rabble

hacker, anarchist, troublemaker. i'm rabble (npub17lr…294v) on twitter and rabble.nz on scuttlebutt.

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2026-02-12 23:54:55 UTC

This week on my revolution.social podcast I talk to @npub17fe…w0a6 of Flipboard, the dot.social podcast, and former Netscape executive. We go through the way we created an open internet on the web and how that was lost in the social media smartphone era, concluding with the struggle to restore an open social internet for all based on protocols like ActivityPub, ATprotocol, and Nostr. https://fountain.fm/episode/0vjUP8LWvOjSpIPto25z

2025-11-27 07:58:16 UTC

How do we stop the enshittification of the internet? I sat down with @npub1fdr…lvhs at Web Summit in Lisbon.
https://youtu.be/CpLudlrwS_g

2025-11-18 17:24:45 UTC

I'm building an ai-free social video app called divine.video and it's gotten a lot of attention. So i decided to record an interview explaining the who, what, where, and why of it all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5iOWAfsm0

2025-11-13 08:53:08 UTC

I miss Vine. I miss authentic human social media instead of AI slop. Being able to choose who you follow rather than being force fed content by adversarial algorithms. So I built a thing to bring the idea of Vine back.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/12/jack-dorsey-funds-divine-a-vine-reboot-that-includes-vines-video-archive/

2025-09-11 20:50:20 UTC

Activist, Technologist, and Author @npub1fdr…lvhs 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

2025-08-21 21:48:26 UTC

Medium has been around for so long we might forget it’s important role in the social media ecosystem. @npub1lu8…mnj4, CEO of Medium, talked with me about Medium’s evolution, AI, their Reddit like content moderation system, and how they differ from substack.
https://youtu.be/ewrc0iPYsq0?si=ODpFyjNSjwOioEVh

2025-08-16 11:02:26 UTC

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I mean @npub1l49…z4au made Twitter, the federated twitter over XMPP, and Webfinger which is the core of how identity works in the fediverse. Everyone was aware of prior art. All the core Bluesky people and the consultative group that created the Bluesky research paper were working on decentralized social protocols before @npub14j8…pjuf wrote protocols not platforms. That essay advocated for the work of many people. It helped tons, but didn’t start things.

2025-08-10 18:39:29 UTC

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 like compliance on an open network or with open source software is impossible.

2025-08-07 10:52:51 UTC

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 raised a $100 million in funding, and also their algorithm sent out an antisemitic push notification with a swastika icon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2dIgQbPL4

2025-08-05 22:33:50 UTC

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yeah there were prototypes and experiments. It would have made the federation and privacy / groups easier but providing a Twitter like experience a lot harder. I think they made the right choice by building ATprotocol.

2025-07-24 05:33:32 UTC

I sat down to interview [@karaswisher](https://threads.net/@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

2025-07-16 11:40:20 UTC

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

2025-06-18 02:23:56 UTC

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.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/564504/melatonin-to-be-made-available-over-the-counter-at-pharmacies

2025-06-07 00:26:50 UTC

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it’s a work in progress, my goal is not be biased but it needs updating so input is welcome.

2025-06-07 00:10:58 UTC

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

2024-12-22 19:47:12 UTC

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.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/537394/signs-of-the-hikoi-more-than-just-words-on-cardboard

2024-12-21 20:17:38 UTC

@npub17fe…w0a6 nice interview with @npub1sac…kcpe and @npub1fd2…f2f9 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 kind of think the relay/appview model will make those things hard to build, you might need to make an alt network stack bridging PDS's to make it work. But then it'll be ATprotocol but not bluesky at all.

2024-11-27 01:36:04 UTC

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 this loss is on Biden, Harris, and Democratic Party senior leadership.
https://pca.st/episode/5a3d23b4-cb98-480e-a83f-52c7acc8743f

2024-11-26 18:26:50 UTC

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?

2024-11-26 01:24:24 UTC

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both ATprocol and Nostr are based on Secure Scuttlebutt. They’re much more like each other in terms of how the technology and protocol works than anything else. The users might have different cultural norms and values but that’s not what I’m talking about. Neither works much like ActivityPub at all, which is a decade older and designed around a network of all powerful servers vs signed content addressable data structures.

2024-11-22 22:44:26 UTC

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a custodial wallet.
None are locked in as much as the way Bluesky has done.

