It’s worth remembering that ICE is only 22 years old. It is an institution that was created in the aftermath of 9/11 as a domestic part of the war on terror. It can and should be abolished.

Every day I’m thankful that I get to live in such a beautiful place. While the nature is spectacular it’s actually the way people treat each other in Aotearoa.

This is an important step for the right to exit, the right to return.

On big social platforms, moderation is a black box: if you get deplatformed, there’s little explanation & no one to talk to. Blacksky is different. Community-led moderation means real people, real accountability, and rules shaped by the community. Ep with @rude1.blacksky.team & @rabble.nz out now.

Nobody wanted to look at the evidence. Keir Starmer's Labour got less votes and a lower vote % than Corbyn did but won a majority in parliament because Reform decided to go after the Tories. Without Your Party, the likely outcome is PM Farage. With Your Party doing to the left what Reform did?????

This is a terrible idea and huge invasion of privacy! Just look at what's currently happening with these cameras! www.404media.co/this-company...

I love seeing a diversity of DID's beyond bsky.social!

What @blackskyweb.xyz is doing is an inspiration and model for the future of social media protocols. What folks don't know is how much of the work @rude1.blacksky.team does is rooted in mutual aid and larger movements for collective liberation. We get in to all of that on @revolution.social

A wide ranging convo between me & @rabble.nz for @revolution.social → past, present and future of Blacksky (the community + company) → mutual aid, susus, people's assemblies, etc → building protocols for people wherever you get your podcasts.

I tried to pole dance in my giant inflatable unicorn suit. It's really tricky, i couldn't climb the pole or invert.

Out now, my conversation with Bluesky board member and internet celeb @mmasnick.bsky.social to talk about Bluesky, protocols, and the future of freedom on my @revolution.social podcast.

A joint letter from multiple NZ organisations pointing out their fears that suggested changes to the Terrorism Suppression Act risk suppressing dissent, advocacy, and humanitarian work: community.scoop.co.nz/2025/09/join...

They are literally canceling culture

They want to cancel Jimmy Kimmel and kill free speech? Time to hit them where it hurts—their pockets: - Cancel Disney+ - Cancel Hulu - Boycott ESPN - Boycott ABC Let them know why you’re canceling/boycotting. - ABC contact: support.abc.com/hc/en-us/art... - Nexstar contact: www.nexstar.tv/contact/

If you’re just now learning about Brendan Carr, @mmasnick.bsky.social and I have a great YouTube video for you!

•ABC: fires Kimmel for mocking Trump •CBS: fires Colbert for mocking Trump •ABC: fires Moran for slamming Stephen Miller •MSNBC: fires Matt Dowd for saying “hateful thoughts lead to hateful actions” •FOX: Champions Brian Kilmeade as he calls for Nazi state murder of America’s 600K homeless people

Jarvis: I hate to say this to my friends here at CNN, mass media is dying, so they're taking the last of these vestiges of institutions that matter and they're trying to turn them into propaganda organs under threat from the head of the FCC

@mmasnick.bsky.social I’m not sure if you were referencing me but I did comment about how I don’t look at your podcast titles. ;) If you enjoy the podcast then do the titles you want! pca.st/episode/b224...

JD Vance says the US government will investigating opposition organizations. If they start revoking the legal status and seizing bank accounts of opposition non-profits then this represents a fundamental threat to the ongoing operation and viability of an open democratic society.

I gotta love how this guy just keeps going with his name and refuses to change it. iammarkzuckerberg.com

Blacksky is doing good work, I am cheering them on! However, the protocol used by both Bluesky and Blacksky (ATproto) is intentionally and explicitly built around the idea of a publicly indexable feed. It would take rearchitecting to change this (Not Blacksky's fault tho, it's how ATproto works)

Apparently TikTok is suppressing the the term groyper.

Revolution.Social began with @rabble.nz's idea for a Social Media Bill of Rights: a framework focused on privacy, ownership, exit, transparency, & self-governance. Cory Doctorow says the challenge is turning principles into protections that work. Bonus episode out now.

My kids tell me that i need to do video essays and not just interviews for my revolution.social podcast to take off... what do people think? Should i take a try? They also say that I work on 'boring social media apps' but that's them just being teenagers i think.

How do content moderation systems treat Indigenous languages online? CDT’s research report from @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social dives into how platforms moderate Quechua, a widely spoken but low-resource Indigenous language of South America—& reveals linguistic inequities. cdt.org/insights/mod...

This week, Cory Doctorow joins @rabble.nz to talk about the enshitification of social media, the fight for online privacy, and strategies for a better internet. As a bestselling author and activist, Cory shows how the imagination of sci-fi connects to the imagination of activism. Episode out now.

