Nostr notes by Johannes Ernst

"It's no longer science fiction to imagine your ...

2026-10-30T02:43:48Z

"It's no longer science fiction to imagine your refrigerator autonomously purchasing your groceries with funds that it earns from launching a memecoin or staking ether," says the chairman of the CFTC.

Must be true then…

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/10/28/cftc-chief-poses-questions-about-policing-ai-but-calls-it-a-road-to-autonomous-trading

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2026-10-11T02:14:35Z

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/vegetables-nutrition-soil-quality-decline-b3063325.html?utm_source=reddit.com

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2026-10-03T02:22:23Z

Consider that God also made the devil.

"Cancer Capital", ha! Great phrase by @npub16sj…va89. ...

2026-09-03T17:26:22Z

"Cancer Capital", ha! Great phrase by Anil Dash (npub16sj…va89).

When people in the Fediverse complain about VCs and Venture Capital, I think they mostly complain about that Cancer Capital, not so much traditional VC. We didn't have that term before, and it's a very useful distinction. Now we need one for non-Cancer VC.

https://www.anildash.com/2026/09/02/cancer-capital/

are you planning to come to tomorrow’s website TF meeting?

2026-08-31T21:28:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…v03v
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are you planning to come to tomorrow’s website TF meeting?

they way to do this is the same way it got removed: whoever cares ...

2026-08-31T14:47:15Z

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they way to do this is the same way it got removed: whoever cares about it needs to file an issue, make their case in the issue (it does not have to be elaborate) and we see what comments they get. If there are no objections, and it is a small change (which it would be) it gets done. If there are objections, we need to resolve those eg by discussion in the regularly scheduled meeting. That’s what the TF is for.

Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (npub1764…nuj0) silverpill (npub19yg…wysk)

Next "Series B" meeting is this: ...

2026-08-27T20:29:01Z

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Next "Series B" meeting is this: https://www.w3.org/events/meetings/cca78019-8314-4ecf-8945-e13d832c03fc/20260917T230000/

I don't know your time zones, but does this work for you all?

Evan Prodromou 🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇷🇵🇸 (npub1764…nuj0) Darius Kazemi (npub1fd2…f2f9) Dmitri | 🇺🇦 (npub1a72…66ak)

Is it just me who cannot shake the idea that Natalie Harp is ...

2026-08-25T01:32:58Z

Is it just me who cannot shake the idea that Natalie Harp is somebody’s very, very talented operative?

"Servizi Last Minute" is a thing? I'm afraid Italian ...

2026-07-16T17:01:32Z

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"Servizi Last Minute" is a thing? I'm afraid Italian is not what I thought it was any more ...

I'll be on a panel discussing the future of social media from ...

2026-07-07T17:40:29Z

I'll be on a panel discussing the future of social media from a European policy angle on the 22nd at the European Union's San Francisco office, with some distinguished other panelists.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-future-of-human-centred-social-media-ts-and-policy-perspectives-tickets-1993200069062

It's open to the public, but registration required. Say Hi if you are coming.

Unions only started approx. in the middle of those 250 years ...

2026-07-03T23:03:18Z

In reply to nevent1q…utgn
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Unions only started approx. in the middle of those 250 years afaik. Same for taxes, I think the US started out with flat income taxes.

Looking back over 250 years, if you had to plot a score for the ...

2026-07-03T21:32:16Z

Looking back over 250 years, if you had to plot a score for the "health" of the United States since its founding, what would that graph look like?

Which times were better than now? Which times were worse?

I'm afraid I don't know enough US history to really have a firm opinion on many decades.

(For some value of "health")

“why are you carrying that heavy anvil around in the desert?” ...

2026-06-22T00:44:44Z

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“why are you carrying that heavy anvil around in the desert?” — “that’s because I’m afraid of the lions. When I see a lion, I will immediately drop it and that lets me run much faster!”

W Social seems to have been quite successful in getting a big ...

2026-06-18T18:05:14Z

W Social seems to have been quite successful in getting a big part of the EU establishment to sign up. Congratulations!

One wonders though if the step from US social media companies to a EU social media company was big enough. Wouldn't a move to *your own instance* in the fediverse been better?

Meta says they now have half a billion monthly active users on ...

2026-06-16T16:43:28Z

Meta says they now have half a billion monthly active users on #Threads.

