ah tient du chantage maintenant pour rejoindre son concurrent l’ONU dont toutes les sièges sont temporaire et avec un abonnement de 3 ans à 1 milliards $ ou + sur on veut rester davantage. Ça ressemble fort à un raquette impérialiste des USA car en + c’est seul le président du “conseil” qui peut inviter d’autres pays …

I think that as has already been clarified in the comments I would have put Listen to them and think before posting, but not necessarily publish less… At least not like that because it is more a consequence of Listening/Thinking.

I also noticed that unconsciously I published less here but without interacting and recommending relevant content. Because in open source I often take the postulate that if something is already relevant, repeating it will not change it and on the contrary can drown the first information in the rest of the timeline unless we re-share.

I don’t know if it’s relevant to put it back here but while passing through Mastodon I came across this article which I read carefully and really appreciated. I wrote a thought about this on another Lemmy post: https://jlai.lu/comment/18987965

To summarize, there are clearly efforts to be made and I completely understand that despite the existing tools this could be considered insufficient, especially when certain choices of the Mastodon foundation could be identified as problematic (I saw a publication on Thanksgiving T-Shirts and it’s pretty average), but it is more a structural and symptomatic problem of our society rather than just the Fediverse which still seeks to be better.

It’s a bit like representative democracy which we compare to the least worst solution compared to authoritarian regimes for example, but the difference is that we can improve as for democracy which can be direct. Through our society, many of us have unconscious habits or reflexes to deconstruct, whether for our own social struggles or for those of minorities whose constant problem is the underrepresentation of the fact that their experiences are therefore factually less represented.

One of the advantages and disadvantages is moderation on a human scale faced with a massive influx of users, but allowing the base to be able to offer scalable moderation according to user expectations and new threats.

By observing the popularity curve of Twitter or more precisely the monthly attendance of users falling below the attendance of sites themselves in decline is only maintained under artificial respirator like Dailymotion (first under the supervision of Orange through the government of the era and Arnaud Montbourg) and bought by the Bolloré Group (managed by a far-right Catholic ideologue) we can conclude that indeed the good or common space" has shifted to other platforms.

However, this in no way assumes that Twitter must and will remain a “common good” if alternative solutions are at hand like Mastodon or Bluesky.

Knowing that setting up a Bluesky “instance” requires more financial/material resources to create a decentralized relationship, and that Mastodon only needs a server as well as a sufficiently large user data storage area to shelter the estimated number, we can easily highlight which of the 2 solutions is easier to implement by a so-called minority to avoid othersowners’ houses drift under the influence of censorship or the invisibility of these as certain Mastodon instances can do when there is control of a few people over others.

This is the very principle of Mastodon and the “ActivityPub network” (linked to the protocol of the same name) The Fediverse is based on trust when this trust no longer meets the criteria which constitute it then the users can choose to easily create your own “home” to communicate with others or look for another truly/fairly trustworthy instance.

And if there are levers, it is up to everyone to participate in improving it.

Nevertheless, visibility outside of the choice of federation or not with other instances does not hinder theoretical visibility. For the rest, there are safe places that are comparatively visible either by their evocative domain name or by their terms of use.

However, we should not assume that an entire community should have a single instance dedicated to it, because, as many Mastodons users point out, as you do in this article, such a large instance (such as Mastodon.social, for example) can easily disconnect a large number of users at the same time if it is defederated/blocked.

However, it must be acknowledged that moderation is not always optimal because it is based on three principles. The first is trust and self-regulation, particularly through the founding principle of the Fediverse and the spirit of goodwill that was intended from the outset. The second is decentralized moderation—not a lack of rigor, but based on the same principle as decentralization—with smaller instances in principle, meaning fewer people to monitor for each moderation group, but also financial precariousness and limited human time, which can lead to stricter moderation.

This is the third point, which is a double-edged sword. It can confer greater censorship power when the majority of users do not have the skills or time to create their own “home” or find a new home for their public conversation.

While Mastodon is not perfect, like representative democracy, with clear, effective, and fair rules, it is the least worst solution. And like direct democracy, the platform can always be improved. This is already technically possible with the Fediverse (and the ActivityPub protocol). Even if a minimum of technical skill is required, a simple familiarity with computers may be sufficient for a relatively knowledgeable amateur. Like any good tool, it is a double-edged sword depending on who is in control.

