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Ellie Kennard Photography
Just Rest There For a While

Last night I woke at 3:45 and just caught the last of the blood moon eclipse but I wasn't able to take any photos. The moon looked quite pink, unlike the one here.

I took this image during my participation in the #GooglePlus Mentorship Program for Photographers led by Robin Griggs Wood. What a great experience that was! This was my comment about the photograph and the mentorship then:
"Like this moon ...I feel that I have been told "just rest here for a few minutes, and look around you. We are all here to support and help you define yourself."
(Sigh.)

This is also my favourite tree which I featured recently.

I hope you have a great Friday, all my Pixl- and Fedi-friends.

#EllieKPosts #moon #FullMoon #Sunset #Trees #BlueHour #BlueHourSky
An evening scene looking through some bare gnarled branches that cross the image from left to right in the image. There are two main branches with smaller branchlets going every which way. It is the blue hour and beyond these branches is an evening blue sky with some light clouds tinged with pink. There is a small full moon that seems to be resting on the lowest branch about at the centre of the image. The bottom of the frame has tops of large bare trees in the distance.
#bluehoursky
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FiXato

You know what is another thing I miss from #GooglePlus?
Being able to preview the snippet for links before posting, and the ability to select which of the page images to accompany the snippet. Especially if it would be combined with an optional alt text for the snippet media.
Yes, I know I could also just upload a screenshot or manually download and attach the relevant image, but this would feel a lot more streamlined.
#mastoDev #mastodon

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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users

In May, Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.

It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...

eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/fbi-

HN discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4

This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.

The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:

"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user

Electronic Frontier Foundation · FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their UsersWe’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook. However, this new environment comes with challenges and risks for user privacy, so we need to get it right and make sure networks like the Fediverse and Bluesky are mindful of past...
#KolektivaSocial#Kolektiva#EFF
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕​

@woozle That ... could be pretty cool. I also think it's likely reasonably straightforward.

Main concerns:

  • G+ was a post/discussion oriented platform, far more similar to Diaspora* or Facebook. The Fediverse might work for the initial posts, but wouldn't be as appropriate for the ensuing discussions (many of which on G+ were actually where the majick happened.)

  • What G+ threads worth preserving really want is a platform with good discovery, categorisation, and search. Probably more of a blog ... or ... (shudder, should I really tempt you?) Wiki Though posting abstracts to the Fediverse might make for a useful advertising mode.

  • Flooding people with years worth of G+ posts would probably be ... annoying for many.

#GooglePlus
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petersuber

What would #Google give to be a player in today's #SocialMedia ferment of creative disruption?

I'm one of those kooks who think that Google was way too fast to pull the plug on #GooglePlus, even for a company with a penchant for plug-pulling.
* And that it was wrong to lose interest and drop features years before killing it.
* And that it botched the death blow by deleting G+ posts instead of preserving them as it did with the #Usenet posts it painstakingly hunted down and reposted.

🧵

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Rasta

I knew long ago, how fake #Facebook was. If you don't pay to be top listed, you won't get there by influence, it's intentionally done, and more. EyeNose (I know)
A measurement site, #KLOUT, scraped our Social Media accounts, looking for Influencers,and started raising my Klout Score by the day. Perhaps I had a slow week, and stayed at the 60 score?

Then, a random #trend event, and I'd go up two points overnight #PERKS #SocialMedia #ENGAGEMENT #Influencer #Twitter #GooglePlus #Gifts #Thread

Klout Company khoros.com Klout was a website and mobile app that used social media analytics to rate its users according to online social influence via the "Klout Score", which was a numerical value between 1 and 100. Wikipedia Founders: Joe Fernandez, Binh Tran Founded: August 2008 CTO: Virendra Vase Owner: Lithium Technologies
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Rasta

Until #Google hurt us all badly by their inability to keep a Social Platform #GooglePlus , I was extremely active in G+. (@NovaScotiaRasta)
The more people you reach, the better, my following on Twitter and Google Plus was huge, embarrassingly huge. I tried to remove *idle/dead* accounts and suspected #bots and I do the same here. No profile, no photo, no posts, BLOCK.
I learned from (self-professed) Top #SocialMedia *experts*,
#ENGAGEMENT #Influencer #Klout #Twitter #Gifts #Thread

A profile page from Google Plus, showing RASTA (NovaScotiaRasta) account. at this time I have 41,651 followers, having spent weeks trimming it down from 50,000 by removing idle, dead, and bot accounts recently. Above, a Canadian Warship transiting the Kiel Canal, Germany on top, COLLECTIONS below, including Dance Music, Nova Scotia (When Are You Coming To Visit #WAYCTV) Vintage oldies and Cats
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Jürgen Hubert

I was rather active back on Google+ back in the day (and I am a bit miffed that Google ended it _one week_ before I started my Patreon campaign).

And the one feature I truly miss are the "Collections". Basically, you could assign each of your posts to a single Collection you've defined. For example, I created the following Collections (among others):

- "RPG" (tabletop role-playing games)
- "Politics"
- "Deutsch" (German-language posts)
- "Science"

and so forth. And those who followed me could choose whether to follow my entire stream, or only specific collections. Someone who wasn't interested in Politics could unsubscribe to these posts. Someone who could not read German could thus not have my German-language posts show up in their stream - and so forth.

This was an _amazing_ feature for keeping the signlal-to-noise ratio high in people's streams. And I would love it if someone implemented a #Fediverse -based approach for this - but I am not sure if #ActivityPub would even support such a subdivision.

EDIT: @sl007 pointed out that this feature IS, in fact, part of the ActivityPub standard and thus could be implemented on the Fediverse - but apparently, no one has done so yet. Read the following for the details:

w3.org/TR/activitystreams-voca
w3.org/TR/activitypub/#actor-o

#GooglePlus #SocialMedia
support.google.com/googlecurre

Examples of different Google+ Collections created by a single person, featuring: "Geek", "Family", "Social Networking", "Technology", "Android", "Craft Beer", and "PixelPushing"
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hugo.

Last night I pulled the plug on my #MeWe account. I opened it back when #GooglePlus folded and I needed somewhere else to go.

I know how people feel about Google but I loved Google Plus - its really nice layout, the concept of circles, a wonderful group of people I interacted with...

We tried to replicate that on MeWe, but it failed. It quickly became obvious that the network is also a magnet for conspiracy theorists and alt-right. I held on for as long as I could, but - game over

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