This is about 100x that of #Bluesky, and about 500x that of #Mastodon, at only about 3 years old. How do *you* explain this?

https://about.fb.com/news/2026/06/meta-launching-new-features-500-million-monthly-threads-users/

This includes Mastodon and Bluesky and all of the rest. ...

2026-06-15T21:16:01Z

This includes Mastodon and Bluesky and all of the rest.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/social-media-to-be-banned-for-under-16s-in-landmark-government-move-to-givekids-their-childhood-back

If you are not an engineer, but would like a glimpse of what real ...

2026-05-11T18:51:17Z

If you are not an engineer, but would like a glimpse of what real engineering looks like in practice, here is a slightly mindboggling writeup on how they reduced operating cost of Bridgy Fed, which bridges #AtProto and #ActivityPub. By A New Social CTO @snarfed.org@bsky.brid.gy

https://blog.anew.social/bridging-on-a-budget/?ref=a-new-social-newsletter

I am having a lot of fun in #FediForum sessions this time. ...

2026-04-30T18:03:34Z

I am having a lot of fun in #FediForum sessions this time. That's because we now have a real community here, built over some years, people who now know each other, have good personal relationships so there is a lot of banter in the middle of all the high-bandwidth, high-competence discussion. It's a great combination.

Great top-level question from ...

2026-04-23T17:56:11Z

Great top-level question from [@LaurensHof](https://fediversereport.com/author/laurenshof/ ) in his newsletter

"What will be the shape of the organisations that will actually build the future of the social internet?"

Would make a great conversation at #FediForum next week.

https://connectedplaces.online/reports/fr160-everyone-wants-servers-and-nobody-wants-servers/

But the idea is still valid IMHO, even if it gets us out of our ...

2026-04-20T23:54:08Z

In reply to nevent1q…2q9q
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But the idea is still valid IMHO, even if it gets us out of our comfort zones.

Maybe I should run a session about this next week at #FediForum. Would anybody here join such a session? https://fediforum.org
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If the #fediverse (or the #atmosphere, same problem) were a ...

2026-04-20T23:54:01Z

If the #fediverse (or the #atmosphere, same problem) were a startup and I had any say in it, I would make a list of all things that make it hard for it to have larger impact on the world than it currently has, and insist that we systematically work them down.

Because I don't think we are.

Of course, it's not a startup and should not be. It needs to be many projects, none of them dominant, otherwise we'd end up right where we wanted to get away from: centralized social overlords.
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People take a while to understand different architectures. ...

2026-04-17T17:45:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…hrkf
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People take a while to understand different architectures. What's important right now is that public statement that cooperation is good and we should applaud that.

I want to applaud ...

2026-04-17T17:42:14Z

I want to applaud [@rose.bsky.team](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/rose.bsky.team ) and Felix Hlatky (npub10gc…0m2k) for appearing on stage together and expressing a desire to cooperate. As I've said for a long time, #Bluesky and #Mastodon, #ActivityPub and #ATProtocol should not be fighting each other. The real opposition are the oligarch-controlled, enshittified, manipulating major commercial platforms. We have no chance of making a dent into their dominance if the revolution fights itself instead.

Now look at this!! ...

2026-04-17T17:23:08Z

Now look at this!!

https://bsky.app/profile/rose.bsky.team/post/3mjonpuy2ok2i

#mastodon #bluesky

So the value you'd highlight is that you can get your content ...

2026-03-31T16:49:06Z

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So the value you'd highlight is that you can get your content in a modality not easily supported where you have the most followers in front of those many followers.

That sounds ... complicated. Do people relate to that? Or do they say "why doesn't your Mastodon thingy implement the Pixelfed features in the first place?"

If you wanted to give a software demo of the #Fediverse, ...

2026-03-31T16:00:46Z

If you wanted to give a software demo of the #Fediverse, emphasizing of the value that this heterogeneous network provides to its people across platforms and applications, how would you demo this?

Has anybody ever done this? (well?) Ideas and pointers appreciated!

there are many people here who are entirely unrelated to any form ...

2026-03-29T00:44:42Z

In reply to nevent1q…ch6l
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there are many people here who are entirely unrelated to any form of VC. Example: Blacksky.

I’m unfortunately out of the country, but I’m there in spirit ...

2026-03-28T21:26:20Z

I’m unfortunately out of the country, but I’m there in spirit with all of you #nokings people on the streets.

