"The free market is when the President shakes down some companies for an equity stake, and demands personnel changes at other companies." -- @horp.bsky.social

Looking back at a 2018 forum topic about bringing Ghost into the fediverse. Shout out to @drequivalent for making the original post; https://forum.ghost.org/t/federate-over-activitypub/ Also to everyone who mucked in to make the case. Including; @liaizon, @jle, @adders, @badrihippo, @r3bl […]

Apparently the #marionberry is a real fruit.

Best city in the United States, baby

Podcasters are only moving to video because they want YouTube etc to give them viewers via the algo and pay them for the advertising they generate. There's no reason you need to watch them instead of listen while you exercise or get other shit done.

Hell yeah #ChicagoBears! #nfl

The goal of AI is hoarding more $. #tillynorwood

TIL that the NYC general election for mayor is not decided by #RankedChoiceVoting. So Adams getting out weakens Mamdani. Ugh. We need FFV RCV everywhere. Have a preliminary election that is easy to qualify for. The top five vote getters move on to the RCV general. Parties have no power except […]

An interview with #greilmarcus http://www.furious.com/perfect/marcus.html

The philosophical underpinnings of David Foster Wallace's fiction. #davidfosterwallace https://slate.com/culture/2010/12/the-philosophical-underpinnings-of-david-foster-wallace-s-fiction.html via @wallabagapp

Perfectly explains the shit I get from jerk fedi. https://youtu.be/mRtGg9F5xyA?si=lCPNVDBf08nDNV0y

If you can't reason people out of bullshit, maybe you can change the system that exposes them to the bullshit in the first place. #democracyofreach

We need to understand that just because we might hate some of what someone says, they can also then say something else that's profound. #sullydish https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/the-permanent-stain-360?publication_id=61371&post_id=170461088&isFreemail=true&r=160ed&triedRedirect=true

@rushkoff.com thanks for bridging to the fedi. #socialweb

The Onion on point as always.

Opening for Senior Systems Engineer at #pixar https://pixar.wd501.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Pixar_External_Career_Site/details/Senior-Systems-Engineer_R-04034-1 this is on my team and you would be working alongside me and a few others. we keep the renderfarm and artist workstations running (and […]

@mitch would it be possible to run a podcatcher off an #ActivityPub account instead of an RSS feed? and maybe integrate our social graph so we could see what's most popular with the people we follow. let us boost episodes to those who follow us.

I'm now seeing boosts and favorites from https://bird.makeup but not yet from #bluesky. cause why not.

#bluesky isn't gonna be happy when the next "open social" whatchamacallit with even more VC money and even better connections decides to go with a 3rd protocol (obviously like they did to #ActivityPub) ugh: https://overreacted.io/open-social/

I am not here for community. going viral in a community is not a thing. in the run up to the Iraq War, I wanted the stories that I found that proved it was a horrible idea to be able to go viral. I had no problem telling my community then, but there was no way back then to get that evidence and […]

we have @mondoweiss running their own server on fedi. that means that if Israel wanted to stop one of their stories from going viral here, there is nobody to squeeze. I dream of every news outlet and government (at least) running servers with everyone here, eliminating the possibility of what […]

The 'small tech' map - it's great to see that so many good alternatives to #bigtech unethical #datarape products exist. Which will you switch to? (This map appears on this page of our website: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html , and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Loved #sinners. The ending hit hard. #southloop

Nobody can force the sale of the Fediverse.

"Twitter isn't real life." yea but neither is what's reported in corporate media. the staff and owners are not drawn broadly from all of society. that comes with inherent bias. they have economic incentives re what to report on and how. the closest we could get to an understanding of what's […]

The #socialweb is not about community, limited to only some people. It's not a town square focused on debate with everybody. It's a return to how the cultural process worked before mass media, spreading info and ideas and art via word of mouth, only now at the scale and speed of the internet […]

#democracyofreach is about an equality of say over the #overtonwindow. That what's normal and acceptable should be decided by the information and opinions we all collectively boost. (sorry never thought of bringing in the OW before)

