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Amazon stellt Android-App-Store für Drittanbieter ein
Der Amazon Appstore für Android wird ab dem 20. August 2025 nicht mehr verfügbar sein. Nutzer haben bis zu diesem Datum Zeit, ihre Apps zu verwenden oder auf Alternativen umzusteigen. Auch das Coins-Programm für
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#News #Tellerrand #AmazonAppstore #Android #Apps #CoinsProgramm #EU #FireTablet #FireTV #GooglePlayStore #WalledGardens #Wettbewerb

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#leavingfacebook, the loss of the connections, family and friends, is all that’s keeping them on. We need a way to migrate and keep those “loose ties” from the #walledgardens

There is one choice, but not a good choice, that is to loose family, friends, who are not moving with you

#mstodon #pixelfed #fetiverse
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedive

#enshittification is not the (shitty) quality of the site, it's being locked in, can't move to another, imo
@pluralistic @Techmeme @dansup

What is a good way to manage your own #socialgraph, irrespective of a platform? I know I could represent it in a #fediverse platform, like #mastodon or #pixelfed, but it's an idea which could span platforms, almost more like a family tree or an org chart. Something I could own, manage, integrate.

I have a social graph that is represented in #LinkedIn, for my professional life, in #Instagram for friends, family, community, in #Facebook for special interests, in #Strava for my endurance-sports friends. Each has specific groups, like, those people I used to race cyclocross with, or parents from my kids's schools. If I leave a platform, I might have the representation of this graph in some sort of export, but there's no way of building it out, independently, maintaining it, having, for each human, media for contact; phone, email, fedi platforms, commercial platforms, address, etc.

Right now, because of the way we build #walledgardens this doesn't seem to exist. Should it? Does it?

Good morning #HiveMind Any good recent pieces on #Enshittification and/or dodgy #DataPrivacy at #LinkedIn that I should know about?

Context: yesterday I was at a talk by a Chief Scientist at a large government Department who said several times that they wanted to hear from the community and the best way was LinkedIn. No second best way was offered.

Discharging governance responsibilities exclusively via #WalledGardens seems deeply problematic to me on many levels.

VPRO Tegenlicht - De toekomst van het internet (deel 1 & 2)

Error 404, the internet in crisis (part 1 & 2), how we have lost track of the original idea and intentions of world wide web and the internet, with some of the more positive initiatives that hopefully can cause a course correction back in the right direction.

Part 1:
youtu.be/bg-SYZ8sBow?si=nO0CQ7

Part2:
youtu.be/IxdRt-WCHjk?si=qjNhWN

You know, sometimes I get disappointed when I realize there are fewer people using platforms like #mastodon and that the majority of people in the world will never leave the corporate #walledgardens.
But then I think about when I first used the internet, it was all just a bunch of crazy people self hosting their own websites and just excited to be able to talk to each other, and the majority of people then hadn't ever even been online. Sometimes I get those same vibes from the #fediverse.

We're all just out here.

Happy New Year everyone! 🥳🎊

I'm trying, world, I really am. I love my little Lenovo Linux laptop. I'd spend 99% of my time on it.

If I could talk to iMessages.

The messaging platform my entire family uses.

But other than a sort of remote desktop model or setting up my mac to be available via a proxy, there doesn't seem to be an option.

Wail. Woe. Whine.

#apple#ios#linux

Those big, convenient platforms with easy access and shiny interfaces aren't as nice as you may think.

Not only do they trap you inside, they also actively stifle your urge to explore; you get used to sitting back and having "relevant content" handed to you on a silver platter.

These walled gardens are poison!

joanwestenberg.com/the-interne

westenberg. · The Internet is Shrinking
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Who owns your social media accounts? If you're on X, Elon Musk argues that it's the platform. In an objection filed on Monday, lawyers argued that its terms of service (TOS) prevent former Infowars owner Alex Jones' accounts from being sold off without X's approval. Jones' assets are being liquidated to pay the families of Sandy Hook victims after they won a defamation case against him. Satirical site The Onion purchased Infowars with social media accounts forming part of the deal. X's team wrote in Monday's objection: “The Trustee now seeks to contravene X Corp.’s TOS by improperly selling or otherwise transferring the X Accounts (which neither Jones nor his bankruptcy estate own) to a third party." Here's more from @TheHill.

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Our podcast about the fediverse, Dot Social, is one today! 🎉 It’s been such an honor to host the builders of the social web on this show and to learn from them. We have one more episode coming up in 2024 (read the blogpost to find out who @mike will be chatting with) then rest, then back at it in 2025.

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About Flipboard · One Year of the Dot Social Podcast About the Fediverse
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