Mastodon creator shares what went wrong with Threads and ponders the future of the fediverse https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/mastodon-creator-shares-what-went-wrong-with-threads-and-ponders-the-future-of-the-fediverse/ #fediverse #mastodon #activitypub

Down with TikTok and Instagram Up with ActivityPub and decentralized social media I signed up on Loops https://loops.video/@Jdreben Thank you @dansup for making this #loops #pixelfed #activitypub

“You’ve got the one thing I don’t—taste and lived attention.“ - sentence generated by ChatGPT. This is a great example of a sentence that is not generated by a human. Ultimately computers are not random. They are deterministic. At best they are pseudo random. This sentence demonstrates […]

“Books are to be call'd for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but, in highest sense, an exercise, a gymnast's struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, must be on the alert, must himself or herself construct indeed the poem […]

The fundamental difference is, Mastodon is decentralized. https://www.compliancehub.wiki/the-decentralized-resistance-how-mississippis-digital-id-law-met-its-match-with-mastodon/

*“It’s like imagining that a printer could actually feel pain because it can print bumper stickers with the words ‘Baby don’t hurt me’ on them. It doesn’t matter if the next version of the printer can print out those stickers faster, or if it can format the text in bold red capital letters […]

AI is a mass-delusion event https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/ai-mass-delusion-event/683909/?gift=eGjCypnHsndY6-G2sn97lTsQmt8bWFbFXN5nFMj3LwU #ai #news

Move Slowly and Build Bridges Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media By Robert W. Gehl https://www.moveslowlybuildbridges.com/index.html