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2026-07-26 16:28:20 UTC

Limited US Ground Operations in Iran Will Not Shift the War’s Balance - Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
via @nprofile…2vzg
https://quincyinst.org/research/limited-us-ground-operations-in-iran-will-not-shift-the-wars-balance/#h-kharg-island

2026-07-25 19:03:13 UTC

The internet exists, letting anyone put up their stuff available to stream. And yet we're constantly dealing with this shit.
#peertube
https://flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/most-emailed-9b8fb5gsz/-/a-9dvzK-KtSWCkjiwltlAy2g%3Aa%3A3195393-%2F0

2026-07-25 18:56:58 UTC

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@nprofile…3emz
I have tried to follow the issue and am unclear on this. maybe something like a trans sports org and website is needed (perhaps it already exists).

2026-07-22 16:52:10 UTC

would it be possible to have my server subscribed to another server/bot that goes around indexing every hash tagged post such that when I click on or search for any hashtag, almost everything shows up?
#tagspub

2026-07-18 04:01:40 UTC

Not a perfect movie but he broke open a story that's nearly 3000 years old, making a comment on current events and all of Western Civilization at the same time. So yea, I liked it a lot.
#TheOdyssey

2026-07-13 17:10:48 UTC

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@nprofile…musx
and being able to get the word out no matter what the wealthy think is worth our attention, is why greater adoption of decentralized social media matters.

2026-07-07 18:35:44 UTC

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@nprofile…mkan
ha, for sure.
the hashtags are basically the two pieces we need to do a decentralized Spotify. afaik canimus is mostly just a spec so far to allow some future app to connect to musician sites. and public patron isn't even that yet, just my idea to set aside an amount monthly at you bank and have it automatically and directly distributed based on percentage of time spent, to every creator whose work you read, listened or watched. needs a fiat protocol.
https://the.socialmusic.network/t/canimus-yet-another-federation-syndication-approach/686

2026-07-04 04:03:21 UTC

Social networking apps are for talking to your community. Group and chat apps. Exclude everyone except the exact people you want to hear from. #matrix
Social media is for getting the world's attention. Defined by the boost. Only exclude the people whose inclusion leads to others not participating. #ActivityPub

2026-07-03 22:35:37 UTC

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@nprofile…z7z2
those soldiers didn't begin a different country and neither did the signing of the declaration. you could also trace it to the signing of the peace treaty ending the Revolutionary War or the final ratification of the Articles of Confederation. or maybe the Constitution since it was less of a real country before that. good point but IDK.

2026-06-29 16:13:00 UTC

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some streams include data that allows the app to know what songs were played. so #TuneFM keeps track of what songs were played, providing a link to Spotify. but imagine if instead the app also played songs directly from a musician's site via #canimus. if the app was not only a radio but a decentralized version of Spotify with DJs helping you build your music library? how it should be.
cc @nprofile…hh04 @nprofile…yk2f @nprofile…a975 @nprofile…zcwj

2026-06-28 22:51:02 UTC

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@nprofile…g92x
please start #peertube and #owncast servers!

2026-06-25 18:06:51 UTC

Being a jerk on social media is a negative to weigh against a candidate's possibly great policy positions. But our stupid media environment makes being a jerk a path to the attention needed to run in the first place. And our stupid electoral system means voters usually don't have few other options to vote for anyway, without supporting a spoiler candidate.
If you want less dirtbags, make the media and the electoral systems better.
cc @nprofile…2yp0
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-dirtbags-wont-save-us/

2026-06-25 17:46:59 UTC

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@nprofile…7nkt
hopefully this example will provide more evidence to many of why their theoretical technical model of decentralization naturally leads to centralization, exactly like the VCs must have thought would happen.
our battle here is not easy but the possible outcome is much bigger than fixing social media or even the web. converting money into attention perverts culture and civics and that's what we're really fighting to overturn here imo.

2026-06-17 17:46:15 UTC

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@nprofile…5z09 @nprofile…rjk0
you should read the article. it addresses all that.

2026-06-17 16:44:18 UTC

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@nprofile…5z09 @nprofile…rjk0
except the states eventually did not agree on that union. and maybe having slaves is something we shouldn't allow other governments to allow.
we just have to keep working on how to live with each other, locally and globally.