Without questioning the proven existence of possible violence or discrimination and marginalization of certain people/minorities even on Mastodon and the Fediverse as a whole, the scope for harassment is not exactly the same, and better still, it seeks to curb it by limiting virality through the opaque recommendation algorithms of social networks such as Twitter. By favoring organic recommendations via hashtags. Even quotes can be disabled so as not to give the wrong people ammunition.

Nevertheless, it is true that both users and administrators can only moderate manually, and this can indeed be time-consuming. This is also why filters exist and why some people seek to set up shared community blocklists to avoid encountering people who have already caused bad experiences such as harassment, abusive language, or—perhaps most problematic—racism.

And while there is a financial aspect to setting up your own instance, it can be less than what is required for its Bluesky or Twitter equivalent, since a domain name can be found quite easily at a more than reasonable cost. And if it is not accessible to a person from a minority group, it is most often proportionally equal in percentage to that of a cisgender white person. However, the resources required to set up a server that can connect to the Fediverse are subject to the same technical constraints, whether for domain name registration, IP address, etc., as any other website.

And while creating your own platform is not the only solution, it is by moving communities to safer areas that old chat rooms will either change or reduce their reach because they are blacklisted, closed due to a lack of users, etc., in favor of new hubs. Of course, an effort must be made to increase the effectiveness of moderation without falling into bad censorship, in particular by adjusting human resources but also by increasing community funding.

As for non-inclusive habits towards people from minority groups, there is no direct intention to harm them, even for people identified as “white,” but rather it is linked to a society that is patriarchal by default and accepted as white. And it is up to these minorities to continue to make us aware of the unconscious mechanisms that we repeat. To deconstruct the prejudices we have. Mastodon is doing its best in this area and is better than nothing. This is more than commendable, despite the eternal problem of a minority being underrepresented and therefore misunderstood due to the low default exposure of the experiences that these individuals may have.

It goes without saying that as a service gains popularity, it inevitably ends up attracting unsavory characters. I can’t speak about racism as such, nor for people from minority backgrounds, but a good example that is not subject to heated debate (or at least to a much lesser extent) is the wave of spam that many Mastodon servers have had to endure.

It is therefore a phenomenon that is worth mentioning, thank you for this article, but as you say, the tools are almost all already present on the Fediverse, whether in the founding principles or the material resources. What is undoubtedly missing is more refined, more effective moderation that is (more) attentive to minorities, but above all a change in mentality within our society. And of course, Mastodon can and must be one of the vehicles for this change.

Il faut pas hésiter à passer par une application open source, par exemple disponible sur #FDroid. Personnellement j’ai toujours complété avec d’autres modèles météorologiques.

#Infoclimat : Et depuis un peu + de 1 an j’ai @Infoclimat@piaille.fr une association qui permet de créer un maillage de stations amateurs et professionnelles. Ce qui permet de savoir quelle est l’information météorologique la plus proche et donc fiable pour nous.

En ajoutant à cela des sites et appli comme #AccuWeather et #OpenWeather qui agrège déjà une dizaine le sources ou #MétéoRadar, #MétéoCiel et PleinChamp, etc. On arrive à avoir une prévision assez fiable.

#meteo #meteofrance #fdroidapp #fdroidstore

Avatar le dernier maître de l’air 😁 j’aime beaucoup cette série et je voulais la revoir notamment pour les remarques de Iroh.

Je découvre aussi que le jeu du Pai Sho a pris vit grâce à la communauté ^^ pour y jouer aussi bien en ligne que sur un plateau physique 😃

Peut-être que justement il cherche a blaser le monde face à cette nouvelle en la banalisant … à force de crier au loup on y croira plus. Y’a moyen que son objectif avec ça c’est de justement de dégonfler la bulle si ce n’est l’atténuer.

Surtout par celui qui a démocratiser l’usage de l’IA en parle h24 … ça peut peut-être participer à transmettre la désillusion volontairement et progressivement aux investisseurs en crevant l’abcès en douceur pour éviter que ça soit trop brutal.

On reviendrait alors à de l’investissement + raisonnable sans trop de dégâts.

That was a possibility, but if I’m not mistaken, it was either Chrome or Android.

And it seems to me that an agreement was reached on Chrome (but no sale planned). So I won’t make any predictions. Especially when you see the lockdown on Android, something is brewing, and Google wouldn’t allow that if it had to part with it.

