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#Barcelona, #Meta‘s Twitter competitor, will be ready by summer.

And lest you believe #ActivityPub integration was just some rumour, think again. In a slide, Meta confirms that Barcelona will indeed be decentralized and will be compatible with Mastodon.

Everyone who thought that AT protocol would easily win over ActivityPub, and that #Bluesky would kill Mastodon just because a few influencers joined doesn’t understand the sheer marketing power and pull that Meta has at its disposal.

But believe me, I’m not exactly cheering on Meta here. Generally, where Meta goes, shenanigans happen. I simply don’t think Meta is capable of releasing a product without dark patterns.

Nevertheless, I don’t think the Fediverse is even close to preparing for what will happen once Barcelona starts federating.

We should all be taking Barcelona very seriously.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/19/23730070/instagram-twitter-app-competitor-leak

@socialmedianews@venera.social

—@atomicpoet

Public Notice

Lots of reports of crypto spam attacks coming in from multiple instances today.

Seems like the bad guys are getting kinda worried about Mastodon.

Instance admins are taking this very seriously and working hard to fend off the attacks.

What can you do? If you see a crypto scam post, don’t engage with it. It’s just a bot anyway. If you block and report the post it will help administrators isolate the attacker account.

We got this!

#CryptoSpamAttack #CryptoSpam

—@mastodonmigration

So you missed last night’s fantastic webinar on Audio gaming? that’s okay. The archive is now available on Youtube! https://youtu.be/Pjk8YI_4kkw

—@liamerven

On this #GAAD of 2023, spare a though for all the accessibility specialists at large companies who have spent the day doing the same basic exercises as they did last year, mostly for the same people at a stand in the company lobby. Because nothing ever changes. 🥴

—@philsherry

In an exclusive interview, I sat down with Libo Cao Meyers, a top engineering executive at Apple, and talked with her all about her having polio, immigrating to America from China, working in tech, her new memoir, and giving back to the disability community.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/2023/05/18/how-a-disabled-chinese-immigrant-turned-polio-and-ableism-into-becoming-an-apple-executive-and-author/

—@steven_aquino

Closing the email subscription pop up

so I can dismiss the browser cookie settings

so I can close the autoplaying video

so I can hide the social media sharing widget

so I can see that the page

doesn’t have any of the information the search engine said it would.

—@troublewithwords

#Google just announced that going forward, any account not logged into for two years gets deleted.

This means huge amounts of rare or unique #video is about to disappear from #YouTube as accounts get flagged as inactive, such as when the user dies. Families’ #HomeMovies (often posted by an older relative for their family’s benefit), historical footage, rare #television clips, etc. What an incalculable loss to human #history and culture!

If there are videos important to you on someone else’s video channel, find a way to download them. And if you have rare #media of historical importance, consider leaving it to institutional #archives or lending it to archives for digital preservation.

—@StevenCapsuto

If anyone wanted to try #MicroBlog they are hosting a sale! A fabulous discount on their managed hosting. $1 monthly! http://micro.blog/summer #Blog small #Podcasts

—@weirdwriter