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LilMikeSFLilmikesf@c.im
2025-05-21

Major #Google #Chrome Code Update Deadline Approaching —US Govt Workers Given Imperative To Patch Flaw By June 5th Or Stop Using Popular Browsers Altogether.

#Security Issue Also Affects #Microsoft Edge #Browser, Users Advised To Update Before It's Too Late. Entire #UserBase Of Both Internet Products Advised To Take Critical Steps To Reinstall Browser With Patches And Insure Data Privacy To "reduce their exposure to #cyberattacks".

forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/20 #InfoSec #Security #SoftwarePatch

N-gated Hacker Newsngate
2025-03-08

🚨BREAKING NEWS: PayPal's extension once again receives the "featured" honor in the Chrome Web Store, proving that mediocrity is indeed an art form! 🎨 With a staggering 17 million users and Google turning a blind eye to review verification, it's clear that quality control is just a suggestion. 🐝🔍
chromewebstore.google.com/deta

Tech Chillitechchiili
2024-06-13

Groww vs Zerodha: Revenue, Funding and What’s New?

See here - techchilli.com/fintech/groww-v

Tech Chillitechchiili
2024-06-13

Groww vs Zerodha: Revenue, Funding and What’s New?

See here - techchilli.com/fintech/groww-v

MadeInDex 📰🌎madeindex
2024-05-24

From 100 people I try to talk to about , maybe 1 wants to 😅

Many know or suspect the issues with the collecting their but they try their best not to think about it, because they seem to feel helpless against it anyway.

Best way to change minds seems to be - living with privacy and answering questions when people notice your behavior & promoting / supporting alternative & .

has a big that cares about privacy, glad to be here!

Artificial Intelligence & MLtheaiml
2024-04-25

Clueso secures $1.4M seed funding led by f7 Ventures. After recovering from a 25k user base drop to zero, the company focuses on AI-driven training video production.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2024-03-25

Fewer people are using #ElonMusk’s #X as the platform struggles to attract and keep users, according to analysts
X, sorry it's #Twitter, usage has declined as downloads of Threads have surged in recent weeks. In February, X had 27 million daily active users of its mobile app in the U.S., down 18% from a year earlier. #US #userbase has been flat or down every month since November 2022, the first full month of Musk’s owning the app, and in total it’s down 23% since then nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/few

Nando161nando161@kolektiva.social
2023-09-01

"#tumblr trying to be like #tiktok then trying to be like #twitter then giving us the 3rd unreality inducing immersive ad, its staff members being condescending to the userbase, the #marketing team trying to parasocialize their way into your pockets, #youtube trying to do away with adblockers after upping the percentage of ads by 40% and making it so even if your video is demonetized watchers will still get them, youtube removing the dislike button then making it so you don't get a home feed if you have watch history turned off, #google being able to remove your synched bookmarks if they don't comply with their policy, if i listed every way in which twitter has gotten worse in the last year this post will be as long as a novel, #ai generated articles and images everywhere, google searches sucking ass in general, reddit charging for its api, #KOSA being introduced into the US senate, tiktok in general, every #socialmedia under the fucking sun introducing #login walls, being unable to browse most sites on mobile from the sheer amount of popups taking over your screen WAUUUGH social media being products and thus requiring infinite growth and thus trying to introduce newer and newer shit that #alienates its dedicated #userbase. saturated sludge era of the #internet"

tumblr.com/thelearnedwobbly/72

C.cazabon@mindly.social
2023-06-17

@lauren

This seems to be a common thread among the #footgun incidents they've been experiencing for years. They don't seem to consider how a product #shutdown, #rename, #launch, major UI #change, or some other action will look from the user's point of view.

Are they just taking the #userbase for #granted? Pure obliviousness? Management incentives that discourage it?

A lot of the time I think I'd like to be a fly on the wall when these decisions are being made.

#google

Ecologia Digitaljosemurilo@mato.social
2023-03-06

The classic #trilemma goes: "Fast, cheap or good, pick any two." The Moderator's Trilemma goes, "Large, diverse #userbase; centralized #platforms; don't anger #users—pick any two."
Rozenshtein proposes a solution to the Moderator's Trilemma: federation. De-siloing #socialmedia, breaking it out of centralized #walledgardens and recomposing it as a bunch of small servers run by a diversity of operators with a diversity of content moderation approaches.
[or]
The #fediverse!
pluralistic.net/2023/03/04/pic

@infosec_jcp 🐈🃏 done differentlyinfosec_jcp@infosec.exchange
2023-02-19

@dangillmor

*Remember*

☣️ #MarkTheVirus ☣️ thinks his #userbase are the #DumbFSCKs & also for #trusting him.

Don't. Trust. #Meta. Ever.

Alceaalceawisteria@koyu.space
2022-12-21

@jonny

Afaik "how much" the servers interact w. e.o. differs server to server.

It might have to do with:
* how much ppl from said servers #interact w. e.o.
* how the admins configured things
* How big the #userbase is

defed'ed #servers are off limits obviously

hackilluhackillu@mas.to
2022-12-16

@globalecoguy #Well, #Twitters #userbase #is 300 #times #larger #than #Mastodons. #So #it's #quite #reasonable.