2026-06-12 05:47:25 UTC

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@nprofile…sygg
why do you ask?
I think that social media is the proper name for reverse chronological feeds with boosts, especially when items include articles, pictures, podcasts, videos, songs etc. the social news feed, not microblogging. attention democracy.
but feeds mostly controlled by algos shouldn't qualify. nor should group chats and messaging, that's social networking.

2026-05-31 03:23:43 UTC

Apparently the right has a concept they are pushing called #remigration, trying to force nonwhites to leave Europe.
Imagine how they'd respond to native Americans or Palestinians pushing that. I mean they'd actually be fine with it cause they know the power differential is what really matters. But good God would they make sure everybody knew the people they hate were saying that.

2026-05-31 03:14:54 UTC

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@nprofile…3ysu
made me think of the Kid A album cover.

2026-05-27 16:48:42 UTC

I am theoretically a fan of #MMA so the White House #UFC shit doesn't freak me out that much. I just don't like all the sports leagues to the degree that they prioritize profit and owners over the competitors and secondarily, the fans and what we might call the sport itself.

2026-05-24 02:37:33 UTC

Using the #Merlin app to play the sounds of the bird when you play their card in #Wingspan is fun.

2026-05-21 13:36:08 UTC

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@nprofile…ek76 @nprofile…sls4 @nprofile…5nqf
journalists (but many others too) want a network with huge democratic reach where everyone they care about can talk to each other. open networks facilitate this if we work to let people only see what they want (no ads, corp algos, mod for unwanted mentions) and no node can block user visibility for much of the network
[see Link re bluesky. ATproto will always have this big node power problem imo]

2026-05-17 21:33:40 UTC

Some people still make apps tied solely to their content. The worst example in my experience is internet radio but apparently #newsmast is trying to make this a selling point re reading articles.
Please consider that podcasting would be nowhere near what it is today if this approach had been taken.

2026-05-15 21:02:02 UTC

In response to #Iran blocking the Hormuz, the US declares a universal right to navigation. Except #Cuba and #Palestine and boats that we claim are shipping drugs for #Venezuela of course.
We're just evil fucking hypocrites. #uspol

2026-05-15 14:34:13 UTC

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@nprofile…dl7q
nations are not supposed to fight each other unless the UN decides it is justified.

2026-05-13 12:38:51 UTC

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@nprofile…0gpc
looks like another @nprofile…28n3 to me. it's great to have better alternatives to Bandcamp but the future has to be a decentralized Spotify. the musicians have their own site and we listen in an app we choose and the money is transferred directly in amounts that work for both sides.

2026-05-10 18:21:23 UTC

How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man (2013)
via @nprofile…2vzg
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/how-memes-are-orchestrated-by-the-man/274466/

2026-05-10 03:00:16 UTC

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@nprofile…u8dh
who decides it's the wrong things? the people should get to decide imo. and we won't all see everything but hopefully the best stuff can bubble up. isn't this how the world figured out fire etc, just more slowly?

2026-05-09 13:28:42 UTC

When you maximize the ability of humans to determine what info, ideas and art gets the most attention, I think you better society as fast as possible. I trust us collectively to properly manage the selfish incentives when the power is properly distributed. Fully connected while not allowing anyone to be harassed into silence, must be our goal.
#ActivityPub #SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

2026-05-03 23:25:46 UTC

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@nprofile…cjn3 @nprofile…vkpw
sure don't talk to your dad. don't hire jerks. but the equivalent to that on fedi is muting or blocking people yourself, not pushing for it at the server level. and of course, if your dad and his buddies all join the same server and most of them harass Jews and their admin refuses to do anything about it, I think we can block their server. but somebody's mom who says dumb shit about trans people but would never bother a trans person, shouldn't get her server defederated.

2026-05-03 19:41:40 UTC

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@nprofile…qcdl @nprofile…vkpw
I do not advocate a free for all approach. we should just focus on replies (unwanted tagging) instead of general content. when somebody is forcing themselves into others' attention. imo the fedi, in not having algos, is like browsing plus email. we generally support browsing to wherever you want or creating horrible websites, but support people in blocking spam. do that here. any limits you want on your server but also federate freely, unless they don't police harassment.

2026-05-03 19:16:21 UTC

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@nprofile…qcdl @nprofile…vkpw
I agree such Nazis exist. but we all have family members that are not like this but who many here would argue should not be allowed here. some of them may want to stop arming Israel now but were fine with Israeli policy a few years ago. they changed because they've now seen the destruction. they wouldn't have if they'd been pushed into echo chambers. see how kids changed on that issue thanks to TikTok and then how it was forced to sell. big fedi can be used to fight corporate media.