Activist, Technologist, and Author @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy took time to talk to me about the future of social media, protocols, resisting enshitification, bluesky, the fediverse, and the world we're trying to build together. www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvp...

It’s understood that anything new is often feared, and blamed for societal issues. Even landline telephones once caught the blame. While this sounds absurd, as @taylorlorenz.bsky.social points out, we’re living through a similar moral panic about social media.  Full episode out now.

Social media platforms promised a public square. Instead, corporations control free speech online, deciding who's heard, who monetizes & who grows. As @taylorlorenz.bsky.social tells @rabble.nz, the Far Right innovates faster than the left, while both parties push laws on online speech. Watch now.

This really redefines the idea of a keyboard warrior.

Our host @rabble.nz sat down with Code Story’s Noah Labhart to discuss: - The early days of Twitter - Why open protocols improve social apps - How agentic programming is reshaping the way teams and companies are built 🎧 Listen to it here: codestory.co/podcast/twit...

Content creators & moderators are the backbone of community platforms, yet most aren’t fairly compensated, if at all. @rabble.nz and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social unpack how curation, moderation, & community-building are undervalued, often because it’s work done by women. Do you agree? Watch now.

So great chatting with @rabble.nz about why we need to fight back against these draconian "child safety" online speech laws and protect civil liberties online!

While I think an 80 person polycule is way too many people, once you read the article it’s clear that any open ended polycule is likely not bound to a specific number and instead it’s just “how many metamores do we know about” as you go out degrees of separation. www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

@taylorlorenz.bsky.social is the most insightful journalists covering social media. She gets it from the outside but also what it means to be part of the creator ecosystem. We talked about all of this and the future of social media protocols. youtu.be/0cc6500EgSg?...

Currently watching the latest #RevolutionSocial podcast with Taylor Lorenz, and makes me grateful to be posting to my own site (thanks micro.blog!), crossposted to my self-hosted Bluesky account and to my own Nostr relay#RevolutionSocialeven if I don’t use Nostr that much.. haha I own my own data 🔥

very important news: there are currently at least five bears on the bear cam right now

This is the kind of thing that could happen to Bluesky as well. A decentralized network can become over-reliant on the services provided by the core protocol provider. Looks like the backups works and they’re going to restore everything, but it is a warning sign for all of these protocols.

Nostr adopts MLS end to end encryption standard for groups. This is a huge step forward for private groups on permissionless social media protocols. Now we can have signal level encryption but for all kinds of social media. Thing signal meets Facebook groups or discord. github.com/nostr-protoc...

I took my cat suit to #burningman and lots of people wanted to give me hugs.

These age verification laws are in effect a lock-in that means we only can use Meta products, or from companies that will follow their economic model, and the idea of an open source open protocol solution is impossible. It’s all about combining state and corporate power.

To be clear: this is yet another reason why many of these laws are so problematic. If people want to run fediverse instances of any size, the fact that costly age verification requirements could put them in legal jeopardy, is very bad. Regulators make laws as if every website is Facebook.

If Bluesky is going to fulfill the dream that lead to its founding then it needs to grow to the point where the Bluesky company and app are not how most people use ATprotocol. This thread gets in to tons of projects and people who are doing this work.

Back in the day, @coachtony.bsky.social and @rabble.nz both worked at Odeo, one of the 1st podcasting platforms. Solid product, but too early. It didn’t last long. Tony reflected that even great ideas flop if the timing is off. And now, as Medium’s CEO, he sees hype waves differently. Ep out now.

@rudyfraser.com tells the story about how he built @blackskyweb.xyz newpublic.substack.com/p/how-blacks...

I love making this case. It’s our version of the Crockett quote calling bullshit on whether anti trans stuff actually matters to people. It doesn’t. It’s more like dealing with spammers, loud unwelcome solicitations to hear their know nothing takes.

i know folks here seem to think Nostr doesn't do trust and safety, but that's not true, under the hood it's very similar to atprotocol, but without a central company and a moderation feed you can't op out of.... but nostr was missing an ozone like tool, so i made one. faro.nos.social

For my podcast, @revolution.social, I’ve interviewed @coachtony.bsky.social, @yoyoel.com, @noupside.bsky.social, Chris Best, @mmasnick.bsky.social, and @taylorlorenz.bsky.social where we talk about trust, safety, and moderation. I feel like I could stitch them together to make a very interesting

Medium has been around for so long we might forget it’s important role in the social media ecosystem. @coachtony.bsky.social, CEO of Medium, talked with me about Medium’s evolution, AI, their Reddit like content moderation system, and how they differ from substack. youtu.be/ewrc0iPYsq0?...

Why isn’t there a charter train to burningman? The tracks go right by black rock city. It seems to me that a train would be better than the burner bus. Folks could take a lot more weight and a burner train would be amazing.