How do you feel about the new $300 million dollar Ballroom being attached to the White House?
#viral #whitehouse #ballroom #news #mastodon #X #trending #explore #trump #ig
#ig
Shettima calls Igbos Nigeria’s greatest stakeholders and claims half of Abuja now belongs to Ndigbo, tying their hustle to the country’s fast-rising population. See how his unity talk and bold numbers are stirring debate below. #ValidUpdates #Shettima #Ig
https://validupdates.com/2025/12/shettima-calls-igbos-greatest-stakeholders-in-nigerian-project/
On Teens and the Fediverse Opportunity
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In Australia, and England, and Ireland, and Switzerland there are talks, in some cases that are being implemented that seak to block children and teens from using the Social Media Giants.
"As of December 2025, the Australian social media ban specifically targets major commercial platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Threads, TikTok, Twitch, X, YouTube, Kick, and Reddit. The ban requires these platforms to prevent Australians under 16 from creating or maintaining accounts." Source: Le Chat by Mistral
The ban does not include Mastodon, Lemmy, Pixelfed, Foto, WordPress and other social apps. This means that teenagers who are tech savvy can slide towards self-hosted communities. Either they can self-host for their group of friends, or they can have a school wide, or university wide instance, to connect with peers, teachers and local businesses.
For several months now I have said that I believe social media bans should look towards those that own and control social media platforms, because what is toxic to children and teenagers is toxic to adults too, as demonstrated by articles in the Guardian and other publications as well as books such as Mindf*ck.
Before the pandemic social media was popular, especially in places like London, but less so in Switzerland, France and other countries. I limit it to these examples as I have closer ties to these countries. When I was interviewed by Nouvo, years ago, I said that I didn't expect Twitter to thrive because the community was too sparse.
Fast forward to 2024-2025 and I see that GoSocial, Meetup and Strava are vibrant communities. GoSocial is built upon WhatsApp group chats, Meetup is an events site, and Strava is a cycling and running community, for the most part. I see people also track their dog walks, although I haven't seen people plan "group social dog walks" yet, but that may come, as the niche widens.
Children and teens are being banned from Social Media but Social Media is already dead. I haven't established a close friendship with anyone on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, BlueSky or Threads in years. The community that made these communities so sticky in the past is gone. Now it's "refresh, scroll, refresh scroll, oh duck, I just spent two hours without achieving anything".
Technology has Advanced
When I was a teen, in the 90s, and the web was new, it was sparsely populated. We talked with people around the world but it was relatively rare to meet people from the web in person, in large part because they lived a TGV or flight away. Now online people are ubiquitous. Tomorrow I could ride with the Nyon cycling community, and tonight I could go on a pub crawl with the Nyon GoSocial community.
I can also go to Azure community events, Ruby Events, broader tech events, historical walks and more.
The Tech Giant Monopoly is Gone
Before 2006 we were part of social networks with 30-40 active users per web forum. With MySpace, Twitter, Jaiku, Google+ and other sites we went from small disparate online communities to global communities. With time, as more people adopted the World Wide Web and online communities, so the switch back to smaller communities switched directions.
We had to be on Twitter and Facebook. That's where the broadest community was. In 2024-2025 this is no longer the case. Strava, WhatsApp, Signal and other apps allow us to have small niche communities that are local, and about our own passions.
And Finally
The Atlantic asks Is This the End of Kids on Social Media and I'm tempted to say, "nope, this is the end of social media as a concept, and we're going to revert to local social networks." When Facebook introdued zynga games it discouraged conversations. When Twitter sold itself to Musk for 40 billion it encouraged people, in their millions to flee. When Instagram sold itself to Facebook, it ensured that it would become obsolete.
I see Bluesky making the same mistakes as Twitter. This morning I saw someone comment on how many bots were following them. My other reason for distrusting Bluesky is that it's a site with venture capital funding that ignores the parallels between itself and the Fediverse.
And finally, in my eyes, the real ban should be applied to those that control social media, rather than those that use social media. Until a decade ago we had social networks, and social networks were healthy. It's only since 2020 or so that social media has become unhealthy. Decisions taken by those high up in social media companies ruined the experience for everyone. What is toxic for children, is toxic for adults.
This is why I want to revert to Social Networks on a human scale.
#fb #fediverse #ig #influencers #mastodon #selfHosted #socialNetworks #tw
#Hegseth refused to sit for an interview with the #InspectorGeneral & submitted “his version of events” in writing, sources told CNN.
The #IG’s findings are memorialized in a broader report produced after its months-long investigation into Hegseth’s use of #Signal.
The report states that Hegseth should not have used Signal & that senior #Defense Dept officials need better training on protocols, the sources said.
#law #MilitaryLaw #OpSec #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Trump #idiocracy
The repercussions of Hegseth’s action, 2 sources told CNN, are less clear since the #IG concluded that the #defense secy has the authority to declassify info & #Hegseth asserted he made an operational decision in the moment to share that information, though there is no documentation of such a decision.