2026-05-03 14:29:44 UTC

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@nprofile…cjn3 @nprofile…vkpw
I guess you don't have any intolerant family members. also isn't it tolerating intolerance to allow them to walk among us? why do you draw the line at using fedi and not the web? why not consider people who drive or eat meat as intolerable? or those who pay taxes to a government at war?
we all suck and get better through dialogue.

2026-05-03 13:38:52 UTC

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@nprofile…vkpw
what you're arguing for will not achieve what you want. we'll just have separate networks misunderstanding and hating each other. the more difficult but more productive approach is to connect everyone as long as they do not intentionally bother each other. without algos, like on the web, people with strongly opposed views can coexist. the Nazi bar problem goes away.

2026-05-02 17:45:20 UTC

It's bad that politicians profit by stock trades using insider knowledge but it's much worse that they know they can and thus vote accordingly.
#corruption #uspol

2026-05-02 17:22:39 UTC

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@nprofile…davq @nprofile…4hqr @nprofile…2vzg
I imagine lots of options for such apps like we have with podcatchers. I'm frustrated nobody has tried to do podcatching with AP instead of RSS yet afaik.

2026-05-01 21:31:45 UTC

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@nprofile…g92x
will it be on YouTube? I'd prefer #owncast.

2026-05-01 16:32:40 UTC

In the video in the post I just boosted, @nprofile…4hqr says #Substack is now boiling the frog in a slow move from email towards lock-in. And of course they work with Nazis etc.
What we need is an effort between newsletter publishers like #Ghost #WordPress etc and reader apps like @nprofile…2vzg to build an ecosystem like podcasting. To make it smooth while remaining totally open. I'd argue for using #ActivityPub in addition to RSS to support boosts. Then we need decentralized money.
#APnative

2026-04-24 17:32:16 UTC

@nprofile…t7tv
did you guys do a write up about posts here actually being the full article somewhere? I think it's a huge part of the puzzle. I remember a podcast talking about moving in this direction with @nprofile…87pl.
#DemocracyOfReach

2026-04-24 16:49:31 UTC

The #WHCA dinner could be awesome. I love the idea of electeds having to deal with a room full of adversarial journalists, with all of it getting out to the public unedited. Add in lots of talk of our great ideals and comics exposing where the nation falls short. Then have other celebrities wandering around in order to get more of the public to pay attention.
That's kinda my dream of a perfect party. Where the small talk is instead about important issues and political philosophy.

2026-04-24 15:39:32 UTC

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@nprofile…t7tv @nprofile…cml4
I'd like WP to output #APnative articles that I could directly boost or read later (or have read to me via TTS) via @nprofile…2vzg. I'd like it all to work together so it automatically shows up in my queue there if I bookmark it here. An open but smooth ecosystem ala podcasting, but with the news feed and boosting of fedi built in.
This kind of interoperability is our killer app to move people off the platforms. Serving readers and creators better without lock-in.

2026-04-20 19:39:28 UTC

Fedi is frustrating because we're so awesome for the one thing almost nobody seems to care about here. Uncontrollable virality based purely on human agency.
Obviously there's no corporate ads or algos. But you can also find your people and hang out with them without being bothered using so many other technologies. Currently even bluesky has a ban hammer that will affect your reach on almost the entire ATmosphere.
We're using a hammer to dig ditches.
#SocialWeb #DemocracyOfReach

2026-04-18 22:25:08 UTC

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@nprofile…84r4
I get that but assuming bluesky doesn't get nuked, they will have a lot of power. and while other such entities could exist, they will all have a lot of power. and there won't be many of them due to cost.
do I have that right? can that be changed without losing the benefits of easy search and simplicity and the smoother experience people like about it?
since wafrn works with the PDSs without bluesky, what do you think users lose out on?

2026-04-18 22:08:32 UTC

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@nprofile…84r4
I'd love to know what you think about the AT vs AP systems. I find the PDS idea awesome but hate the app view, that it seems designed to ensure a quite centralized experience. what the tech might enable vs how it will actually play out. AT developers seem to think they will run a service on the network and get rich while AP developers want to make a new thing possible and imagine endless implementations. maybe I'm too cynical.

