Time for a consumer union. #touchpaper https://www.linkedin.com/posts/press-justice-project_polling-shows-huge-public-support-for-press-activity-7423008294388248576-8B9v

Great presentation today from @Bonfire on the Decentralised Communication track at #fosdem. Previewing two exciting initiatives Bonfire is working on with @newsmast and @klasse_methode. Look forward to many more!

#silentsunday #photography #centralpark

The @Declassified_UK #summit has been busy! The need for a #mediarevolution for peace is clear!

The Media Revolution team is off to the @Declassified_UK "Challenging the War Machine" #summit today as exhibitors - maybe see you there?!

We've launched our DIY guide to dismantling #disinformation. The CAPE toolkit enables you to analyse any item in the news media by questioning its Content, Accuracy, Politics, and the Emotions it’s aiming to provoke. We launched and demonstrated the toolkit at […] [Original post on mo-me.social]

Last week I hooked up with @jaz from Tŵt Cymru, the community-owned Welsh social network. We’re combining forces to launch the first Tŵt app on March 1st, Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant (St David’s Day). The Tŵt mobile app is vibrantly Welsh, easily accessible for new users, and a model for social […]

Lots of Open Social Web events are coming up. * Social Web Devroom at FOSDEM, Brussels, this Saturday. * Protocols for Publishers, London, Feb 4-5. * FediMTL, Montreal, Feb 24 * and then our own Growing the Open Social Web workshop, online, March 2. * ... We track them at […]

I wrote for New_Public, about European projects building on atproto

#ibram-#museus, 17 anos: "Nos últimos anos, a agenda institucional tem sido marcada pela reconstrução de capacidades do Estado na área da cultura, pela retomada de espaços de participação social e pelo reconhecimento dos museus como serviços públicos essenciais. Essa atuação reafirma o […]

Prediction: Pinterest, as people have known it, will be dead within five years. I honestly don't think the leadership there has any idea what their userbase actually wants. The End of UX continues… (I wonder if it's time for a #fediverse version of Pinterest. Scratch that, it is definitely […]

First Media Revolution event of the year. As timely as It could be https://www.thersa.org/events/2026/02/disinformation-and-democracy/

We're looking forward to this one 👀 There's never been a more important time for a community to find their own space in the Social Web! RE: https://www.threads.com/@timfullerton/post/DT-rQ7WgFd_

"#ice joined #bluesky as part of a wave of Trump Administration accounts that were created last November, as an apparent intimidation tactic against a network that was perceived to be largely left-wing. … For #mastodon, this is in some ways an endorsement of #thefediverse model. Both communities […]

There's a common thread disparaging people who might move away in this moment. All I'll say is that many of the wave of immigrants who came to the US 80+ years ago are also people who moved away in a moment that's looking more and more similar. People get to do what's right for them to keep […]

Google AI is becoming more pervasive, editing what journalists write, and is even harder to avoid. "these AI headlines are akin to a bookstore replacing the covers of the books it puts on display" Sean Hollister - senior editor and founding member of The Verge […]

It's no longer "it could happen here." it's now "it is happening here." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/magazine/minneapolis-trump-ice-protests-minnesota.html?smid=nytcore-android-share #us #ice #minneapolis

New from me: FR#150 – On ICE, Verification, and Presence As Harm Bluesky's decision to verify ICE's account shows that it not set up well to deal with threats where the presence itself is the harm connectedplaces.online/reports/fr15...

Check out this amazing resource @dansup created! I had no idea how many communities were hosted in Canada. Well done, everyone! Now, we need to grow. #canada #mastoadmin https://madeincanada.social/

"The case of ICE shows two unresolved problems that will only intensify as the ecosystem grows: how to deal with abusive behaviour that happens outside of the app (...)and how in a world where fascism is a real and existential threat, harms on social networks have evolved from not only being […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115939927948540108 Giving this whole live-streaming thing a shot! First time, so expect technical and human difficulties.

RE: https://frequency.app/@frequency/115941025932426144 New blog post from me on the ways engagement maximizing apps are designed to hook you and why they're designed that way. This took way longer to write than expected just because of the sheer amount of research and data there is out there […]

RE: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/01/13/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-thousand-ways-to-join-it/ This is the way.

RE: https://jaz.co.uk/2026/01/13/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-thousand-ways-to-join-it/ Love this collab between toot.wales and @newsmast to make joining the Fediverse simpler 🙏🏼

"To me, this is how we actually move away from the internet that we're on. It is not like, can we get a hundred nice people in a room together? I'm sure we could do that. It is after we get the hundred nice people in the room, what else can we show them? And can it be more interesting than […]

RE: https://mato.social/@josemurilo/115876350943712123 Está é a grande sacada do experimento #forkiverse: instâncias criam serviços customizados de conexão à rede. Pense na explosão de inovação que emerge nesta descentralização!

I have got to hand it to @pj, @kevin, and @Casey for creating the #forkiverse – a new Mastodon instance: https://theforkiverse.com They have been reporting on the #enshittification of social media forever (via Search Engine, Hard Fork, Platformer), and decided to “make a clubhouse that has […]

@fediversereport "What this framing missed however is that Twitter also stopped being the digital public town square, in the years since Musk’s acquisition. Instead, it became the internal coordination space for a political faction that now controls state power. " To any and all working on […]

New from me: X is A Power Problem, Not a Platform Problem https://connectedplaces.online/reports/a-power-problem-not-a-platform-problem/

"#enshittification was a choice: named individuals, in living memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment. They created a world that encouraged tech companies to merge to #monopoly, transforming the internet into "five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the […]

The 2025 Social Web Trust & Safety Needs Assessment Report is now available. Volunteer moderators are burning out. Spam is rising. Legal threats are growing. The 2025 Report reveals where things stand, and what must change. Read it now […]

Taking the next step with Canadian Civil in 2026 https://site.canadiancivil.com/what-is-canadian-civil/

A pre-pre-pre-alpha is out in the wild. Still buggy AF. Use at your own risk! https://fedideck.app Send me feedback!

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@chad/115841689280175384 Some thoughts regarding Trump potentially invading Greenland, and what we should do to be prepared for it. I wish this was a hallucination, but I think we really need to start talking about it.

Celebrating the launch of Newsmast on Mastodon with One Chord Wonders by The Adverts. Play loud! #introduction #newsmast #mastodon #punk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaT9QDw4YNo&t=50s