The investigative newsroom I work for, @ProPublica, is raising money right now. This is the last few days of our pledge drive. We report on abuses of power in the public interest. We reported on who works for DOGE and revealed Clarence Thomas’s conflicts of interest. It was the first outlet to […]

The most piratical thought at FediCon was presented by @j12t Ernst: Stop battling oligarch-owned big-tech walled gardens in their own space, where they have all the power. Move away, to open, unexplored territories. The big question of life, the Fediverse and everything, is how pioneering […]

Newsmast x Bonfire We’re excited to share that Newsmast and @bonfire are working together! We’re collaborating across several key areas: 🔎 Enhancing discoverability for Channels on Bonfire 🧭 Improving interoperability between the Channels app and Bonfire […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

🚨 Alert 🚨 There is a new scam wave spreading across Mastodon. If you see a post like the one below, do not interact with it. SImply report to your server admin. Server admins, if you are able, now may be the time to temporarily turn off open sign ups. As […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

The media is broken and it’s breaking us. Owned by billionaires, wired for division, built to distract. But around the world, rebels & reformers are rising. This is the #mediarevolution 🌀 Join the countdown to 5 Nov: Media Liberation Day. 🔗 http://mediarevolution.org

Good rule of thumb: don't spend your hard-earned time on any social platforms that do not have end users like @_elena creating videos like this about them. :fediverse: Very worth viewing and sharing: https://aseachange.com/@elena/statuses/01JXCDST00FXKN9KCAQJ1QCMRJ #elefedivideos.

just had a fabulously productive meeting with @FreddieJ and @newsmast - talking about the great #fireexit and #buddysystem - offering a hand to folk ready to cross the bridge into the #fediverse 🌉 ✨ Excited to get my hands on the Newsmast tool and take it for a test drive, I think it could be […]

“Since the early 2010s, social media has been identified with protesters. In the early days, social media was an effective tool for activists to organize and communicate with one another and directly with the public, providing counternarratives to the ones laid out in popular coverage.” No […]

A "Mastodon and friends" photo from the audience at #PubConf2025 @bjoernsta @samvie @FreddieJ @laurenshof#pubconf2025@_elena

Here's my writeup of #FediForum, in which I ask the question: is the fediverse making meaningful progress vs. centralized platforms? The post includes @_elena's excellent video and has discussion of @cwebber's presentation, Bounce (by @quillmatiq & @snarfed.org), Surf (by @mike#fediforum& @marci) […]

Hello @testgroup

Apparently its only Wednesday so I'm coping by finally buying Grant Morrison's run on Animal Man. #comics

@Ofcom is running a "The Online Safety Act explained: How to comply with the rules to protect children" conference - for all its faults it's nice to finally see concrete examples of what OFCOM does and doesn't consider harmful, with specific carveouts for lived experience. Also good to see […]

48 hours left before FediForum starts. Join the community for three (!) half-days of discussions, presentations, demos, creating new projects and more on all aspects of better social communications, social media and the open social web. Now with keynotes! Registration: https://fediforum.org

Last week we launched https://Channel.org in invite-only beta after sending out invite codes to our friends and supporters in the open social web. Since then, we've been overwhelmed by positive support for what we're building and our efforts to drive knowledge sharing on the open social web. 📣 […]

Egg. Triumphant and uneven. #photography

Excellent piece by Andrew Marr in the New Statesman. I like his writing style, its very forceful. https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2025/05/cosplaying-reform-will-doom-labour #politics

Hamburg is a place of interesting ideas #photography

Don't forget it's #savesocialday tomorrow - a unified effort to stay off Big Tech platforms for a day and remind owners that WE are social media. If you want to get involved you can find out more details here https://savesocial.eu/day/#download Now we're logging off now to go into another bank […]

Some experiences at #ijf25 A lost cloud drifting through the valley. Excellent panel on community focused news ft. @ben. Can Dundar on the story that led to his exile. River of cloud this morning.

We're heading to Perugia for the #InternationalJournalismFestival We're looking forward to working with other great minds at the intersection of the open social web and journalism. Also, the pizza 🍕 If you're going, let us know. We'd love to say hi! Whilst […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

Ah interesting, they know I'm approaching 30 so they're squeezing in a fourth or fifth once-in-a-generation economic crisis. Touchè sir, I confess you have bested me again 📉

We’re excited to announce that, from Monday, we’re going to be the new admins of IndieWeb.social! We’ve always loved how @tchambers has run IndieWeb.social. His direction has made it one of the best instances on the Fediverse! Thanks to Tim for his trust in […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

#admin #indiewebsocial 🔥 IMPORTANT SERVER NEWS: "The Next Stage for Indieweb.social "I’d been looking for a way to transition this from a small self-run server, admin-centric place—and to turn it into a more user-managed one...I am grateful to have found a solution for all of these needs for […]

Thanks @signalapp, very cool :]

Freddie Johnson (@FreddieJ) and Saskia Welch (@saskia) from Newsmast are coming to #fediforum and want to talk about: Social web advocacy, growing the fediverse and open social web, strategic steps at a network level, raising awareness beyond the current ecosystem and what to do about trust & […]

Vivaldi now has Proton VPN built in our versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. Time to get away from Big Tech! Enjoy! https://vivaldi.com/press/releases/vivaldi-is-partnering-with-proton-vpn-to-help-people-break-free-from-big-tech/ #windows #macos #linux #browser #vivaldi #privacy #bigtech […]

After a batch of spam mentions, I just created a Mastodon filter that removes from view any post containing "Fediverse chick" --

Tomorrow is International Women's Day - we won't be around tomorrow so we're celebrating now! We've decided to introduce you to the women that inspire our community team. Michael is inspired by Maria Ressa, Saskia is inspired by Jen Beattie, and Freddie is […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

Watching the #fdp fall out of the #bundestag after collapsing a progressive government makes me wish there was a word for the feeling of satisfaction for the misfortune of others... #germanelections

Three weeks ago we were getting ready to go to #FOSDEM. We didn’t realise just how good the experience would be. Now we’re energised, excited, and getting started on a whole range of ideas that came out of the event. More on that soon 👀 For now, enjoy […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

A couple of pictures from my last roll of film. Not many great ones but I like these two! #photography #filmphotography #london

What are you getting your partner for Valentine's? 🌹 🍫 🧸 If you're still looking for suggestions, how about a ticket to better social media? We know that to grow New Social, we need to do the work in person. We need to talk to the people around us and […] [Original post on newsmast.social]

Explicitly quoting the 'offensive to the subject but frankly not a million miles from what people have said about customers in the break room the world over' stuff and just describing the rest as 'offensive' makes the rest sound inoffensive!

Greenpeace is being sued again. I wish this stayed as a joke in Succession. https://act.gp/3CvUUbd #environment #globalwarming #climatechange #climatecrisis #globalwarming #activism #civilrights

Over the past two years Independent Federated Trust and Safety (IFTAS) has provided crucial support to independent, decentralised social media moderators, administrators, and community managers. Our mission has been to equip these individuals with the knowledge, resources, and services needed […]

Hardest thing I've had to write in quite some time: https://about.iftas.org/2025/02/06/funding-challenges-and-the-future-of-our-work/ tl;dr - we are running out of money and will not be able to pay our bills in April. As such, unless we can secure funding by end of February, we will be […]

Only the essentials for #fosdem

At least I'm not talking about gman today.

Still talking about all this #rain in the UK. Can't believe I don't own an #umbrella.

#umbrella this time not followed

Test mute without hashtag

Still testing the umbrella thing #umbrella

"EU will extend economic sanctions on Russia" - Jean-Noel Barrot, Foreign Minister of France "Today we will decide on the extension of the sanctions regime. We will also impose sanctions on three Russian citizens – two citizens 26 years old and one citizen 45 […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

There's something bleakly funny about the New York Times not doing endorsements for New York elections anymore, it's like, your local newspaper can become a global hegemon and you *still* won't get the local political news only a good local newspaper can provide.

gman is back keyword only

No follow no keyword no hashtag

#umbrella only

#umbrella hashtag gman keyword

#umbrella hashtag only