william ⁂ maggos

Advocate for #DemocracyOfReach

"federate with everybody except trolls"

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2026-08-28 05:00:24 CEST

The NFL and MLB could display everything we want to see on the screen all of the time.
#sports

2026-08-28 04:40:47 CEST

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my understanding is that the fedi music scene is built on strict consent. that being creative commons is not good enough. music and videos won't be played unless the artist directly says it's ok.
I don't think this is a good idea for indie artists or the community. It slows everything down and limits curation, leading to a less appealing experience for the average listener. the #ccmusic scene has been developing for years.
let's help each other grow.

2026-08-28 03:34:56 CEST

Didn't #DollyParton seem happier than the other rich people we know about? Maybe there's a lesson in that for them.

2026-08-28 03:26:04 CEST

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I feel like all the sites and services that help make the fedi better should be organized under the Social Web Foundation but in such a way that they could be rebuilt/replicated if somehow the SWF version crashed or went evil.

2026-08-28 00:25:50 CEST

it's crazy that US citizens need a passport to leave the country, we have to pay for it and yet still act like we don't have a national ID. and of course that makes other shit more difficult and stupid.

2026-08-28 00:19:21 CEST

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all government IT departments should collaborate on FOSS suites.

2026-08-28 00:11:20 CEST

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I assume https://www.fire.org would help. I know they are identified more with the right but tend to be very non ideological.

2026-08-28 00:00:15 CEST

We are the alternative but we need to figure out how to help independent creators get paid.
https://pca.st/episode/877a6660-c545-4aad-bc3e-63b94ed76a6c

2026-08-27 23:22:31 CEST

Is the venture capital strategy of undercutting competitors by not charging enough to run the business and growing for years based purely on massive investments, not considered illegal predatory pricing only because the start-up is not yet dominant?
#capitalism

2026-08-27 22:26:25 CEST

#IndieMusic must embrace both the #SocialWeb and #ccmusic. Curators, who build community by helping normies find stuff they will love out of the endless options available on the web, are the key piece in this puzzle. They provide the human alternative to the Spotify algo that people are starting to realize they want.

2026-08-27 21:05:55 CEST

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do you get a lot of criticism from the left on #bluesky? is it ever abusive?
on fedi at least, my perception is that you could say whatever you want about the right but can't critique the left. it's a bit of a hard call though because nobody moderate to conservative is widely federated.

2026-08-27 19:35:15 CEST

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decentralized media thwarts the power of money (or force) to shape public opinion. the web gave us speech, fedi does it for attention. of course we're a threat.
what annoys me is that we're not taking advantage of our power here. most would rather keep their nice but conservative relatives away than focus moderation only on harassment. we've somehow managed to browse a web full of shitty sites for decades and it didn't become a Nazi bar.
harrumph.

2026-08-27 14:46:36 CEST

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Also https://bird.makeup/

2026-08-27 04:22:11 CEST

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dude is just reading [@robertwrighter.bsky.social](https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/robertwrighter.bsky.social ).

2026-08-27 04:15:54 CEST

https://genius.com/Dolly-parton-9-to-5-lyrics

2026-08-27 03:17:50 CEST

This is so good. A two hour musical retrospective on #DollyParton. The music and an explanation of her career path.
pure #InternetRadio the way it should be!
https://social.mushroomfm.com/@announcements/117164644889371884
#note1p2l…85az

2026-08-27 02:27:42 CEST

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I voted no. imo this medium is about attention. being able to express ourselves but not force anybody to see anything. while a subtoot may seem rude, it preserves this balance. responding is only likely to create strife.

2026-08-26 22:16:26 CEST

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but it also does good things.
my comparison would be with lefties who only complain about the problems with capitalism and never talk about the value of markets, leading people to at least pretend to support communism.

2026-08-26 20:56:27 CEST

Pollution is a violation of property rights.

2026-08-26 20:16:58 CEST

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please imagine setting up on an awesome uninhabited island instead. consider all the cool things you'd want to approach living well. then ask yourself how that all gets built and maintained w/o govt to enforce contracts, protect property, foreign relations etc.
instead of this, you imagine Freetown etc. and it allows you to only complain about govt, not see its value. and in doing so, hate govt. that hate leads to opposing regulation. helping billionaires etc.
done for now.

