Notices by Fedi.Tips 🎄 (feditips@mstdn.social), page 2

@mjf_pro @Gargron

Meta will do the minimum amount needed, sabotage it, drag their heels and not apply it outside the EU.

There is not even an EU law yet, and Meta will do nothing until there is and until it is enforced, if it ever is.

There is no reason to trust Meta at all, they have done the most awful things:

https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/ethiopia-facebook-algorithms-contributed-human-rights-abuses-against-tigrayans

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/dec/06/rohingya-sue-facebook-myanmar-genocide-us-uk-legal-action-social-media-violence

@moose

Favourite a toot if you like it, that lets the author know you liked it.

Boost it if you want to share it with your followers.

Reply if you have something to say to the author.

Boosts have the added advantage that they spread the post to all the servers of all your followers, so the post will become searchable on all your followers' servers too.

@janosch

Ahh okay...

Is your server running some kind of custom code, if it has older posts at the top?

@mjf_pro @Gargron

"they’d also block Threads users from…easily moving to their friendly neighborhood Mastodon host. "

No.

There is no account migration system on Threads.

You cannot move your account from Threads to Mastodon.

@Gargron

This is really disappointing, Eugen.

Meta's track record on human rights is so terrible, Amnesty International issued a report about their involvement in genocide:

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ASA16/5933/2022/en/

This is the kind of company you're excited about working with?

There is zero chance Meta is genuinely intetested in interoperability, they just want to take over control of whatever community the Fediverse has built up. As their CEO said, people who trust him are "stupid fucks".

@camhunt @wiredfire @enby_of_the_apocalypse @strathamer

We know de-platforming works because bigots fight against it so strongly. If de-platforming helped bigots, why do bigots oppose it?

Bigotry needs to be isolated and sidelined and given as little chance to be noticed as possible.

Bigots want attention by any means possible, because they know a certain percentage of the audience will agree with them. Don't give them an audience. Block them. Isolate them. Deny them any coverage.

@helenclayton @thegardendude

You can also search your own posts by using the phrase from:me

@janosch

When you say first post loaded that day, do you mean the newest post, or the oldest post?

@Walrus @daijenkins

Are you wanting to connect your blog to the Fediverse using the WordPress plugin?

There's more info about that here: https://fedi.tips/wordpress-turning-your-blog-into-a-fediverse-server/

@5moufl

No, sorry. You cannot follow accounts on instances that your instance has blocked.

It's up to the instance owner(s) to decide where their instance connects to, as they pay the costs of the instance and in some cases may be legally responsible for the contents of their instance.

@spacedragon

I don't, sorry!

(One for techy people today...)

Command line / terminal fans!

You can use Mastodon through a command line interface or a terminal user interface using the third party app "toot" for Linux etc:

➡️ https://toot.bezdomni.net

It's free and open source, find out more at the link.

This also works with Mastodon-compatible servers.

By the way, this app toot has nothing to do with the other third apps Toot! or Tooot, they just have very similar names.

#CLI #TUI #Mastodon #CommandLine #Terminal

@bouncing

As far as I can tell, Voiceover is just looking for very specific things like text and icons?

@bouncing

If you actually read the article I linked to, you would see it is about energy of actual usage (not training):

"And while we know training AI models is highly polluting, the emissions attributable to using AI have been a missing piece so far. That is, until now. "

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/

@noondlyt

Exactly. Best to avoid it if you can.

@spaduf

The article I linked to is specifically about the impact of using the models (not training but actual use):

"And while we know training AI models is highly polluting, the emissions attributable to using AI have been a missing piece so far. That is, until now. "

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/

@spaduf

You've linked to an article from April 2022.

Here's an article from December 2023:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/

@runarcn

I don't know if that feature works any more? However, I'd imagine it causes extra energy costs of some kind.

By the way, just to repeat, I'm not saying any of this to people who depend on these features for accessibility. I'm only saying this to people who are able to enter a description manually.

Some apps on here are offering AI/LLM for certain features such as entering an image description automatically.

If you are abled and sighted, please don't use these features.

If you are sighted and able to enter descriptions yourself, it would be better for the planet if you enter descriptions manually. Manual descriptions avoid anyone having to cause environmental damage.

So-called "AI" features damage the planet:

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/12/05/1084417/ais-carbon-footprint-is-bigger-than-you-think/

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-020-0219-9

https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/how-much-water-does-ai-consume

@joe @IceCubesApp

Bear in mind there will be an environmental cost to using AI.

Writing the description yourself is better for the environment.