Apparently TikTok is suppressing the the term groyper.

Activist, Technologist, and Author @pluralistic took time to talk to me about the future of social media, protocols, resisting enshitification, bluesky, the fediverse, and the world we're trying to build together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvpetQRSVo

Medium has been around for so long we might forget it’s important role in the social media ecosystem. @coachtony, CEO of Medium, talked with me about Medium’s evolution, AI, their Reddit like content moderation system, and how they differ from substack […]

The idea of the "cicada" is great. People who only write occasionally when they have something important to say. It acknowledges that much of what the #substack puts out is filling space. To justify a paid subscription. I'd say the same with podcasts that aren't about processing the weekly news […]

My talk from #why2025 about the need for fundamental freedoms similar to those we have for free software but for social media is online. youtu.be/DIsNPMHWKSI

Giving a talk about bitchat, nostr private groups with MLS, and what we’re doing with andotherstuff.org at #why2025 in an hour at 7pm CET. Watch the stream https://streaming.media.ccc.de/why2025/delphinus

Are fediverse clients blocking users and federation with UK users and servers? Or are they hoping they’re too small to face charges under the UK OSA? Or going full KYC on all of their users and servers? I mean how do you tell if someone has made a post about a knife in a dangerous way? It seems […]

Listening to @rabble and @sean talk about the history of decentralized microblogging on the @decentered #podcast. Was happy to hear @p2panda and #willow get mentioned at minute 20:40 https://social.wedistribute.org/objects/0bde22d9-f440-438d-8850-ff397e6b9b3e

Substack has changed the world of journalism, making it easy for journalists to directly charge for a newsletter. Now they're growing in to a whole platform with algorithms, video, podcasts, microblogging... I sat down with their CEO Chris Best to talk about it just as they announce they've […]

Really been enjoying @rabble's podcast about social media (where it came from, how it's failed, how it should change), https://revolution.social/. The latest episode with @yoyoel was probably the best yet. One thing I haven't heard addressed yet: does anyone even *want* social media anymore? In […]

How do we moderate the fediverse? I talked to @yoyoel for an hour about everything related to social media and the struggle to create trust and safety. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS_cXVrkyVE

Radio New Zealand did a piece on homelessness and an elderly woman called in to talk about living in her car. The radio program was then flooded with people calling to offer a place for her to stay. New Zealand isn’t perfect but, it still strives to be humane.

I sat down to interview @karaswisher on my revolution.social podcast where she is scathing in her critique of social media and the executives who founded and run the platforms. https://youtu.be/Lv820srV64k?si=cyx0F35tukcU8UO7

We deserve better & we can build it! Using social media we should demand these basic rights! Don't use systems that don't uphold these rights. Don't build systems that go against our interests and users. Why we need a social media bill of rights! […]

Jack Dorsey pumps $10 million into a nonprofit focused on open-source social media https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/jack-dorsey-backs-nonprofit-and-other-stuff-experimenting-with-open-social-tools-like-nostr/

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

Breaking news. As part of an effort to decriminalise drugs, New Zealand is legalising the pharmacy over the counter sale of melatonin! I genuinely was snuggling melatonin in to the country from overseas. This is removing a stupid rule. Small victories […]

Just discovered a second podcast called Decentered (the name of the @wedistribute podcast). Listening to their fantastic interview with @rabble from Nos. social. Where he talks a lot less about the history of Titter, and a lot more about the history of Indymedia, and his more recent work with […]

The fediverse / atmosphere bridge seems to be working well. I’m following myself.

The revolution will be social https://youtu.be/JGwzlpiFh-8

Comparison at a very high level between Bluesky, ActivityPub (fediverse), and Nostr https://soapbox.pub/blog/comparing-protocols/

Posters at protests are now created to go viral as a meme & amplify the movement. Take the recent Hīkoi defending Aotearoa New Zealand’s founding treaty. Posters weren’t mass produced, instead there were tons of different ones each with their own message […]

@mike nice interview with @kissane and @darius I'm super curious about your research in to / hearing from folks who want groups / privacy and are frustrated. Is this antidotal or are you seeing more trends / research on this? I think privacy and groups is not what bluesky has focused on. I […]

Listening to Harris campaign leadership reflect on the campaign. They knew Harris needed a strong break from the Biden administration to define how she disagreed and would do things differently. Harris refused and fundamentally believed loyalty was more important than winning. The blame for […]

If Trump really does impose broad and high tariffs then it’ll cause domestic inflation. What will it due the USD visa vi other currencies? Will it cause inflation elsewhere?

The new version of primal.net is hot. the first time a Nostr app is good enough for newbies. Watch Paul outline what they’ve done. https://primal.b-cdn.net/media-upload?u=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.primal.net%2Fuploads%2F7%2Fd1%2Fde%2F7d1de49b900abd7034214e359b18a0762d3ab1a49fb4e13499cf839b823f0568.mov

I went to the Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti today in Pōneke. It was a nation wide march from both ends of the country to the capital demanding that the government uphold the Te Tiriti Waitangi treaty upon which New Zealand’s government was founded. The march was huge and inspiring. This is how we win.

I find it funny that Americans are very focused on the 13 British colonies that joined the United States of America and nobody ever even acknowledges the 10 others which did not. It feels like a massive blind spot. The only time they’re even obliquely referenced is related to the war of 1812 […]

My sister and her wife asked about moving from Arizona to Uruguay because reasons. I went to look up the expat forums and they’re full of families with trans kids who have moved from the US or are considering it.

Interactive tutorial for how Nostr works. https://how-nostr-works.pages.dev/

Elon did such a bang up job when taking over Twitter, I’m sure he’ll do great with those exact same methods and people with the US Government. https://archive.is/MLxVu

What do we do about liberals? https://youtu.be/-9afwZON8dU

Scalable private messaging and groups with deniability and forward secrecy using the MLS standard in Nostr. It’s a working proof of concept so far, but the future of social media privacy is bright. https://njump.me/note125cuk0zetc7sshw52v5zaq9apq3rq7e2x587tr2c96t7z7sjs59svwv0fj

So Twitter is seeing a bunch of folks leave and join Bluesky because Twitter is changing the way its blocks work to be like Bluesky? https://docs.bsky.app/blog/block-implementation

@swf the link to your fediverse address on your homepage footer seems to be broken.

I've got a ticket to the Chappell Roan concert in Berlin which I can't use because she rescheduled it from last month. I was in Europe, but now i'm back in New Zealand. So any of you wonderful queers in Berlin need a ticket? It's tonight at the Velodrom.