But #ATmosphereConf is a bit related: contributing to a non-fascist media and news environment.

So happy to see that #Mastodon has become a member of the W3C and ...

2026-03-06T18:32:25Z

So happy to see that #Mastodon has become a member of the W3C and is now coming to the renewed #ActivityPub standardization activity.

From today's notes: https://hackmd.io/PaXqEd7-T7CLULV9Y4nwcA?view

Writing my own position statement for the upcoming Open Social ...

2026-02-16T00:04:41Z

Writing my own position statement for the upcoming Open Social Web un-workshop.

A main reason I ever started #FediForum is that I wanted to attend an event like it! And sometimes you have to create things yourself if they don't exist yet.

Trying to decide what my own position statement is on how to grow ...

2026-02-10T02:10:52Z

Trying to decide what my own position statement is on how to grow the Open Social Web, for our un-workshop. I have so many things to say!

But, the entirely unreasonable organizer (also me) insists that position statements must be concise enough that they can be stated in less than 5 minutes.

A good exercise, even if self-inflicted :-) If I can't say the important things in a few minutes, and in a way that people remember, I better work on it some more before inflicting my opinions on others.

I could use some help. I'm trying to make a list of all the ...

2026-01-22T23:52:50Z

I could use some help. I'm trying to make a list of all the websites that list ActivityPub 1) software 2) instances and whose content isn't too out of date. Here are some I know:

https://fedidb.com
https://fediverse.observer/stats
https://the-federation.info
https://delightful.coding.social

What else is there? Which is your go-to list?

I had missed that interview. Interesting!! ...

2026-01-04T18:51:09Z

I had missed that interview. Interesting!!

https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/

It’s a very compelling pitch: tear down anti circumvention laws ...

2026-01-01T16:24:21Z

It’s a very compelling pitch: tear down anti circumvention laws and reap billions for your economies, while at the same time also becoming digitally sovereign.

Now do European, or other, politicianshave the guts to do it?

From: Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115819402267996681

The first thing that needs to happen is that somebody with ...

2025-12-26T23:17:35Z

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The first thing that needs to happen is that somebody with industry clout says this is a possibility. Enter Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) and his Wired piece.

The second thing is that somebody who knows how to shape the political conversation in the right places hears about it and picks it up. Which is why I cc'd Alexandra Geese (npub12wd…aatc) (who probably saw the piece anyway).

The third thing is that the public clearly backs up their elected politicians. Which is where we can all help.

Not just to respond to the Trump tariffs: if one wanted to get to ...

2025-12-26T20:41:03Z

Not just to respond to the Trump tariffs: if one wanted to get to digital sovereignty, the repeal of anti-circumvention laws is practically required, or the network effects likely will turn out to be insurmountable.

/cc Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) Alexandra Geese (npub12wd…aatc)

https://www.wired.com/story/us-trade-dominance-will-begin-to-crack/

Missing context ... what is "this"?

2025-12-23T19:35:58Z

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Missing context ... what is "this"?

Threads’ Fediverse integration now is “in maintenance ...

2025-12-19T17:18:17Z

Threads’ Fediverse integration now is “in maintenance mode”.

https://www.theverge.com/column/847806/head-of-threads-interview

#fediforumfriday #threads

@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being ...

2025-11-19T14:47:19Z

@rose.bsky.team from Bluesky: We started with 90% of users being posters, now we are at 30%, but compare this with 1% on some commercial platforms. Conversations are happening again.

OH: ASCII Imperialism. Not wrong. Still funny.

2025-10-10T18:46:56Z

OH: ASCII Imperialism.

Not wrong. Still funny.

Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be ...

2025-09-27T22:30:35Z

Totally agree with Cory. Today’s “AI” may or may not be useful to you or your company, but there is no way that it is financially sustainable. And giving the sheer outrageous magnitude of money involved, when the crash comes — and it will — it will likely be worse than any other crash we’ve ever seen.

From: Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs)
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115277162069992407

Learned a new word: Enshittocene. @npub1fdr…lvhs what have you ...

2025-09-02T02:10:09Z

Learned a new word: Enshittocene.

Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) what have you done.

https://cybercultural.com/enshittocene/

I'm fascinated to (re-?)discover that the core #ActivityPub ...

2025-08-30T21:06:42Z

I'm fascinated to (re-?)discover that the core #ActivityPub deliverable was the C2S API, not the S3S federation protocol.

