Notices by Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)

@Gargron Thanks Eugen. Greatly appreciated.

Sharing over here as well. I'm joining the Bluesky board to help provide them guidance. I remain a supporter of all experiments in decentralized social media, and will write more on that later. I still have high hopes for Mastodon/ActivityPub as well...

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/06/why-im-joining-the-bluesky-board-to-support-a-vision-of-a-more-open-decentralized-internet/

@murph can download straight from the rss feed? https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2315966.rss

2nd episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech! We talk about the potential impact of the Murthy case, whether or not Reddit is truly a "content moderation success story," the ways that various governments around the world are seeking to regulate the internet (and the risks associated with that), and how Elon has discovered the value of content moderation... except that he only wants to use it to *protect* neonazis.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2315966/14747842-murthy-reddit-and-the-speech-deciders

Okay, we've had some banger posts on Techdirt today so I'm sharing. First up, a summary of yesterday's Supreme Court hearing on the future of the internet, in which (incredibly) I try to explain what Alito meant when asking about the weight of YouTube (it was dumb, but not for the reasons everyone thinks). https://www.techdirt.com/2024/02/27/sir-this-is-a-supreme-court-not-a-wendys/

Mickey Mouse (the Steamboat Willie version) is now public domain on the east coast of the US.

@iuculano @joemcken negotiate for *what*? The right to LINK without having to PAY? No one should ever support having to pay to link.

@twasink @joemcken @Popehat fb did cave, but after getting concessions. It was dumb of them to cave, but we'll see what happens in Canada.

So... the summary is that for all the fear some people had that taxpayers would "bail out billionaires," and the corresponding fear that companies had that "a ton of our money could evaporate and destroy the economy with massive downstream impact"... FDIC/Treasury stepped in and did the right thing: depositors made whole, no taxpayer funds, bank assessment to make up any difference, & SVB equity/unsecured debtholders (mostly) wiped out.

A very good result.

@victoriadecapua @aral I would just like him to confront the reality of what he's done.

The fun thing about management by fucking around is that only later do you bother to figure out what you did wrong, long after you made a mess...

OMG. @caseynewton @zoeschiffer this is amazing beyond amazing.

https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

More strange Mastodon reporting. This time from @thurrott, who claims "I’ve been using Mastodon since December, but the interaction there is almost non-existent compared to Twitter."

Dude, you follow 22 people. Try following more people. The "non-existent" interaction is *up to you*.

I've found WAY MORE interactions and engagement here than I ever had on Twitter. Plus fewer death threats.

https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/social/279094/mastodon-continues-to-lose-users

This seems like incredibly lazy reporting. Yes, there was a flood of new signups, and not all of them became regular users. But look at the growth of actual usage and posts of the Fediverse, and it continues to go up.

I've seen a few articles with this framing lately, and it's just so lazily misleading.

https://www.wired.com/story/the-mastodon-bump-is-now-a-slump/

This is the best Downfall video ever. A live look at Elon Musk's war room.

Kudos to @max_andrews https://www.captiongenerator.com/v/2284647/elon-reacts-to-twitter-implosion