2024-11-22 22:43:59 UTC

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primal runs an extra relay that aggregates content from the broader network and then provides calculations like follower counts and push notifications. They also have a CDN for media. It’s possible to do follower counts and push notifications in a more decentralized way but it’s not as good. Primal also also provides a bunch of custom algorithms and only with the latest release added support for third party algorithms. Primal also supports a really slick wallet by using Apple Pay to fund

2024-11-22 19:20:57 UTC

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

2024-11-21 04:24:30 UTC

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my nos.social nostr app has the same kind of composable moderation guard rails that Bluesky’s primary app and network on ATprotocol has.
The technology is remarkably similar even if the user communities have different cultures.

2024-11-21 04:10:31 UTC

Finally some good news out of Aotearoa New Zealand.
https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/21-11-2024/drugs-are-getting-cheaper-and-easier-to-find-in-aotearoa

2024-11-19 01:51:19 UTC

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.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/507/111/947/093/040/original/0201014056031be1.jpg

2024-11-17 20:16:55 UTC

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.
Odd given how much obsession Americans have with the country’s founding.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_America#

2024-11-11 20:14:19 UTC

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.

2024-11-11 13:25:49 UTC

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

2024-11-11 12:14:33 UTC

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

2024-11-06 11:18:56 UTC

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

2024-11-01 19:12:47 UTC

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nostr is not a bitcoin or blockchain based protocol. There is the ability to do lightning micropayment in some nostr apps but it’s an optional extension. That said, the community of users on Nostr are heavily in to bitcoin. It’s kind of like saying you don’t like twitter because there is too much discussion of current events. That’s decent reason to choose something else because we use social software to talk to people.

2024-11-01 19:06:15 UTC

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hey check your facts. Jack Dorsey got twitter to fund Bluesky but it was founded and is run by Jay, a Chinese American woman. We finally get a social media company founded and run by a woman of color and you call her a goblin. Good.

2024-10-25 06:17:06 UTC

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

2024-10-18 00:10:48 UTC

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

2024-10-04 00:41:59 UTC

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well we are in a situation where lowering home prices will bankrupt a lot of people. It’s a problem. It incentivizes prices to keep going up.

2024-09-26 23:18:06 UTC

@npub1tuh…89y4 the link to your fediverse address on your homepage footer seems to be broken.

2024-09-23 08:42:06 UTC

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.

2024-09-22 20:05:11 UTC

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it’s frustrating

2024-09-16 08:40:33 UTC

How is it Emily in Paris wears a new outfit every scene and she’s almost never shown shopping, nor it it explained how she affords the clothes nor where she stores it all in her tiny walk up apartment?

2024-09-10 05:01:47 UTC

Owners of small retail businesses blame bike lanes even if there are none near their business. Can we stop pretending these “local business people” are anything but conservative trolls with no grasp on reality?
https://thespinoff.co.nz/wellington/10-09-2024/the-mystery-of-the-killer-bike-lane

2024-09-07 03:23:37 UTC

Si, nos hablamos castellano.
nos.social/es

2024-08-30 08:20:27 UTC

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we do have a “relay” selection where you can view all posts from a relay. It’s kind of like being able see your local mastodon timeline but you can choose which instance (relay) you want to see. We will add lists in there and custom feed algorithms in there too.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/049/993/929/036/608/original/29b6b746ab5921d3.png

2024-08-27 06:10:32 UTC

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I’m a fan of ditto and am going to use it on protest.net’s relaunch. I wish Alex wasn’t such a troll.

2024-08-27 06:07:57 UTC

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I’ve never met or talked to @npub13qd…hau6 but I think she does such an amazing job of making sense of and critiquing emerging tech / business.

2024-08-27 06:03:35 UTC

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yeah I had to rush because I only had 45 minutes

2024-08-25 08:10:57 UTC

My keynote from the Nostr conference is online.
I think people here will enjoy my analogs for each social media platform/protocol.
https://youtu.be/XUsk7cqZyKU

2024-08-23 11:24:18 UTC

It’s Jack Dorsey after seeing @npub1nha…mujl after Alex gave a talk about ditto community nostr server that brings a fediverse instance experience to Nostr.
https://soapbox.pub/creators/
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/011/081/218/151/031/original/0fc7bdc41bd7c590.png

2024-08-17 06:59:25 UTC

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@npub12dq…tlw4 @npub1xsv…q6he
The only people using the term web 3 are you guys. Nostr is not web3, no blockchain, no cryptocurrency, no token.
And there is no spec for what you think is the fediverse. You’re talking about the mastodon network. Lots of other parts of the fediverse which use ActivityPub work differently. You might not believe me but if you care to argue try looking at the code and how the software actually works.

