Here’s my writeup of #FediForum (the openings at least). Loved the message of @ben’s keynote — everything big starts small — and I was impressed by the fedi products showcased: @altstore ( @rileytestut), Bounce ( @quillmatiq, @snarfed.org), Frequency ( @jesseplusplus), CrowdBucks ( @reiver#fediforum & […]

💯 This excerpt from @pluralistic’s Enshittification book is so good! I’m eagerly waiting for my copy to arrive to read more! https://lithub.com/how-american-tech-cartels-use-apps-to-break-the-law/

Just downloaded this app, presented at #FediForum today by @jesseplusplus#fediforum Photo sharing without the bigco algorithms! https://frequency.app/@frequency/115327818938811236

I see lots of people walking around with weighted vests these days, but for the nerds in your life, you gotta get ‘em a weighted typing companion 😹

War ravaged Portland

I’ll keep posting this until I find a great person to come be my manager: the Monterey bay aquarium is looking for its next VP of Technology! […]

Still catching up on the chatter over the weekend, but I fully endorse the statement posted at https://writings.thisismissem.social/statement-on-discourse-about-activitypub-and-at-protocol/

Recently there has been a lot of discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol which has been quite dividing and heated. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting (the group that maintains the ActivityPub and related specifications), I proposed releasing a statement that counters the narrative that […]

Ugh, I slept like crap last night and am way too groggy to be getting “well-actually..” replies to a joke I made on the internet. Chill out ppl! The 😂 emoji signifies I’m not being serious!

We're looking for a journalist with development chops (or a developer with journalism chops) to join our news apps team and build new web-based interactive stories, databases, and experiences. It's a remote role; candidates must be eligible to work in the US […]

It’s a long article, but I really think every person on the internet should read this: https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales

We're ramping up our funding efforts at @anewsocial to ensure we can run Bridgy Fed and Bounce for the long run. As a non-profit, we want to be as community-funded as possible, so we're focusing on ways to make that easier. A quick thread about where we're at in terms of funds: (1/3)🧵 […]

😂 love getting praised by the wordle bot for this word choice

So cool! https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115107598334922932

Solving ActivityPub's Hard Problems — backfill, discovery, permanence, and more (FediCon 2025) by Julian Lam @julian https://spectra.video/w/72dbS6nFMwrgEtRb5h3Sk2 #fedicon #fedicon2025 #fediverse

The Last Network Effect (FediCon 2025) by Anuj Ahooja @quillmatiq https://spectra.video/w/1KfW6pGc7sw39NpXKVFVtq #fedicon #fedicon2025 #fediverse

What a special 2 days it was at #FediCon. So great to meet everyone in person and have so many wonderful conversations! Thank you for organizing @reiver#fedicon great work!!

@johannab ”people not product“ “slow down and be kind” ❤️❤️❤️ #fedicon

Really appreciated @benpate’s thoughtful talk about how to get to the future of the fediverse we all want. Hint: it means designing for the next subset of early adopters, not just current fedi enthusiasts #fedicon

@dansup sharing a multilayered approach to distributed community governance at #fedicon

Shout-out to @jesseplusplus for repping @anewsocial's People, Not Platforms merch at #fedicon!

@news live panel at #fedicon

@quillmatiq talking about how powerful Bounce will be to give users full choice and freedom on the social web at #fedicon2025

Remember when “social media” was “social networking”? What changed? That second word: media. It’s all about capturing your attention and selling you stuff. Humans are social and want to connect with one another. That’s what makes the #fediverse special to me - authentic connection. We haven’t […]

[South Park spoilers] https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv-movie-features/south-park-donald-trump-ai-penis-1235393024/ So glad South Park is back and not afraid to go all out on Trump and Paramount 😂😂😂 The depiction of Trump as basically a reincarnation of the old Saddam Hussein […]

Just grabbed my #fedicon ticket! Excited to meet up with all you wonderful folks helping to build this place 🫶🏻😊🥳

Just came across https://www.futureme.org/ today... so cute! Like a digital message in a bottle. Send a message to your future self in 6 months, a year, etc. They even have a 10 year option 🤯

@frequency now fully supports FEP-7888 as of yesterday! (It has been generating outbound context since the beginning of the year, but I just finished fetching all remote replies from the context as well.) https://github.com/jesseplusplus/decodon/pull/188 I'll hold off on trying to upstream […]

new moon, who dis? 🌚

Feeling uplifted after getting home from my local No Kings protest 🥹 So many people out, lining the streets, raising their voices in peace and protest - A beautiful scene after this morning’s news of political violence.

Part of the Rebel Alliance I made a simple site so that you can grab some stickers to celebrate your support for the open internet and Fediverse. Be a part of the Rebel Alliance! #fediverseforfreedom […]

From today’s hike. Well-done, Mother Nature! 😍 #bloomscrolling

The open social web just got a whole lot more open 🌐 Introducing Bounce: A tool that helps migrate your social graph between ATProto and ActivityPub! So hyped to finally reveal the work we've been doing on this 🙂 RE: https://www.threads.com/@anewsocialweb/post/DKhmksVxkEs

If you believe in our mission, and want to bring social media back to the people, you can support us via... Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/anewsocial Our Merch Shop: http://store.anew.social/

"The overall goal at A New Social is to shift the power of social networks back to the people, not the platform makers, by giving them tools that let them move their account, their followings, and leave if a platform ever fails them in some way." 🎯🎯🎯 🗣️ PEOPLE. NOT. PLATFORMS. RE […]

😎 Wordle 1,447 2/6 🟩⬛🟨🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Looking forward to #fediforum this week! I'm excited to discuss: * mutual connections on ActivityPub * conversation context and audience to make followers-only posts handle replies better * oCap for followers-only or otherwise visibility-restricted posts * what I'm building with @frequency […]

When you wake up each morning, you have a choice of how to start your day: go outside and connect with nature and the people around you, or open your phone and start consuming whatever "content" has been pushed into your feed Which do you usually choose?

One of the first things I dreamed about building when I started @frequency was a more zen interface than the typical feed for checking updates. After I built the first version and asked for feedback, the overwhelming response was "where's the feed?!" so I scrapped my original design and […]

Wordle 1,437 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I finally got one!!! 🤓🥳

hey @dansup is there an issue with followers/following on pixelfed.social right now? The AP endpoints for users I'm trying to interact with from my server with all seem to be returning 0 followers and following for accounts I know definitely have followers. e.g […]

Wordle 1,429 3/6 ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟩 🟩⬛⬛🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Yesterday’s in 2 and today’s in 3! I’m on a roll 😎

Happy #caturday y’all 💙

Fuck yeah! https://mastodon.social/@verge/114429435739168568

Oh man, remember the days when we thought Bush Jr. was such a fascist? Good times, good times 🥲

Want better code from LLMs? Watch out for these common traps with Sonnet that hurt your dev practices. #codequality #ai #devtools https://ezyang.github.io/ai-blindspots/

Days like today when I have to wrestle with complex code for hours on end only to revert back to where I started make me want to say fuck computers and go live in a monastery 🥲😫