2026-08-26 16:52:19 CEST

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do other countries with more socialist systems do better or worse?

2026-08-26 16:46:52 CEST

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the communities are not yet established yet the mantra is widely known. that serves his interests.

2026-08-26 16:40:51 CEST

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so then the US provides military protection by default. that's convenient. do you intend to fly in and out? what about water access or pollution?
re education and not impacting people in other places, unless you're expecting nobody to travel, that's a fantasy. ugly Americans is a thing because norms differ. rules about how you can dress. we have regulations on getting vaccinated for travel and not bringing in fruits etc. families can teach kids to treat other people horribly.

2026-08-26 15:48:46 CEST

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I'm not opposed to anyone doing this. I support it actually.
but as I hope I detailed above, I don't see how it happens. not because people don't want you to live that way, but because there is no space. because as soon as somebody does this, they'll set up some kind of new (if limited) government.
what I do oppose is how this ideal will prevent proper regulation and good social services. "government is slavery" is good PR for billionaires, no matter how you mean it.

2026-08-26 13:05:00 CEST

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please ask them to bridge to the fedi like you've done!

2026-08-26 10:42:25 CEST

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imo all the problems come down to unwanted tagging. we must allow the wide expression of opinions we don't like but also treat all obviously unwanted replies as harassment that we moderate for. learn from the wide open web and spam blocklists.
the hard part is to do this without shutting down reasonable criticism. and understand that bigger accounts will get more of this.
being annoying and broken federation is more common, and thus deters growth, more than hateful trolling.

2026-08-26 02:25:20 CEST

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and lots of people didn't originally get to vote.
public education could be better but it will always be biased, like the media. make it fully private and it will have the same problems of rich people deciding what the masses think. at least making it public provides some say from the public.

2026-08-26 02:17:06 CEST

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slavery is much worse than the limited freedom from government of something like an Amish life and having no great way to move somewhere and have no government. while some uninhabited islands still exist, I guess you were just born at the wrong time.
We just don't have infinite great spaces. I assume you'd want to be able to set up the society you want somewhere and kids born there would have to accept the rules, change them via voting etc or move. Or what do you envision?

2026-08-26 01:59:55 CEST

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I wasn't sure if mentioning it was worth possibly bringing it to the bad guy's attention. Elon will probably come after it next but then telling people about another option is good.

2026-08-25 20:51:13 CEST

I'm at the new #TeddyRoosevelt library in North Dakota and dying to overhear how all the older women respond to the news today.

2026-08-25 20:42:56 CEST

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so go start your own version of Amish ism?

2026-08-25 20:39:54 CEST

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but that's not even the full sentence:
all the people are not going to be well educated and armed anarchists willing to compromise as necessary.
Enlightenment figures and our Founding Fathers and plenty of others afterwards struggled with these problems. thus representative govt, checks and balances, public education etc.

2026-08-25 19:50:20 CEST

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I'm actually at the Teddy Roosevelt library right now. While I agree businesses take advantage of government when/if they can, imo the problems arise from concentrated wealth (they'll use PR to keep us from knowing they are poisoning us etc).
Unless maybe we had no govt and thus no contract enforcement or protection of private property outside of your own guns etc. I don't think that's a world anybody wants to live in but I'd love to see ancaps try. IDK how to do that tho.

2026-08-25 16:47:38 CEST

It's hard for me to believe that very geeky people and those who have been online forever think that posts you can ignore here (thanks to decentralization and no algos) are a bigger deterrent to adoption than unwanted replies, even if you agree with the person making the annoying comment.
#SocialWeb #fediblockmeta

2026-08-25 03:50:25 CEST

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one service like YT with their live channels is inevitable. we just can't let any company (or conglomeration) win that race.
#peertube and #owncast offer an ideal version of this future. everybody putting out video from their own sites while the experience for us is like YT but via whatever apps we choose. we've just gotta also decentralize and automate supporting creators (without the problems of cryptocurrency).

2026-08-25 03:41:29 CEST

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I had not considered it :(

2026-08-24 17:25:16 CEST

Focusing on #affordability is great because it should encompass how much stuff costs but also how much we get paid and pay in taxes. What's affordable also changes based on your income/wealth. It's a progressive, but not really anti conservative, way of thinking about society and the economy. Or at least it should be.