2026-04-17 23:03:40 UTC

@nprofile…hh04
https://stream.ryno.cc/oo
dead for me

2026-04-16 06:11:14 UTC

I need pictures of #boardgames in progress posted here using that hashtag regularly.

2026-04-08 17:59:11 UTC

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@nprofile…wa3c
I don't understand it but I do believe truth is a pathless land. congratulations.

2026-04-08 16:13:36 UTC

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@nprofile…uj37
Obama mocked him at the WHCA dinner.

2026-04-04 00:37:16 UTC

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@nprofile…e47w @nprofile…hh04
do you have a #ccmusic link for her new album?

2026-04-03 14:09:05 UTC

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@nprofile…2gus
the author reads the audiobook if you're into that.

2026-04-03 14:00:58 UTC

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@nprofile…2gus
I recommend everybody read Tribe by Sebastian Junger. It talks about how humans need purpose with others more than anything else. That we look back on times when we struggled together for a higher collective goal as the most rewarding times in our lives.
That's what building the fedi is today. #SocialWeb

2026-03-31 12:54:22 UTC

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@nprofile…a0cz @nprofile…ugp2 @nprofile…xsvf @nprofile…tsag
I'm very glad that tool exists but so many of those servers are tiny and full of users with very eccentric opinions. just counting them up can make you think it's worse than it is.
the blocks that bother me are democracy dot town, hachyderm dot io and mastodon dot art. I feel like those have impacted me. people I want to follow on them or people I know who use them. and they are bigger AFAIK.

2026-03-31 12:35:41 UTC

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@nprofile…a0cz @nprofile…ugp2 @nprofile…xsvf @nprofile…tsag
https://liberal.city/@wjmaggos/116323809695271839

2026-03-29 15:55:22 UTC

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@nprofile…xgry @nprofile…d2q6
is there a detailed explainer on tags here and maybe search on the fedi too? it's the one argument I think the other place can make but I'm sure we can be better at it too.

2026-03-28 22:19:15 UTC

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@nprofile…s303
I don't think we can say that till we see how they pay back the VCs :(

2026-03-27 19:24:02 UTC

I wonder if the fedi struggles because it's too good to be believed.
"You're saying you're just trying to free us from advertising and corporate control? No strings? Bullshit. Everybody's got an angle."
#SocialWeb

2026-03-27 16:41:12 UTC

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@nprofile…a0cz
ugh, yeah. I just mean re being able to negotiate without thinking it's a murder plot.

2026-03-27 15:24:18 UTC

I assume that #Iran now assumes that any negotiations with the US are just a trick to make them easier to murder. I hope we are somehow trusted again after Trump leaves office.
#uspol

2026-03-25 13:50:25 UTC

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@nprofile…84r4
maybe you're not completely serious, but this kind of thing is an issue here. I know many don't care about growth but that's obviously deterred when potential newbies expect their ability to federate requires quite close agreement on politics etc. imagine trying to get people to move from AOL to the web if browsing was so tightly controlled. of course unwanted tagging should be policed harshly, but that's like email spam. rarely stumbling on stuff you don't like is life on the web.

2026-03-25 13:25:57 UTC

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@nprofile…84r4
but would they fediblock an HP themed server?

2026-03-24 19:06:38 UTC

Keep it closed till he fucks a pig on live TV.
#Iran #uspol

2026-03-23 18:04:03 UTC

Why wasn't #TSA masked? Because while they often annoy people like cops do, they are not instructed to do monstrous shit regularly that invites backlash. It has never been about the protestors getting crazy, but them responding appropriately to humans getting fucked with. #ICE

2026-03-22 17:37:39 UTC

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@nprofile…a0cz
afaik they also don't want states to have laws against it (or anything else). or tax anything. but gambling (likes drugs) breaks some people. I'm for the freedom for adults to do what they want, but also support some government policy to have this freedom help others hurt by allowing it.

