Tim Chambers @tchambers@indieweb.social

Beyond evil: This month Facebook started to scrape sites that use 'pixel' for all kinds of information. Including personal information about the visitors. People could be identified even without cookies by name or email. This affects also non FB Users. https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-pixel/advanced/advanced-matching/

(Via https://nitter.net/WolfieChristl/status/1204920699628007424)

Seems to be currently live on booking.com and airbnb.com. Here personal information like name, email and phone number is sent to facebook during registration at airbnb.

OMFG what timeline are we living in!?

#ActivityPub #Twitter #Jack
https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204952252747661312

•Jack followed the Mastodon Twitter account a month ago
•The Mastodon hashtags were suppressed after a while (big migration from India)
•Now he announces he wants to make a decentralized version of Twitter without referencing Mastodon

🤔 🤔

This is my first day here, this is crazily beautiful.I'm in awe. Thanks to @tchambers, Jack's tweet on twitter brought me here

tired: doing my tech support job and telling people to use #chrome instead of #internetexplorer

wired: doing my tech support job and telling people to use #firefox because they will probably do what I suggest and every person using firefox is one fewer person using chrome

WE FIGHT FOR THE USERS! (not #google)

Working hard on #littrme and #fedbox to add private messages on top of client to server #ActivityPub protocol.

#C2S #development

ever think about how like 30% of twitter's community problems are based on full text search of Every Post

#ActivityPub is great, Jack Dorsey said.

Is there an up to date recommended instance block list somewhere? Reasons/proof provided for each recommendation pretty close to required as I'd be evaluating each by hand.

Dzuk's hasn't been updated in 11mo (which is completely understandable).

Also is there a known gab list? I just realized while messing with an early build of adminFE I ate my MRFs so I need to reblock things.

reading about the bluesky lead's theory of social media as expressed by a "we're hiring" statement https://nitter.net/paraga/status/1204766188074459136?s=19

To be clear, Twitter is looking to probably off-load the need to handle cenorship and general abuse management to individual people and regions versus having to handle it themselves. That’s one of the bigger things I’m reading from the CTO and Jack so far. (https://v2.jacky.wtf//post/e4c29f66-a730-4bca-b110-d11f1ecec580)

On a productive note, I've managed to whack out a few features for Beta 2 of Hyperspace v1.1, notably a back button on some pages and temporary cached drafts. I probably won't touch any more, though, or else my team's gonna hate me for producing more PRs they can handle! #hyperspacedev

Twitter: we are looking into decentralising Twitter.

The Fediverse: ha ha ha BLOCK

The appropriate way to phrase this is: Twitter wants to make a Mastodon-clone. It's only fair.

I'm funding a small, independent team of up to five open source architects, engineers and designers to fix problems that were born at my company on my watch, that I've allowed to fester uninterrupted for a decade as I flapped about ineffectually and am now refusing to take responsibility for or acknowledge anyone else’s efforts to improve, something something scale.

Third, whatever standard Twitter decides on, clearly they will have the most influence over the ecosystem. I think the right analogy is not Google and Android (https://twitter.com/MastodonProject/status/1204791506143457281) but rather Google and Chrome. Google has a huge amount of influence over W3C/WHATWG without outright control of either, just because of their market share.

Presumably Twitter would have similar control, even if they create an independent commission or W3C Working Group or whatever.

Seriously though, my brain is not doing a good job processing this news. Some quick thoughts:

- No mention of ActivityPub/Scuttlebutt/Diaspora/etc, but... "blockchain"? For some reason?
- Jack is totally right about decentralized moderation; one of the best things about the fediverse.
- Whatever standard Twitter decides upon, it will become the de-facto standard. (See: browsers and market share.)
- Struggling to understand what's in it for Twitter in all this.

Pretty impressive to see Twitter's CEO explain how awesome the fediverse is without once mentioning the fediverse. Is this some kind of Oulipo-like game? https://twitter.com/jack/status/1204766078468911106

Twitter wants to decentralize because they see how fast Mastodon and other decentralized networks are growing and Jack wants to monetize that.

He doesn't care about a freer, more open internet, he cares about watching Mastodon grow and that he's not making money off it.