2026-08-24 16:26:10 CEST

They say don't tax us more or we will leave. The thing is I thought you would leave when you got a couple million. I thought you would stop working and live a life of leisure. And somebody else would step up to do the job and go from living well to retirement also, repeating the pattern etc.
Instead you stuck around and others couldn't move up and get their share. And that crazy amount of money gave you an unbalancing amount of influence and power. You're not special. You're just boring.

2026-08-24 15:52:21 CEST

The billionaire is a billionaire because their goal was never to have enough to live well, but to "do better" than everybody else. Otherwise they would have checked out long ago. How do you reason with people like that?
They don't think about money the way the rest of us do. They're not trying to balance basic needs and wants and feeling precarious about losing a job and with it, health care. They have other people to handle all their menial tasks and paperwork. They are secure and bored.

2026-08-24 15:07:18 CEST

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I can't imagine having a fraction of their money and wanting to get more instead of enjoy life. They are not like us.

2026-08-24 06:05:46 CEST

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posting on X is fine, only on X is bad. that forces your readers to be exposured to their propaganda.
posting on fedi could/should mean posting the actual article on their own site using WordPress or Ghost. ala #APnative. doing more of this would demonstrate to all writers how inferior using the corporate platforms really is.

2026-08-24 04:21:42 CEST

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my bet is he backs off before they do any real damage to the economy and just after he invests in whatever stocks do best when he calls them off.

2026-08-23 16:01:46 CEST

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people are going to disagree and some are going to concentrate power. I don't see how we deal with this without something approaching democratic government. imo the argument for no government is about leaving us defenseless against the wealthy. all the people are not going to be well educated and armed anarchists willing to compromise as necessary.

2026-08-23 15:15:46 CEST

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it should be possible to rally support from smaller companies for good tech that frees them from domination by the bigger companies, but that never happens. like media companies supporting decentralization so that they aren't more and more under the thumbs of the platform oligarchs. I fear the class solidarity is stronger with them than it is with us.

2026-08-23 10:07:33 CEST

It's the weekend. Markets are closed. He will call off the tariffs before Monday morning and cash in on the rally. Isn't this what he does regularly re Hormuz etc?
#corruption

2026-08-23 10:00:25 CEST

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my sense is most bluesky people think we're here and not there because we really care about the technical differences. I'd argue it's political. we've seen "don't be evil" before.

2026-08-23 06:42:03 CEST

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less all nerds than all opposed to VCs, capitalism run amok etc.

2026-08-22 19:53:21 CEST

I've always loved the #triceratops. Now I know they lived at different times but the idea of them fighting back against the T-Rex with their horns was so appealing. Standing up against the bully, not just for themselves but also other plant eaters. That's my politics. Use whatever privilege you've got to try to even the playing field, taking down those who lucked into even more if necessary.

2026-08-22 15:51:59 CEST

"Competition is the best check on personalized pricing: If a business takes it too far, other businesses would gladly take its customers."
- WaPo Editorial Board
absolutely if the market is competitive. and #enshittification wouldn't exist. but CEOs admit to trying to create moats to competitors. we know monopolies exist. this is why market fundamentalism exists. to claim that when we see these problems, they either can't be serious cause the market would resolve them or it's the govt's fault.

2026-08-22 15:15:44 CEST

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I can't remember what I didn't love about that app but since I wrote that, I found and fell in love with TuneFM Radio for Android.

2026-08-21 23:35:55 CEST

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we really need to end primaries and go with the Alaska model everywhere. Five instead of four though hopefully.

2026-08-21 22:51:44 CEST

The Bank Drama | The New Yorker (1974)
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1974/11/25/the-bank-drama

2026-08-21 18:35:35 CEST

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I want to believe but you took VC money. that has always meant that you will sell out or get moved out if you don't go along. the ATmosphere is still nowhere near as decentralized as fedi was when you started, after spending how much more money? the first real test will be when we see how you actually monetize.

2026-08-21 15:45:24 CEST

'War Dogs' True Story: How Two U.S. Kids Became Arms Dealers
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/the-stoner-arms-dealers-how-two-american-kids-became-big-time-weapons-traders-176604/

2026-08-21 15:44:19 CEST

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fediblocks are a great tool for truly abusive users and the servers that harbor them. I don't want to make it harder to do, just convince people they shouldn't be used to prevent people from stumbling on upsetting posts cause doing so has the unintended consequence of keeping us small and helping the corporate platforms expose more people to fascist propaganda. like the decentralized web, they are not necessary to protect the network. years of experience shows ignoring them works.