2024-08-16 05:26:08 UTC

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you’re talking about the masotodon protocol on top of ActivityPub not AP itself which doesn’t address anything related to approval of following. :)

2024-08-15 19:39:59 UTC

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pixelfed is a set of custom protocol extensions built as a layer on top of ActivityPub. Just as Mastodon is actually a protocol on top of ActivityPub. There’s a ton in making the mastodon network work which doesn’t exist in AP.

2024-08-15 19:38:14 UTC

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nostr is part of the fediverse even if you wish it wasn’t the case.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/967/724/094/276/145/original/52971a5fe3eb7ec5.png

2024-08-15 19:37:29 UTC

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but nostr DOES federate with the rest of the fediverse. [@76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa](https://mostr.pub/users/76c71aae3a491f1d9eec47cba17e229cda4113a0bbb6e6ae1776d7643e29cafa ) is many nostr accounts here. It’s a stupid username because Mastodon refuses to allow username changes or real account migration. How is this not a decentralized protocol that is part of the fediverse?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/967/719/935/371/968/original/6d24ca0ab386ac47.png

2024-08-15 19:32:26 UTC

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why do we insist homeless be sober when everyone is is fine drinking? I’m sober and in recovery but I don’t think it should be a requirement for people to have their basic needs met.

2024-08-14 15:04:59 UTC

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Mastodon added a ton of non-specified on top of ActivtyPub. PixelFed is recently partially compatible but it’s got its own layer on top of AP.
Protocols on the internet are layered. We’re talking about layers within layer 7.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_network_protocols_(OSI_model)

2024-08-14 14:39:15 UTC

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it’s created by a community of developers. He created Nostr is even less accurate than saying he created Bluesky. Or that he was the one inventor of twitter.

2024-08-14 14:36:30 UTC

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I’m not a fan of cryptocurrencies, blockchain, or web3. You think that because I mentioned they exist? Do you think everything beyond the Mastodon part of the fediverse is web3?
That said this version of web3 as self certifying protocols is worth looking at. https://jaygraber.medium.com/web3-is-self-certifying-9dad77fd8d81

2024-08-14 14:32:36 UTC

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assumptions assumptions….. my app nos.social works within the fediverse and has no blockchain or cryptocurrency in it.
Because I mentioned that there are blockchain protocols you assume I’m advocating for them? Let’s just pretend they don’t exist and try and prevent anyone from talking about them.

2024-08-14 14:28:34 UTC

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the context of this slide is just to show that there are lots of protocols and projects. It is not a database for research purposes.
The slide before is https://xkcd.com/927/

2024-08-14 14:26:14 UTC

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movim is xmpp not matrix right?

2024-08-14 14:25:50 UTC

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you’re welcome to help update the airtable. The point is to tell people to stop inventing new slightly different protocols.

2024-08-14 14:24:42 UTC

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the point of the slide was to say people keep reinventing the wheel. There is an air table version you’re welcome to help keep up to date. Later on I get in to categories of these protocols and projects. There are many sometimes compatible protocols built on top of AP. In a big list on this one slide without what I said, you lose all the context.

2024-08-14 06:02:58 UTC

What’s the protocol that twitter should have been?
https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/

2024-08-14 06:01:50 UTC

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I wish the democrats hadn’t let NGPvan hadn’t got bought up by private equity

2024-08-08 23:52:51 UTC

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oh now I’ve got to get up off very comfy pillows in the tea tent and walk over.

2024-08-01 21:41:11 UTC

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i'm [email protected] on Nostr you can see my profile at rabble.npub.pro

2024-08-01 21:39:01 UTC

We're hiring a product marketing intern (paid) to work on open social protocols and nos.social
https://www.nos.social/career/product-intern

2024-03-28 01:55:46 UTC

I just had a comment removed from instagram for violating their community standards. Apparently they think I’m spamming for mentioning Unicode I guess. Honestly I’m not sure. It was in response to a instagram rule asking why the kiwi bird isn’t an emoji.
I posted it once, and to a instagram post from someone I’m following. I don’t think I’ve made a comment about Unicode or emojis on instagram before.
This is crazy.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/170/823/344/550/336/original/44924da2ff699c8e.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/170/823/513/028/975/original/3626a1693dae05f4.png
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/170/823/701/386/606/original/8e3864179b2ac1ef.png