Unless they are preparing for the separation by establishing as much interdependence as possible between the two in case of a takeover by another company with a partnership. Because otherwise, the community will know how to unravel and clean up the Android project.

EDIT:

If anything, I’ve just looked into it and it seems to be stronger than ever after this antitrust ruling. Because what you heard was more what the Ministry was asking the judge to do.

In the end, there will be no dismantling of Android or Chrome, no loss of revenue for “partners” such as Firefox.

There is an end to exclusive contracts, notably to prevent it from imposing Gemini or Chrome, but ONLY for one year. There is also data sharing, particularly related to parts of its search index, but no total obligation and nothing on advertising data, only interactions as a supplement.

It’s as if it were letting its competitors take a look at its library without giving them the keys to the safe.

And to top it all off, it seems that Google is preparing a gradual merger of Chrome OS and Android for “greater hegemony”. If anything, I’ve just looked and it seems to be stronger than ever after this antitrust decision. Because what you heard was more what the ministry was asking the judge.

In the end, there will be no dismantling of Android or Chrome, no loss of revenue for “partners” such as Firefox.

There is an end to exclusive contracts, in particular to prevent it from imposing Gemini or Chrome, but ONLY for one year. There will also be data sharing, particularly related to parts of its index, but no total obligation and nothing on advertising data, only interactions.

Here are my sources in French:

1. https://digitalmag.ci/comment-google-a-evite-la-separation-entre-android-et-chrome-suite-a-une-decision-antitrust/
2. https://www.frandroid.com/marques/google/2732671_google-fusionne-enfin-android-et-chromeos-pour-en-faire-une-mega-plateforme

Because open source, like the right to privacy and the diversity it can offer, always has something for everyone.

In the end, W*'s recent choices, such as ReCall, and the intrusions into our privacy, finally convinced me to begin my transition.

Until now, I had been observing opinions for the past five years.

The fact is that I am not a programmer or a specialist in these subjects, just a very small amateur, and Linux has long been off-putting.

Having the time and a computer to experiment is not that easy. But with an old computer, I finally have the opportunity to test Linux Mint… Others will undoubtedly follow.

I always say that to change operating systems, you first have to figure out how to replace proprietary software or applications with open source ones, because most of them are also available on Linux.

That’s what I did on my mobile, and now the next step is to choose a custom ROM such as Lineage or /e/OS, etc.

doucement il faut d’abord se mettre dans la queue pour les admissions 😂

Above all, the organisation behind it must be or become sufficiently robust, like GNU/Linux, in order to take up the torch, but that requires a lot of financial backing.

It’s not impossible, but in my opinion it won’t happen right away and is likely to take time to implement. Once that’s done, the only issue left will be installation (for users, that is).

Yes, it has been said that choices were made to keep the price reasonable. But was this the case for every single component? Perhaps it was due to the higher cost of the USB 3 licence? Or perhaps it was because of the jack plug (for earphones/headphones), as this saves money, just as others are increasingly doing.

I agree, because I have a Fairphone 3 and I am very tempted by the concept of the new Fairphone (Gen 6). However, I have 3 main reservations. The first is the downgrading from USB 3 to USB 2, the second is the number of screws that need to be removed just to replace the battery, and the last is the jack socket for wired headphones, which doesn’t seem to be there any more.

I don’t know if this is to improve waterproofing or simply to prevent accidents if the phone is dropped, but I find it convenient to have two batteries that I can swap when I’m on the go to avoid charging time.

And for USB, because it saves my mobile data and is very useful for transferring photos, documents, etc. And if I understand correctly, if it were possible, the time would be considerably longer, which doesn’t suit me at all.

Also, the lack of a jack plug. Because I don’t want 100% wireless.

je me permet d’intervenir pour ajouter un fait “nouveau”. Whatsapp a quelques jours après annoncé son intention d’ajouter les résumer de message avec l’aide de l’intelligence artificielle (Meta AI). Ce qui veut dire que potentiellement si une personne de notre entourage souhaite résumer l’un de nos messages celui-ci est donc transmis à Meta. Alors ils disent que ça serait traité dans des cloud sécurisé … Mais rien ne garanti qu’il n’iront pas y fouiller quand bon leur semble comme Apple la fait avec les enregistrement de Siri.