Was the underlying assumption that servers were boring, one/few implementations could handle all cases, and innovation was going to be centered around clients?

From Enshittification to Disenshittification. The words keep ...

2025-08-27T23:45:08Z

From Enshittification to Disenshittification. The words keep coming to Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) !

http://disenshittification.org/

I have no words. Maybe I should have words, but I don't. ...

2025-08-27T15:30:06Z

I have no words. Maybe I should have words, but I don't.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-weighs-sanctions-officials-implementing-eu-tech-law-sources-2025-08-26/

#europe #dsa

They charge EUR 1/month? That would be in the same ballpark as ...

2025-08-25T17:10:04Z

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They charge EUR 1/month? That would be in the same ballpark as the Meta and Twitter numbers ...

Digitalcourage (npub1t3g…qqds)

What would it cost to run the #fediverse at scale? With billions ...

2025-08-25T15:30:21Z

What would it cost to run the #fediverse at scale? With billions instead of millions of users?

What does it cost to run a social network anyway? According to the annual reports of two companies that should know, the comparable seems to be about $1-$2 per user per month. And that's after stripping out a bunch of costs, like us not building ad tech in the fediverse.

Have better numbers? I'd love to see them!

From a recent talk of mine: https://spectra.video/w/k1rVULikPRfavCZ3WhXMgg

The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- ...

2025-08-22T14:01:13Z

The world we have -- in social media, and more broadly in tech -- vs the world we want.

Does this look about right?

“Mastodon’s developers — many of whom were queer and trans ...

2025-08-21T05:22:49Z

“Mastodon’s developers — many of whom were queer and trans — did not enjoy the privilege of living the totally open life: they needed privacy and safety, means to protect themselves from harassment.”

Which led to particular choices that were made for #ActivityPub. Good ones imho.
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"these problems may be rooted in the very architecture of ...

2025-08-20T04:00:39Z

"these problems may be rooted in the very architecture of social media platforms: networks that grow through emotionally reactive sharing. If so, improving online discourse will require more than technical tweaks – it will demand rethinking the fundamental dynamics of interaction and visibility that define these environments."

Fellow social media innovators: Should we accept the challenge from this paper? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.03385

How big is the open social web, the #fediverse, #bluesky etc ...

2025-08-19T17:21:50Z

How big is the open social web, the #fediverse, #bluesky etc compared to the big commercial platforms? It's a bit sobering.

From my recent talk "From millions to billions -- a plausible narrative for how to grow the open social web."

Got the newest #Fediverse book in the mail. Looking forward to ...

2025-08-18T20:40:00Z

Got the newest #Fediverse book in the mail. Looking forward to reading it!!

https://www.moveslowlybuildbridges.com

It's a great big miracle the entire internet hasn't ...

2025-08-18T03:03:08Z

It's a great big miracle the entire internet hasn't collapsed (more) yet.

https://e-mail.wtf

that competing directly with juggernauts doesn't work. (Of ...

2025-08-12T21:18:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…76d6
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that competing directly with juggernauts doesn't work. (Of course you may be satisfied with relatively few people on open protocols. I respect that but I'm not!)

For alternate ideas, see my recent presentation: https://spectra.video/w/k1rVULikPRfavCZ3WhXMgg

Meta announced today that Threads now has reached 400 million ...

2025-08-12T21:18:36Z

Meta announced today that Threads now has reached 400 million monthly active users. Starting at about the same time with a similar product, Bluesky currently is at about 6 million MAUs. Mastodon and other Fediverse projects started earlier, and their numbers are even lower ... by some margin! None of them are growing much, while Threads is.

This tells me

The choice between a traditional social media platform or the ...

2025-08-04T21:15:01Z

The choice between a traditional social media platform or the open social web seems to boil down to "do I want to control people to only do things my way" or "do I want to thrive by enabling people to make their own choices".

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2025-07-30T18:07:01Z

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance?utm_source=effector

Done with the slides for my talk "From Millions to Billions ...

2025-07-29T18:08:32Z

Done with the slides for my talk "From Millions to Billions -- a plausible narrative for growing the Open Social Web", to be (first?) given at #FediCon this Friday in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

I expect this to be permanent work in progress, as this community / network / market / whatever it all is evolves, and I'm sure that some people will tell me it is not plausible or could be more plausible. Which would be the best outcome ... I love learning from my "audience" because it gets better that way.