After completely leaving Facebook and Dead Twiter for year(s?) It’s interesting to see how the Overton Window has shifted and the people that remained do not seem to notice it. You could of course technically say it was me that changed and it’s only the distance itself was apparent, but I don’t […]

I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites". At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered. A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might […]

#democracyofreach project ideas: #fedifbnextdoor - comfy communities for newbies #fediogtwitter - it's not microblogging, it's a news feed #fedipodcasts - using AP instead of RSS would enable so much #fedireader - articles and text to speech #fediyoutube - places for all peertube + owncast […]

You can't decide what info, ideas or art is available to people. That power was kinda available to the wealthy before the internet etc, and of course it was abused. Maybe some of it is lies or harmful, but others disagree. Why should you decide? Today, the systems most of us use give a […]

When you look at the map of TV stations that are still refusing to air #jimmykimmel, it lines up with Trump's greatest vote counts. Is that because the owners are representing the interests of their community, or does having certain media owners influence how the community votes?

I'm glad that there was a successful pressure campaign to get #jimmykimmel back on the air. I wish we could organize one to help the people of #gaza. But if I support such efforts, I can't agree that we should moderate on social media against such actions when taken to get certain books out of […]

Another win for "Fuck you. Make me."

vance literally called trump a nazi.

I'm told it was crazy to think the #rapture would happen yesterday but not all the other supernatural stuff.

So many video outlets use YT for their live stream and clips. If #peertube and #owncast had a shared site and mobile/TV app, they could say to them, how about you stop relying on them or any other middlemen and instead fully control it? Work with us to build a similar service to what YT provides?

Shouldn't the Trump administration have first deployed the National Guard to Springfield OH to protect the cats and dogs? Somehow that story got dropped. Just like he hasn't commissioned anybody to investigate the 2020 election. And Epstein of course. It's all just bullshit that somehow he gets […]

I should be able to go to a site and search for every #peertube and #owncast video. Like you can on YT. Nearly 100% federation. We should promote it on fedi. Same with an app. And it should all be FOSS so there's competition and no lock-in. We should at least be able to beat #rumble with that model.

a new mRNA therapy apparently can cut the rate of Huntington's disease progression by ~75%. yet more miracle shit www.bbc.com/news/article...

Refusing to put out your music as #ccmusic because of the politics of who might play it, shows ignorance towards the FOSS developers who face that exact same predicament.

There'd be more vocal hate if Fox News started and promoted their own #peertube #owncast server than appreciation, even though most of fedi would recognize the huge value in it. They'd be scared to speak up. We need to think deeper about media decentralization and the civics involved, rather […]

Let's stop just complaining about big video companies doing selfish shit and help make the decentralized #peertube and #owncast ecosystem awesome.

A great essay about antifa (black bloc). Mirrors exactly my experience in Quebec City in 2001 when we were warned they could be agent provocateurs and then many of us stopped one of them from breaking windows. https://pca.st/episode/19cd1af3-05ab-4450-baba-05cfeb3920e6

Today is Platformer's fifth birthday! I wrote about the state of the newsletter economy, how the business is going, and what we're planning for year six https://www.platformer.news/platformer-year-five-lessons/

Basically diametrically opposed to my view of what the future of the #SocialWeb should be. But glad to read it and it was well written. cc @jazmichaelking#socialwebhttps://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses/ via @wallabagapp

Is there anything like the Mastodon Server Convenant but re who servers should federate with, instead of which servers Mastodon gGmbH will recommend to newbies? The first point is "active moderation against racism, sexism, homophobia and transphobia". Very disputed terms and if we want everyone […]

Stick With the Facts & Don't Be Like Them: Some Notes on a Recent Spate of Misreadings https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/stick-with-the-facts-dont-be-like-them-some-notes-on-a-spate-of-recent-misreadings/ via @wallabagapp

imo a great article by @key13 about where indie music stands and what's needed. the beginning is great, I differ on the solutions. hell yes to #bandwagon but we need to make human curators a bigger part of the solution. and that will require #ccmusic and giving up control over who plays your […]