I think loneliness is at the root of a lot of drug abuse - especially opiates. And I fear AI friends are going to tap right into that vein with a far more direct administration: instead of simulating the feeling of connection, simulate the actual connection. But no less artificial or dangerous.

🚀 Really proud to share that If This Then AT:// (IFTTA) is now open source! What started as a hack day idea has grown into something I'm genuinely excited about. We've built a full ATProtocol automation platform that's lexicon-agnostic and ready to scale. github.com/graze-social/iftta

So are there some canonical takes out there on TikTok in response to the impending US nationalization? What is *the discourse* like over there now? I don’t have the mental fortitude for that app, it’s like staring straight into the eye of Sauron, but I do love the occasional export.

parakeet.at/parakeet Parakeet is a Rust-based Bluesky AppView aiming to implement most of the functionality required to support the Bluesky client ⭐️ 36

so zeppelin.social is coming to an end was going to do a longform post but this'll hopefully help me keep it concise tl:dr; not a matter of expense or difficulty or anything, it's just done what it was meant to & I'd like to move past it now

If you ever get tired of GDP shills professing breathlessly about all the “progress” we’ve made in the last several decades, Network’s timeless screed by Arthur Jensen, the embodiment of big business, offers a painful but necessary remedy. youtu.be/V9XeyBd_IuA

We’re not gonna have the planet-scale T&C we want until our global payment processors are collectively owned (Visa used to be a coop!) and at least one technological superpower is a true democracy. The public internet is downstream of democratic rule, which isn’t the order of the day.

Oh, also, if y'all have liked what I've been working on, then you can support me at: support.thisismissem.social

The IETF OAuth Working Group has adopted the Identity Assertion Authorization Grant specification! datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ie... This is the basis of Cross App Access (XAA), providing IT admins better visibility and control by configuring the app-to-app connections in their enterprise IdP.

Loving @leaflet.pub but, what’s the deal with docs being inside a frame? It makes scrolling awkward since it won’t work unless I’m dragging from within the box. Similarly, my only big gripe with regular Leaflet right now is that there’s no scroll bar (iPad) so I’ve no sense of place on the page.

Finally publishing this about PLC! On a day with big PLC news!! I think the news recasts this piece into more "why that's important", and less doom hopefully!

Constitutionally sanctified “freedom of speech” counts for nothing so long as your country enables such a gross distortion and centralization of power that “the rules” don’t matter, only brute force does. Being pro-billionaires and a free-speech maximalist at the same time is an untenable position.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

very cool to see AP devs hacking with AT-style OAuth! I'd really love to see convergence in the modern ecosystem around this shape of distributed OAuth

STATUS: thinking about what to build next in Leaflet GOAL: fun, simple, composable building blocks that can enable lots of cool social experiments IDEAS: @-mentions, notifications, post references, tags, collections, comment permissions, $ block… read more here & lmk what you think!

Ooooh, it works!! This is a client talking to an authorization server built with the `@atproto/oauth-provider` package standalone. I've implemented just enough to make this proof of concept work.

I’m not qualified to comment on the technical aspects, but I love how this makes the Cost of ID Infrastructure completely transparent. $1 per account. Maybe $1/year to ensure steady operations of the ‘AT did:fid Infra Fund’. I’d gladly pay $10/year (like a domain) for a decentralized PLC.

Answer to question, "how would you fix did:plc?"

Hello everyone! Announcing Eurosky Live: Berlin 2025. Join founders, developers, media, policy-makers, and investors for a full-day public programe exploring the European open social web. If you're building on ATProto and interested in showcasing, please reach out! To register: luma.com/knk1342n

FWIW I agree... I'm co-author of ActivityPub and I wrote about combining ActivityPub and DIDs in 2017 github.com/WebOfTrustIn... (Also appears in the Bluesky proposal I co-authored with Jay back in the day, amongst other things gitlab.com/-/snippets/2... )

I’m fully on board with your subcommunites (aka sub-reddits) pitch; imo feeds are the way to get there. Feeds are a great precursor to subs, like a low stakes test run, much like how many newsletter giants started as a weekly links digest. It SHOULD be possible to moderate a feed and post *to* it.

Just a draft, but a very exciting draft to have www.ietf.org/archive/id/d...

When people make statements, they need to distinguish between what is realistically achievable right now and what is theoretically possible. If you ask whether you can survive on an alternative platform after being taken down on Bluesky, the answer is no—at least not yet. (1/3)

"Either we increase our capacity for learning at scale, or we may be forced to abandon the projects and ideals of an open society—with disastrous consequences ... We have little choice but to learn new ways to make sense of the world together, in a new kind of public sphere."