Quite interesting conversation between @npub17lr…294v and Jack ...

2025-07-24T21:21:33Z

Quite interesting conversation between rabble (npub17lr…294v) and Jack Dorsey on the history of Twitter, why Jack left Bluesky, and what he thinks is needed in terms of a social media protocol and why.

Agree or disagree, this first recorded episode in Rabble's new podcast revolution.social is worth listening to.

https://revolution.social/

Seems to me these guys have no concept whatsoever of what science ...

2025-07-16T02:42:11Z

Seems to me these guys have no concept whatsoever of what science is.

https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

Great piece on how we think about growth of Mastodon, Bluesky ...

2025-07-08T21:25:39Z

Great piece on how we think about growth of Mastodon, Bluesky etc. and why it's (mostly) not working. By Laurens Hof (npub1zlh…de9x)

https://connectedplaces.online/growth-narratives-on-the-new-social-networks/

Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business ...

2025-07-05T03:52:36Z

Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business model”.
Strong words! But he explains: “Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.”
Guilty as charged I would say.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- ...

2025-07-02T22:10:37Z

If we wanted to grow the Open Social Web by a factor of 1000 -- roughly the number of users on Meta platforms today compared to, say, Mastodon -- how would we go about it?

P.S. Obviously while keeping the good things we have here, and making them even better, rather than backsliding / enshittifying / ...

Hi [@_elena](https://mastodon.social/@_elena ), you obviously ...

2025-06-26T17:33:03Z

Hi [@_elena](https://mastodon.social/@_elena ), you obviously have gotten a lot of praise for your Fediverse video, and deservedly so. Many people commented on the sheer production quality.

I want to add that your narrative is also first-class. I cannot think of anybody who has told the Fediverse story better than you have, and usually the stories being told are much worse. How did you come up with it? That's also your work, right?

One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the ...

2025-06-23T18:00:39Z

One of the big conceptual questions that's unresolved in the #Fediverse is: Just what exactly is an instance for?

Yep, it's a separate installation of server software. But what exactly does instance 1 give me compared to instance 2?

Answer A: it makes no difference except on policy: who runs it, what are their TOS, moderation policy etc. The Local feed has no significance.

Answer B: Beyond that, it defines a community. The local feed is essential.

Which should it be?

Fascinated by @npub17m8…rsw8's renaming of the ...

2025-06-20T19:11:37Z

Fascinated by Laurens Hof (npub17m8…rsw8)'s renaming of the "Fediverse Report" to "Connected Places". He could have called it "Global Townsquare" but he didn't. I very much agree. This is all about connecting distinct places on the web, not mashing them all up into one.

https://connectedplaces.online

We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub ...

2025-06-18T17:37:36Z

We need to separate identity from servers in the ActivityPub world. It's time. I should be able to have a single identity and use it with lots of servers from Mastodon to Lemmy and beyond.

Then, various instances could reflect different communities with different people in them, different features and policies.

This also would elegantly solve the "instance selection paralysis" in Tim Chambers (npub1vag…mjkp) 's Deadly Fediverse UX sin #1.

Fortunately Ben Pate 🤘🏻 (npub17gq…8hhz) is starting to assemble people to solve this.

"They promised connection. But they delivered addiction, ...

2025-06-11T17:27:13Z

"They promised connection. But they delivered addiction, surveillance, and manipulation."

What a simple, powerful statement about commercial social media by [@_elena](https://mastodon.social/@_elena ) in her amazing movie.

I'm going to steal this. (With attribution of course!)

https://videos.elenarossini.com/w/64VuNCccZNrP4u9MfgbhkN

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2025-05-30T01:41:31Z

https://www.techspot.com/news/108043-german-court-takes-stand-against-manipulative-cookie-banners.html

:-) I would love to find forms of social media in which the ...

2025-05-26T17:18:49Z

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:-) I would love to find forms of social media in which the yelling could happen but also not drown out the non-yelling part. For one, I'd rather follow my congressman on Bluesky or on Mastodon via Brid.gy than only being able to follow them on X, which I haven't used in a long time.

An unexpected obstacle to adoption. I assume Mastodon would be no ...

