cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/400702

I strongly encourage instance admins to defederate from Facebook/Threads/Meta.

They aren't some new, bright-eyed group with no track record. They're a borderline Machiavellian megacorporation with a long and continuing history of extremely hostile actions:

• Helping enhance genocides in countries
• Openly and willingly taking part in political manipulation (see Cambridge Analytica)
• Actively have campaigned against net neutrality and attempted to make "facebook" most of the internet for members of countries with weaker internet infra - directly contributing to their amplification of genocide (see the genocide link for info)
• Using their users as non-consenting subjects to psychological experiments.
• Absolutely ludicrous invasions of privacy - even if they aren't able to do this directly to the Fe

Fediverse New User Orientation

Welcome to the Fediverse New User Orientation! If you're just starting out on Fediverse or planning to join in from Reddit, here's a rundown of what you need to know and how to navigate this new space.

What is Fediverse?

The Fediverse is a network made up of diverse platforms, such as Lemmy, Mastodon, PeerTube, and several others, that use a common protocol known as ActivityPub. This allows for seamless interaction between users across these platforms. With Fediverse, you have the freedom to join any instance (server) that caters to your interests, and you can interact with users from other instances as well.

Lemmy

The Reddit-like federated forum app that runs on ActivityPub within the Fediverse

Lemmy is one of the platforms within the Fediverse. It shares quite a bit similarity with Reddit, hence it has been referred to as the "Reddit of the Fediverse." It provides users with the opportunity to c

intai.tech Communities

• [email protected] - news and events
• [email protected] - prompting, chatgpt
• [email protected] - Guides and HowTo's
• [email protected] - Developer discussion and resources
• [email protected] - Show off your Projects
• [email protected]- Usable Research papers
• [email protected] - model training
• [email protected] - Models
• [email protected] - AI apps and tools
• [email protected] - Ethics and Law
• [email protected] - Application Security and Jailbreak/anti-Jailbreak
• [email protected]- Generative Content, StableDiffusion, MidJourney, etc
• [email protected] - HuggingFace
• [email protected] - AI Bot Gallery
• [email protected] - AI Made Things digital or otherwise
• [email protected] - AI memes and AI made memes
• [email protected] - Image Gen

Fediverse Communities

ChatGPT / Bots

• [email protected] (en)
• ![email protected]

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.one/post/1600

Some people have been asking which communities they should join first, so I posted some remote communities you can subscribe to on the sidebar on the homepage :)

Tech → [email protected]
News → [email protected]
Gaming → [email protected]
Memes → [email protected]
Privacy → [email protected]
FOSS → [email protected]
Monero → [email protected]
Music → [email protected]
Books → [email protected]
LGBT → [email protected]
Nature → [[email protected]](https://lemmy.one/