sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

Social media isn't dying.

It's turning into broadcast media.

"Faltesek, of Oregon State University, conducted a two-year project to study exactly what kind of content TikTok pushes.

At the end of this exhaustive process of gathering data on TikTok’s algorithm, the conclusion became obvious: 'TikTok is television.'"

https://www.wsj.com/business/media/a-handful-of-accounts-create-most-of-what-we-see-on-social-media-bdafa8f3?st=1a2o70zybggwjhy&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

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Found 24 new servers found and 34 servers de-listed since 13 hours ago. Check out the Monthly and Daily Stats by software or server or the entire fediverse.

24,704 servers checked. 12,724,780 Total Users, 1,760,852 Monthly Active Users today vs 1,769,623 yesterday for the entire fediverse.

New #fediverse servers found:

fraktalworks.de a #pixelfed server from Germany
nightly.hvac-tf.net a #misskey server from Private
videos.dromeadhere.fr a #peertube server from France
peertube.christianpacaud.com a #peertube server from Canada
tooters.fun a #firefish server from United States
friendica.net.0307.one a #friendica server from Austria
bitacoradigitalnatural.sutty.nl a #sutty-distributed-press server from Canada
styxhexenhammer666.com a #peertube server from United States
b.kijy.de a #mastodon server from Russia
misskey.xinglili.love a #misskey server from Private
bitacoradigital.sutty.nl a #sutty-distributed-press server from Canada
akkoma123.spacehost.dev a #akkoma server from United States
pleroma.0x68756773.moe a #pleroma server from Germany
lemmy.remorse.us a #lemmy server from United States
shutafem.casa a #firefish server from Germany
lavacat.dns.army a #misskey server from Russia
stream.nik.mx a #owncast server from Germany
peertube.universiteruraledescevennes.org a #peertube server from France
atafirefish.spacehost.dev a #firefish server from United States
social.patrick.wtf a #takahe server from United States
social.zvavybir.eu a #mastodon server from France
blog.neonsoup.social a #writefreely server from United States
home-lab.social a #mastodon server from United States
social.techomaa.com a #mastodon server from Private

De-Listed servers: lemmy.wanderia.online
lemmy.ixs.io
cliophate.wtf
soc.thatone.gay
live.ramram.ink
social.dylanjava.com
gts.grnwds.uk
zgasma.org
arcadia.video
farmunity.ca
apollo.town
debaucherytea.party
mastodon.gougoule.ch
krswkrs.fedicity.net
agents.cyberwehrzentrum.de
synaptyx.com
vids.ctc.community
mas.limino.io
stream.sdowns.xyz
social.frankreimer.de
moemoe.nca10.net
nadena.dev
b-ark.online
boop.juke.fr
riveted.social
library.tonybark.art
loveforlandlords.com
social.epicempower.com
audiomo.online
northofthewall.social
dvlup.social
renegade.7365000.xyz
ira.abramov.org
mastodon.dissem.ch

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer

Seen in Glasgow.

Successfully nerdsniped @chadmed into adding uclamp support to PipeWire, so now all our fancy DSP stuff will stick to an E-core at 600MHz (which is more than enough for it) to minimize power impact when just listening to music.

(We can do fancy scheduler stuff too, Apple!)

End-to-end torture testing.

If my speakers don't melt I think we'll enable speakers on j313 (M1 MBA) in one of the next few kernel updates, to test the waters.

does anyone want to hire me
skills:
- meow
- mrow
- mew

Lol, Apple's attempted wriggling out of reasonable browser competition even hit El Reg:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/02/apple_safari_browser/

It underlines the incoherence that iLeakage is *still* unpatched, leaving all iOS users unprotected because of the very monopoly Apple is spending $$$ lawyerbucks to protect.

I'm going as a fedi admin for Halloween

I just need the police uniform

What the F’ing hell is this shit?

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/10/11/t-mobile-plan-migration/

“””
“We are not raising the price of any of your plans; we are moving you to a newer plan with more benefits at a different cost," T-Mobile instructs employees to say.
“””

Dear people of the fediverse: someone expressing an opinion about a controversial topic that you happen to disagree with does not constitute spreading disinformation. Thank you for attending my TED talk.