2026-03-22 17:24:35 UTC

It's weird that we're fine with such laws in light of the #FreeSpeech 1A, but refuse to do so re #BigPharma while most other countries do ban them. Do libertarians think there should be no laws re #gambling?
https://mastox.eu/@jacobin/116273947894244107

2026-03-21 15:55:37 UTC

#neoliberalism is a bad term. to be the opposite of illiberal is a good thing. libertarian is generally used for support for market dominance over public life as opposed to government involvement. but that doesn't connote the concept of the worldwide endless grasping for and concentration of wealth and power intended here. the pushing aside of the public interest and self determination. it's unregulated #capitalism plus #imperialism. perhaps we call it #neocolonialism.
https://jacobin.com/2019/11/neoliberalism-term-meaning-democratic-party-jonathan-chait

2026-03-21 14:53:10 UTC

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@nprofile…d9hu @nprofile…wvv9
why have a company at all? there is an effort to build a decentralized Spotify. stream directly from musicians' sites. lots to do, especially re getting the money flowing to artists.
cc @nprofile…zcwj

2026-03-20 06:32:11 UTC

We were being told to stop criticizing #bluesky and what their VC funding might mean, at the same time that their team knew that they had secretly taken much more than before from the same kinds of sources we were concerned about.
And of course this meant they could build on #ATproto much faster than anyone could with #ActivityPub, because our side refuses to believe we are somehow uniquely immune to the enshittification process that comes with that money.
The #SocialWeb is tired of your BS.

2026-03-09 15:24:21 UTC

Most Americans would be fine with killing lots of foreigners if it lowered gas prices, reduced inflation and helped the stock market. It's the same thinking that accepts layoffs from mergers and outsourcing cause stuff gets cheaper.
It's all fine till it's your job or kids getting killed.
#uspol #economics

2026-03-05 18:53:21 UTC

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@nprofile…l42f
horrible decision

2026-03-05 14:44:08 UTC

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@nprofile…7fxa
I've gone to most of the Chicago area meetups and we always talk politics. While always outnumbered, they seem to appreciate my perspective. I'm sure we'll be fine and it will be great to meet you.

2026-03-05 04:27:47 UTC

Listening to Dems justify invading #Iran. Insane.

2026-03-04 15:10:59 UTC

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@nprofile…7fxa
Saturday is gonna be fun :)

2026-03-04 14:21:34 UTC

It's funny when you consider all the shit the US constantly does to other countries that we try to hide and say doesn't amount to war etc, and then how we try to claim that what #Iran has been doing is so very bad. We're so much worse.

2026-03-03 14:36:37 UTC

What's the best argument you've seen for this invasion? Perhaps a long article that not only says why it should be done but how it could work out well and tries to answer all the obvious arguments against it.
Thanks cause it seems fucking evil and idiotic to me.
#Iran #OperationEpicFury #uspol

2026-03-01 21:50:33 UTC

Because I assume #Trump knew this war on #Iran would make his odds of Republicans losing the midterms badly much more likely, I've got two guesses at why he did it.
He thinks being at war can be turned into justification for cancelling the elections.
Israel has some really bad shit they were blackmailing him with related to the #EpsteinFiles.
Maybe both but otherwise I do not understand it. He can't think it will go well, could he?

2026-03-01 20:43:48 UTC

Our "paying for media" system is broken because it doesn't keep up with what is recommended to us via social media.
You can pay a lot of money for lots of services and still not be able to check out the cool new thing all your friends are suddenly talking about. Or still have to sit through ads when you'd rather just pay them directly.
So both fans and artists get screwed while executives cash in. A world of indie creators where the money still goes to big corporations.
#PublicPatron

2026-03-01 14:24:08 UTC

If there was a global nuclear war, we'd still have people posting "don't let it distract you from the #EpsteinFiles."

2026-02-28 19:08:36 UTC

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@nprofile…m06y
people should have hated her support for Israel and still recognized she was the better option and worth voting for in states where it mattered. vote strategically while being pissed that our system provides no incentive to Dems to be anything but slightly left of the Republicans. and push for #RankedChoiceVoting everywhere to end this infighting.

2026-02-28 14:45:20 UTC

Decentralize it. We're getting there. The details are:
Servers and apps for reading, watching and listening that require no middleman. See #ghost #wordpress @nprofile…2vzg #peertube #owncast #podcasting
The social news feed that lets important news and ideas go viral without algos or anybody being able to shut down access for large portions of the network. That's everything using #ActivityPub.
Direct automatic funding of journalism using an open protocol. #interledger #PublicPatron #FediForFiat
https://cdn.masto.host/liberalcity/media_attachments/files/116/148/790/537/611/161/original/6ff9e4751fb9593d.png

2026-02-27 19:21:06 UTC

@nprofile…8ama
is it possible to make anything happen during a live stream on the Roku #owncast app based on remote interactions?
cc @nprofile…uaq6

2026-02-25 14:46:53 UTC

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@nprofile…xgry
I disagree. The only servers that should be blocked are those that fail to address their users who engage in unwanted tagging. That's harassment/abuse. It drives away users. I could support a list of servers somehow so verified.
But to go further than this is a kind of censorship of content allowed elsewhere on the web. Stuff we basically never stumble on while browsing. Without algos here, it will never be forced on us.
I can easily see posts critical of Israel called antisemitic.

