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Kevin Beaumont @Kevin Beaumont 1774393228

@nprofile1q... I don't think that's the case, Threads has hundreds of millions of active users for example - TikTok etc pulling record numbers too.

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Kevin Beaumont @Kevin Beaumont 1774391515

@nprofile1q... I think it might be more.. I've been keeping a close eye on accounts here lately and sadly almost all of them sign up, post some links in their profile, and then disappear. I don't allow brand accounts but they keep coming, it's all from India and Vietnam - SEO farms basically.

Kevin Beaumont · 15h

Kevin Beaumont @Kevin Beaumont 1774390752

For those who don't think the user base is dwindling, a few years ago Mastodon was celebrating about 2m monthly active users. Nowadays it's 0.7m.

Klaus Frank · 15h

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpq7lgy0rj5a2nwpnyc4hup6ufpfz7wz6dzcgd3crm6fm2yd34dcz0q4lg4vn I think this is mainly because a lot of users are quitting social media entirely. This is not isolated to just mastodon from what I can tell. Like I lost contact to a lot of online ac...

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774390550

OpenAI is closing Sora, its video platforn, and Disney's pulling its billion dollar OpenAI investment. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/openai-shutting-down-sora-ai-video-app-1236546187/

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774390484

I've had 20 sign ups to my Mastodon server in the past 48 hours, and 100% of them have been scammers, phishers and SEO spammers.

I make an effort to go in and suspend the accounts, nobody ever protests the suspension.

The fediverse is at a crossroads, the user base is dwindling and the new users are mostly just SEO spam accounts.

Kevin Beaumont · 15h

For those who don't think the user base is dwindling, a few years ago Mastodon was celebrating about 2m monthly active users. Nowadays it's 0.7m. https://cyberplace.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/286/467/848/529/015/original/5fe13660b3b7887c.png

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Kevin Beaumont @Kevin Beaumont 1774385865

@nprofile1q... nah, if you're on a PC in a Teams meeting, you can record whatever you want.

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774373815

It's nice and easy to record random Teams meetings, if you want to replicate this for biz meetings. All you need is the meeting link, they're freely available on URL scanning databases.

https://www.404media.co/this-company-is-secretly-turning-your-zoom-calls-into-ai-podcasts/

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774289388

Dictator Trump. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce35wke27ynt?post=asset%3Ab4bc9769-e2f9-4520-99c5-c442946fda11#post

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Kevin Beaumont @Kevin Beaumont 1774289328

@nprofile1q... ?

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774107694

Microsoft are removing the Copilot integrations in Notepad, Snipping Tool etc in Windows.

Turns out telling PMs to bake Copilot into everything was a dumb idea.

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774041838

Aqua Security Trivy had another supply chain compromise, I don’t know if they’ve disclosed yet. https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/discussions/10420

Kevin Beaumont

@Kevin Beaumont 1774028315

I just googled something and Google put its AI summary top, which incorrectly used a Facebook post - misinterpreting it. The Facebook post itself was an AI summary of a user post - which AI had also misinterpreted. The result is the Google answer was just total bollocks.

10/10 no notes.

LΞX/NØVΛ 🇪🇺 · 4d

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