oliver

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@dansup@mastodon.social had announced this feature as 'coming soon' a few months ago - I can't find the post anymore and wonder if it works in the meantime? 🤔

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

Couple of months ago, dansup posted a poll which platform to be next to get a migration-tool. Nothing but Instagram yet.

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only fascists talk like that at their conferences. And then it doesn't sound much better in other languages.

There are a hell of a lot of good examples of how terrible our language is, but that's nonsense.

 

I'm annoyed by Play Protect and finally want to turn it off. Comes every time with absurd, complicated to circumvent warnings about privacy-friendly services like Exodus, F-Droid, etc. from which no threats emanate, but on the contrary protect against threats that Google delivers.

What are the experiences with alternatives? Can anyone maybe even recommend a malware scanner for Android?

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

We don’t need no “moderation”, we don’t need no thought control.

If you don't want it, that's absolutely fine - you just have to respect that others don't share that opinion and cut the line since it's hard to find a shared Fediverse of opposite ideas. Unmoderated instances have always been seperated in Fediverse-microblogging and I really don't see why history shouldn't repeat in this case.

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fatshaming is embarrassing.

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

I'm not on beehaw, I've never been - and I'm almost fine, where I am 😉 🍁

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

is that really a horrible idea as you say

This is not a question of fact, but of opinion. And yes: I've never been significantly active on Reddit, all the notifications I get there are spam porn accounts that follow me in.

To me, open signups seem wrong for a volunteer moderated service.

[–] oliver@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

What they want is moderation. Unlike microblogging where you post to your followers, I think that running a public debate platform like Lemmy without controlling who enters is a horrible idea. That's why they posted a statement with the clarification that this defederation need not be permanent.

 

On my new device I was asked to add some overlay for Link to Windows when doing the setup. It seems like it does have zero functionality it does not even open the App.

How do I remove this again?

 

Federal Interior Minister Faeser can chalk up a success: After weeks of efforts to get Telegram to delete right-wing extremist channels, the messenger service is finally responding. This also affects the chats of conspiracy theorist Hildmann.

After massive pressure from the German government on Telegram, the company is taking noticeable action against hate and incitement on the net for the first time in Germany, according to a report. The online service has blocked a total of 64 channels, the "Süddeutsche Zeitung" reported, citing security circles. According to the report, these include the channels of anti-Semite and conspiracy ideologue Attila Hildmann. The closure is said to be due to pressure from the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). The BKA had sent corresponding deletion requests to Telegram, the newspaper further reported.

A total of 64 have been taken into account so far, it said. According to the report, a second working-level conversation between the government and Telegram had taken place on Thursday. The government and the company wanted to "continue to remain in close exchange," it said after the talks, according to SZ. The company's founder Pavel Durov had already assured this in the first conversation, in which he himself had participated. The Ministry of the Interior has long demanded that hate and incitement on Telegram be outlawed and removed. So far, however, the company has not complied with the legal obligation to delete.

Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser reiterated that she will continue to crack down on the Telegram case. "Telegram must no longer be an accelerant for right-wing extremists, conspiracy ideologues and other agitators," she told the newspaper. "Death threats and other dangerous hate posts must be deleted and face clear criminal consequences." Faeser sees the company's first major deletion action as a success of weeks of pressure on Telegram.

"The Federal Criminal Police Office has significantly strengthened the investigation," she said. "I have built up clear pressure from the first day in office to get Telegram to cooperate. That pressure is working." Telegram is used by radical vaccination opponents and contrarians, among others, to network for so-called walks against Corona measures. The Thuringian Office for the Protection of the Constitution had recently complained, for example, that a particularly large number of coup fantasies were spread there. The platform was also used by numerous right-wing extremists.

(Translated from German with DeepL)

 

The German Federal Office of Justice is of the opinion that Telegram is not a pure messenger service, but a social network. This means that Telegram must comply with the requirements of the Network Enforcement Act, just like Facebook and Twitter. This includes setting up an easily accessible reporting channel for punishable content and appointing an agent for service of process for requests from German courts. As a result, two fine proceedings are underway against the company, which is based in the United Arab Emirates. "The requirements of the Network Enforcement Act are binding - and the law does not recognize a blanket exception for Messenger services," Buschmann told 'Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland' on Friday.

dpa:211210-99-328460/2

(Translated with DeepL)