Just wondering if anyone else is feeling a little burnt out from all the #SocialMedia platforms there are nowadays.
I'm just feeling tired of having to play on so many different platforms. I've recently just been concentrating on #Instagram recently, but I still feel Instagram lacks the interaction of platforms like this.
Is there a good mobile #browser or #Android app for #SocialMedia consumption? Should be able to view content from #TikTok #Instagram without forcing their official app? Ideally, this should work with or without an account.
Must be separate from the main browser and not share cookies and have a different fingerprint.
Nice if it has a built-in vpn.
Too much work for too little gain... I'm almost ready drop this mastodon thing.
The bad part is the fediverse bunch who into this still can't get their head around why majority of people are not ditching Twitter & Instagram for decenteralized alternatives.
In the @newyorktimes: 
"#ActivityPub has also led to a wave of start-up efforts such as #Mastodon, a microblogging service that now has more than 14 million accounts connected by a network of over 14,000 host computers, as well as start-ups like #Pixelfed and #PeerTube, distributed services that offer features similar to #Instagram and #YouTube."
A Long-Shot Bet to Bypass the Middlemen of #SocialMedia
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/technology/mike-mccue-surf-browser-decentralized-internet.html
Thank you @pixelfed! That's why our #retrocomputer #popart #vector #graphics and #IT #pioneer #portraits are NOT available on #Suckaborg's #instagram. Those #vintage #computer #svg #illustrations can be found on @pixelfed, only.
https://pixelfed.social/gfkDSGN
The upcoming World Expo in Osaka, known as the kitchen of the country, is viewed as an opportunity to showcase Japan's food industry, including advanced services. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/03/14/japan/osaka-expo-food/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #2025osakaexpo #osaka #food #japanesecuisine #robots #instagram
Meta Platforms beginnt Feldtests von "Community Notes"
Fakten prüfende Profis sind out bei Meta. Die User sollen "Kontext" liefern, gratis. Auf das Geschäft soll sich das bitte nicht auswirken.
This disgusting person is, according to her Insta account, a "Outdoor enthusiast & hunter ➶ Wildlife Biologist & Environmental Scientist | MSc" #animals
Hope Sam Jones goes broke now and gets blacklisted from more places than Australia. She needs to be booted from #Instagram
US tourist filmed running off with baby wombat may have visa canceled, official says | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/travel/australia-us-tourist-wombat-visa-intl-hnk/index.html
If the target of a cyberwar is…a society, then the attack surface is… software that allows the attacker contact with the mind of the enemy. For Russia in 2015 and 2016, the American attack surface was the entirety of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Google.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom (2018)
#russia #cyberwar #facebook #instagram #twitter #google
Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France brought by authors and publishers who are accusing the company of economic “parasitism.” Read more at @Techcrunch. #Meta #Instagram #Facebook #AI #Copyright #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/mSO6-8
Bericht: Meta Platforms testet selbst entwickelten Chip für KI-Training
Der von Meta selbst entwickelte KI-Beschleuniger soll die Abhängigkeit von Nvidia und Kosten reduzieren. Er ist für Empfehlungen und generative KI geplant.
BeReal 
is a French social networking app that was created by Alexis Barreyat and Kevin Perreau in France in 2020.
It's seen as a rival to apps like Instagram or TikTok and it's got features that have been copied by Instagram recently.
But some people see it as more of an 'anti-Instagram' because you can't edit your photos, use filters or see how many followers you have. 
So, what's the deal?
It's basically a photo-sharing app that encourages users to share a daily photo of their real life without filters or editing, using both the front and rear cameras on their device. Every day, users are given a fun and unexpected notification at a random time, giving them just two minutes to take and post a photo. You can choose to share your photo with friends or more people. 
It's already got 23 million users worldwide (but you don't hear about it much in the mainstream media).
Did you know about it? Do you use it?
Check out some interesting growth stats about BeReal here: 
https://www.onlineoptimism.com/blog/bereal-stats-app-figures-data-be-real-numbers-to-know/
Official website: https://bereal.com
Statement on meta's policy changes
Because of the recent events in the US and the new policy of Meta, we would like to share a statement with you. We don't agree nor support the defunding of content moderation or anything anti LGBTQIA.
We are in solidarity with all the oppressed and will continue to fight for a more diverse world, especially in difficult times, like now.
#meta #lgbtq
#queer #diversity #nohatespeech #solidarity #instagram #mastodon
Most Facebook executives didn't allow their own children on Facebook - according to Ms Wynn-Williams. "They had screen bans. They certainly wouldn't allow them to use the product."
And yet she says reports from 2017 - that the company had been using algorithms to target and categorise vulnerable teens - were true.
"The algorithm could infer that they were feeling worthless or unhappy," she alleges.
The company - which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp - could, she claims, identify when a teenage girl had deleted a selfie on its platforms, and then notify a beauty company that it would be a good moment to target the child with an advert.
Ms Wynn-Williams says she "felt sick" at the thought and tried to push back, "although I knew it was futile".
Ms Wynn-Williams claims that in the mid-2010s, as part of its negotiations with the Chinese government, Facebook considered allowing it future access to Chinese citizens' user data.
"He was working hand in glove with the Chinese Communist Party, building a censorship tool…"
'Ms Wynn-Williams says governments frequently asked for explanations of how aspects of Facebook's software worked, but were told it was proprietary information.
"But when it came to the Chinese, the curtain was pulled back," she says.
"Engineers were brought out. They were walked through every aspect, and Facebook was making sure these Chinese officials were upskilled enough that they could not only learn about these products, but then test Facebook on the censorship version of these products that they were building."
Kaveri linkkasi Instagram-videon. Avasin videon selaimeen. Sain katsella postimerkin kokoista videota, joka on pakattu seitsemääntoista kertaan ja kuvattu perunalla.
Mikä aika olla elossa!
Julkaisin juuri uuden artikkelin blogiini!
Pixelfed vinkkejä
There’s an irony that an #Instagram account that “makes cool AI art”, a thing that steals from other artists, is complaining about an AI video maker stealing from them “without consent”.
De hecho también hay proyectos que están enteramente dedicados a acumular números en #instagram, pero que fuera de la plataforma no tienen ninguna consistencia. A todos se nos ocurre algún ejemplo de esto.
Pienso en "Blas de Lezo" por ejemplo https://www.verkami.com/projects/39094-lezo-el-comic-ii Un proyecto exitoso de alguien que apenas tiene presencia en redes. También "Caso 63", de Julio Rojas... O gente que su éxito en redes simplemente es un reflejo de su alcance analógico, como Rebeca Dautremer, Julia Sardá, Oliver Jeffers. No digo que #instagram no sea una ayuda o una posibilidad, pero tampoco es un aro por el que incondicionalmente tengamos que pasar.
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