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Good morning! Have 3 quick small business headlines for you before I head out for the day to see what's happening in Quito San Francisco design consultancy DesignMap turns 20 and that wouldn't be news except that most agencies like them are gone now.

“We believe the heart of social networks are people — not platforms or protocols.” This is @quillmatiq.com from @anew.social, the non-profit behind Bounce. Bounce makes it easy for users to shift between the two biggest open social web protocols: AT Protocol and ActivityPub.

*Just shipped:* Steady support for Bundle Passes. This means you can now bundle paid publications on Steady, one of Europe’s largest creator platforms, along with @ghost.org and @beehiiv.com. Tearing down those platform walls, brick by brick.

Today we integrated our first "closed" platform into @trustfnd.com This brings bundling power across platforms to every creator on @steady.page , @ghost.org, and @beehiiv.com.

People living in this city are often told who they are, often by people who haven’t bothered to learn anything about them. At Baltimore Beat, we know that our job isn’t just to educate — it’s to listen to and amplify the people who are already here. baltimorebeat.com/2025-impact-...

New: there is a major vulnerability with Apple’s Hide My Email feature that lets attackers discover peoples’ real emails. Verified it works on my own email. We’re not disclosing how it works because Apple has not fixed it. But Apple has known for more than a year www.404media.co/apple-hide-m...

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beehiiv's State of Paid Newsletters, the launch of Flodesk Studio, WhatsApp usernames, SoFi's getting into business loans and 8 other headlines you missed in my weekly live blog

It's been over 2 weeks since Anthropic pulled Fable 5 and Mythos 5 at the demand of the US government. Mythos was re-released already to a small group of approved users. Fable is coming back tomorrow to seemingly all users

Heard they delayed the game for me. I just landed in Quito 🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨

Palantir Acquires Pentagon For $800 Billion https://theonion.com/palantir-acquires-pentagon-for-800-billion/

😂 I promised everyone that I would start a Potato Bay account if my fundraiser for the shelter reached $13,000. I didn't think you'd actually do it but you DID so here it is:

There's always a possibility that Bluesky PBC may go rogue one day. That's why we need to diversify. More apps, more large PDS providers, more algorithms etc.

There was enough here that I turned this into a full story. Flodesk releases Studio, an AI-powered email builder they say runs on human-created design. What does that mean?

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"Why we moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky" Tech future lab Waag on migrating to a personal data server waag.org/en/article/w...

Riverside, the podcast recording platform, just launched a newsletter tool that lets you turn your podcast into a newsletter (with AI of course)

Flodesk Studio is now live for everyone. It's a knockoff of ChatGPT and I don't get why it needed to exist but Flodesk customers seem happy. Here's some screenshots of my first interactions with it

I currently have 454 paid subscribers. Getting to 500 would enable me to reliably fund travel for stories & to purchase media insurance so I could pursue investigative journalism at my newsletter.

Still unemployed & it’s been hard catching up with finances. In need of help with rent, bills, & medications. If you can help financially or share this post, I’d really appreciate it. Thank you.💛 - paypal.me/conniechiiiwa - venmo.com/u/conniechii... - buymeacoffee.com/conniechiiiwa

When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/

We have now sold 39 feminist media bundles! Can we reach 40? Reminder: you can sub to @autonomynews.co, @mothership.blog, and @theflytrapmedia.com for $11/month for three months! If you already sub to one of these newsletters, the price will adjust accordingly. trustfnd.com/theflytrap/c...

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OK found some actual reporting on the Dem tech thing-- notably linked at the bottom-- "Nearly 100 groups focused on digital or kids safety are calling on House leaders to reject the latest version of a kids onine safety package saying it “lets Big Tech off the hook.”

I'm flying to Ecuador in the morning to hang with one of my favorite people and I'm gonna pull a Matt Damon and root for them tomorrow even though obviously I'm rooting for Colombia

Finally following up with sources today. I'm looking for people who use the word "fractional" in their title. Like Fractional CMO, Fractional Head of Product. OR people who deliberately chose to steer clear or drop it If that's you, I wanna talk to you www.revenuerulebreaker.com/be-a-source-...

The top 5 small business stories today (according to me) in no particular order WhatsApp prelaunches usernames and all the tech reporters think you need to reserve yours now.

I'm starting a peer group in July for indie publishers growing their subscription business. We've got 11 more spots left, though I offered 1 to someone today. We begin July 15 and this group runs for one quarter. lexroman.com/subdrivers

Only 60 of my paid subscribers have completed the reader survey. That means they're choosing our next perk. If you haven't weighed in yet, tell me your thoughts on what we're up to here by end of day tomorrow! www.revenuerulebreaker.com/take-our-202...

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beehiiv says "Subscription fatigue? Never heard of it" They released a State of Paid Newsletters report and it's pretty useless except I do really like this incredibly vague chart that things are going great in the paid subscription business 😂 www.beehiiv.com/blog/the-sta...

Someone just got How to use communities for lead gen: Recording and recap 🎉 Check it out in the shop: https://payhip.com/b/xKZ5e

Over the weekend I wrote about my Cannes Lions fomo. Everyone says you gotta be at this conference or that one. Here's what happened this year that made Lions feel like it's where I need to be. www.revenuerulebreaker.com/what-i-saw-a...

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While we were out today walking through Chapinero, we saw at least two big donation sites collecting essential items for Venezuela and lots of restaurants with donation posters in their windows. All along Cra 7.

Had a subscriber ask about setting up their first Stripe account so added this post to the Paid Newsletter Playbook. If you're new to Stripe (or new to making a paid newsletter with Stripe) you might find it valuable www.paidnewsletterplaybook.com/how-to-set-u...

If you ask me, one of the coolest services I provide my community is a concierge service. You can ask me for intros, for classifieds, for collaborators, for recommendations and I will deliver. This is a free, unlimited service for my paid subscribers that VERY FEW take advantage of

I’m trying to raise a few hundred dollars to support mutual aid efforts in my home city after this week’s devastating earthquake. Feel free to reach out for more details!

Bogotá Pride. La gente gay está brava con los fascistas 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Trucks lining up for Bogotá Pride

It's been a good week for AI haters. The big story is that no one can afford the real cost of AI. Not the AI companies. Not enterprise companies. Not us. Here's more on that story and everything else you might have missed this week (gift link!) www.revenuerulebreaker.com/small-busine...

This is today!!

You think you’re not a media company bc you don’t run totally off subscriptions or ads? Look at Dave Jorgenson’s revenue breakdown in this story. 21% of their revenue is from consulting. A mix of traditional media streams and random other ways to make money www.amediaoperator.com/news/former-...

i don’t know how to explain this to people who don’t care or who haven’t themselves been hurt by people who stomp into sensitive spaces but you absolutely do not need to be in community with people “because.” whether they’re harmful or ignorant or just kind of annoying, you don’t need them!