NEW: The killing of Charlie Kirk and the end of the 'global town square'. On the state of X, how AI 'enhancement' is the new crowdsourced manhunt, and the balkanization of Twitter into anti-social media: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-killin...

selfhosted.social now has a landing page 🎉 Special thanks to @witchcraft.systems for open sourcing theirs to make it easy to implement

The situation in Nepal is incredible. The government tried to ban social media last week which led to violent protests and the prime minister ousted. Gen Z protesters then met in a 100K strong Discord chat where they elected ex-chief justice Sushila Karki as the interim prime minister.

I have an insider view of Trust & Safety, and there's a consistent pattern across platforms and protocols: The more local control people have over moderation, the better. It befits a pluralist society, AND is more resistant to capture and pressure campaigns from the rich and powerful.

ok i pulled the whole plc.directory and am making it available faster plc.t3.storage.dev ^ s3-compatible public object store with weekly batches of the entire plc, up to ~1 week ago files are named like `plc.directory/{week-truncated-timestamp}.jsonl.jz`, eg: plc.t3.storage.dev/plc.director...

Conversations around decentralisation and the open social web have gotten fairly unproductive, resulting in a letter calling for mutual respect Im signing it, and with that, I have thoughts regarding discourse, decentralisation and why this space matters. connectedplaces.online/on-discourse...

This started as an explainer for a video demo of a prototype I've been cooking, but blew up into its own little announcement.😅

Oh that’s really cool! I say that without knowing the particulars yet, but at least the general concept of it seems great to me; a form of de-bureaucratization, which is an EU-bloc trend I could get behind.

This weeks fedi news is about how the Nepali government shut down virtually all social media over the weekend, leading to massive protests. Included in the list was mastodon, leading to mastodon.social becoming unavailable. Bluesky was not included. connectedplaces.online/reports/fedi...

I implore all my friends in tech to read ‘Development in Progress’, by Daniel Schmachtenberger & colleagues. consilienceproject.org/development-... As technologists we have a tendency to slip into narrow boundary thinking, concerning ourselves only with the problems in our niche domain.. #ecology

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

What could spaces be on @atproto.com?

🚀 Launching QuickDID: Fast, open source handle resolution for ATProtocol! Available now as public infrastructure at quickdid.smokesignal.tools - a drop-in alternative to Bluesky's resolver with intelligent caching. #ATProtocol #OpenSource

I've disabled invite codes for signing up or migrating to the blacksky.app Personal Data Server (PDS). The invite codes were necessary to prevent en masse bot signups. We've since turned on captchas and added rate limiting to the server. You no longer need to DM me or email [email protected]

atproto identity aliases: your pds mints a fresh did:plc on-demand for you during oauth flow if you don't want to share your identity with a thing you're checking out or using once or is requiring too many permissions. like email alias tools do.

Along with the much needed gesture of unity, the other big takeaway from Emelia’s open letter is that it inadvertently exposed a tiny minority of disproportionately powerful dissenters as the root cause of division in the open social web. Most of us are getting along just fine.

I respect Anil so I want to talk seriously about harm reduction and public health messaging. First let me acknowledge that yes, many regular, not-super-online people are trying out AI tools. Of course they are! It's been aggressively pushed into everything and given heavy institutional support.

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Thirteen years ago, JOMO, the Joy Of Missing Out. It’s such a universal thing that this became one of the most popular pieces I’ve written, and this dies the rounds about once a year every year since. (Others have written books + started podcasts on it.) www.anildash.com/2012/07/19/j...

if Steve Jobs was right and the computer is a "bicycle for the mind" then we were fools to ever take it onto the "information super-highway"

I heard talk a while ago about removing app passwords from ATProto now that there was OAuth, but I'm just noting that we really need app passwords or else "API Tokens" for authenticating things like CLIs. Maybe it's just a matter of re-naming app passwords.

I wrote in support of @thisismissem.social's letter saying that ATProto and ActivityPub ecosystems ought to engage kindly and constructively with each other. And I have explained my thinking more here: github.com/swicg/genera...

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here: github.com/swicg/genera... #activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

This one thing is holding the atproto ecosystem back more than anything else

Is sharing too much of a threat to the global economy, or too small to make a difference? Both critiques are trapped in the mindset of scale. As if everything has to or is going to happen all at once. It doesn’t. 📺 Watch, stream, and subscribe Team Human now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDGF...