the result of UBI is not a better society. It's a bunch of people barely surviving while corporations and the billionaire class consolidate their economic and political power, and workers lose any ability we might still have to resist their efforts to destroy us, our environment, etc.

"[...] 270,666 lines of code across 2,823 files [...] I obviously haven't read every line [...]" This is fine.jpeg.

Not happy with Bluesky? Never too late to jointhefediverse.net!

At what point did the internet go from fun to frightening?

if @moderation.bsky.app is not allowed to be blocked in order to be on bluesky then bluesky needs to remove the ability to block it imho

So if Bluesky bans accounts for blocking their mod account, and their mod account can be added to mod lists, what’s stopping someone from getting a whole bunch of people banned without them even realizing they were blocking the mod account

I'm calling it--the use of generative AI is antiblack. Internationally. Multiple countries. Multiple coasts. If you fire it up--I judge you.

I guess it's like seeing your profession depicted on TV. We accept the simplified/caricatured versions of other people's jobs, because we don't know enough about those, but immediately call out nonsense when things we do know about come up.

Heads-up: if you have a "share on Bluesky" button on your website that opens a bsky.app sharing link, you might want to consider that people also use witchsky.app, or blacksky.community. And soon a Eurosky version is coming? Yes. It's the dreaded "pick your server" all over again.

Gojirasaurus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gojirasaurus #dinosaur

every time one of these markets dissembles and parses and weasels their way out of paying people on a technicality my heart grows three sizes like the grinch. i love to watch these people get scammed on crypto and nfts and gambling. they deserve it and it's funny and it's not my problem at all

soundcloud.com/stefanbohace... #music #NewMusic #dance #electronic #soundcloud

Happy first day of the Women's History Month! wikimediafoundation.org/participate/...

One cool thing about the fediverse being full of nerds is that Mastodon apps exist for all kinds of retro systems and computers, including Apple II, MS DOS, Commodore 64, and more. social.growyourown.services/@FediTips/11...

Is the next step getting rid of CEOs altogether?

While at times causing fragmentation, focus on individual communities truly is one of fediverse's biggest strengths. Today, it's enabling a launch of a dedicated app for the Welsh community. "Doing the little things, we can achieve something truly significant." croeso.toot.wales/en/a-present...

@flipboard.com has been doing some great work on this front. about.flipboard.com/fediverse/fl...

It is true that fediverse folks can be hostile to developers trying to build new things. But from what I've seen there's really only pushback against people implementing a global search? There are still many successful projects, from client apps, browser plugins, little one-off tools.

Question for Bluesky/ATProto power users. When I view a Bluesky post via an AppView other than Bluesky's, how can I get the bsky.app URL so that I can reply to it? One example: witchsky.app/profile/did:...

Question for those who tried Mastodon in the past: what issues have you run into that made you give up? And for people who never joined, why not? Just curious.

I never really got into Pokemon growing up, but happy 30th anniversary to those celebrating! "[...] the humble, sometimes bizarre, and other times gorgeous, beginnings of one of the most treasured video game series’ of all time." www.itsnicethat.com/features/pok...

Any fediverse fans left on this app? With my latest project, you can create a customizable invitation for your fediverse community, with your favorite apps and even starter packs. Like this one. invite.jointhefediverse.net?server=hachy...

"Bluesky won over Mastodon" I'd argue it's perhaps "winning" right now? Although it certainly depends on what your goals are. In terms of, say, active users? It's still a race! bluefacts.app/bluesky-user... fedidb.com/stats

in a strange twist of fate mastodon seems to be more in the mood for jokes than bsky has lately. "lighten up, be more like mastodon" is such a bizarre phrase.

Pretty good comparison! Definitely worth reading and understanding the implications as the Atmosphere continues to decentralize. And it pairs really well with connectedplaces.online/where-does-c....

Bluesky/ATProto reaching the "donate to your admin" stage of the fediverse. (Not a diss, just an observation!)

PSA to folks who have tried Mastodon in the past and got the impression that you need an account on each new server: You don't! Apparently this is just bad design, not explaining sufficiently that you only need one account for all of the servers. #fediverse

Now with starter packs! invite.jointhefediverse.net?server=hachy...

This guy gets it.

Stay safe and warm, everyone! #WinterStorm #weather

Black communities are leading the resistance against AI data centers. pls go check out all the slides on Intersectional Environmentalist's instagram account. www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/

“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”

Here's an idea I'm playing with: a semi-customizable fediverse invitation page. Example: invite.jointhefediverse.net?server=hachy... More about the project: stefanbohacek.com/project/fedi... #fediverse #FediverseInvitation

Go play Leader Board (1988) by Arcadia Systems! https://archive.org/details/arcade_ar_ldrb #arcade #videogames #internetarchive

It's been 17 years since I made my first website, so I'm resharing an article I wrote back in 2024 to encourage others to make their own. stefanbohacek.com/blog/15-year... #indieweb #SmallWeb

A model trained to detect CSAM, e.g., so that so many humans don't have to sift through that and get traumatized, isn't the same as the text/image/audio etc generators built on stolen data shoved down our throats and in service of which ever larger data centers are built. bsky.app/profile/jack...

"Fascism doesn’t just take down the oppressed. It doesn’t just come for the people it’s trying to control. It inevitably destroys the people who have worked the hardest to build it." www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur... via flipboard.social/@CultureDesk...

Oh boy. New government website has dropped. "The site features a graphic of a ghostly horse galloping above the Earth, and the motto: “Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.”" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... Archived link: archive.is/yLt9t #BlackHistoryMonth

Solidarity with wikiworkersunited.org ✊ #unions #workers #wikimedia

Needed to organize some of my tutorials, and the "small web" label works really great, as opposed to indieweb, which leans more into the technical side of things. stefanbohacek.com/tag/small-web/ #indieweb #SmallWeb

The Mastodon team is introducing help.joinmastodon.org, a "place where people can learn how to use Mastodon’s software [and] more information about participating on mastodon.social in a healthy, safe, and accessible way". #mastodon #fediverse #SocialMedia

"The fashion industry thrives on exclusivity. [...] If few women fit the “ideal” standards, then products serving only them are inherently exclusionary." pudding.cool/2026/02/wome... #fashion #DataVisualization #data #dataviz

World Central Kitchen is raising funds to support families in Gaza during Ramadan (and beyond!). "We are working to deliver 100,000 Ramadan food kits—part of WCK’s broader effort to reach families throughout the month." donate.wck.org/campaign/762... More about WCK: wck.org/story/

"You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to Dostoyevsky. This is a very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone." -James Baldwin

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

Since we're among close friends, a confession: when I was in college, I experienced some hateful engineers in the Linux community, and it kept me away from open source in my prime programming years. Sometimes the difference between an annoyance and a valued contributor is kindness and mentorship.

"ActivityPub and ATProto [...] represent two different shapes of answers to the questions how should social life be organized online, where should boundaries fall, who should govern what happens within them, and what does it mean to belong?" connectedplaces.online/where-does-c...