2026-08-21 05:43:33 CEST

The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon | GQ
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://www.gq.com/story/elizabeth-gilbert-gq-march-1997-muse-coyote-ugly-saloon

2026-08-21 04:34:56 CEST

Jeffrey Wigand: The Man Who Knew Too Much | Vanity Fair (1996)
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/1996/05/wigand199605

2026-08-21 03:41:02 CEST

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are you done?
none of this applies to the idea that we shouldn't block servers for what people post there when nobody is being forced to see it. years of experience with the web and email have shown us how to do this imperfectly but well, to allow people to see what they want but not see what they don't want to. using a decentralized network without algos. we maximized the experience for all involved, as evidenced by no serious arguments to change the rules.
but go on...

2026-08-21 03:28:31 CEST

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however you want to slice it, conservatives generally have never been cool with trans rights. you're redefining conservative as libertarian, just as you sidestepped my point that it's seemingly impossible to point to a user here who is conservative and widely federated. my point is obvious and you keep making excuses. let's stop.

2026-08-21 03:09:14 CEST

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sorry but you keep treating me like I'm ignorant. and saying things I know not to be true.
all the servers that follow the covenant would not be cool with conservative users. and I'm fine with a server deciding what can be posted on their own site, that's their resources. but don't tell me what I know is not true. and if conservatives can't be on all those servers, they need to federate with servers that don't follow those rules. or admit we don't want to represent the world.

2026-08-21 02:15:26 CEST

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you have no idea what you're talking about:
The Server Covenant: Servers listed on the official directory commit to basic baseline moderation, meaning they must actively block racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.

2026-08-21 01:57:25 CEST

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fediblock is great to prevent users from being harassed. like we do with spam. everyone shouldn't have to see crap and block assholes themselves.
but you're being ridiculous if you don't think it's used to prevent a server's users from possibly stumbling on posts they (the admin or lots of the server's users) deem upsetting. that happens and done at scale, it makes this place uninviting to non lefties.

2026-08-21 01:40:39 CEST

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then I'm crazy. Trump wouldn't get blocked here cause he never tags anyone. sure.
he'd be widely reported and fediblocked. he'd be harassed in ways we'd never tolerate towards others. every other account like his just takes more time to be treated that way.

2026-08-21 01:32:01 CEST

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if you believe in blocking cause they posted something but never tagged you, you should also support limits on browsing and links. for the collective mental health. let's break the web too.
if they tagged you, treat them like spam. block or whatever. but please don't advocate for blocking access for others unless they are known to harass. or advocate blocking a server unless they refuse to police that shit.

2026-08-21 00:30:01 CEST

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I guess you've never heard conservatives complain about the mainstream media. or what they thought of Twitter before Elon bought it. both sides have large elements who do not want to be told what to think.
the right needs to do less trolling and we need to do less blocking in pursuit of never stumbling on racism etc. all while most of us agree on preventing harassment in any direction.
our culture and civic future requires that we do this better.

2026-08-21 00:20:41 CEST

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fedi pushes out conservatives. X does not push out progressives. while lots of work is being done to solve other issues that prevent our growth, I'm working on this one. this norm of limiting federation beyond those who troll, does nothing to protect people here.

2026-08-21 00:16:59 CEST

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that's not necessary but I get why you'd think that. conservatives and normies would like to follow lefties. some lefties would like to follow conservatives and normies. I would like to share my social media experience with family and friends who don't agree with me politically, in addition to tracking the arguments pushed by media I disagree with.
just because you have no interest in this doesn't mean others don't.

2026-08-21 00:11:26 CEST

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I'm not sure what you're saying or think I am saying.
I want there to be no algos. I want everyone who doesn't troll others to federate with each other. if you see something, it was posted or boosted by someone you follow. in that way, we can follow who we want and still never be forced to see shit. just like browsing the web.

2026-08-20 23:48:05 CEST

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I've been here many years and am deeply opposed to algos. but also haven't seen any conservatives who are widely federated.
I want this place to win and see it as essential to fixing lots of problems in the world. that all won't happen if we remain small and unrepresentative of the general public.
later.

