Kind of cool that on a day that the site is celebrating democracy, the AT protocol community is at IETF helping to form shared governance for the specs!

@greg of @Flipboard talking ATProto at #ietf124!

Love this video I found in the Lego Bits ’n’ Pieces feed by @Doony https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WVjKqLnHVqw https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jjbg6as2k8mwh78bc58haehm #surffeeds

15 years in and we're just getting started! Flipboard's CEO @mike spoke with @forbes's Andy Meek about being digital survivors, @surf, and our role in the future of publishing […]

There’s no such thing as neutral technology. Every tool encodes the values of the people who made it — their goals, their blind spots, their priorities. When organizations adopt tools without asking whose values they’re importing, they take on risk they can’t see […]

Thank you again to @mike for joining me on this episode of Fireside Fedi! #ceo #flipboard #surf #opensocialweb #peertube #vod - https://video.firesidefedi.live/w/gg6vMsHxWSX8e1FJW6y6az #castopod #fedicast - […]

Good day all! Coming up this week on Fireside Fedi! (All times are UTC-4) 10-21 1300 - @jaz Executive Director of @iftas - #iftas is a #charity dedicated to supporting the thousands of #admins, #moderators and #community #managers nurturing a safe, open web - and building #bettersocialmedia for […]

Some great #nokings #protest signs so far

Fantastic Surf feed by @tchambers to follow the #nokings protests. Unites people posting from across the social web including Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads, YouTube, Ghost, Wordpress and more. https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01k7fma1sa0f66jewn6tv6thfc

Right back where he started. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/es5XLJ31cEM

The Geek Tribune https://surf.social/feed/surf%2Fcustom%2F01jsqa4srta1xnpwsw8fd8b156 #surffeeds

@test test

«Until now, folks have had to make the choice, unconsciously or otherwise, between the jankiness of the fediverse or closed platforms where they have no control» -Rudy Fraser talking about #blacksky in @TechCrunch today […]

"The Stakes Are Real: Why the Open Social Web Matters Now." Amazing keynote from @ben at last week's #fediforum, reminding us all that what we are building here is critical for the world at this moment in time, and also some good advice on how to solve the right problems […]

Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/07/alternative-app-store-altstore-raises-6m-connects-with-the-fediverse/

Hello fediverse, The AltStore is federating! It’s time to give developers and users an open platform to directly connect with each other while drastically improving app discovery. I believe so much in this mission that I joined their board to help. More here from @rileytestut […]

So in order to grow the team, I’m thrilled to announce AltStore has received an investment of $6 million USD from @cpaik! Chris was an early investor in Patreon & Twitch, and we’ve been close ever since he sideloaded the manga reader Paperback with AltStore years ago Additionally, Flipboard CEO […]

Yes it’s true, AltStore is joining the Fediverse 🥳 Developers can now federate apps, updates, and news alerts to the open social web via our custom Mastodon server, and all likes, boosts, and comments will appear natively in AltStore. We plan to release this officially soon — but you can check […]

NEW: Judge Immergut BLOCKS Trump's federalization of the Oregon National Guard, writing that the govt has "made a range of arguments that, if accepted, risk blurring the line between civil and military federal power—to the detriment of this nation." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Your regularly scheduled reminder

The rocks catching the last rays of the setting sun. Soft breeze whispers its secrets and the waves keep trying to sprinkle me. This is the kind of conversation that I enjoy. Sometimes I feel just a breath away from understanding it all. #seascape #landscape […] [Original post on mastodon.art]

From one of my favourite local #Vancouver #Forests to explore, this image of a Maple Vine tree reaching for the light is one of my favourites. To get the compression I wanted I had to stitch about 9 frames together to get the full image in one shot. Moving […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Now more than ever, this needs to happen. For my friends in the EU, do you think this is realistic? https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5209014-kick-hungary-out-of-the-european-union/

This summarizes the situation better than anything else you will read. There, saved you a lot of time. #charliekirk https://youtube.com/shorts/tg7GgCQvaTI?si=lEnaKXSg9WEPvQYu

Reminder: Any report on Trump's insane lawsuit against the New York Times that includes the absurd, demanded amount of damages is PR for Trump. And journalistic malpractice. Why? Anyone can sue anyone for any amount of money. They put in ridiculous amounts to get the media to do PR for them.