2026-02-23 05:55:04 UTC

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@nprofile…uptt
imo social media and social networking are different things. mastodon is the former and doesn't need privacy. it's public and about going viral. encryption is needed for the latter. direct messaging and groups. #ActivityPub vs #matrix.

2026-02-23 05:49:40 UTC

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@nprofile…uptt

2026-02-23 04:23:53 UTC

Cuba and Vietnam are both communist. Why does the US government treat them so differently?
#uspol

2026-02-22 16:28:06 UTC

@nprofile…28wx
thanks for bridging to the fedi. #SocialWeb

2026-02-21 22:15:11 UTC

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@nprofile…sjlp
just asked him to bridge here from bluesky :)

2026-02-21 22:13:33 UTC

@nprofile…0lr2
thanks for bridging to the fedi. #SocialWeb
(sorry I didn't realize that before I asked)

2026-02-21 19:57:55 UTC

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@nprofile…sygg @nprofile…tvnu @nprofile…z9lw
apparently he blocks me :(

2026-02-21 19:21:16 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnu
sure except that they have so much say re what happens next re AT. there should be different speakers over time.

2026-02-21 19:08:43 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnu
as an ongoing series, it would make the conversation much healthier. each side would want to represent themselves well. not be an asshole or appear weak.
there's absolutely no reason for bluesky to do this tho, like a candidate far ahead in the polls.

2026-02-21 18:43:56 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnu
so then they have to continue.
I haven't heard or watched any, just read. that doesn't allow for people to be challenged and flesh out the disagreements very well ime.
I'd love a link.

2026-02-21 18:40:27 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnu
I've been asking for an ongoing public conversation re AT vs AP with experts forever. a couple hours on a podcast, every so many months maybe. we've had some writings but then people dismiss the other side. people believe or focus on what they want to.

2026-02-21 18:31:22 UTC

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@nprofile…tvnu
I believe he addressed these concerns under the sections titled "The Flywheel" and "The Gmail Problem". new apps still end up giving more users to bluesky. and the protocol is designed in such a way that centralization is encouraged.
under "The Chokepoints", he acknowledges you're correct ala blacksky. but that's a huge ask. but they're not fully independent yet and it's hard to believe most would ever be happy with the alts' functionality if bluesky went full adversary re them.

2026-02-21 17:29:56 UTC

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@nprofile…l0hh
thank you!

2026-02-21 17:00:14 UTC

Anybody got an non-paywalled explainer on how #Trump is raising #tariffs after #SCOTUS declared them illegal? Is he trying a different legal approach or just telling them to fuck off?

2026-02-21 16:45:53 UTC

Great article but I don't think we'll have a moment where #bluesky is sold or most people agree that they've gone evil. That's why just having an exit isn't enough. For that to work, most of the people you want to connect to have to agree quickly. Or when many start to leave, the original network can't turn off federation and lock-in the majority who haven't left yet.
The good people at BS could end this fear by making clear their monetization plans today.
https://kevinak.se/blog/be-wary-of-bluesky

2026-02-21 01:41:52 UTC

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@nprofile…e47w
hey @nprofile…hh04 you're gonna get Jon on bandcamp right?

2026-02-16 04:13:39 UTC

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@nprofile…3eqn
being just a protocol, I'd hope people would create interfaces that imitate Slack, Discord, Zoom (even POTS) etc to make migration simple. so far I really like Element X as a replacement for texting.

2026-02-12 19:15:08 UTC

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I assume you'd never host a Nazi band on bandwagon.fm but someday a Nazi might run their band site on bandwagon server software. this distinction is vital and what substack needs to understand about decentralization. but even some here don't seem to get that or care.

2026-02-09 00:20:18 UTC

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good thing he can edit it unlike on bluesky:)

2026-02-07 05:50:30 UTC

The worst thing most people can think of being is a child abuser, but that's only because most of us have never been in a position to decide what happens to lots of people. We're not CEOs or elected officials. Firing thousands of people to make a few people much wealthier is worse. Same with starting a war or imposing sanctions. #monsters