2026-08-20 23:37:26 CEST

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please post a link to a conservative user who is widely federated here. they don't exist.

2026-08-20 23:20:02 CEST

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no I'm talking about regular users.

2026-08-07 16:46:31 CEST

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except politically :(
we all have family members who, while they'd never troll anyone, would be harassed and fediblocked if they joined and expressed their honest opinions here. that has to change.

2026-08-04 21:01:14 CEST

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neither do I. that's one user getting banned from a quasi private space. what I'm concerned about is a fedi norm that supports harassment and fediblocks for opinions deemed somewhere on the conservative spectrum. for entire servers with a few users who post like that. sometimes for entire servers that federate with such servers.
and while this might have personal benefit, it leads to us staying small and bad places growing. at least everyone can connect over there.

2026-08-04 18:16:32 CEST

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you shouldn't want to know shit about me. I cavort with people you'd call Nazis. you support policies that would exile me for my relationships.

2026-08-04 18:09:12 CEST

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sit in a bar with a Nazi. he's talking quietly with friends. when they get too loud, the bartender tells them to quiet down and they do. everybody at the bar has a nice night.
vs the Nazi refuses to be quiet and the bartender does nothing and normies leave and it becomes a Nazi bar.
vs the Nazi refuses to be quiet and gets kicked out.
vs the Nazi never gets loud but you go tell him to GTFO not cause you heard him across the room but you just don't want him there. then what?

2026-08-04 17:59:33 CEST

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I don't believe that the majority of people here want a fedi where expressing shitty opinions or boosting stuff many don't like, means it's ok to be harassed or exiled.
or maybe the majority here does feel that way, but then we will never grow. which they are probably ok with, but it means the vast majority of people can't use social media or will be on platforms with algos where they get bombarded with horrible propaganda.

2026-08-04 17:54:48 CEST

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except we already do this with the open web and IRL. it's not perfect but if we tried to make them both more perfect in the ways we do here (not by dialogue but exile and limiting where we could browse), both would break.

2026-08-04 17:50:37 CEST

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you should feel as bothered by someone saying that stuff on fedi as you do about all the horrible websites that exist. without algos and when nobody is tagged and it's posted on a server you're not on, it should be completely ignorable. we don't try to police the web in the way we do fedi, otherwise I'd be unable to browse nice sites cause I also browse bad sites (my server is blocked because of which other servers I federate with).

2026-08-04 15:42:47 CEST

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there should be one decentralized social media network with everyone on it, like the web. but also where pushing yourself into others feeds, like spam, isn't tolerated. ultimately, it can't be X or bluesky cause those both won't really be decentralized ever.
my brother is MAGA. I'm sure most of us have family that wouldn't be treated well here if they honestly expressed themselves and boosted stuff they liked, even if they weren't intentionally bothering anyone. that has to change.

2026-08-03 18:28:32 CEST

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right but eventually we should have a protocol for bank to bank fiat transfers, no longer having to manage multiple intermediaries. same with apps that let us search and listen to music, no matter where they host their music or how. then we merge the two, directly paying an amount we can afford directly to them for percentage of total time spent with their work over a month. etc etc.
#PublicPatron #Chorus

2026-08-02 16:41:51 CEST

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just wish it wasn't necessary. that an artist could have their own site and have everything work with it.

2026-07-27 18:56:29 CEST

AFAIK OBS is how most video streamers connect to their #owncast servers. Is there something like this for @npub1jat…6hv0? FOSS, available for most operating systems and widely embraced.
#icecast
https://mastodon.social/@OBSProject/116992951370777689

2026-07-27 15:51:30 CEST

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I'm glad you're trying but I'm generally not a fan of adding complexity, esp when most people already can't handle choosing a server.
The fedi I want looks like the web. We'd be able to follow "horrible" people and not get cut off from also following friends and the "best" people on other servers. the problem is norms not tech.
I'm not a bad guy...
https://fba.ryona.agency/?domain=liberal.city

2026-07-26 23:44:31 CEST

Most people want to have private online conversations. Some also want to post publicly. I get wanting to be able to use the same account for both but trying to let everyone do so seems to be creating more problems than it solves. Lots of confusion and anger and tons of effort to build in more nuance and moderation capacity to the tools we already have and need to keep somewhat simple to encourage adoption.
Perhaps build on #matrix and #ActivityPub separately. Have users list both accounts.

