#indieweb 2021-04-05

2021-04-05 UTC
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jeremycherfas !tell zegnat it isn't speaking to me, but I can imagine it would to some people.
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Loqi Ok, I'll tell them that when I see them next
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[KevinMarks] Facebook << https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/05/zucks-oily-rags/#into-the-breach
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Loqi ok, I added "https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/05/zucks-oily-rags/#into-the-breach" to the "See Also" section of /Facebook https://indieweb.org/wiki/index.php?diff=75188&oldid=74897
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alex11 bleh
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alex11 i've always felt cambridge analytica was a bit overblown
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[KevinMarks] It was in terms of "secretly manipulating your politics" but less so in gathering pii
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[KevinMarks] Cory says that partway through
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[KevinMarks] https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1379070950369423361?s=20
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@doctorow FB used the we-fight-arson wheeze to come out of the Cambridge Analytica scandal stronger and more powerful than ever: they shut down the APIs that potential future Facebook competitors used to help people escape its walled garden, claiming it was an act of firefighting. 12/ (twitter.com/_/status/1379070950369423361)
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[snarfed] also he was _just two characters_ away from snarfed :zany_face:: https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1379070927099469829
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@doctorow All those address books they imported, the data they gathered from publishers' websites through the Like buttons (which gather data whether or not you click them), the data they bought or snaffled up through free mobile SDKs is now permanently siloed inside of FB. 2/ (twitter.com/_/status/1379070927099469829)
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[schmarty] snarfed++ lol
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Loqi snarfed has 31 karma in this channel over the last year (61 in all channels)
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[tantek] snaffled++ 😂
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Loqi snaffled has 1 karma over the last year
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[snarfed] bridgy is nearing 2M webmentions sent (https://brid.gy/#stats), which means we’ve probably already crossed that in the wild. reasonable estimate could be as high as 2.1M. congrats all!
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[snarfed] (background: https://snarfed.org/1-million-webmentions)
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Loqi [indienews] New post: https://sizeof.cat/post/javascript-before-after/
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