you create a #Pixelfed account, you haven't joined the Pixelfed network - you've joined the Fediverse!

If you create a mastodon account, you haven't joined "mastodon" - you've joined three Fediverse!

There is no such thing as a mastodon network!

It's just one type of Fediverse server platform, among many, like:

#Akkama, Pleroma, Friendica, #Lemmy, #Soapbox, #Misskey, PeerTube, #Mitra, Pixelfed, #MicroPub, #Epicyon, #Quanta, #GoToSicial, #Socialhome, #FunkWhale, and many many other platforms that open up the entire Fediverse to people, allowing them to share and seamlessly communicate with one another.

There are analogs for #Faceplant, #Twitter, #InstaSPAM, #Reddit, and pretty much any type of social networking experience you can find in the deprecated, centralized, legacy silo systems that cannot, and do not wish to interact with each other - which the Fediverse breaks the paradigm of, and empowers everyone engage with each other globally.

Mastodon's marketing has very deliberately been designed to subvert that narrative and replace this reality with its own, self serving commercial interests to the detriment of Fediverse itself.

A wake up call us coming very soon when the #non_FOSS based platforms like #Tumblr and #Imgur join their (millions) substantial user bases to the Fediverse at which time, mastodon itself may find itself drowned out and largely irrelevant due to its very lacking feature set, and ask if the other existing Fediverse platforms providing so much more if what is possible for us all.

This is typically what happens when your development is driven by egocentric, ulterior motives (whether he actually realizes this about himself or not) to benefit yourself personally - just look at how his donations have jumped, even though newcomers are creating accounts on other Fediverse and mastodon servers begging for donations that for the most part are going directly to him.

#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub #introductions #newcomers

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Hahaha...I was rage-posting on Instagram about the prevalance of spam there...and got this when I clicked 'post'. I get 3-7 spam comments on every single image I post there along with at least one spam DM a day.

Apparently, the first rule of spam on Instagram is that you can't talk about spam on Instagram.

#instagram #spam #PixelFed #InstagramDontCare #InstaSpam

Just deleted my #Instaspam account and it feels wonderful. Done lending my eyeballs for Zuckerberg to sell. #SetTheCaptivesFree

@clay @arinbasu1 @admin @silverpill @trishussey

In general I agree with most of what you're pointing out, but would characterize it in terms of #Fediverse being the dominant alternative to the deprecated, legacy silo systems, i.e., #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, Etc., making #ActivityPub the top protocol.

Nowhere in that description would I even suggest that Mastodon, as is, with it's paltry feature list, stands at this juncture to dominate the future Fediverse.

#tallship #FOSS

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@darius

Almost forgot to mention Darius, #Keyoxide is perhaps the best method for verification in today's #DeSoc world of the #Fediverse and even the deprecated legacy monolithic silos like #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, etc.

@keyoxide

https://fosstodon.org/@keyoxide

I hope that helps! Enjoy 🙂

#tallship #FOSS #identity #cryptographic_proofs

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@ditomaso

They're not switching to Mastodon - they're joining the #Fediverse.

They may create an account on a #Friendica, #SoapBox, mastodon, or #Misskey server, among s couple of dozen different types of server platforms.

Whichever platform they create an account on, they can interact with anyone else across the entire Fediverse!

It's totally awesome! 😎

Which deprecated legacy system are you leaving? #Faceplant? #YouTube? #InstaSPAM? There's replacements for all of them, all connected.

Without further ado, here's a list of all the most prominent #Fediverse server platforms in operation.

Choosing from the list below, you can join existing instances, self-host your own, and when have a professional #hosting_provider do it for your - just pick a #turnkey provider where in just a couple of clicks your new fully managed Fediverse server will be online in only a minute or two!

There's literally free and privacy respecting Fediverse platforms to replace everything from #Faceplant, #Twatter, #Reddit, #YouTube, #twitch, #InstaSPAM, #Spotify, and so very much more!

https://JoinTheFedi.com

https://Soapbox.Pub

https://Btrf.ly

https://JoinPeerTube.org

https://Mitra.Social

https://Pixelfed.org

https://Friendi.ca

https://Quanta.Wiki

https://FediDB.org/software

https://WriteFreely.org

https://funkwhale.audio/en_US/apps/

https://microblog.pub/

https://socialhome.network/

https://owncast.online/

https://join-lemmy.org/

#tallship #FOSS #Soapbox #Rebased #PeerTube #Mitra #Quanta #Pixelfed #Friendica #WriteFreely #Plume #FunkWhale #MicroBlogPub #Socialhome #GotoSocial #Owncast #LoTide #Lemmy #ActivityPub #Privacy #DeSoc #Federating #Decentralize

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@jesstud

Good to hear.

Hopefully, you left that deprecated, legacy monolithic silo dyer the right reasons, i.e., freedom (as in beer and speech), ownership of your own personal intellectual property, again "free" from being mined, fed algorithms, geographically tracked, and harvested, packaged, inventoried, and placed on the shelves of places like #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM #Reddit, and #Google.

None if that here in the #Fediverse. Much to see:

https://Friendi.ca

#tallship

@gcluley

He's just taking out the trash right now. A lot like Castro did in the 70's.

That will all eventually settle down, with the majority of those participating in the knee-jerk reaction of the #mob_mentality eventually returning...

They've been subjugated as the downtrodden and insignificant chattel of those deprecated, privacy disrespecting, legacy monolithic silos. The #addiction is strong within them and they've been #assimilated by the prettiness of the #Darkside, lolz.

Many will however, choose to stay, enjoying the unbroken promises of #freedom and safety from being weighed, measured, butchered, packaged, and placed into inventory on the shelves of #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, and other #deprecated_legacy_silos.

Many more will remain here while at the same time cave to the sinister beckonings of those evil mistresses, but at least they'll have one foot 🦶 here in the pasture of green 💚

For those of us that have been in this free space for the past 5 or 6 years, all we can do is welcome them back from the #Borg Collective and try to support their best inclinations as best we can.

The ultimate test of their commitment to protect the ownership of their #intellectual_property, privacy, and #identity is a matter they will ultimately have to decide the importance of for themselves.

Ask the best!

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ActivityPub

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