It's Signal. It's worth using. Good interview with @Mer__edith https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-09-14/signal-president-meredith-whittaker-in-technology-its-way-too-easy-for-marketing-to-replace-substance-thats-whats-happened-with-telegram.html h/t #signal

I've been a founder pretty much my entire adult life and my definition of "founder mode" is more of a "founder loop" which is quite simple: Try best to craft product for customers/users; Meet and talk with them to gather feedback; Debrief with team to strategize and sequence changes; Repeat for […]

Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5 […]

Thoughts and prayers.

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 […]

@thisismissem Hi Emilia, Loved your post on discourse about ActivityPub and AT Proto. You can count me in also as a co-signer.

First real study of #Threads-#Fediverse interop at scale. Key bits: Fedi→Threads replies dominate (likely due to current UX on Threads for fedi), surges tied to rollout events, steady growth, & interop didn’t worsen convo tone. Early but encouraging data: https://arxiv.org/html/2502.17926v2

Last year, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt's "The Anxious Generation" was released. The book about how smartphones and overprotective parenting damage children's mental health has sold over two million copies. Jon Severs writes for the TES about academics' problems with the book: Shaky […]

NewsGuard - Despite a year of technical advancements in the AI industry, generative AI tools fail at a nearly doubled rate when it comes to one of the most basic tasks: distinguishing facts from falsehoods. https://www.newsguardtech.com/ai-monitor/august-2025-ai-false-claim-monitor/

I wrote a game called Night Mission when I was 16 and I just saw a gameplay video for it while using Surf tonight. How cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvu8mZ1lHB0

Getting from A to B in Greenland is a choice between boat or helicopter. Whatever you take, the view is incredible. #greenland #fjord #aerialphotography #landscape #mountains

Bounce, first previewed at #fediforum, launched to the public today. Migrating your social media account from Bluesky to the Fediverse, while keeping your followers! Some people say it's the magic long prophetized for the open social web and considered impossible by non-believers! 🙂 But here it […]

Today is the two year anniversary of 404 Media, which is hard to fathom. We wrote about how it's going, what we've done, what we're going to do, and what we've learned. We cannot do this without the support of our subscribers and for that we are endlessly thankful […]

So this happened today....from NYT: The clearances of 37 current and former national security officials were revoked at the direction of President Trump, his director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, said Tuesday. Many of the officials worked on Russia analysis or foreign threats to U.S […]

The FBI has published an evergreen advisory warning about cryptocurrency recovery scammers lurking everywhere. The minute you mention online that you might have lost money to a crypto scam, you will be flooded with come-ons from "recovery experts" who hold […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

All the more need for the open social web, & discovery services like @Flipboard & @surf -- "The number of sessions resulting from Google Search traffic has declined to 28% from 52%...The decline has prompted People Inc. to internally use the term 'Google Zero.' ...'OK, we need to aggregate […]

Small village at the edge of the world. Greenland is not green, but colourful. #greenland #village #colourful #woodenhouse #mountains

#wikipedia is one of the most important and underrated digital platforms around - every other one should take notes on this. https://www.theverge.com/report/756810/wikipedia-ai-slop-policies-community-speedy-deletion

It's finally here! Ghost 6.0 is the biggest update we've ever made — and it includes federated publishing for everyone, with ActivityPub ❤️ We also shipped a brand new native analytics sweet, and passed a pretty cool milestone. Independent publishers […] [Original post on activitypub.ghost.org]

AI industry groups are urging an appeals court to block what they say is the largest copyright class action ever certified, warning that it could “financially ruin” the entire industry. @ArsTechnica has more: https://flip.it/M4jCch #tech AI #lawsuits #artificialintelligence

I have found 20 news orgs in the #Fediverse thanks to #Ghost: @[email protected] (404 Media) @tangle_news (Readtangle) @team (Kinoki) @[email protected] (Urbanandcity) @[email protected]#fediverse#ghostLeicester News) @[email protected] (SMWB) @[email protected] (Platformer) […]

Speaking out following a final visit to the headquarters of the silenced Voice of America. https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguy/p/turning-in-my-badge?r=1g77q&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true #savevoa

I’m launching a podcast talking about how social media got to where it is today and how we can build a better future, social media built on protocols. Revolution.social

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