2025-05-26T15:58:39Z

An unexpected obstacle to adoption. I assume Mastodon would be no different:

“I spoke with a few congressional staffers who said that they had tried using Bluesky as an alternative to Twitter after Twitter was purchased by Elon Musk, but they gave up after their bosses kept getting yelled at by Democratic users angry at their impotence.”

https://www.semafor.com/newsletter/05/25/2025/semafor-media-anti-woke-identity-crisis

Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability ...

2025-05-22T21:23:26Z

Utah is going to legally require social media interoperability and portability of the social graph.

Wow, this law has been signed and it somehow passed under my radar. IMHO It has a good change to substantially impact the open social web, in a very good way.

Thanks Tim Chambers (npub1vag…mjkp) for the tip!

https://le.utah.gov/~2025/bills/static/HB0418.html

The #InternetArchive wants your support for this petition urging ...

2025-05-07T16:10:34Z

The #InternetArchive wants your support for this petition urging the record labels to drop their existential lawsuit. I signed.

https://chng.it/MdZM9xQXdw

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2025-04-29T02:44:20Z

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/28/government-actually-threatens-wikipedias-editorial-freedom-self-proclaimed-free-speech-warriors-suddenly-have-other-plans/

Bluesky account confirmation e-mail has the footer: "Bluesky, ...

2025-04-23T23:55:13Z

Bluesky account confirmation e-mail has the footer:

"Bluesky, the social internet."

Hmm.

Scott is a great guy, never mind past titles!

2025-04-16T17:20:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…3kds
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Scott is a great guy, never mind past titles!

The #Mastodon team has managed to get @npub1m8t…zu6r signed up ...

2025-04-16T16:57:37Z

The #Mastodon team has managed to get Scott Jenson (npub1m8t…zu6r) signed up as a design advisor.

Congratulations, I can't wait to see impact on the product!

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/scottjenson_im-happy-to-share-that-im-starting-a-new-activity-7318270991174901762-Kob9

Cory Booker just broke Strom Thurmond's record for the ...

2025-04-01T23:21:40Z

Cory Booker just broke Strom Thurmond's record for the longest speech in the Senate of the United states at 24 hours and 19 minutes.

👏👏👏

In the past day or so, it was pointed out that my FediForum ...

2025-03-30T14:20:16Z

In the past day or so, it was pointed out that my FediForum co-organizer has made some public statements that are incompatible with the kind of community we want to bring together at FediForum, and that I personally disagree with. Accordingly, Kaliya and I have agreed that she will be transitioning out of FediForum.

I'm thinking of running a #FediForum session next week on: ...

2025-03-26T17:10:51Z

I'm thinking of running a #FediForum session next week on:

Funding the open social web

It appears to cost about $1 / month / user to run a social network, based on public company numbers. (Counting volunteer labor as a donation at market prices.)

If we want the Fediverse to go from its current user numbers to 10x or 100x, and make it possible for most of humanity to get off the toxic platforms, we need to find those 10x or 100x or 1000x resources somehow. Let's brainstorm.

It's just that lots of FediForum attendees come from Europe, ...

2025-03-24T21:40:01Z

In reply to nevent1q…eyg5
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It's just that lots of FediForum attendees come from Europe, while the number of people from your time zone and related that we know would come is fairly small. Are there any Fediverse communities / clusters in your neighborhood we could reach out to to see whether we could get critical mass?

Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro ...

2025-03-17T18:28:45Z

Ghost has made ActivityPub available to all of its Pro subscribers.

Interesting how they name and describe it:

"Social Web - y/n
Federate your site with ActivityPub to join the world's largest open network"

#Ghost #ActivityPub

Dear weather, you are not supposed to be raining like this. ...

2025-03-12T22:14:10Z

Dear weather, you are not supposed to be raining like this.

Unless the changing climate has some very nasty influence on you.

Just hit 430ppm CO2 this week for the first time in a few million years.

A detailed comparison table of Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and X. ...

2025-03-10T16:02:34Z

A detailed comparison table of Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and X. (In German)

https://social-media-matrix.king-consult.de

#AI causes -96% in referral traffic according to this source. ...

2025-03-07T04:54:09Z

#AI causes -96% in referral traffic according to this source. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rashishrivastava/2025/03/03/openai-perplexity-ai-search-traffic-report/

"Intimacy gradients" for social media. A really important ...

2025-03-02T04:16:36Z

"Intimacy gradients" for social media.