Évidemment je ne dis pas que ça ne soulève pas des questions. Mais que il y a quelque chose de possible. Que niveau masse utilisateurs sur plusieurs décennie – hors volumes excessive de publication – c’est en théorie aussi gérable. Il n’y a que pour la question de la modération où je ne saurais trop que conseillé n’étant pas expert du sujet. Et pour la conservation des données je ne pense pas que ça soit + complexe que le simple fait de rapatrier l’ensemble des données hébergé dans les cloud étrangers, pour ne pas dire américain. Mais c’est des choses qui ne sont petit à petits, par collectivité, ou … initiative d’institution étatique comme ici avec la Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM), notamment ce que je suggère dans la réédition de mon précédent commentaire.

https://social.numerique.gouv.fr/ existe déjà. Instance mastodon gérée par la Direction Interministérielle du Numérique (DINUM). Elle héberge uniquement des comptes institutionnels et certifiés. C’est donc déjà possible et n’est-ce pas déjà ce que fait Twitter, Instagram, etc pour des millions d’utilisateurs ? Là ça serait géré par la France pour les quelques 577 députés chaque 5 ans.

C’est clairement gérable.

Ça serait pas géré par le gouvernement, mais j’imagine par l’Assemblée Nationale comme ils ont gestion de leur règlement intérieur par exemple. Pourquoi pas géré la modération par les huissiers ou des fonctionnaires spécifiquement détachés pour cela. Je ne sais pas, mais au moins proposer / encourager le recours à Mastodon.

On peut ensuite imaginer – par exemple – que une fois la fin de leur mandat leurs publications “sous mandat” soit conservé par l’instance, qu’il reprendrait leurs réseaux sociaux personnels qu’il avaient avant leur élection, et que leur compte mastodon de député soit gelé / en dormance sans pour autant que l’export de leurs données ne soit désactivé.

La proposition n’est pas limitant. C’est une pétition pour que le sujet soit investit dans les discussion à l’Assemblée Nationale. Il va sens dire que des interrogations comme les vôtres serait débattu avant adoption ou non par les institutions et le Sénat également.

Pour les autres élus, exemple les maires et conseils municipaux ça peut-être l’association des maires de France par exemple. Ici c’est une demande pour les députés si vous lisez. Il est ensuite tout à fait possible de le faire à différente échelles (régionale, départementale, etc) pour les autres élus. Rien n’est limitant. On hébergeait pas les utilisateurs du monde non plus.

Il est aussi sur #Peertube : https://indymotion.fr/videos/watch/4b279336-9f2e-4edd-a8d2-303ebdbcc803

Il est aussi sur #Peertube : https://indymotion.fr/videos/watch/4b279336-9f2e-4edd-a8d2-303ebdbcc803

et une autre pour demander une plateforme “réseaux-sociaux” souveraine pour les député-es et le gouvernement #Fediverse #Mastodon

https://petitions.assemblee-nationale.fr/initiatives/i-2706

Règle numéro 1 que je me suis toujours fixé, ne jamais prendre ou acheter un service produit sur la base de promotion. Toujours si j’en ai vraiment besoin et si aucun substitut n’est possible.

Disons que si ce n’est pas nécessaire, mieux vous baisser la résolution. Un 360 px ou 720 px max est en général bien suffisant à moins que des détails ou une expérience immersive l’exige, par exemple pour une série en particulier ou une fiction.

Ça reste de la bande passant souvent sur-consommé et demandera + de ressources serveurs/clients. Il n’y a pas de petit geste pour l’environnement, même si l’impact semble minime.

Ça peut être par exemple mieux pour les anciennes machines qui RAM parfois pour une simple lecture de vidéo. Donc 1) consommation électrique + importante 2) détérioration possible du matériel avec surchauffe (éventuelle) car davantage sollicité. Ou encore au niveau du stockage des données + précise en vidéo/image/audio c’est aussi un volume + important dans sont stockage.

Évidemment ça ne va pus être la petite vidéo personnel regardé sur YouTube qui vu changer quelque chose mais 1 vidéos +1+1+…+1 es ça peut importe le type de fichier ça devrait être pris en compte. Les milliards de vidéos YouTube toutes chargé/téléversé en ligne en 4k ou 1080p n’auront pas le même poids que leur entièreté en 360p ou 720p.

https://www.son-video.com/guide/comparer-les-resolutions-480p-720p-1080p-4k-et-8k

Surtout quand on voit que des recules législatives sont possibles …