I demand that Apple scrap its App Store tax and search engine default. They worsen user experience, deceive consumers about privacy commitments, defund journalism and the web, are illegal collusion with Google, and undermine the fundamental right to engage in commercial activity.

Nobody's doing it better than @rude1.blacksky.team

“If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product.” Big social platforms monetize our data & assume we all want the same. @rude1.blacksky.team, founder of Blacksky, is building a subscription-funded, community-owned network that puts people before advertisers. Ep out now.

Right Wing Extremist Violence Is More Frequent And More Deadly Than Left Wing Violence After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump claimed that radical leftist groups foment political violence in the U.S., and “they should be put…

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

New jobs on the jobs webbed site! bsky.social/about/join

@buildwithtori.com skylight seeing a DAU bump?

Die Tik-Tok-Alternative @skylight.social geht in den USA gerade ziemlich ab. In der EU ist sie noch nicht verfügbar.

What if the internet as you know it is already gone? Concise summary of our state of affairs, and an argument for a shift structure and public investment, by @mallory.techpolicy.social.ap.brid.gy and Burcu Kilic: internet.exchangepoint.tech/big-tech-red...

We debated calling this a microgrant. We’re going to do some more writing about what we think the #ATCommunityFund can support.

Also happy to see alternative economic models tested: cooperatives have a lot of potential for this kind of focused enterprise.

Very pleased to see this #Indiesky project put #freeourfeeds funds to good use, supporting Northsky in their community building efforts. Congratulations @transrights.northsky.social and @knowtheory.net @bmann.ca

Extremely pumped to see this! ATProto grows faster together 🚀🚀🚀

When an „ad“ like this pulls in a CTR of 4.6% on Instagram you can tell that people are really sick of their timeline being flooded with ads - well…good for @flashes.blue :)

Check out this beautiful new iOS 26 redesign of @flashes.blue 😍

Here’s a detailed explanation of how the new feed creator in @flashes.blue works. I’ll build in more features soon and will also be adding a way more sophisticated version to @skeetsapp.com. Stay tuned!

The Videos For You feed has been getting a ton of likes today. I gather @skylight.social is popping off. Are people exploring alternatives to TikTok?

Surprise! A second leaflet on private data in AT, this time exploring some schemes that might be used to implement shared-private data.

FWIW, soatok.blog/2024/11/29/i...

Some initial thoughts on the requirements for AT's private data model

some thoughts on explaining atproto by comparing it to news wire services like AP or Reuters (h/t @seabass.bsky.social)

The internet's in a bad place. We're not winning. How can we turn things around? We need money. What parts of the internet 1) are still under democratic control and 2) are in a position to produce significant revenue? It's mostly down to Wikipedia. But there's more… 🧵

"Heretical." 💗

@netzpolitik.bsky.social : "Ich habe kein Verständnis mehr dafür, dass Journalistinnen und vor allen Dingen Politikerinnen und die Bundesregierung heute immer noch auf Twitter, also auf X, aktiv sind. Jeder einzelne Tweet, den wir dort absetzen, stärkt die Macht von Elon Musk. Und wir laufen 1/3

Worum geht es beim "Tiktok-Deal"? Über die möglichen Auswirkungen auf Demokratien habe ich ausführlich mit ZDFheute Live gesprochen: "Das Schlechteste aus beiden Welten". www.zdfheute.de/politik/ausl...

The main issues in the revision of the e-Privacy Directive is not cookies but governments aiming to further widen the scope for (mass) surveillance. And of course the @ec.europa.eu is happy to oblige.

"Solange wir gehorchen, wird alles gut. Das ist Freiheit. Das ist Amerika." Starke Anti-Trump-Kampagne.

Auch darüber hat das 🦋 team SEHR viel nachgedacht. Und das hier aufgrund der Tatsachen dazu entschieden: bsky.app/profile/bnew...

As long as we obey, everything will be okay... right??

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links 2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands 3. The whole app is open source This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site. We 💙 the open web.

📈22K new users joined bluesky yesterday. bskycheck.com

This is a *fantastic* read, anyone who cares about Bluesky should certainly be subscribed to Connected Places, 👏 @laurenshof.online!

mijn bieb 💚

Hello everyone! I’ve excited to announce the official release of Rito, a brand new social bookmarking service built on the AT Protocol 🎉 rito.blue/en With Rito, you can quickly save and share websites, articles, and blog posts you find interesting on the web.

Was curious if Elon ("free speech absolutist" "comedy is legal again") Musk had commented on the FCC violating the First Amendment to jawbone Disney into suspending Jimmy Kimmel and as far as I can tell he's only retweeted this nonsense tweet:

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

Second, it’s worth reading this excerpt from Frederick Douglass:

Note: *if* I'm understanding Paul's recent explanations correctly (plz someone correct me if not!), then *if/when* the mentioned changes in code are implemented, it *might* be enough to use a client like deer.social with @moderation.bsky.app turned off and not a whole AppView

Switzerland for freedom

likely! though we also want to have a series of replicas in multiple geo-regions, and that might happen sooner. both for resilience (Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe) and latency

…the PLC directory is a key component to the protocol and having it sit in a (VC-funded) Public Benefit Corporation puts too much (potential) power in those hands. So moving this component out of that PBC into a new entity in a neutral country is making a huge impact for the…

The PLC directory is sort of the „phonebook“ of #ATProto. It contains everyone‘s „User ID“ and tells apps where to look for your data (your PDS - Personal Data Server). So far the PLC directory (https://plc.directory) has been hosted by @bsky.app#ATProtowhich has always been criticized because…

Eurosky Berlin! Join us and let's build the future!

absolutely stoked to be doing this - lots of good protocol governance stuff coming over the next few months

‘Blueskyism’, Political Violence, and Open Social Networks Under Authoritarianism on how the last weeks have shifted the threat model for open social networks: from fighting platform decay to the threat of authoritarianism connectedplaces.online/blueskyism-p...

«After considering several jurisdictions, legal structures, and potential parent organizations, the new entity will form as a Swiss Association. In a period of international uncertainty around Internet governance, Switzerland provides a credibly neutral and stable global home.» #Bluesky

Thank you to the 14,000+ people who shared feedback on our community guidelines! We’re updating our rules for clarity, strengthening enforcement, and introducing product changes for healthier conversations. New guidelines kick in Oct 15. bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Corporate monopolies aren’t just bad for competition — they’re bad for our wallets. Minimal competition means maximized price gouging.