Itamar Medeirosdesignative
2022-11-27

is one of the few players making use of its massive as a springboard for . Its arm, , is the biggest play in this

brazilian.report/latin-america

Ben Millerbensen
2022-11-21

is growing insanely fast. The waves are getting bigger.

7,405,881 accounts
+8,854 in the last hour
+125,176 in the last day
+674,949 in the last week

If a regular social app had this kind of growth, every venture capitalist from Shanghai to Silicon Valley would be beating down your door, begging you to take their money.

🔗 mastodon.social/@mastodonuserc

MathiasTCKmathiastck
2022-11-08

@Sheril I had this as my pinned tweet for awhile:
twitter.com/mathiastck/status/

Commenting on how initial can have a dramatic impact on the experience on a , but that it is also very hard to predict future trends.

I think normalized anonymous harassment. I haven't encountered it on Mastodon yet but I don't think Mastodon would be immune if it became a large target.

NorzNnorz@squeet.me
2020-08-08
#OCR, #Hashtags & some minor corrections, to make the #TextInAPicture more discoverable, and readable on #mobile: 😉
—
Dear Ms #Jayapal ,
thank you for your great work at the #AntitrustCommission facing tech CEOs.

I'm French (I had to fake my contact details in order to be able to use that contact form) and I've been grateful to watch this record as an engineer involved with these technologies.

I recently published #Déclic (declic-lelivre.com), a book about these issues we're facing when it comes to the major domination of these companies affecting businesses all over the world. It also shows solutions and alternative to these problems. It's in French at the moment.

Why I'm writing to you is to tell that a fine, even huge, won't do much harm and worst, it will not allow any opening in the market. If there's one central battle which could help in reopening the game or mom and pop business : it is #interoperability .

It's something that's at the heart of the telecommunication and we tend to forget it. Let me take an example : if you're on #Messenger ( #Facebook ), you can not send/receive message with someone who's on #Signal or elsewhere. It's all centralized . Users have adapted and we all have many apps for the same goal, which is connecting to each other, #Whatsapp for the #grandparents , #Snapchat for #teens , #Instagram for... and so and so.

But : imagine tomorrow AT&T subscribers could only call or text AT&T subscribers and if you wanted to reach people using another carrier you'd have to get another subscription. Who would accept that?

Here, we're facing the same. We accepted collectively that situation because these apps are free" to use and we didn't realize the power it gave to these companies thanks to network effect. Now we're stuck. If I want to text my #grandpa , I have to install and use Whatsapp but I don't want to give my data to Mr. #Zuckerberg . I'm stuck. Same for a #developper who would like to build a new better app for communication, it's a no-no.

So interoperability, which is fundamental to the internet and which is actually what permitted these giants to grow , back in the days, must become mandatory. If tomorrow, thanks to interoperability, I have the option to keep the contact with my grandfathers who's on Whatsapp by using an app created by another company which respects better my privacy because they are base on another business model, then we reopen the market.

Anyone should be able to use the app they want to connect with their family, friends, etc. Another comparison : if I want to visit a friend. I'm free to take the car/flight/train that I want. With interoperability, it is the same. It frees user by standardizing the protocols that connects people on the internet. Which then ensure their data can flow also freely.

If Zuckerberg want so badly "to connect the world", he knows it's the best way to do it. But that would be taking a risk on the business side and they are not willing to take it. In their early days, Facebook was actually using #XMPP for their messenger, an open messaging protocol made just for that. We were able, back then, to do exactly what I'm saying above. But then, when it became big enough, they cut.

That's a common strategy for tech companies, and well documented. First, they
#opensource and #interoperable #protocols in order to get maximum usage and trust from the tech #community then when they get big enough, because they have the biggest #userbase anyway, they cut it all, close the doors and keep everything for them. You can ask any developer about that.

On the Facebook/Google etc side, it is probable they will say they can't reverse that, that it's not possible technically to reopen the doors. It is true in a way that it may demand some effort on their side to refactor some of their infrastructure, but totally doable and they will always, for the reasons said before, overestimate such efforts. To be fully transparent, tech solutions for such problems exists already. Just ask #W3C , it's their job to work on such protocols.

On the #socialnetwork side, there's also a protocol called #ActivityPub, ask about it. And for messaging there are XMPP, #Matrix and other protocols. It's just a matter of will, and without pressure from you, they won't do.
Most people working in tech are waiting for such bold move to reopen the game and only the state can now help on that with well thought regulations. You are in position of making history and giving back to people the real promises of the internet. That would also lead to incalculable new opportunities in term of economy.

Another crucial battle which need to be fought also in parallel is about the data and who owns it. I suggest you speak with #TimBernersLee, one of the founders of the web. He's working right at the moment on such technology to re-open the web and give back data in people's hand. The protocol he's working on is called ' #Solid '.

I can go into more details if needed. I hope this helps. I'm writing to you as I believe, from watching the commission, you'd be the best to hear and support such position.

Best,
#MaximeGuedj

#DéclicLelivre

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