2026-07-25 22:16:23 CEST

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we'll never get close to that real life complexity here. that's why I'm focused on what we already figured out and try to understand what makes what we're trying to do so hard. my conclusion is it isn't. we're just trying to do diff things with similar tech/norms. impossible.
you want to grow. many don't. imo saying anybody can play my music is enough. they want direct endorsement.
my non troll MAGA brother would never be treated like I am here. mod tools can't fix that.

2026-07-23 09:08:42 CEST

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I don't get thinking of servers as a community, except to the degree something like the fans of a podcast start a server to talk to each other AND figure out the fedi. but communities are insular and that's the opposite of interoperability. and everybody will soon have friends off server that they feel like are part of their community.
a server shares mod policy. in order to avoid centralization, when no other sensible division makes sense, let's separate servers by locality.

2026-07-22 21:52:23 CEST

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https://mailchi.mp/nashownotes/rip-jcd-no-agenda-newsletter

2026-07-21 15:05:21 CEST

Is the Open #subsonic API already doing what I was hoping to see out of #canimus / #chorus?
a protocol to enable a decentralized Spotify?
cc [@fluffy](https://plush.city/@fluffy ) @npub166d…xj3f
https://opensubsonic.netlify.app/

2026-07-03 23:44:45 CEST

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mostly we've slowly gotten better from a social aspect but economics is more complicated. unions were stronger, the wealthy shouldered more of the cost for helping to pay for housing and education. but women and minorities didn't get the benefits. my sense is we lag behind Europe generally now but I'd hope there's some good market things we could retain without the bad stuff.

2026-07-01 20:06:26 CEST

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I'd say matrix instead of signal but yes.
this is kinda the big conversation we don't fully have here. social networking vs social media. small vs big fedi. this confusion/disagreement slows down everything else. ultimately imo the people who gave mastodon etc critical mass did so to escape the big fedi idea, but in so doing, built the best possible tool to do big social media well. ironic.

2026-06-30 20:53:05 CEST

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but why?
I ask because I think it's the algos and worry that failing to make this distinction in the popular consciousness is moving people away from a great technology. And that people in mass media would love this to happen cause decentralized social media challenges their power.

2026-06-25 14:47:36 CEST

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the fedi or social web?
imo we shouldn't be using social media and social networking interchangeably. the first is public and primarily about boosts. democratically managing attention. the latter is messaging and groups. private. the different goals require different moderation norms.
it's also not microblogging but a social news feed. short posts but also pics, articles, podcasts, videos, songs etc. anything should be able to go viral directly.

2026-05-22 19:45:31 CEST

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Frightened Rabbit deserved so much more.
The Cure blew me away live.

2026-05-21 15:36:08 CEST

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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]

2026-05-16 22:21:21 CEST

#Twitter did not make it possible for #Trump to win, but #Facebook did. With ads and algos and massive participation from naturally conservative audiences and a shunning of it by respected journalists and the left. Early Twitter without ads or algos made it possible for lots of ideas to gain traction that corporate media ignored, like the Arab Spring. Preventing the sharing of info and organizing by those hurt by the wealthy, and fostering political division among them, is why #Elon bought it.

2026-05-15 03:52:56 CEST

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cool, got a link?
here I'd just like to be able to link to the episode itself on their website and tag the creator and not have a pcast link, but yea my big dream is running podcasts off AP.

2026-05-15 03:39:11 CEST

A great episode but I wish #PocketCasts provided a better link. That would require most podcasts had their own website tho. And if I may be so bold, that the podcasters had a fedi account. It could be the same thing... [@Castopod](https://podlibre.social/@Castopod ) ?
https://pca.st/episode/9868d7de-3985-4bd4-a1fc-27bc9abab433

2026-05-13 14:38:51 CEST

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looks like another @npub1ynz…en3h 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 20:21:23 CEST

How Memes Are Orchestrated by the Man (2013)
via @npub1tlw…nzdv
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/how-memes-are-orchestrated-by-the-man/274466/

2026-05-10 05:00:16 CEST

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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?