An unclassified version of the report is set to be publicly released Thursday. The #classified report was sent to #Congress Tuesday night.
#news ⚡ IG Metall stellt sich im Rentenstreit hinter Bas: Die Gewerkschaften haben sich im Rentenstreit hinter Bundesarbeitsministerin Bärbel Bas (SPD) gestellt. "Die Ministerin macht unter sc... https://hubu.de/?p=305485 | #bas #ig #metall #rentenstreit #hubu
RE: https://mastodon.world/@aita_maybe/115617763967338021
Congrats #Americans !
Mark Zuckerburg is gifting your Photo Library, #META DMs, etc to advertisers, PACs, & governments!
#DeleteMETA #privacy #WhatsApp #IG #Insta #Facebook #FB #Threads #oligarch #4thamendment #1stamendment #endoffreespeech #billionaire #democracyisillegal #constitution
#Meta ( #FB, #Insta #IG, #Threads, #WhatsApp, etc.) will read YOUR DMs & AI chats & accessing Your device’s Photo Library beginning December 1, 2025.
Anti-Fourth Amendment activist, Mark #Zuckerburg tells users (aka products) not to worry.
Independent journalists wonder if META will be explaining it’s selling & gifting your data to advertisers, PACs, & governments.
Sources include: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2025/11/07/meta-ai-chats/
#news ⚡ IG Metall rechnet mit mehr betriebsbedingten Kündigungen: Christiane Benner, Chefin der IG Metall, blickt mit Sorge auf die Industriearbeitsplätze in Deutschland. "Noch erhalten einige Mitarbe... https://hubu.de/?p=304162 | #ig #kuendigungen #metall #hubu
“My shows have people who have b£@ten cancer or overcame something very s£rious and none of them have ever slept.
I leave my soul on every stage i get on even if it’s only 10 people in attendance and i will gladl …” -
Singer,writes via #IG #bahdlexempire #bahdlex #burnaboy
#news ⚡ IG Metall verteidigt Angriffe auf ZF-Vorstand: Lea Corzilius, Personalvorstand und Arbeitsdirektorin von ZF, hält weitere Maßnahmen zur Stabilisierung der defizitären Pkw-Antriebssp... https://hubu.de/?p=303592 | #angriffe #ig #metall #zfvorstand #hubu
I have a super weird issue in #Firefox, that I'm not quite sure how to resolve.
#Instagram has moved to unify their messaging infrastructure. I fucking hate #IG, but sometimes you just need to scroll some cute kittens, wolves, or rescued foxes.
However, thanks to arecent change, when clicking a post, sent to me in the new messaging, FF CPU goes to 100% and tanks my copy of Firefox.
If I get a shared post: I go to messaging, the message loads, then I click the post and everything hangs. I get a gray 'loading frame' for the post, and nothing else. CPU load goes to 100%.
If I wait a while, I get the text on the bottom of the frame loading, but that's it. The tab hangs, becomes difficult to close, and I get the "THIS TAB IS SLOWING THINGS DOWN" alert from FF.
If I profile the tab in FF, I can see that there's a script, deep in Instagram's dynamic naming system that is looping, infinitely (I'm sure because I'm blocking some resource it wants). But I don't know how to prevent this call from happening.
I'm just not #Dev - y enough to know how to use #Ublockorigin to selectively block whatever this problematic JS is.
But, really, I'm not sure what else to do about this.
I can't debug IG's code and dynamic naming makes it a bitch (intentionally), I don't know enough to selectively block it, All I can say is "Yep, that's a problem."
#news ⚡ IG Metall: Betriebsrentengesetz verschärft Ungleichheit: Die IG Metall kritisiert den Plan der Bundesregierung, im Zuge des "Betriebsrentenstärkungsgesetzes" die Möglichkeit für gesetzlich Re... https://hubu.de/?p=302554 | #betriebsrentengesetz #ig #metall #ungleichh
Calm flows where water dances 🌊🍃 #waterfalls #nature #travel #naturephotography #hiking #photography #adventure #travelphotography #naturelovers #landscape #mountains #water #chasingwaterfalls #explore #landscapephotography #wanderlust #hikingadventures #photooftheday #waterfallsfordays #hike #outdoors #forest #waterfallhike #longexposure
"Massively respected investigative journalist from Reuters reporting on int docs that🚨N of $10B of annual ad spend on #Facebook #IG is #fraud & their stock barely trails the mkt today? Nuts -they know it.
This reminds me of internally how they seemed to handle their inflated metrics & leaking data. It’s only an issue if it impacts ad spend. One can make a solid ARG that 2018 pass by the SEC, FTC +friends in Cong has led to so much harm."
-J Kint
#Meta #Corruption #USPol
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/06/meta-reportedly-projected-10percent-of-2024-sales-came-from-scam-fraud-ads.html
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