A really important concept that at least I have not seen implemented anywhere.

https://www.socialroots.io/intimacy-gradients-the-key-to-fixing-our-broken-social-media-landscape/

Crowdsourcing ... for my talk about UX in the Fediverse and the ...

2025-02-26T04:27:48Z

Crowdsourcing ... for my talk about UX in the Fediverse and the social web, what do **you** think the biggest challenges are for user experience today?

This sounds a bit silly but I don't think it actually is ... ...

2025-02-11T19:45:21Z

This sounds a bit silly but I don't think it actually is ...

What is a good definition of "social media"?

A definition that isn't inductive ("everything sort of like Facebook") but one that defines the category.

All the definitions I've come across sound quite odd-shaped. What's your definition?

It's kinda important because if we want to create a better "social media" we should be able to define quite well what that thing is we want to be better.

There's this persistent rumor that East and West Germany were ...

2025-02-07T23:41:36Z

There's this persistent rumor that East and West Germany were reunited some thirty-something years ago.

Here's the opinion poll map for this month's election.

https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/Go9BB/2/

Public service announcement: this is now the age where your data ...

2025-02-01T19:45:32Z

Public service announcement: this is now the age where your data in the cloud is no longer safe. Offend somebody important and it is gone.

From: Erik Uden 🚩 (npub10nd…urdx)
https://mastodon.de/@ErikUden/113930176963645558

@npub1urx…v0z4 says: "make all software social"

2025-02-01T16:35:10Z

Christine Lemmer-Webber (npub1urx…v0z4) says: "make all software social"

It’s fascinating to me that where a variety of reactions to a ...

2025-01-31T09:45:07Z

It’s fascinating to me that where a variety of reactions to a post exist — like Like, Heart, Fire, Dislike etc — these reactions are all about emotions. None of them are about facts.

For example, what if I could express “I believe this to be true” or “…to be false”? Or “I agree with this statement” vs “disagree”? Or “I have first hand evidence supporting this”.

It’s almost as if social media was created as an emotional rage machine, rather than something that supports fact finding.

What #fediverse software can express richer semantics than just ...

2025-01-31T08:57:43Z

What #fediverse software can express richer semantics than just “Like”? Eg Facebook as things like heart, fire, open mouth etc. One can imagine others like “I dis/agree” etc. If not, any good reasons why not?

Frank McCourt points out the "loss of free will" as a ...

2025-01-30T14:53:00Z

Frank McCourt points out the "loss of free will" as a consequence of the large tech platforms.

Unusual, but I'm not disagreeing.

So if Threads is at over 100 million daily active users, Twitter ...

2025-01-30T11:04:40Z

So if Threads is at over 100 million daily active users, Twitter used to have 217 million and hasn't really grown since (and perhaps fallen), Threads is now getting to the same ball park.

Compare to about 5m on Bluesky, and not sure how many daily active users in the ActivityPub world.

I want a better social media where people getting their news only ...

2025-01-29T17:51:18Z

I want a better social media where people getting their news only from that better social media are better informed, more correct, less likely to believe in conspiracies or somebody’s self-interested BS or propaganda. Oh, and take action based on that better understanding.

I see zero reasons why this can’t be done. We just need to build it.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/jan/29/social-media-news-consumption-civic-values-climate-change-attitudes-monash-universtiy-study

Somebody got #venture money in the #fediverse ! Openvibe got ...

2025-01-28T20:19:49Z

Somebody got #venture money in the #fediverse ! Openvibe got $800k from some VCs and Automattic, the company behind WordPress and Tumblr.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/28/automattic-and-others-back-openvibe-an-app-thats-unifying-the-open-social-web/

“Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with ...

2025-01-24T02:43:56Z

“Tech billionaires want to ‘overthrow democracy’ with social media, Spain PM Sánchez says”

A politician is understanding what’s going on here. Help, what now?

PS: what an opportunity for the #fediverse. How do we best go about this?

https://www.politico.eu/article/spain-pedro-sanchez-big-tech-billionaires-democracy-social-media/

Are there people using the #fediverse in countries in which ...

2025-01-21T17:26:09Z

Are there people using the #fediverse in countries in which speech is tightly controlled? Like Russia, China, … If so, how do they do it? Use VPNs to servers outside the country? Or …?

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said ...

2025-01-21T02:56:28Z

'I wish it need not have happened in my time,' said Frodo.
 'So do I,' said Gandalf, 'and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.'